Puff Pastry with Slow-Cooked Duck Confit, Spinach, and Caramelized Plums

Baking and Desserts | European cuisine

⏳ Time

1 hour

🥕 Ingredients

🍽️ Servings

Description

Serve immediately with soft goat cheese coated in nuts and candied fruits.

Ingredients

Duck - 1 piece
Leek - 1 stalk
Apple Wine - 1 cup
Thyme - a pinch
Serviceberries - 1 teaspoon
Clove - 1 teaspoon
Star anise - 3 pieces
Brown Sugar - 2 tablespoons
Celery salt - 1.8 oz
Carrot - 1 piece
Dried Turkey - to taste
Plums - 10 pieces
Puff Pastry - 7.1 oz
Spinach - 10.6 oz
Butter - 7.1 oz
Garlic - 3 heads
Meyer Lemon Juice - 1 fl oz

Step by Step guide

Step 1

In a saucepan, sauté the leek in butter, then add the spices: thyme, barberry, clove, and star anise. Sear the duck breast in butter (make crosswise cuts on the skin beforehand).

Step 2

Add the duck to the saucepan with the leek, along with the rendered fat and butter, adding just enough hot water to reach the level of the duck skin, but not above. Simmer on low heat, adding half a glass of red wine or a tablespoon of wine vinegar and 2 tablespoons of brown sugar. In this broth, in addition to the leek, add celery leaves and carrot, along with any dried fruit to taste.

Step 3

Sauté fresh black plums in butter with sugar, adding the duck sauce to them.

Step 4

Cut the puff pastry into strips of 7–10 cm. Bake in the oven until done.

Step 5

Sauté the spinach with butter, garlic, and lemon juice, adding salt.

Step 6

Spread the cooked sauce from the duck generously over the baked pastry, layer the duck slices, alternating each piece with the slow-cooked plums, which should be sweet and sour with spicy notes from the spices and duck concentrate.

Step 7

Generously drizzle the duck with the plum glaze and bake for 5 minutes under the broiler until caramelized. Remove the hot puff pastries with duck from the oven, which, like the pastries, will be covered with a light caramel crust. Top with cool, juicy sautéed spinach and drizzle once more with the leek-vegetable sauce from the slow-cooked duck and the plum caramel.