Does cherry & chocolate sauce go well with duck?
We think of chocolate as being sweet, originally, it was very bitter. I have some chocolate in the cupboard that I use in savoury dishes like chili, beef casseroles, stews etc. It is 99% cocoa solid and eaten on its own: quite disgusting, as one of my greedy friends found out! This is the chocolate you would use for the duck recipe. I have had duck in a chocolate sauce and I didn’t like it. It was far too rich. Make a cherry sauce on its own for the duck is a classic and will work very well. So will orange sauce. Kumquats work very well too because they are more tart than oranges. Good old apple sauce is good with duck especially if you use Bramley apples. Check out Delia on line for a cherry sauce recipe for duck. Very good.
