Duck Galettes Recipe

These delicious galettes are easy and fast to make. You need to chill them partway through the recipe so you could make them in advance up until then if you are in a hurry.

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Ingredients -

4 peeled potatoes
Butter and olive oil for frying
Salt and pepper
1 red onion, finely sliced
200 g duck confit leg meat
55 g butter
Grated zest of 1 orange
2 tablespoons chopped fresh flat leaf parsley
Salt and pepper

Preparation:

Parboil 2 potatoes, peel and grate. Boil the other potatoes then mash them without butter or milk and leave to cool. Melt the butter in a thick bottomed pan, add the onion and cook until softened a bit. Mix together the grated potatoes and orange zest. Add the red onoin, duck meat, parsley, mashed potato and some of the duck fat to bind. Season with salt and pepper. Shape small balls of the mixture with your hands and press them into an 8 cm diameter cooking ring to make 1 cm thick cakes. Chill until firm. Heat a knob of butter and some oil in a heavy bottomed frying pan and cook the galettes for 3 or 4 minutes until browned and crisp.

Serves 6