Pan fried duck breast with Red-Eye mushrooms in the MMX

Stormbringer

It's been a while since I posted a cook, so here goes. Duck and mushrooms tonight, cooked in the MMX. I heated up a Lodge CI plan directly on the platesetter. When it was hot, I seared the duck breast seared in the CI pan to crisp the skin and render fat.


Once the skin was done, removed the breasts, changed to indirect cooking and added the mushrooms (with @Nature Boy's Dizzy Pig Red-Eye Express ... love that on mushrooms) into the CI pan.


Duck breasts on top, cooked at 180C for 20mins, turning the mushrooms once.


Served with creamy mash potato and a Malbec.





Thanks for looking!

johnmitchell

Holy smokes that looks fantastic 👏👏

Stormbringer

johnmitchell said:

Holy smokes that looks fantastic 👏👏

Cheers. I was really pleased with the Lodge CI bakers pan. It's way cheaper than the BGE one (at least it is here in the UK ... @Eoin and @CPFC1905) and just as effective.

lousubcap

Great cook right there.  Magazine quality photos as well.  
Strong return with that cook.  

tcampbell

Duck breast one of my favorites. 

caliking

That looks goddaamn delicious!! I haven't been able to master duck breast.

EGGjlmh

That looks amazing!!!

dbCooper

Great looking plate there!  We rarely do these and results have been mixed, going to have try this method.

The Cen-Tex Smoker

Oh hell yes. 

Photo Egg

Way to jump back in with style!

Stormbringer

Thanks folks. @caliking and @dbCooper I'm going to publish a blog post on the technique with some more detailed pictures this weekend. @lousubcap The Photographer (aka SWMBO) decided she wanted to get some better photographs for the blog post, which would of course entail cooking it again.

caliking

Looking forward to it @Stormbringer!

Stormbringer

@caliking and @dbCooper the recipe and technique is in the link below. 

https://thecooksdigest.co.uk/2022/08/29/pan-seared-duck-breast-with-mushrooms/

@lousubcap much improved photographs:

Searing in the Lodge CI directly on the platesetter:




Cooking over the mushrooms on the stainless steel grid:


Served:


Thanks (again) for looking!