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Canard a l'orange
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I love the recipe for this dish and cooked it for my husband and I. I would love to do it for a dinner party of eight. Is there a point up to which I can prepare in advance? I would have to prepare it in batches as I only have two mid sized frying pans (could handle three duck breasts each at a bit of a push...)
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hey Penelope,
let me tell you what i would do:
work out the ingredients for 8 pax.
start 2 hours before your guest arrive and proceed as per recipe with your duck breasts, doing it in 2 batches and place the cooked breast on an oven tray, leave out, maybe just cover with another tray until needed.
make your sauce.
as you guest arrive, heat your oven to 180c
before serving, reheat the breasts in the oven for 10 min (not covered)
allow the meat to rest a little before slicing.
any juices left over on the tray or the cutting board should go in you sauce
good luck!!!
franck
You can crisp up the skin in advance and finish it off in the oven when you are ready. Hope this helps :)
Hi there Penelope,
This is a puzzling this one. How to cook 8 pieces of duck in 2 frying pans that take 3 pieces each. A conundrum. However, there are some things you can do to make life a little easier in terms of preparing in advance.
You can make the marinate and marinate the meat (for 2hours). You can prepare the sauce to the point where it has reduced.
Leave the butter out of the sauce until it is dinner time, you then turn the heat up again and add the butter as per the guidelines (remembering not to let it spilt by not boiling for too long).
Cook the meat last (same time as heating up the sauce for the butter). It is difficult to get all 8 pieces ready in time but here are some tips:
With the cold weather at the moment, you don't want your meat waiting, getting cold while the other pieces cook. Make sure that you rest the duck on a wooden board or a slightly warmed plate... Not a cold plate, or in a draft near the door.
Rest the pieces of meat crispy skin side up and cover it in foil while you prepare the other pieces.
The last tip is that you do not need to serve a full piece of duck to each person, so you can slice as seen in the tutorial video. Eat while the extra pieces rest on a plate on the dinner table, and add more slices once the extra pieces of duck have rested and are ready to slice.
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