Smoked breast of duck with nectarine carpaccio

Every month a small farmers market comes to town. I love to walk around the stalls and have a look at what’s on offer. A lot of the stalls are run by small producers with a lot of passion for their produce.
There is a guy who sells smoked produce, the whole brie is lovely and this week he had duck breasts. I already had some scallops as a starter so I decided to make two small starters for dinner. You can find the scallop with mango, chilli and coriander salsa here.
Duck is great with fruit and I got some slightly unripe nectarines. They are not as sweet and are a great balance to the rich duck.
I sliced the duck thinly.
I sliced the nectarines the thinnest I could on the mandolin.
I cut the remaining nectarine in to small cubes and made a nectarine dressing
Nectarine dressing
preparation time 5 minutes
cooking time 0 minutes
serves 6
Ingredients
- 1 whole nectarine, cut in to small cubes
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 4 mint leaves, shredded fine
- 1 pinch of sea salt
- shredded red onion for garnish
Place the sliced nectarine, the duck and drizzle over the dressing and finally garnish with red onion and a fresh mint leaf before serving.
It is a perfect starter, I pre plated everything and made the dressing before the guests arrived and just pulled everything together in a couple of minutes, leaving plenty of time to have a drink and a chat before dinner started.
Looks so good
The duck looks so well cooked 🙂
yumme 🙂
hello
thank you! 🙂 Am glad you like it. Have a great weekend!
thank you 🙂 have a good weekend too
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