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Duck breast recipe

Duck breast recipe

Cooking duck breast is one of the easy foods to make, once you know about its formula. Most people are looking for step by step instructions for cooking a duck breast. Here’s the recipe to cook the duck breast properly.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Resting time 5 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Course Main course
Cuisine American
Servings 2 people
Calories 287 kcal

Equipment

  • A large pan
  • Sharp knife
  • Thong

Ingredients
  

  • 2 piece duck breast
  • salt
  • pepper
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 lime

Instructions
 

  • Take out the meat from the fridge, and pat the duck breast using a paper towel.
  • With a sharp knife, score the skin of the duck breast in a cross-hatch pattern.
  • Season it well on both sides with salt, pepper and lime, and let it stand for about 15minutes
  • In a large pan, pour one teaspoon of duck fat or olive oil.
  • Lay the duck breasts skin side down the pan.
  • Turn up the heat to medium-high. Do not preheat the pan.
  • You need to cook the skin side for about 10 minutes.
  • Turn the duck breast overusing thongs, and lightly salt the exposed part.
  • Cook the meat side for about 4-5 minutes.
  • Take the duck breast off the heat and let it cool on the cutting board with skin side up.