Recipes Featuring Duck Fat
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Duck confit is a classic French dish where duck legs are slowly cooked in their own rendered fat, resulting in meltingly tender, flavorful meat that can be used in a variety of dishes.
Duck-Confit Rillettes
This refined French appetizer is traditionally made by pounding duck confit into a silky paste. Here, a food processor and a light touch create the perfect spreadable texture.
Duck Confit
Once esteemed as a preservation method, cooking and keeping duck in its rendered fat results in meltingly tender, moist, and extremely flavorful meat which can be used in a variety of simple preparations. Sear the duck legs in a hot skillet or shred the meat and add it to salads, or, perhaps best of all, make duck rillettes. Just remember the duck must be salted a day before you plan to cook it.