Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 19 hours ago

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I have no words. So far this duck is my favorite thing I have ever made. Learning to cook Duck à l'Orange with Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook.

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📚 Chapters
00:00 - Anthony Bourdain's Duck à l'Orange
00:36 - Breaking Down The Ingredients
01:32 - Prepping The Dish
07:17 - Comment Of The Week!
08:58 - Plating, Tasting, What I Would Do Different

🍎 Ingredients
• 1 fresh duck, trimmed of excess fat, chilled in fridge overnight
• salt and pepper
• 1/2 orange, cut into 4 pieces
• 1 lemon, cut into 6 pieces
• 1/2 cup/100 ml red wine vinegar
• 2 oz/56 g sugar
• 2 cups/450 ml dark duck stock or chicken stock (use duck or I'll find you)
• 3 oz/75 ml Grand Marnier
• 2 Tbsp/28 g butter
• 2 zest of oranges, confited
• juice of 1/2 orange
• juice of 1/2 lemon
• 2 oranges, peeled and segmented

🫕 Equipment
• kitchen string
• roasting pan or baking sheet
• wire rack
• tongs
• medium saucepan
• fine strainer
• small saucepan
• whisk
• serving platter

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