Sweet-Tart Duck Breasts With Fresh Cherry Sauce

Simply seared duck breast is flavored with a sweet-tart Bing cherry sauce spiked with Balsamic.

Sunday Supper: Seared Duck Breast and Apricot Compote

Duck breasts are simple to prepare, but always feel like a treat. The combination of a simply seasoned duck breast with a fresh warm apricot compote makes this an extremely simple Sunday Supper that feels like a feast. Serve this with a light rosé, and simple steamed brown rice and a big salad.

Roast Duck Shooter's-Style Sandwich With Pickled Carrots, Daikon, Cucumber, and Hoisin Sauce

Peking-style roast duck is packed into a sandwich with quick-pickled carrots and daikon radish, sliced cucumbers, and hoisin sauce. The flavors are inspired by Chinese sesame pancakes, but when pressed under heavy weights for several hours, it turns into a neat, flavor-packed meal.

Seared Duck Breast With Prosciutto, Sage, and Peaches

The ease of this recipe lies in the fact that it all takes place in the same pan, and uses the duck fat that's rendered from the breasts to crisp the prosciutto and frizzle the sage.

Peppered Duck Breasts With Cherry-Port Sauce

Duck breasts with juicy meat and crisp skin mix with a robust and fruity cherry-port sauce, combining into a rich and warm combo.

Duck of Paradise

[Photograph: Sam Sobolewski] Duck is the perfect creative canvas for the home cook. It can be prepared simply or gussied up—wherever your whims may take you. This relatively straightforward pan-seared duck breast is enlivened by my favorite homemade spice rub,...

Slow-Roasted Duck Leg and Crunchy Root Vegetable Salad

Crisp, salty duck and bright, snappy root vegetable slaw make for the perfect fall lunch.

Crispy Duck with Blackberry Gastrique, Roasted Pearl Onions, and Israeli Cous-Cous

Reduced blackberries and roasted pearl onions go perfectly with crisp duck breast.

Grilled Hamburger With Cheddar Cheese From 'Prune'

Gabrielle Hamilton's burger from her new cookbook, Prune, is obscenely good and feels quite fancy, despite being so simple. The name really discloses the whole recipe: chubby beef and lamb patties are topped with white cheddar and sandwiched in a Thomas's English muffin, dressed only with the parsley-and-shallot compound butter. The cheese oozes down the sides of the salty, fatty burger, and the bright and potent butter, slathered on the top and bottom of the English muffin, seeps into every 'no...

Crispy Duck Confit With Mixed Bitter Greens Salad

Crisp up homemade duck confit, and serve it with a bright and bitter salad for a simple weeknight meal that oozes Parisian bistro charm.