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Duck: Duck Breast with Chipotle Sauce

Source of Recipe


Skipworth's



List of Ingredients



• -- Sauce --
  
• 2½ cups orange juice
  
• ¼ cup lime juice
  
• 2 Tbsp maple syrup
  
• 1 Tbsp finely chopped chipotle chilies
  
• 1 cinnamon stick
  
• 2 whole cloves
  
• 1 tsp salt
  
• .
  
• -- Duck --
  
• 6 (8-ounce) duck breast halves, with skin
  
• 1½ tsp salt
  
• ½ tsp black pepper
  






Instructions



1. Place sauce ingredients in a heavy saucepan and boil over medium-high heat. Skim foam occasionally, and reduce to a syrup.
   
   
2. Add 1 cup water to a broiler pan base and replace rack. Preheat broiler with pan 5 to 6 inches from heat.
   
   
3. Pat duck breasts dry and score skin at 1-inch intervals. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and broil 5 to 8 minutes, skin side down. Turn over, insert thermometer, and broil until temperature reads 170 degrees. Remove and let stand 5 minutes. Add any excess juices to sauce and simmer until slightly thickened, 1 to 2 minutes.
   
   Cut each duck breast diagonally into thin slices and serve with sauce.