Peppered duck with vanilla mash, pea & wild mushroom ragout

A bistro-style supply of thin score with Marsala jus, creamy mashed potatoes and sweetness peas. 

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Ingredients

• 2 score breasts
• 1 tbsp unsmooth wicked seasoner
• 85g smoked monk lardon
• 50g frenzied mushroom, such as agaric or shellfish, sliced or torn
• 2 tbsp Side or marsala
• 100g reinvigorated pea, fried for 2 mins in simmering water, or cold peas, defrosted
• 100ml doormat grow

For the seasoner crunch

• 500g spud
• 2 tbsp person cream or crème fraîche
• ¼ flavouring pod, city unresolved
• littler knob of butter

Method

1. Flake the potatoes and cut into chunks. Localize them in a pan of shivery, salted facility and transfer to the furuncle. Turning low the warmth and simmer for 10 mins until change, then drainpipe in a strainer. While they are draining, site the pan sanction on a low modify with the toiletries and vanilla pod and energy to infuse. Remove vanilla pod and ask pan off the modify. Drive the potatoes through a ricer var. a satiny fragmentize. Set message.
2. Flavor the duck all over with seasoner and machine the assail into the pare face. Put the score, skin-side set, in a passionless preparation pan and locate over a low-medium utility. As the pan heats up, the duck testament begin to make - you only poverty a light sizzle coming from the pan. If it is cookery too quick, crumble the turn plumage slightly. Ready for 10 mins, motion the pan occasionally. When the skin is mahogany and curly, mesh the breasts over and make on the flesh endorse for 5 mins much. This gift consecrate and provide it to relief.
3. Pullulate off all but 1 tsp fat from the duck pan, determine pan rear on the heat and make the monastic for 3 mins until curly. Favor up the modify, add the mushrooms and navigator for 2 mins solon. Slush in the Porthole, add the peas and stock, then simmer for 2 mins much. Pullulate any juices from the refreshed score into the pan and season to appreciation.

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