Friday, July 13, 2007

duck breast with zuchini in tarragorn sauce for 4 persons

you need

1 liter chicker stock/broth
60 gram flower
60 gramm butter
2 lbs duck breast
some fresh tarragorn
salt
pepper
1/2 cup whipping cream
2 zuchini large

how to do it

the duck

- season sautee pan
- sautee duck
- serve hot

the zuchini

- sautee zucchini in well seasoned pan
- once they are done serve it as side to the chicken


the sauce

- heat the broth in a 2 quart pan till it slightly boils
- take a 2 quart sauce pan
- gently melt the butter in it
- stir flower into melted butter till you have a toaster smeeling paste
- add the hot broth from the other pan in small steps and keep steering
- gently cook it for 2 hours
- skim of the fat from time to time

- 10 minutes before you serve the dish take some tarragorn and use your pestel and mortar to "crush" it
- add a little bit of your sauce to the crushed leafs in the mortar
- keep working the motar and pestel for 5 more minutes
- add these deep green liquid paste now to the rest of the sauce and gently cook it
- add the cream to the sauce and salt/pepper to taste
- keep it slightly boiling for 1 - 2 more minutes

serve it to the duck and the zuchini. And again I recommend some bread to the dish.

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chicken in white wine sauce with zuchini for 4 person

you need

1 x cup heavy whipping cream
1 x cup white wine (pinot grigio/sauvignon/chardonay)
some flower
1 x fine chopped onion
4 x chicken brest filet
2 x sliced zuchini
salt
pepper

how to do it

chicken + sauce:

- season pan with some salt and pepper
- sautee chicken breast till its done in a sautee pan
- remove chicken from the sautee pan and put it on plates
- add onions to the sautee pan
- put some flower over the onions and keep hot for 2 - 3 minutes till the flower is all spread out and nice and brown
- add wine and cream at the same time
- put to low heat
- stir it a couple of minutes till it has a smoot texture
- add salt and pepper to taste, if you seasoned the pan enough you don't need todo this
- filter sauce
- put sauce over chicken

zuchini

- sautee zucchini in well seasoned pan
- once they are done serve it as side to the chicken


the complete dish takes arround 10 minutes to prepare and 20 minutes on the stove. Enjoy. As I tip I suggest to provide some bread to the dish.

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