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Histamine Friendly Blueberry Duck Salad with Blueberry Salad Dressing

January 18, 2018 by taniasurrow 6 Comments

Histamine Friendly Blueberry Duck Salad with Blueberry Salad Dressing

This week I have a great filling salad recipe for you guys, and some big personal news. First off the salad! I named this salad: Histamine Friendly Blueberry Duck Salad with Blueberry Salad Dressing! Terrible long tittle, I know! And then the tittle still doesn’t give any indication about what kind of vegetables are in this salad. If I should ever get time and money to attend a writing class, I would definitely need to pay extra attention when the topic of the perfect blog post tittle comes along! But for now, you have to make due with this terrible long tittle 😉

Histamine Friendly Blueberry Duck Salad with Blueberry Salad Dressing

On a more personal level, I want to share with you all that I just got a new job, starting already 1st of February. What that will mean for this blog and the frequency of which I will be able to post recipes, I don’t know yet. I will try my very best to keep the current frequency of one new recipe per week! But any plans I had about increasing the frequency to two recipes per week, will be out for the time being 😀 On the bright side I don’t have to worry about how to keep this blog alive financially anymore 😉 And maybe I will even be able to buy myself a camera this year, and thus not depend on my cell phone and being able to borrow a camera from a friend, like I am now 🙂

Histamine Friendly Blueberry Duck Salad with Blueberry Salad Dressing

Anyways, about the salad – It is pretty straight forward to make! And you have to start with getting the duck breast cooking. The time needed for cooking the duck breast, depends on the size of the duck breast and on how well done you want it. I prefer mine to be on the well done side of medium. Does that make any sense???? Let me try again! I prefer it to be cooked a bit longer than medium, but not completely well done. As this is all a bit relative, this to me means that the meat is cooked all the way through, but still has a slight hint of pink coloration. This for me means about 30 minutes of cooking time on low heat for a duck breast of 200 g (7 oz). If you still don’t know what I mean. I tried to illustrate it with pictures.

Duck for my Histamine Friendly Blueberry Duck Salad with Blueberry Salad Dressing

Heat up a little olive oil and sprinkle a little salt onto the middle of your pan where the duck breast will be. Place the duck breast skin down (you can of course remove the skin if you want, I have read multiple places that the skin is higher in histamine than the meat), and sprinkle some more salt on top of the meat. Let it brown on low to medium heat for about ten minutes. Then turn the duck breast around and give it another 20 minutes on low heat. Note if you want it less “well done”, cook it for a shorter amount of time.

Histamine Friendly Blueberry Duck Salad with Blueberry Salad Dressing in the making

While the duck is cooking, clean and prep your vegetables. Cut the florets of the broccoli into bite size pieces, place them in a bowl and cover them with boiling water. Let the broccoli florets stand for a couple of minutes, and when they have turned bright and vibrant green, pour off the hot water. Rinse with cold water, strain and let them drip off in a sieve. Wash and (spin) dry the mixed salad leaves. Remove the outer most layer of leaves from the Brussels sprouts and shave off the outer most part of the stem. Rinse them and slice them up finely. I’m a bit too lazy for this, so I use my food processor for this step. Clean and slices up the apple into thin matchsticks. Rinse the blueberries and gently pad them dry. Mix all of the vegetables in a pretty bowl 😀

The salad all tossed together

And finally for the blueberry dressing 🙂 Add apple juice, olive oil, dried blueberry powder, almond butter and a pinch of salt to a little container with a liquid proof lid. Shake it all up, and hoopla you have a blueberry salad dressing for your Histamine Friendly Blueberry Duck Salad. The almond butter is mainly added to give it some creaminess and body. If you don’t tolerate almond butter you can either leave it out, or replace with another tolerated nut or seed butter. Tiger nut butter or apple sauce can also be used for a nut and seed free dressing.

Histamine Friendly Blueberry Salad Dressing

When the duck fillet is ready, remove the duck fillet from the pan ad let it rest for about 5 minutes before you cut it up into thin slices. Serve it up and enjoy \o/

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Histamine Friendly Blueberry Duck Salad with Blueberry Salad Dressing

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  • Author: Tania Surrow Larsen - The Histamine Friendly Kitchen
  • Prep Time: 10 mins
  • Cook Time: 30 mins
  • Total Time: 40 minutes
  • Yield: 2-3 people 1x
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Tossed salad with shaved raw Brussels sprouts, broccoli, crisp apple sticks, yummy blueberries and salty juicy duck with Blueberry Salad Dressing


Ingredients

For the Histamine Friendly Duck Blueberry Salad

  • 1 duck breast (about 200 g/ 7 oz)*
  • 200 g Brussels sprouts, cleaned (7 oz)
  • 200 g broccoli florets (7 oz)
  • 1 apple ( I used an Elstar apple)
  • 75–100 g fresh blueberries (ca 3 oz)
  • 1 tsp of (extra virgin) olive oil
  • salt

For the Blueberry Salad Dressing

  • 2 tbsp apple juice
  • 1 tbsp (extra virgin) olive oil
  • 1 tsp almond butter*
  • 1/4 tsp dried blueberry powder
  • a tiny pinch of salt

Instructions

  1. Heat up a little olive oil and sprinkle a little salt on to the middle of your pan where the duck breast will be. Place the duck breast skin down, and sprinkle some more salt on top of the meat. Let it brown on low to medium heat for about ten minutes. Then turn the duck breast around and give it another 20 minutes on low heat. Note if you want it less “well done”, cook it for a shorter amount of time.
  2. While the duck is cooking, clean and prep your vegetables. Cut the florets of the broccoli into bite size pieces, place them in a bowl and cover them with boiling water. Let the broccoli florets stand for a couple of minutes, and when they have turned bright and vibrant green, pour off the hot water. Rinse with cold water, strain and let them drip off in a sieve.
  3. Wash and (spin) dry the mixed salad leaves.
  4. Remove the outer most layer of leaves from the Brussels sprouts and shave off the outer most part of the stem. Rinse them and slice them up finely. I’m a bit too lazy for this, so I use my food processor for this step.
  5. Clean and slices up the apple into thin matchsticks.
  6. Rinse the blueberries and gently pad them dry.
  7. Mix all of the vegetables in a pretty bowl 😀
  8. Add apple juice, olive oil, dried blueberry powder, almond butter and a pinch of salt to a little container with a liquid proof lid. Shake it all up, and hoopla you have a blueberry dressing for your Histamine Friendly Blueberry Duck Salad.

Notes

  • Since the skin is supposedly higher in histamine than the meat, you can of course remove the skin if you want. If you don’t tolerate duck, you can replace it with chicken, turkey, quail or even beef.
  • The almond butter is mainly added to give it some creaminess and body. If you don’t tolerate almond butter you can either leave it out, or replace with another tolerated nut or seed butter. Tiger nut butter or apple sauce can also be used for a nut and seed free dressing.
  • The nutritional data is calculated based on one portion out of two.
37619.6 g16 g0 g36.9 g9.9 g27.2 g

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Comments

  1. Tere says

    July 24, 2019 at 21:20

    Tania, can you just use fresh blueberries instead of blueberry powder in the dressing recipe

    Reply
    • taniasurrow says

      July 27, 2019 at 09:08

      Hi Tere,

      Sure thing, just blend them up 🙂 The powder is very concentrated in taste and fairly sour, so you need to play around with the amount of blueberries needed to get your preferred taste.

      Tania

      Reply
  2. Erin says

    November 16, 2020 at 14:02

    Delicious recipe, love it! Thank you

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • taniasurrow says

      May 2, 2021 at 14:28

      Thank you Erin <3

      Reply
  3. Dustin says

    April 26, 2021 at 21:29

    How long does the blueberry dressing last for if refrigerated? Would like to make enough to use on more than one occasion if possible. Thanks!

    Reply
    • taniasurrow says

      May 2, 2021 at 10:31

      Hi Dustin,

      If you don’t have histamine intolerance, the blueberry dressing would probably keep for 2-3 days in the refrigerator. If you do have issues with histamine, I would keep it max one day in the refrigerator. If you want to make a portion for multiple days, consider freezing it down in small portions. The freezer is your friend.

      Tania

      Reply

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