What in the World does Confit Mean?

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If you’ve ever gone to a fancy restaurant and saw the word confit on the menu and not had a clue what it meant, you’re not alone.

Confit, pronounced con-fee, is a French cooking technique where you cook an animal in duck fat. The most general confit dish is duck confit, but you can cook any type of meat in the duck fat to make it confit.

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The reason why people like to confit meat when preparing it is that it provides not only an amazing flavor to the meat, but it makes it super tender. If you make duck confit, the best way to coax as much fat as you can out of the meat so it surrounds the duck is by cooking it low and slow, and puncturing the skin slightly the fat can seep out.

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Confit might sound like a difficult cooking method or even greasy because of all the fat, but those are both myths. Making your own duck confit is super easy as long as you just use duck legs which are easiest to cook. And in terms of taste, anything that is cooking confit will be probably some of the most tender, fall-off-the-bone meat you will ever taste, which makes it really worth trying.