Maple-Lacquered Duck Magrets with Mushrooms | Maple from Canada

Maple-Lacquered Duck Magrets with Mushrooms | Maple from Canada

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Duck breast is coated with a maple-taffy mixture, flambéed, and baked. Served in a red wine-maple syrup mushroom sauce. Delectable.

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Ingredients

  • 250 ml (1 cup) maple taffy
  • 30 ml (2 tablespoons) rice vinegar (or cider vinegar)
  • 30 ml (2 tablespoons) Val Ambré maple aperitif (Pineau des Charentes style maple fortified wine)
  • 15 ml (1 tablespoon) cracked black pepper
  • 15 ml (1 tablespoon) fresh ginger, grated
  • Put the lacquer ingredients in a pan, bring to the boil and keep warm.
  • 1 fattened duck (bone-in duck supremes, sometimes called ‘coffre’) or 2 large duck magrets
  • 300 g (10 oz) mirepoix (equal parts celery, carrot, onion and leek, diced)
  • 2 sprigs of fresh thyme
  • 1 sprig of savory
  • 1 sprig of fresh rosemary
  • 1 head of garlic, cut horizontally
  • 125 ml (1/2 cup) Val Ambré maple aperitif
  • Salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
  • Red wine sauce with maple and oyster mushrooms
  • The mirepoix and reserved meat juices
  • 20 ml (4 teaspoons) red wine vinegar
  • 300 ml (1 1/4 cup) dry red wine
  • 60 ml (1/4 cup) maple syrup (preferably Very Dark for its strong taste)
  • 300 ml (1 1/4 cup) duck stock
  • 50 g (2 oz) lardons (pork belly)
  • 15 ml (1 tablespoon) butter
  • 1 shallot, chopped
  • 1 garlic clove, minced
  • 8 large oyster mushrooms, sliced

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