Recipe: The Preston House & Hotel Chef Drew Hiatt's Duck Tortelli

Follow this recipe and learn to make The Preston House & Hotel chef Drew Hiatt‘s duck tortelli for a tasty treat to serve friends and family this holiday season.

Duck Sausage Filling Ingredients

Set 1:

4 Duck leg meat (thigh meat), cubed
1.3 Pork fatback, cubed
40g Roasted garlic
8g Salt
4g Whole black peppercorn
3g Pink salt
10g Sage
5g Chervil
5g Thyme

Set 2:

100g Chicken stock
50g Red wine

Duck Sausage Filling Procedure

1. Combine all of Set 1 in a hotel pan and freeze until 60% frozen.
2. Grind through medium dice on full speed.
3. Put in mixing bowl and start to whip.
4. Stream in Set 2 and turn the speed up; whip until it’s sticky and emulsified.

Dough Ingredients

3 cups Semolina
3 cups “00” flour
20 Egg yolks
6 Whole eggs
2 tsp EVOO

Dough Procedure

1. Combine everything together in a mixer with a dough hook and then mix until dough comes together.
2. Knead dough on low speed for 9 minutes.
3. Remove from bowl and wrap in plastic, let sit at room temperature for 1 hour then roll.

Smoked Tomato Sauce Ingredients

½ liter Madeira
1 Smoked tomato
2qt Basic tomato sauce
1qt Chicken stock
10g Salt

Smoked Tomato Sauce Procedure

1. Reduce Madeira by 40%.
2. Add the rest of the ingredients and simmer for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
3. Puree in blender until smooth.

Pickup Dish Ingredients

2oz Smoked tomato sauce
6 Tortelli
4 Broccolini
2oz Beurre fondue
6 Rock shrimp
1/2oz Flower petals, picked

Pickup Dish Procedure

1. Drop tortelli in salted boiling water.
2. In a sauté pan, add beurre fondue and shrimp.
3. Once tortelli is floating (about 6 minutes) add to pan with shrimp and butter.
4. Coat broccolini in olive oil, salt and pepper and either grill or sauté.
5. In another pan, warm up smoked tomato sauce.
6. In your favorite bowl, ladle smoked tomato sauce first, then with a spoon, place tortelli on top of sauce.
7. Arrange broccolini on top of tortelli, then add shrimp on top and garnish with flower petals.

~This recipe comes to us courtesy of The Preston House & Hotel, theprestonhouseandhotel.com