Duck with Potato Rolls

Ingredients

• 1 duck (2.5 kg, ready to cook)
• Salt
• pepper (ground)
• 2 onions
• 1 apple
• 1 tsp marjoram (dried)
• 2 tbsp parsley (chopped)
• butter
• 250 ml poultry stock (glass)
• 250 g potatoes (mildly cooking)
• 100 g flour
• 40 g semolina
• 50 g melted butter
• 2 egg yolks
• a pinch salt
• 20 g butter
• 80 g pine nuts
• 80 g raisins
• 2 tbsp fresh chopped rosemary
• 3 pressed garlic cloves
• 1 chopped, seeded chili pepper
• Salt
• pepper (ground)

Instructions

1. 1.

   Wash and pat dry the duck. Remove and roughly chop the wing tips. Rub the duck inside and out with salt and pepper.

2. 2.

   Peel and core the onions and apple, then coarsely dice everything. Mix with the herbs. Stuff the duck, securing with wooden skewers. Place the duck breast-side down in a roasting pan, pour about 500 ml water, and roast in the oven for about 2 hours until golden brown; flip after 1 hour and baste repeatedly with the stock.

3. 3.

   Remove the finished duck from the pan, take out the stuffing, and keep the duck warm in the oven at 70°C. Thoroughly drain the stock. In a pot, sauté the wing tips in ½ tbsp butter, deglaze with the stock, add the stuffing and poultry stock, and simmer for 15–20 minutes. Strain the sauce through a sieve into another pot, season with salt and pepper, and keep warm.

4. 4.

   For the potato dough, peel, wash, and boil the potatoes in salted water for about 25 minutes; drain, let steam off, and press through a potato ricer. Quickly knead with the remaining ingredients.

5. 5.

   For the stuffing, briefly sauté pine nuts and raisins in butter, remove from heat, and mix with the other ingredients. Roll out the dough to about 1 cm thickness, spread the stuffing on top, roll up, wrap in a damp kitchen towel, tie with kitchen twine, then cook like a bread dumpling for about 20 minutes in simmering salted water.

6. 6.

   Just before serving, turn on the oven grill and crisp the duck.

7. 7.

   Serve portions of duck meat on preheated plates, add sliced rolls, and drizzle some sauce.