Five Spice Duck with Polenta in Cherry Sauce

Recipe:

- Duck Maryland

- Five Spice Powder

Sauce:

- Cherry Juice

- Balsamic Vinegar (Black)

- Butter

Polenta:

- Polenta

- Onion

- Butter

- Oil

Duck – Rub Five Spice into duck. Preheat oven to 220degC cook for 10 minutes till skin is golden brown. Reduce oven to 160degC for further 20minutes.

Sauce – Mix ingredients in pan heat and reduce.

Polenta – Cook polenta in water (one cup polenta to two cups water) till water disappears. Place lid on pot and allow polenta to steam at low heat. Add some butter.

Sauté onion in fry pan with oil. Add polenta to fry pan. Mix and seer.

Mould polenta into a disc (round cookie cutter etc) and place in freezer for one hour. Cook in oven with duck in same tray to absorb some of the duck fat :)

Score: Three Chefs