Pomegranate Recipes Two Ways: Salad and Duck

Pomegranate Recipes Two Ways: Salad and Duck

Pomegranate Recipes Two Ways
Vibrant Winter Salad and Crispy-Skin Roast Duck

We’re coming up on the tail end of pomegranate season in the U.S., which runs from September through January, making now the perfect time to take advantage of this beautiful fruit. With their jewel-like arils, pomegranates bring a bright pop of color, a refreshing balance of sweet and tart, and plenty of natural antioxidants.

In today’s recipes, pomegranates appear in two very different dishes: a composed butter lettuce salad and a roast duck with mashed potatoes. Both use pomegranate arils and pomegranate molasses, yet the fruit plays a distinct role in each—bringing brightness and contrast to the salad, and cutting through the richness of the duck with sweet-tart depth.

Pomegranate Recipes

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La Purée de Pommes de Terre de Joël Robuchon

La Purée de Pommes de Terre de Joël Robuchon

La Purée de Pommes de Terre de Joël Robuchon

Can mashed potatoes be forever memorable? Oui! Especially if the recipe comes from “Chef of the Century” Joël Robuchon. With just  four ingredients – potato, butter, milk, salt – his legendary Purée de Pommes de Terre recipe takes the humble potato and turns it into something impossibly elegant and silky and oh so rich. A potato dish of dreams that we were fortunate to enjoy at a “dinner of small tasting portions” at L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon in Las Vegas here.

Chives in the Garden

While Robuchon’s pommes de terre are typically served sans garnish, it is Spring, and my garden chives are in bloom. I don’t think he would mind my fresh addition to this signature dish… Joyeux Printemps, Chef!

French Mashed Potato Recipe

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