Roasted Duck with pilaf rice & veggies

For this weeks class, We had to create our own signature dish which involves a duck. So we could use different types of methods to create our dish and as for me, I created:

Roasted Duck with gastrique sauce and served with pilaf rice, green oil, braised cabbage and caramelized mangoes.

Yes the name is very long and forgive my portioning as it is relatively big for a fine dining concept dish. This shows i'm a Malaysian! Big portioning babeh!

So anyways I shall explain the techniques of creating this dish

Roasted Duck

- Season the duck breast with salt, pepper/black pepper, thyme, chopped garlic & onions.

- After leaving it to rest for about 20 minutes (you can leave it longer if you want the flavour to be more intense), Place it on a roasting tray which has oil on the surface and roast until tender.

- Once tender, heat up a pan with olive oil, transfer the duck and let it sear just for the colour.

Gastrique sauce

- Pour 500ml orange juice into a pot and put to boil

- Add in 3 spoons of white wine vinegar and a pinch of salt

- Reduce the mixture until its thick in texture (leave it on the fire until it becomes thick)

Pilaf Rice

- Heat butter in a pan and sweat onions.

- Pour 200g of rice into the pot for a few minutes

- Pour 300ml of water into the pot with 1 spoon of brown stock

- Cover with foil and bake the rice in the oven

Braised Cabbage

- Heat up a pan with low fire and place 50g of butter and place cabbage into the pan. Season with Salt & Pepper

- Add water and let it simmer. Cover the pan with aluminium foil

- Strain the water from the pan

Caramelized Mango

- Pour a layer of sugar into a pan and heat it up.

- Once sugar starts to caramelize, add a little water to ensure the caramel has a smooth texture

- Once the caramel has reached a nice brown color, place the mangoes into the caramel for a short period of time and take it out

Green Oil

- Blend a large amount of parsley with olive oil

That is how you create this creation dish:)

I hope this information was helpful

If you would want to find a real nice way of presenting a dish, You can try to plate it like this:

This is a standard fine dining dish. As it has a small portion and it is full with colors.

Good luck in creating your own dish!