For a flame-cooked twist on Entenbrust mit Knödel, a traditional German dish of duck breast with dumplings, this recipe from Bavarian grilling fanatic Dominic Stettner is one to strive. Utilizing contemporary, high-quality components will make the standout flavors of this dish pop — from contemporary asparagus spears to succulent, natural duck breasts. The bacon-wrapped inexperienced beans add a salty kick to the tender duck breasts, that are served with an earthy root vegetable sauce that is heated with butter for a velvety end.
Custom holds that the duck breasts are served with potato dumplings (Kartoffelkloesse). Comfortable and filling, potato dumplings are the best feel-good consolation meals; even higher, they’re straightforward to make at house. Constituted of butter, flour, eggs, and mashed potatoes, the components are such staples, you in all probability have already got all of them available. For those who’re in a pinch, store-bought packets of instantaneous potato dumpling combine are a fast and efficient substitute. (For those who’re based mostly outdoors the EU and instantaneous bins aren’t as available, strive visiting your native specialty grocery or a web based European retailer.)
Time
1 hour half-hour whole
Yield
Serves 4 as a principal
Gear
Ooni Pizza Oven
Ooni Infrared Thermometer
medium-sized chrome steel baking dish
pastry brush
Components
For the sauce
3 ½ ounces (100 milliliters) dry crimson wine
2 tablespoons (30 grams) vegetable broth
4 ¼ cups (1 liter) water
1 cup (100 grams) celery, chopped into 2-centimeter chunks
⅔ cup (100 grams) apple, chopped into 2-centimeter chunks
¾ cup (150 grams) orange, chopped into 2-centimeter chunks
1 cup (125 grams) leek, chopped into 2-centimeter chunks
50 grams carrot, chopped into 2-centimeter chunks
60 grams onions, chopped into 2-centimeter chunks
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 bunch chives, finely chopped
1 bunch parsley, finely chopped
1 bunch rosemary, finely chopped
2 tablespoons (25 grams) butter, chilly
1 tablespoon (17 grams) soy sauce
2 tablespoons (16 grams) cornstarch
¼ cup (60 grams) chilly water
For the duck
4 duck breasts
1 teaspoon (5 grams) sea salt
2 teaspoons (5 grams) freshly floor black pepper
1 tablespoon (21 grams) honey
2 tablespoons (25 grams) butter
For the potato dumplings
2 massive potatoes, boiled and mashed
1 stick (113 grams) butter
1 cup (120 grams) all-purpose flour
Sea salt, to style
Contemporary floor black pepper, to style
2 eggs
or
1 packet (750 grams) instantaneous mashed potato dumpling combine
For the inexperienced beans
8 slices bacon
2 cups (300 grams) inexperienced beans, ends trimmed
Technique
Hearth up your Ooni pizza oven to its lowest setting, utilizing a charcoal mattress if cooking with wooden, and goal for 320°F (160°C) on the baking stone inside. Use the infrared thermometer to precisely verify the temperature.
Add all sauce components (apart from the butter, soy sauce, cornstarch and chilly water, which shall be added later) to the baking dish and prepare dinner uncovered for half-hour, turning the pan 180 levels midway via.
Within the meantime, season the meat aspect of the duck breasts with salt and pepper, then reduce a diamond sample on the fats aspect utilizing a pointy knife. Season the fats aspect with a beneficiant pinch of salt, massaging it in along with your fingers.
Add the seasoned breasts to the sauce with the fats aspect up and prepare dinner for an additional half-hour, turning the pan 180 levels midway via.
Pressure the sauce and reserve the liquid in a small saucepan. (You possibly can discard the greens or use them to make a wholesome, warming soup). Over low warmth in your stovetop, stir within the chilly butter, soy sauce and cornstarch. Preserve at a low simmer.
Within the meantime, put together the potato dumplings: Convey a pot of salted water to boil. In a big bowl, mix the potatoes, salt, pepper and eggs, and mash till mixed. Sift within the flour and stir simply till it disappears. Don’t overmix the dough. Type the combination into 8 spherical parts in your palm. Drop the dumplings into boiling water and simmer for 20 minutes, flipping the dumplings midway. Pressure the cooked dumplings and put aside. (If utilizing an instantaneous combine, prepare dinner per the directions on the packaging.)
Wrap bacon slices round bundles of 5 to six inexperienced beans every and put aside.
Improve the temperature contained in the oven to 355°F (180°C). Place the meat and bacon-wrapped beans within the empty baking dish and prepare dinner for five minutes within the oven. In a small bowl, warmth the honey and butter within the microwave at 20-second intervals till mixed, then use the combination to brush the meat and bacon-wrapped beans.
Flip the pan 180 levels and return to prepare dinner for an additional 5 minutes. Repeat the earlier two steps till you obtain the specified diploma of browning.
Ladle sufficient sauce into 4 shallow bowls to fully cowl their bottoms (or, if you happen to want, switch the sauce to a gravy boat so friends can serve themselves). Slice the duck breasts, retaining their form, and switch every to a bowl. Garnish every with two dumplings and two bundles of inexperienced beans and serve.
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