Duck breast with cherry sauce

Duck breast with cherry sauce

To prepare this dish you will need:

• duck breast - 400 g (two breasts of 200 g)


• meat broth - 100 ml


• cold butter - 20 g


• fresh or thawed cherries - 8 pcs.


• red dry wine - 3 tbsp. l.


• olive oil - 1 tbsp. l.


• honey - 1 tbsp. l.


• onions - 1 pc.


• salt, pepper - to taste

Wash the duck breasts, dry withpaper towels and cut the skin. Rub the meat with salt and pepper from all sides. Preheat a frying pan with olive oil, lay the duck breasts down on it and cook until golden. After this, turn the meat over and fry for another five minutes. Transfer the finished breast into a saucepan, cover and let stand for 10 minutes.

Peel and finely chop onion, fryit in a frying pan. Pour wine and broth into the frying pan. Remove from the cherries bones, cut the berries in half and also add them to the frying pan along with the honey. Stir the sauce, bring it to a boil. Salt and pepper cherry sauce, add butter and stir in it.

Pour the duck breasts on the resulting sauce, put the meat pan on the fire and simmer under the lid for half an hour.

Bon Appetit!