what is your best duck dish?

[fishermanjoe]

I have been productive in the waterfowl department lately and have been running out of ways to cook up duck. My favorite standby is duck breast wrapped in bacon and bbq'ed. How about some suggestions. What is your best way to cook up some ducks?

 

[Wacenturion]

Take the breasts and put a meat hammer to them.  Get them as thin as you can without tearing apart.  Just like cube steak.  Mix a double batch of beef bullion and submerge bests overnight.  Repeat again the next day, pour out old bullion mix and mix new, again double strength, and submerge in bullion for 2nd night.

Drain, take out breasts, package and freeze or use same day.  Use a chicken fried steak recipe and enjoy.  Your friends will think it's beef.  Good recipe for wives and kids that don't really like duck.

Disclaimer.....does not work on mergansers.....for them, throw breast away and drink bullion...lol.

Works well on puddle ducks especially mallard.  Divers ok depending on species.

[Blacktail135]

 Wacenturion's recipe I will try! Sounds good. I usually just trim all the fat away from the breasts and slice in to strips about the size of my fingers and fry in olive oil or lard,rare, and snack away. The hearts I just fry in lard until outside is browned. Gizzards,legs and scraps (and some breasts) get made into pepperoni or summer sausage. Chicken fried steak, garlic mashed red taters and a glass of Cabernet is good stuff.

[Prime Time]

I once heard of a recipe of a duck and a cedar board, but I haven't heard it in a day or so, so it may be a well kept secret 

[lokidog]

Saute onion in butter until tender, add chopped apples, add diced duck breast and legs (I did this with about three dozen legs for a potluck once and they were a big hit), cook until done.  Stir in some curry, flour, pepper and salt, chile pepper if desired.  Mix in chicken broth/boullion to make it saucy.  Serve over rice with a side of chutney.  Makes even fish ducks OK to eat.   

[chester]

I once heard of a recipe of a duck and a cedar board, but I haven't heard it in a day or so, so it may be a well kept secret 

I was amazed this thread has made it so far without that being posted  yet    

[Stilly bay]

too many duck recipes are developed to hide the taste of duck (although some need to be hid and hid well).

I like butterflying the breast meat , season it lightly and BBQ it. I take it off when its seared but still fairly rare. Rare is a must or else it turnes into leather.

if I have a mix of birds not grill worthy, I make a big batch of mongolian duck (instead of beef) ... I don't have the recipe on me right now but I believe it came from "all recipes.com" or something like that... its seriously good and worth trying especially if your not terribly fond of that duck flavor.

and last but not least.... throw away the godd#mn thousand island dressing! there is better stuff out there than godd#mn thousand island dressing to marinade your gamebirds in for @#% sake

[WSU]

I made some pho soup the other night with duck, and I must admit it was damn good!  Even my wife who is not fond of duck loved it!  I can find the recipe if anyone is interested.

[OUTDOOR_BEAST-84]

1 inch breast cubes wrapped in bacon with a jalapeno slice with a toothpick to hold it all together. fry in sesame oil or spicy sesame oil. my favorite way to eat ducks. also makes a good dish when entertaining.

[ducksdoom12]

1 inch breast cubes wrapped in bacon with a jalapeno slice with a toothpick to hold it all together. fry in sesame oil or spicy sesame oil. my favorite way to eat ducks. also makes a good dish when entertaining.

DANM!!! u beat me too it    this is my new favorite dish, absolutly delisious

[OUTDOOR_BEAST-84]

1 inch breast cubes wrapped in bacon with a jalapeno slice with a toothpick to hold it all together. fry in sesame oil or spicy sesame oil. my favorite way to eat ducks. also makes a good dish when entertaining.

DANM!!! u beat me too it    this is my new favorite dish, absolutly delisious

haha... so tasty! thinking bout thawing a package now...

[T-Rip]

I make a duck breast (skin on) marinade out of the following ingredients:

2 cups orange juice
1 cup honey
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup sesame oil
2 tbls minced garlic
hand full of fresh rosemary

This is enough ingredients to handle 1 limit of 7 ducks.

Marinated over night in a ziplock bag and grill breasts until rare too med-rare. While grilling heat left over marinade to boil and add corn starch/water mixture to thicken the simmering marinade into a gravey.

slice breasts and lay over rice or potatoes, then drizzle the gravey over.

Enjoy-

[WSU]

1 inch breast cubes wrapped in bacon with a jalapeno slice with a toothpick to hold it all together. fry in sesame oil or spicy sesame oil. my favorite way to eat ducks. also makes a good dish when entertaining.

Try the same thing with a little sour cream and you end up with a jalepeno popper type thing.

[OUTDOOR_BEAST-84]

1 inch breast cubes wrapped in bacon with a jalapeno slice with a toothpick to hold it all together. fry in sesame oil or spicy sesame oil. my favorite way to eat ducks. also makes a good dish when entertaining.

Try the same thing with a little sour cream and you end up with a jalepeno popper type thing.

i will try it tonight! sounds good

[Maverick]

cook the duck meat in a crock pot with orange juice. It makes great sandwich meat and has a good orange taste. Just add the bbq sauce!