Pan-Roasted Maple Leaf Farms Duck Breast
The Elite Cafe serves a simply excellent duck breast. Pan-roasted perfectly, it’s sufficiently seared on the outside with that just rare enough ruddiness inside to make it perfectly juicy, tender, and sweet. The duck is an Elite Cafe staple, partnered up with braised winter greens and sweet potatoes. The greens [...]
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3 May
Duck Breast (The Elite Cafe, SF)
28 Feb
DUCK CONFIT
DUCK CONFIT (roasted duck confit)
THE DISH: ROASTED DUCK CONFIT
Favorite of Francophiles, duck confit is made from the duck leg, which is salt-cured, then slowly cooked in an oven at low temperature so it poaches in its own fat. The curing usually takes a couple days, and the slow-poach roasting can vary from 2 to 10 [...]
