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Duck with Red Wine Chocolate Sauce

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Duck with Red Wine Chocolate Sauce

The perfect duck with red wine chocolate sauce recipe with a picture and simple step-by-step instructions.

for the duck

  • Fresh duck about 2000 – 2400g
  • Salt, pepper, rosemary, thyme and marjoram
  • Butter for brushing

for the sauce

  • 1 tbsp Honey
  • 1 tsp Tomato paste
  • 0,25 l Red wine
  • 50 ml Port wine
  • 50 ml Bay leaf
  • 50 ml Clove
  • 2 little red Chili peppers
  • 1 Splinter Cinnamon
  • 1 Splinter Star anise
  • 3 cm Vanilla pod
  • 3 cm Cardomom pods (pressed)
  • 2 Discs Ginger
  • 1 Stripes Orange peel
  • 1 Stripes Lemon peel
  • 50 g Cold butter
  • 1 tsp Dark chocolate (at least 70% cocoa content)
  • Salt pepper
  1. Lay the duck on its back and cut in half.
  2. Season well on both sides.
  3. Place the duck with the back side up on the grid of the drip pan.
  4. Fry in a preheated oven at 200 ° for a good half an hour.
  5. Now switch the oven back to 170 ° and let it sizzle for another 70 minutes, brushing every now and then with a little butter.
  6. Place under the grill for the last 5 minutes and brown a little.
  7. For the sauce, let the honey and tomato paste lightly caramelize in a saucepan.
  8. Pour in the red wine and reduce to about 1/3, then add the port wine.
  9. Add all the spices and let them steep briefly, then remove again.
  10. Gradually add the cold butter in flakes to the sauce over a mild heat.
  11. Finally add the chocolate and let it melt.
  12. Season the sauce with salt and pepper.
  13. Serve half of the duck with the sauce, red cabbage and dumplings or potatoes.
Dinner
European
duck with red wine chocolate sauce

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Written by John Myers

Professional Chef with 29 years of industry experience at the highest levels. Restaurant owner. Beverage Director with experience creating world-class nationally recognized cocktail programs. Food writer with a distinctive Chef-driven voice and point of view.

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