Poached Foie Gras With Butternut, Quince And Verbena.

• 1 cup gewurztraminer Late Harvest
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon spices blend
• 9/16 pound foie gras
• salt
• 2 quinces
• 2 1/16 cups water
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 1/2 butternut squash
• 10 leaves verbena fresh
• ground cinnamon

1. Heat the wine, sugar, and spices in a small saucepan.
2. Devein the foie gras.
3. Place the foie gras for 10 minutes in the wine, turning it halfway through cooking.
4. Take the liver out. Put it on a plate. Let it cool.
5. Slice the liver in length. Heat a cast iron skillet, and sear the liver 2 minutes on each side. Season with salt.
6. Peel the quinces, cut them into quarters, keep the seeds.
7. Heat water and sugar to make a syrup.
8. Add the peeled quinces and seeds. Cook over low heat for 3 hours (the fruit will gradually change color and become pink). Let cool.
9. Drain the quinces (keep the syrup for cottage cheese), mix them, and strain the puree to remove the seeds from the fruit. Set aside.
10. Peel the butternut squash, and cut thin slices with a knife or a mandolin. Using a cookie cutter cut circles in the butternut.
11. Heat a pan of salted water and boil the squash slices for 2 or 3 minutes.
12. On each plate, lay down 2 slices of fried foie gras, butternut disks on which you add mashed quince, verbena leaves, a little salt, and the ground cinnamon.

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Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Poached-Foie-gras-with-Butternut_-Quince-and-Verbena_-781882 (may not work)