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🍽️ Crispy Duck Breast with Creamy Blue Cheese Sauce

575 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 2 duck breast fillets (approx. 400 g each)
• salt
• pepper (from the mill)
• 1 tbsp ghee
• 1 shallot
• 1 tbsp oil
• salt
• white pepper
• nutmeg
• 50 ml white wine
• 125 g whipping cream
• 150 g Gorgonzola

Instructions

1. 1. Rinse the duck breasts under running water.
2. 2. Pat the meat completely dry with a kitchen towel.
3. 3. Season the duck breasts generously with salt and black pepper.
4. 4. Heat ghee (clarified butter) in a frying pan.
5. 5. Place the duck breasts skin-side down into the hot pan.
6. 6. Fry the skin side for about 10 minutes until crispy.
7. 7. Turn the breasts over and fry the meat side for another 8 minutes.
8. 8. Remove the duck breasts from the pan.
9. 9. Wrap the meat tightly in aluminum foil.
10. 10. Let the breasts rest in the foil for at least 10 minutes.
11. 11. Peel a shallot and chop it very finely.
12. 12. Sauté the shallots in some oil until translucent.
13. 13. Deglaze with white wine and reduce the liquid by half.
14. 14. Add cream and bring the sauce to a boil.
15. 15. Season the sauce with salt, pepper, and a pinch of ground nutmeg.
16. 16. Turn off the heat.
17. 17. Crumble blue cheese into the hot sauce.
18. 18. Stir until the cheese has completely melted.
19. 19. Finally, adjust the finished sauce with fresh pepper.
20. 20. Serve the sauce together with the duck breast.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 575
• Protein: 31 g · Fett/Fat: 49 g · Carbs: 1 g