## Duck Breast Cooking Notes

### Ingredients

- duck breast
- salt
- 5 spice powder


### INSTRUCTIONS

#### Morning of

1. Dry duck breast carefully
2. Salt both side lightly
3. Put on a rack over a sheet pan uncovered in the fridge

#### 2-3 Hours before

1. Score cross hatch pattern cutting through the fat layer but NOT into the meat
2. Season with 5 spice powder

#### Get Cooking

1. Preheat oven to 325
2. Place breasts skin side down in a cold pan
3. Press them down to ensure full contact with the pan
4. On medium low heat slowly render the fat with occasional pressure until it gets deep brown and crispy.
5. Flip over and place in the oven.
6. Cook until the internal temperature is 135
7. Rest on a cooling rack over a sheet pan for 10 minutes before slicing

