mushroom risotto with honey roast duck

[tielan]

Take 1 duck breast and 1/2 cup arborio rice, honey, mushrooms, and onions.

Make it up as you go!

*NOMS*

It will never make the finals of Masterchef, but it's good enough for Friday night dinner. :D

Comments

[havocthecat]

It sounds delicious. How did you add the honey in? Early, or at the end? Because I'm now rather tempted to try making this.

[tielan]

Glaze.

Truthfully, I mashed up some mandarin pieces, heated the juice and poured in about a quarter cup of sugar to make a kind of toffee, then criss-cross slashed the duck breast through the skin, and cooked it for about 4x 5 minute intervals until it was lightly brown, basting with the mandarin toffee at every break.

It's a fairly rare duck, mind you. If you want it fully cooked, I'd recommend starting with something like a soy-vinegar (possibly ginger?) basting sauce, and cooking it in 10 minute stints, only adding the honey at the last baste. Mostly because I tried the honey baste on Thursday night, and discovered that when you cook honey-basted duck too long, it burns and your house is filled with smoke that lingers all night...

Which is really a long way of saying "at the end". tl;dr. *facepalms* I blame it on the hour of night.

[darkrose]

Sounds absolutely fantastic to me!