Confit Duck Leg Bonbons with Carrot Puree

These confit duck leg bonbons are at the centre of a surprisingly light and wonderfully fancy meal featuring an orange and cumin puree and asparagus.

Confit Duck Leg Bonbons with Carrot Puree and Asparagus.

These confit duck leg bonbons are another recipe heavily inspired by my trip to a food festival in Budapest. The last dish featured Tasmanian Black pepper this, however, is all sorts of fancy.

Regular readers will know that I am fond of both impressing my wife with dinner and duck recipes. This was aimed at doing both! It also worked on both counts.

I love confit duck, sure it is not something to do all the time, it is seriously indulgent. But once in a while, we all deserve indulgent food.

Like all of my recipes, this confit duck leg recipe is all about combining flavours that all work together. So the carrot puree features both orange and cumin, we all know how well duck works with orange.

I have both a duck salad and duck a l’orange recipes here on Krumpli that feature orange.

Of course, orange and asparagus is also another classic combination. So what we have here are flavours that we know work, they have been used forever!

I cook the asparagus for this recipe in the air fryer.

What is Confit Duck?

Confit is the slow cooking of a food in fat, duck or goose fat typically. Yes, that is as indulgent as it sounds.

It is also as magical as it sounds, we all know what roasting potatoes in duck fat does to roast potatoes. Well imagine all that glorious flavour wrapped up in meat. Meat that has been gently poached in duck or goose fat.

That is what duck confit is, you take the legs and allow them to gently cook in duck or goose fat. It leads to the most incredibly tasty, moist and succulent meat that shreds wonderfully.

The fat also acts as a preservative so you can make the confit duck legs up well in advance and in bulk.

The meat is perfect for making bonbons or burgers. Speaking of burgers I did a duck burger here last year, it was amazing. Unlike this dish, it features roasted duck legs rather than confit duck legs.

If you are indulgence averse you could, of course, use the method I used there to create your duck bonbons. The result will be great, just not as great as confit duck!

You may also be lucky enough to be able to find confit duck in stores. If you can feel free to use it in this recipe. It will save a little bit of work, although most of the saving will be in washing up.

My Love Of Duck Recipes.

Duck for me is the most wonderful meat, rich and strong in flavour. Simple to cook and without a doubt always feels special.

These confit duck leg bonbons are far from being the first duck dinner on my website.

Whether it by my teriyaki duck donburi, my Thai duck red curry or my simply pan-fried duck breast with balsamic vinegar you can not go wrong.

There are two ways really to cook duck, cool and slow or hot and fast. Don’t go somewhere in between your duck will have the texture of boot leather!

These duck bonbons are firmly in the cool and slow school of how to cook duck. Neither is superior to the other and definitely yield meat that is used for different purposes.

Do you love duck? Do you have a favourite duck recipe? Drop me a note in my comments at the bottom of this page, I’d love to find something new!