Cooking with Jonny69: Duck Bolognese

[Jonny69]

Last week I was fortunate enough to nab a rather obscenely large duck reduced right down because it was on its date. Sunday it was roast duck, Monday night leftover roast, Tuesday night duck fried rice and last night I fancied pasta so Duck Bolognese it was! Basically it's Bolognese sauce with ground up duck meat instead of beef mince and ruddy enjoyable it was too :D

You will need either some tomato sauce which you can make with this here recipe (http://www.boat-drinks.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4203) or a large clove of garlic and 4 fresh tomatoes chopped up nice and fine.
If you go fresh then heat a tablespoon of olive oil or duck fat in a saucepan, add the garlic and fry for a few seconds and add the tomato. Allow to cook down for 5 minutes of so.
Add a good sized handful of chopped up leftover duck meat and allow to simmer for about 15 mins so that the duck and tomato flavours combine nicely.
Add a few pinches of fresh basil off the plant growing on the window sill and that's it.

Job done, bosh it on a plate of pasta and grate some parmesan over it and stuff in mouth :)

[Fayshun]

Duck! My favourite vegetable.

[Burble]

That sounds rather scrummy. I'm having roast duck on Sunday so leftovers shall be used to make duck bolognese!

[Jonny69]

1/2 pricer from Sainsburys?

[Burble]

I don't have the duck yet, but I shall be popping down to Sainsburys at lunchtime if they're doing them half price.

Roast duck is divine. Even better though are roast potatoes done in duck (or goose) fat. Drooooooooool.

[Jonny69]

Ooooooh yeaaaaahhhhh!!!!

[Burble]

The roast duck was a complete success. I did loads of roast potatoes in the hope of left overs but they were so lovely and crispy that they all got noshed.

Duck bolognese for dinner tonight!

[Glaucus]

I will probably give this a go.

Got a large duck going to Chinese roast it and have it with mash and a cheery and red wine gravy.

This recipe will be great, I can strip any remaining meat of it..

[Glaucus]

Was going to cook this tonight, but I didn't have any ingredients in teh cupboard which is unusall. As the things need are usually in there.

So I made duck wraps instead.
Left over duck
Onion
Pepper
Mushrooms
Red curry paste
Hoi sin sauce.

Stir fried it in the pan, then added the curry paste and hoi sin and a touch of water. Then reduced it back down and stuck it in some tortilla wraps. Absolutely lovely. Should of chucked some ginger in though.
Are siansburys still doing half price ducks, Might have to get some more, such a tasty meat.

[Jonny69]

I think it's finished now. They do them half price about every other month I think. Seems to be a regular offer.

[Glaucus]

I think it's finished now. They do them half price about every other month I think. Seems to be a regular offer.

Excellent i will have to keep my eyes peeled.

[Will]

I seldom have much duck left to do anything with it once I'm finished! :o

Sounds nice though!

[iCraig]

I'm going to give duck a go this weekend. IIRC it's very fatty so it needs to be roasted on a grill so the fat can drip out yeah?

[Glaucus]

I'm going to give duck a go this weekend. IIRC it's very fatty so it needs to be roasted on a grill so the fat can drip out yeah?

That's what I do. I also cut all the way to the meat. In a criss cross fashion. Like you do on ham. Forming 1cm diamonds.

And every 20mins tip it up to pour the fat out the cavity. Even with this there will still be more than enough fat to keep it tender and tasty.