Confit de canard
France · Europe
- Short description
- This dish is rich, crisp-skinned duck with tender meat produced by curing and slow fat-cooking.
- Ingredients
- Duck legs, duck fat, coarse salt, garlic, thyme, bay leaf, black pepper, and potatoes.
- Cultural note
- It is associated with preservation cooking, where fat and salt helped keep meat before refrigeration.
- Common misconception
- It is not simply roasted duck; the curing and slow cooking in fat define the preparation.
image credit
Confit de canard Licq-Atherey.jpg
- creator:
- Tangopaso
- source:
- Wikimedia Commons
- license:
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- modified:
- Copied from Wikimedia Commons and center-cropped/resized/re-encoded for Gochizu; no other edits.
audio credit
- voice:
- marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
- source:
- OpenAI API Text to Speech
- license:
- OpenAI API generated audio
- modified:
- AI-generated voice audio.