Turn fried duck breasts into an elegant French dish style, frying them until crisp and serving with extraordinary cherry and citrus sauce. To drain excess fat from a duck, the breasts are first fried in a pan with incised skin down, and then brought to readiness in the oven. So they turn out covered with amazing crisp, and on a small the amount of melted fat is prepared sauce. Add to it orange juice and zest, chopped cherries, shallots and port chop it. The taste is sweet-tart, very refined, to match праздничной уточке. 
Time: 40 мин.Difficulty: easy Servings: 4 Measured containers are used in recipes volume: 1 cup (st.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cups (st.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (Art.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1 teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
- 4 boneless duck breasts
- 1 large or 2 small shallots, chopped
- 1/4 Art. Port Ruby
- 1/3 Art. freshly squeezed orange juice + 1 tsp. orange zest
- 0.5 tbsp. frozen seedless cherries, thaw and roughly chop
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Recipe preparation:
- Preheat the oven to 200 ° C.
- Make cross cuts on the skin of duck breast with a knife (in grid shape). Sprinkle salt on both sides of each duck breast and black pepper.
- Heat a large non-stick pan over moderately high heat, lay duck breasts skin down. Fry until the skin is browned, about 10 minutes, turn over and fry on the other hand, 3 minutes. Put the roasted duck breasts in baking dish with the skin up and put in the oven. Bake 12 minutes. Remove the duck breasts from the oven and let them rest 5 minutes.
- In the meantime, drain most of the duck fat from the pan and put it back on medium heat. Add shallots and fry to transparency. Pour in port and orange juice, scrape the bottom pans. Add orange zest and chopped cherries and bring to a boil. Cook for about 5 minutes to allow the mixture to evaporate and thickened, kneading berries with the back of a wooden spoon to to extract more flavor from them when cooking. fat can be stored in the refrigerator, it is great for frying potatoes or eggs.
- Slice the breasts diagonally into 0.5 cm slices. Pour over cherry sauce and enjoy!
