Easiest Way to Make Perfect Holiday inspired pan fried duck with celeriac mash and fig sauce

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have holiday inspired pan fried duck with celeriac mash and fig sauce using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Holiday inspired pan fried duck with celeriac mash and fig sauce:

1. Make ready The celeriac mash
2. Get 1/2 a celeriac
3. Make ready 2 big potatoes (I used Maris piper)
4. Make ready 1-2 tbsp creme fraiche
5. Prepare Half a tsp nutmeg
6. Get to taste Salt and pepper
7. Prepare The duck
8. Make ready 2 x duck breasts
9. Make ready 2 garlic cloves bashed / skin on
10. Get sprigs Thyme
11. Take Seasoning
12. Prepare The sauce
13. Take 4 ripe figs
14. Get 1 tsp sugar
15. Make ready Good splash balsamic vinegar
16. Make ready Good splash red wine
17. Get 2 tsp fig jam/chutney
18. Make ready Water

Instructions to make Holiday inspired pan fried duck with celeriac mash and fig sauce:

1. Chop the celeriac and potatoes and add them to a pot of cold water. Season with salt and bring to the boil. Then reduce the heat and simmer until soft.
2. Once cooked, strain the vegetables and mash. Add the creme fraiche and finely grated nutmeg and keep mashing until smooth. Season and put in a warm oven.
3. Prepare the duck - score the skin, season on both sides and then place the duck skin side down on a hot non-stick pan over a medium heat. Cook for 15 - 18 minutes. After about two or three minutes add the Garlic and thyme
4. Meanwhile prepare your sauce. Finely chop the figs and add to a pan with a little olive oil. Fry for 2 mins. Turn up the heat and add a good lug of red wine and allow to reduce. Then add a little sugar, the chutney and a dash of balsamic vinegar. Reduce the heat and allow to cook. Add water as you go to keep it saucey. Cook for about 10 minutes.
5. After 15-18 minutes of cooking skin side down, flip your duck breasts and cook for another two minutes on the other side.
6. Remove from the heat and leave to rest while you prepare your plates, cook your veg and make sure your celeriac is warm.
7. Slice the duck (it should be pink) and serve.

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