Duck Breast with Apples and Crystallised Onions

Preparation: 10 minutes + leave to stand for 1 to 2 hours
Cooking Time: 20 to 30 minutes
Easy

Ingredients (for 2 to 4 people):

- 2 large fattened duck breasts
- 3 sachets of vanilla sugar
- balsamic vinegar
- 3 Golden Delicious apples and 1 Granny Smith
- 3 soup spoons of sugar (or thick honey)
- 50 g salted butter
- 50 g unsalted butter
- a little cinnamon (optional)
- 4 onions
- salt and freshly ground black pepper

1. Slit both sides of the duck breasts with a knife and place them, fatty side up, in a dish. Sprinkle with pepper and vanilla sugar (1 sachet). Sprinkle with balsamic vinegar. Cover and leave to stand for 1 to 2 hours.

2. In a deep frying pan, mix 1 sachet of vanilla sugar, lots of pepper and ½ a cup of balsamic vinegar.

3. Put in the duck breasts to heat up, taking care to turn them regularly

4. Peel the apples and cut them into slices that are not too fine.

5. Place the apples in a large frying pan with 50 g of salted butter, the cinnamon and the sugars. Fry, while keeping an eye on the duck breasts.

6. Over a low flame, put the onions in a large frying pan with 50 g of unsalted butter, salt and pepper and cook gently until they have crystallised.

7. Serve the meat with the apples and the crystallised onions.