This Nigella recipe is taken from her popular Channel 4 series Nigella Bites, based on her popular book How To Eat.
I don't buy into this anti-meat drive. Indeed, I am vehemently pro- protein. Nor am I fat-phobic, so I tend to leave the fatty layer of skin on the duck breast before I griddle (or fry) it, but remove it, before cooking, by all means if you have succumbed to the lure of the lean. And if that's the case, you'll pleased to learn that not one drop of oil need go into the dressing. However, I often sprinkle a little toasted sesame oil over at the end, which is why I've still listed it in the ingredients. Your call.
The salad itself is a slight reworking of a Cambodian beef salad I often make; here the lime juice in the steeping-mixture (which turns into the dressing) is supplemented with orange juice (Asian evocations of duck a l'orange and all that) but in season, around January, use instead of this combination, the fragrantly acerbic juice of one seville orange.
1.Grill or fry the duck breast - fat side down, if not removed - until it's cooked to juicy pinkness.
2.Let it rest on a board, while you mix together the fish sauce, lime and orange juice (or just seville-orange juice), chilli, ginger and optional sesame oil together in a bowl.
3.Pour any juices that the duck has made into the bowl, and then carve the meat on the diagonal into thin slices. Toss the sliced duck into the bowl and stir everything well. Turn it out onto a serving plate covered with the salad leaves.
© Nigella Lawson, How To Eat, The pleasures and principles of good food - Chatto & Windus, 1998
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