Smoked Duck Salad Recipe

Ingredients

1 Smoked Duck Breast

1 pear
100g Blue Cheese
100g baby leaf salad mix
50g fresh rocket

Homemade honey and mustard dressing (Dress your salad with as much as you like)

Method

For the poached pear

Peel the pear and remove the stalk and pips. Place the cleaned halves into a little lemon water so that they do not discolour. Make a stock syrup(for every 100ml of water you use, add 100g of sugar) Bring the stock syrup up to a simmer but do not boil is, add the pear halves to the syrup and poach them for about 10 minutes, you want to pear halves to keep their shape. Once they are cooked, remove them from the syrup and cool them.

Slice the smoked duck breast into thin slices, as thinly as you can. Wash the rocket and mixed baby leaves, and mix them together. Place the mixed leaves in the centre of either a large plate or bowl. I prefer a bowl for this dish. Using your fingers, crumble the blue cheese over the leaves, each piece of cheese does not have to be the same size, but also making sure that they are not too large as well.

Place the thin slices of duck around the leaves, almost creating a fan. Take each pear half and cut them into three equal pieces. Place them around the duck. Each bowl gets three pieces/or one pear half.

For the Honey Mustard Dressing

40ml white wine vinegar
100ml Olive Oil
20ml honey
¼ teaspoon Dijon mustard

Method

Place all the ingredients into a blender and blend until they emulsify.

Dress the salad with the dressing and serve

Bon Appétit