Duck with Watermelon Salad

Season the duck breast well with salt and pepper and add to a warm frying pan, skin side down.

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Ingredients

1	duck breast
	salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
	For the Dressing:
1 tbsp	honey
2 tbsp	hazelnut oil
2 tbsp	soy sauce
	juice of 1 lime
	juice of 1/2 orange
	For the watermelon salad:
¹/₈	watermelon, flesh cut into chunks
¹/₂ head(s)	chicory
1 handful	watercress

Method

Preparation time: ca. 20 min / Grade of difficulty: easy / Calories per portion: n/a

Season the duck breast well with salt and pepper and add to a warm frying pan, skin side down. Cook until the fat begins to render out of the skin, turn over and cook on the other side for a further 3-4 minutes. Remove from the pan and set aside. Reserve the pan juices.

For the dressing mix together the honey, hazelnut oil, soy sauce, lime juice and orange juice.

Place the watermelon into a bowl and add chicory leaves and the watercress. Drizzle over the reserved pan juices.

To serve, pile the watermelon salad onto a serving plate. Slice the duck into thick slices and and arrange on top. Drizzle with dressing and serve.