Pasta with Duck
Pasta with duck is a recipe featuring fresh ingredients from the duck category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!
Ingredients
- 2 duck breast fillets (about 300 g each)
- Salt
- Pepper
- 400 g tagliatelle
- 200 g mushrooms (e.g., porcini)
- 4 Spring Onions
- 1 Tbsp freshly chopped thyme
- fresh grated parmesan for garnish
Instructions
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1.
Rinse the duck breasts, pat dry and score the skin in a diamond pattern. Season with salt and pepper and cook skin side down in a hot pan about 10 minutes until slowly golden brown. Baste the breast with rendered fat during cooking. Flip and finish on the meat side over low heat for about 5 more minutes to reach pink center.
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2.
Cook the pasta in salted water al dente.
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3.
Clean the mushrooms and slice them. Wash, trim, and cut the spring onions into rings. Sauté together with the mushrooms in 1 tbsp hot duck fat in another pan for 2-3 minutes. Season with salt and pepper, then toss the drained pasta (add a splash of pasta cooking water if desired) with thyme. Finally add the sliced duck breast and plate. Sprinkle with parmesan before serving.
