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It turns out that you can buy duck hearts at Ottomanelli's Meat Market (285 Bleecker Street) in 5 pound bags for something like $3-4 a pound. Just order a bag and in a few days you will have an abundance of duck hearts to play with! Thaw them just enough to separate them into ziplock bags with maybe 1/2 pound duck hearts in each, label the bags with the date and contents, and freeze whatever you don't cook immediately.
This way, if you want a quick snack of duck hearts in the middle of the week, you can pull out a small portion to work with; you just never know when the duck heart munchies are going to strike. And if you're in a rush, you can quickly saute the hearts in butter and make a simple pan sauce with chicken stock and balsamic vinegar to pour over them. This takes just a few minutes to throw together and is splendid with toasted english muffins.
But on nights when you have the time to cook something a little more complex, it takes just a few minutes longer to throw together these duck hearts with cinnamon juniper sauce. Cinnamon juniper duck is an old Hungarian specialty, according to George Lang, who provided the inspiration (but not the recipe) for this dish.
Don't worry. This dish was so good, it's even four-year-old-picky-eater approved.
Duck Hearts with Cinnamon Juniper Sauce
1/2 lb. duck hearts
1 small onion, finely chopped
1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
10 juniper berries, finely crushed
1/2 C red wine
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Butter
Thaw the duck hearts. Reserve the blood that melts when they thaw. Remove the fatty tops and cut the hearts into 1/4" thick rounds.
Brown the onion in butter until it is golden, but not too dark. Add the duck hearts and spices and saute briefly. Remove duck hearts from the pan and set aside when they are almost cooked through.
Add the wine to the pan and boil until slightly syrupy.
Reduce the heat and stir in the duck blood to thicken. Add the hearts back to the pan and simmer, stirring, until heated and cooked through. Adjust the seasoning to taste.
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"This way, if you want a quick snack of duck hearts in the middle of the week"
I can't count the number of times this has happened to me.
/throws up a little in his mouth
I'm sorry, this is revolting.
Same Matty, I get a craving at least once a day. It's gotten bad though, lately I've been having cold sweats and nightmares for that roast duck heart and wake up at 3am craving some of that meaty aorta. Though I'm on the patch and things have gotten bett...
OH GOD I NEED HELP!!!
(yea, that's kinda nasty)
Qua...?
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I wonder if you could eat these in a bowl with milk for breakfast - you know to keep away the duck heart cravings in the morning.
it's sad to see gothamist promoting such an unnecessary thing like duck heart farms. lame.
I like them, you guys don't have to. More for me!
The keep nicely in the back of the fridge between the sheep's brains and the 'rocky mountain oysters'.
Wow, lots of food wimps on Gothamist! What the hell is any different about eating a duck's legs rather than a duck's heart?? You people should watch some slaughterhouse videos, and see where your food comes from.....
Reserve the blood that melts when they thaw
nuff said.
I'm inclined to say that anything served in tasty cinnamon juniper sauce would be good. Nothing against duck hearts, of course.
Jerky is right, though. What do you people expect? That when ducks or chickens or turkeys are slaughtered, that we should turn the breasts and legs and thighs into fillets and then throw the rest away? That's just wasteful.
Looks yummy. I personally prefers pig hearts.....
I'd like a nice snack of human hearts. Unfortunately, I have to travel all the way to the Congo Republic for my tasty fix.