Duck leg with profuse potato dumplings and sour apples

Ingredients:

• 6 duck legs
• garlic
• thyme
• salt
• pepper
• bay leaf
• 80 dkg of potatoes
• 20 dkg of potato flour
• 10 dkg of smoked bacon
• fresh parsley
• allspice
• 1 kg of apples
• fresh mint
• 10 ml of olive oil
  

Directions:

Duck leg:

Pickle a duck leg in thyme, garlic, olive oil for about 24 hours. Bone the meat and roll in “knuckle” form and then bake in oven.

Potato dumplings:

prepare dough for dumplings. Add smoked bacon diced finely and chopped parsley. Blanch the fresh apples and caramelize on a frying pan with some fresh mint added.

This meal was prepared by the 'Two Killers' (Qubus Hotel Katowice) during the 5th “Silesian Tastes Festival 2010” in Złoty Potok. The Team won 1st place in professional category.