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Pan Seared Duck Breast, Ginger Mirin Duck Sauce, Ginger Pickled Wood-Ear, Radish and Wakame Salad

Name: Pan Seared Duck Breast, Ginger Mirin Duck Sauce, Ginger Pickled Wood-Ear, Radish and Wakame Salad
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 whole duck; 1 white onion, roughly chopped; 1 shallot, roughly chopped; 1 leek, white part only, roughly chopped; 2 carrots, roughly chopped; ½ celeriac, peeled and roughly chopped; 1 washed potato, roughly chopped; 1 small turnip, roughly chopped; 1 bulb garlic, halved horizontally; 2 field mushrooms, torn; 125ml Cabernet Franc red wine; 500ml chicken stock; 1 tbsp honey; 7g kombu; 2 dried shiitake mushrooms; 5cm piece ginger; 7g kombu vinegar; 5g mirin; 5g white miso; 30g unsalted butter, diced; 10g umeboshi puree; 120g kombu vinegar; 8g kombu, broken into small pieces; 2 birds eye chillies, halved; 32 small wood ear fungus; 4 breakfast radishes, thinly sliced; 8 longan, pitted and halved; 6 sprigs sea blight, picked; 2 finger limes, pearls extracted

MasterChef Australia

10 Aug 2025

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Serves

Components

Ingredients

Season

Ingredients

1whole duck

Ginger Mirin Duck Sauce

1white onion, roughly chopped

1shallot, roughly chopped

1leek, white part only, roughly chopped

2carrots, roughly chopped

½celeriac, peeled and roughly chopped

1washed potato, roughly chopped

1small turnip, roughly chopped

1 bulbgarlic, halved horizontally

2field mushrooms, torn

125mlCabernet Franc red wine

500mlchicken stock

1 tbsphoney

7gkombu

2dried shiitake mushrooms

5cmpiece ginger

7gkombu vinegar

5gmirin

5gwhite miso

30gunsalted butter, diced

Ginger Pickled Wood-Ear, Radish and Wakame Salad

10gumeboshi puree

120gkombu vinegar

8gkombu, broken into small pieces

2birds eye chillies, halved

32small wood ear fungus

4breakfast radishes, thinly sliced

Garnish

8longan, pitted and halved

6sprigs sea blight, picked

2finger limes, pearls extracted

Method

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Recipe by a MasterChef Australia contestant, Season 17. Originally published by Network 10 on 10 Aug 2025.

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