Duck breasts

Ingredients
duck breast per person

Equipment
knife
frying pan
spatula

Cooking time: 30 mins

Cooking process

Score the skin of the duck breasts.

Put in a frying pan, without fat, skin side down. Cook on lowest possible heat for 10 mins, moving duck breasts with spatula to check it doesn't stick. This slow cooking renders the fat out of the duck breasts.

Turn heat up and cook for 3 mins to brown skin.

Turn heat down to minimum again. Turn over the duck breasts so meat side touches the pan. Cook for 10 mins.

If necessary, turn heat up for 3 mins to brown the surface of the meat.

Slice each breast into several slices. If you're serving it with a sauce, put the sauce underneat, so it doesn't make the crisp skin go soggy.

Comments

The point of the slow cooking is to stop the meat from getting tough. It ends up quite pink.

The recipe that I took them from suggested a marmalade sauce, which was just marmalade and water and a splash of vinegar. I wasn't sure about this. I think I would prefer an orange salad (slices of an orange with a salad dressing).