Honeyed duck breasts with rosti, creamed cabbage and bacon

Honey works so well with savoury dishes because it brings out the natural flavours - I can taste the duck beautifully in this.

Ingredients:

For the duck bosoms

4 x 275 gm (10 oz) duck bosoms

3 tsp split dark pepper

squeeze of salt

1 tbsp clear nectar

For the nectar and clove sauce

3 tbsp clear nectar

1 ½ tbsp dim soy sauce

1 ½ tbsp balsamic vinegar

1 ½ tbsp light muscovado sugar

1 ½ tbsp tomato ketchup

1 tsp entire cloves

225 ml (8fl oz) meat stock

For the potato rosti

2 extensive floury potatoes

2 tbsp cleared up margarine or duck fat

2 tbsp sunflower oil

ocean salt and newly ground dark pepper

For the cabbage and bacon

1 little Savoy cabbage

25 gm (1 oz) spread

1 onion, finely cut

4 cuts of streaky bacon, cut into strips

2 tbsp water

4-5 tbsp thick (twofold) cream

salt and newly ground white pepper

Cook's notes

Stove temperatures are for regular; if utilizing fan-constrained (convection), decrease the temperature by 20˚C. | We utilize Australian tablespoons and mugs: 1 teaspoon squares with 5 ml; 1 tablespoon rises to 20 ml; 1 container levels with 250 ml. | All herbs are new (unless determined) and mugs are daintily stuffed. | All vegetables are medium size and peeled, unless determined. | All eggs are 55-60 g, unless indicated.

Instructions:

For the sauce, put the nectar in a little container with the soy, vinegar, sugar, ketchup, cloves and stock. Convey to the bubble, at that point decrease the warmth and quick stew for 5 minutes or until the point that the blend has thickened to a sauce consistency which coats the back of a spoon. Season to taste, go through a strainer, disposing of the cloves into a spotless dish. Put aside until required.

For the rosti, grind the potatoes coarsely into the focal point of a perfect tea towel. Overlay the towel around the potato to shape a ball and crush to evacuate however much water as could be expected. Open the material and season with dark pepper at that point partition into four equivalent bits.

Warmth a huge griddle over medium warmth; include 2 tablespoons of margarine/duck fat and sunflower oil. Place a metal ring inside the skillet precisely include the ground potato and utilizing the back of a spoon tenderly push down to make a minimized cake. Lift up the ring and rehash until the point when you have four rostis. Sear until brilliant dark colored ensuring that the fat rises through the middle to cook within. Try not to utilize too high a warmth or the outside will consume before the inside is cooked. Once brilliant turn over and include the rest of the oil if required.

Cook until brilliant dark colored, season with salt, at that point lift out of the container and deplete on kitchen paper. Place on broiling plate (they will keep for 4-5 hours) and warm in hot broiler for 5 minutes when required.

For the duck, preheat the broiler to 200°C/400°F/Gas check 6. Score the fat on the duck in a confound design. Season the duck on the two sides with split dark pepper and salt. Place duck bosoms in a dry vast ovenproof griddle, skin-side down, enable the dish to warm up for three minutes on the stovetop until the fat begins to sizzle

Turn the duck bosoms over and cook for one more moment, at that point exchange the griddle to the stove and cook for an additional 6 minutes for a pink complete or 5 minutes in the event that you lean toward them somewhat more well done. Throughout the previous couple of minutes of the cooking time brush the skin of the duck bosoms with the nectar; this will give great flavor and caramelize the skin. Leave to rest in a warm place for 5 minutes, without covering.

In the interim, for the cabbage, expel the external leaves from the cabbage, cut into quarters, evacuate the stalk and finely cut and wash.

Dissolve the margarine in the skillet include the onions and cook medium warmth for 4-5 minutes until mollified. Broil the bacon in a different dish on a high warmth until the point when fresh and deplete on kitchen paper

Add the cabbage and water to the onions and panfry over high warmth for a couple of minutes until only delicate. Include the firm bacon and cream, blend to join and stew tenderly until the point that the cream has marginally thickened. Season to taste

Warm the rosti in the stove for 5 minutes and warm the nectar and clove sauce, mixing incidentally.

Cut the duck bosoms into thin cuts and organize on warmed plates with the rosti and cabbage, at that point shower around the nectar and clove sauce to serve.