Braised Wild Duck with Onions and Apples

Name: Braised Wild Duck with Onions and Apples
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: salt and pepper; salt and pepper; 150 ml (¼ pint) double cream; 2 tablespoons calvados; 600 ml (1 pint) French dry cider; 1 teaspoon sugar; 1 large cooking apple, peeled, cored and sliced; 2 Cox’s eating apples; 2 tablespoons oil; 3 medium onions, thinly sliced; 60 g (2 oz) unsalted butter; 1 onion, stuck with 2 cloves and halved; 1 onion, stuck with 2 cloves and halved; 2 mallard ducks

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Game Cookery

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1989

About

Ingredients

2 mallard ducks
1 onion, stuck with 2 cloves and halved
60 <

Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Season the ducks inside and out and stuff with half an onion. Heat half the butter with the oil in a heavy frying pan and brown the ducks on all sides. Remove the ducks and set aside. Add the onions to the pan and sauté for about 15 minutes, stirring, then add the slices of cooking apple and stir a few more minutes. Season well with salt and pepper. Place the onion-apple mixture in a heavy flam