Sous-vide duck breast with treacly bacon and orange
Sous-vide duck breast with treacly bacon and orange | |
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Servings: | Serves 2 |
Calories per serving: | 210 |
Ready in: | 10 hours, 10 minutes |
Prep. time: | 10 minutes |
Cook time: | 10 hours |
Difficulty: | ![]() |
Recipe author: | Chef |
First published: | 28th November 2022 |
Our local butchers, Russell's of Upwell, make their own lovely treacly bacon, nice, thick fatty back bacon with a huge hit of treacle and molasses. They also produce fabulous duck breasts. I thought a combination of the two, with the addition of a few extra flavours might be nice.

Let's see how it goes.
Ingredients
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- 1 large duck breast, skin on
- 1 thick slice of treacly bacon
- 4 whole star anise
- 5 szechuan peppercorns, crushed
- 5 black peppercorns, crushed
- Β½ a large orange, cut into thick slicers, skin left on
Method
- Roll the duck breast in the mixture of ground peppercorns
- Place the bacon on the fleshy side of the duck breast
- Cover the bacon with the orange slices
- Place in a sous-vice vacuum bag
- Scatter the star anise over the oranges
- Vacuum seal and cook in a sous-vide bath for 10 hours at 82Β°C (179.6Β°F)
Variations
If you can't get hold of treacly bacon, use thick fatty back bacon and a teaspoon of black treacle
Chef's notes
I would normally advise cooking a sous-vide duck breast for only 4 hours at a much lower temperature so the result is medium-rare, however to distribute the duck fat within th emeat and to spread the flavours, my experiments have show a higher temperature for longer, produces much nicer results.
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