Duck with Turnips

Name: Duck with Turnips
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 Spanish onion, quartered; bouquet garni; 1 tender duck; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 4 tablespoons butter; 4-8 young turnips, quartered; 1 tablespoon castor sugar; 2 tablespoons flour; 1½ pints well-flavoured stock

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Robert Carrier Cookbook

By Robert Carrier

Published 1965

About

Ingredients

1 tender duck
2 tablespoons flour
salt and freshly ground black pepper

Main course

Method

Prepare and truss the duck as for roasting. Dust with 1 tablespoon flour and season inside and out with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Melt the butter in a heatproof casserole; sauté duck on all sides until it is nicely browned. Remove the duck and add quartered turnips to juices in the casse