Sweet-Tart Duck Breasts With Fresh Cherry Sauce

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

Sous Vide Duck Breast

As a meat that is best served medium rare, duck breast makes an ideal candidate to cook sous-vide.

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 à l'Orange

The sauce for this duck à l'orange recipe is designed to walk the tightrope of flavor, perfectly suited to cutting through the richness of the roasted duck.

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.

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,...

Roasted Braised Duck

This roasted braised duck recipe is so good. With a few special ingredients and a little time, you’ll have an amazing, special dinner on your hands!

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

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

Melissa Clark's Seared Duck Breast with Garam Masala and Grapes

It'd be a shame to pass over a described as a "masterpiece." Full stop. In Secrets of the Best Chefs, Adam Roberts is totally enamored of Melissa Clark's recipe development process. And his adoration is most evident in his headnote to Clark's recipe for Seared Duck Breast with Garam Masala and Grapes. It's a relatively simple recipe (duck breast gets an hour-long rest with garam masala and salt before being seared, finished in the oven, and topped with a pan sauce of grapes, cinnamon, and balsam...