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Mary Berry's Duck Breasts with a Piquant Lime and Ginger Sauce Recipe

This is an easy way to cook duck breasts, as you brown them well ahead. You then cook them at the last minute, without the worry about whether they will be golden or not. Serve with green beans.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Ginger and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,621 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Mary Berry's Duck Breasts with a Piquant Lime and Ginger Sauce Recipe

6 people
Prep15 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

578Calories
20 gProtein
53 gFat
6 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Duck100g cooked with skin337
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By lovefood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Ginger + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,621 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pepper + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Lime + chivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together139 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Olive + chivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Olive + limetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,621 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, olive, lime, butter, chive):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Gingerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, olive, lime, butter, chive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.