Duck Breasts with Blackberry Sauce


Serves: 4
Total Calories: 222

Ingredients

2 tablespoons finely chopped white onions
1 clove garlic (medium), thinly sliced
1/4 cup unseasoned rice vinegar
1/2 cup thawed frozen unsweetened blackberries
1 cup canned fat-free reduced-sodium chicken broth
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon Maggi seasoning extract or more Worcestershire sauce
1/4 cup seedless blackberry jam
1/2 teaspoon cornstarch dissolved in 1 teaspoon broth
1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste
1/8 teaspoon freshly ground pepper, or to taste
4 boneless ducks breast halves, skin on

Directions:

1. In a medium saucepan, put the onion, garlic, and vinegar. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat and boil until reduced by half, about 3 minutes.

2. Add the blackberries, broth, Worcestershire, and Maggi. Boil, stirring frequently, until the sauce is reduced to about 1/2 cup, about 10 to 12 minutes. Pour the sauce through a strainer into a bowl, pressing to extract all the juices. Discard the debris in the strainer. Return the sauce to the pan. Add the jam and stir until the jam melts. Add the cornstarch, salt, and pepper. Cook, stirring, until slightly thickened, 2 to 3 minutes. Reserve off heat.

3. Heat a large heavy skillet over medium heat. Arrange the duck breasts skin side down in the dry pan. Season with the remaining salt. Cook without turning until the skin is nicely browned, 8 to 10 minutes. (Fat renders as the duck cooks, and the skin becomes a bit crisp. Take care not to blacken the skin.) Turn and cook the second side until medium rare, 4 to 5 minutes or medium, 6 minutes. Transfer to a plate and let rest 5 minutes.

4. Reheat the sauce over low heat. Add to the sauce the juices that collected on the plate with the duck. Thinly slice each duck breast crosswise on a diagonal. Spoon a portion of the sauce on each of 4 serving plates. Fan the duck breasts on top of the sauce on each plate.

From "1,000 Mexican Recipes." Copyright 2001 by Marge Poore. Used with permission of the publisher, Wiley Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Nutritional Facts:

Serves: 4
Total Calories: 222
Calories from Fat: 10

This Duck Breasts with Blackberry Sauce recipe is from the 1,000 Mexican Recipes Cookbook. Download this Cookbook today.


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