how do you cook your duck

[USPENAMC]

I would like to have some ways of cooking a duck. what are a few ways you cook them.

This is my first year hunting and we have some ducks that we would like to cook.

[DinnerPail]

I like to breast them out, cut the breast into three or four pieces depending on the size of the breast. Then soak them in strong apple cider for a day, I may even change the cider once while soaking. After that I wrap them in bacon and cook on the grill. When the bacon is done the duck is done. A little BBQ sauce and your good to go. I can't cook enough of them when the boys are around and watching the football game.

[island guy]

I've been looking for a dood roasted duck recipe. I enjoy plucking and the waxing the duck and roasting it in the oven. I don't know what I'm doing wrong but the last few times the duck was tough. What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions appreciated.

[Corey Bohn]

Place the duck in a cooking bag and then in a glass roaster. I always wrap the breast (still attached to the bone) in bacon, slice up a bunch of onion and add some water in the bag. By using the cooking bag it doesn't dry the meat out. When done, remove from the bag and pour the juice, bacon and onion bits into a bowl. Take the meat off the bone and place the meat into the juice in the bowl. Tasty stuff. With teal, I like to do like the first post said, fillet the breast meat off the bone, then marinate it in Italian dressing in a zip-loc bag overnight. Wrap the breast meat with bacon (hold bacon in place w/toothpick) and then place it on the grill. Like the other post said, when the bacon is done, so is the breast meat.

[joe_stack20]

Like others have said breat em out slice them up marinate and wrap with bacon...then throw them on the grill....but how i like to marinate them is in a bowl throw in your breasts...poor in enough orange juice to cover all breasts...then add a ton of Montreal Steak seasoning...let it sit in the fridge for 2 days..then they are ready and when done taste like steak! Good luck and good hunting

[jbell1981]

Opener weekend we had them like this. Cut the breasts in to strips. cut a jalepeno into strips and place on on each side of the duck breast strip. wrap them in bacon and hold together with a tooth pic. Broil or grill them until the bacon is crisp and the duck is medium (do not over cook). The combo of bacon and jalepeno does something to them, cause there is no wild taste at all. It tasted like a good steak.

[Windy]

I do the same as Dinnerpail but I boil them in apple cider for appr. 5-10 minutes and then wrap them in bacon, throw them on the grill and wait until the bacon is done and eat em up. Great stuff!!

[bigdog]

I also use oven bags. Add a half apple and some red wine. 325F for 1 hour.

[WalleyeGal]

Here's a new recipie for all you boys.

Take your breasted ducks put them in a crock pot. Add 1 LARGE can of cream of chicken soup and add water to cover ducks completely.

Let it cook... ALLLLLL day. It takes away alot of the wild taste and they are nummy, nummy, nummy.

I do this with the canadian geesers as well. You end up with a great gravy and meat so juicy and tender. Dang... Now I am cravin duck... gotta go take some out of the freezer!!! LOL

[TTfromBlaine]

I tryed the mcormick hickory marinade on breasted ducks for about 1 hour, then wrapped in bacon then on the grill till done man they were good, my 6yo daughter inhaled them

[The_Duckslayer]

Island guy... I am with you! There is no finer meal that an oven roasted wood duck! Here is a recipie that I use

1 ea green, yellow and red bell pepper

1 stalk celery

1 medium onion

Cut them all up and then salt and pepper to taste. Then I mix in some sage with it and stuff it all into the ducks. Cook in a covered roasting pan. Put in the oven at noon at about 190 degrees. Round about 4:30 turn the oven up to 225 or so. Then at 6 you will have some great tasting duck. I always make long grain wild rice with it as well. Then I take the stuffing out of the duck and mix it up on my plate with the rice. Mmmmmm

Oh, did I mention give me a call when they are about done so that I can come over and see how ya did? ;-)

Hope you N Joy it!!! Have a good one and N Joy the Hunt././Jimbo

[Mrs Boilerman]

We marinade and wrap in bacon also, but I use spicy italian dressing as a marinade. Gives them some really good zip. I'll have to try the apple cider if I can get away with it. I'd have to pull a switcheroo on the men, but it sounds good.

[Jackpine Rob]

Duck without wild rice is like eating cereal without the milk. I am a "pluck and wax" guy, so if you're boning or breasting disregard the rest of this.

I'll soak the rice overnight - usually 2 cups of dry rice.

Drain, add fresh water and boil (5 mins). Drain again, add fresh water and boil (5 mins). Drain again, add fresh water and boil until rice is opening up but still a bit crispy.

While rice is boiling, saute up 1/2-2/3 lb of bacon and a medium yellow onion. Once rice is ready (see above), drain rice, add bacon and onion, and stuff your ducks.

Place ducks in a large roaster pan with a rack beneath them. Over the duck place sliced onion and on top of the onion go strips of bacon.

Pour a couple of cups of apple juice over the ducks, cover and place in oven at 325. Depending on the size of the ducks, anywhere from 1 1/2 hr to 2 1/2 hr. Add extra apple juice if needed to keep a layer of liquid on the bottom of the pan.

Extra rice can be easily done in either the oven or the microwave. Use a dish with a cover, add water and either put in the oven for 40 minutes with the ducks, or microwave with added water (add water til dish is half full) for 20 minutes.

[Kodiak]

peppercorn marinade, cut into chunks, piece of green pepper, onion, wrap in bacon, put onto sqewer and grill...wouldnt have it any other way. i used to hate duck until i had it this way!

[DOAducks]

This is really good. First breast out the duck or goose.cut up the breast meat into bite size pieces. rinse the pieces under cold water. Put in a pan and cook for 2 min. per side. put some pot roast crock pot seasoning in a crock pot and add the right amount of water according to the packet. take the meat and throw it in the crock pot for 4-6 hours. add cream of mushroom soup and cook for another hour. cook up some egg noodles and put on a plate. add desired amount of the stuff in the crock pot. Duck sroganoff. the best way to eat duck IMO.

[RonZych]

If you wrap wild game with bacon it tastes like bacon. So just eat bacon and leave the wild game to others.

I don't like mixing all kinds of ingrediants with wild game.

Marinate the breasts in lowrys teryaki/pineapple marinate. You can get it at menards/cub/fleet farm.

Grill it to medium. Leave some pink in the middle.

MMmmmm. Lasts about 10mins in my house between my son and I to chow it down.

If you over cook any meat it will be TOUGH.

[rocstar]

Have not been duck hunting for years but after thinking about this recipe I would sure like to do it again. Take a couple of ducks and put halves of apple and onion in cavity. Put in a pressure cooker, add 1 cup of water and pressure cook for 20 minutes. Cool cooker at once under running cold water. Discard apple and onion. Cut large ducks into pieces. In a skillet melt 2 tbs of butter and brown duck pieces. Transfer duck to baking dish. Blend 2 Tbs of flour into butter in skillet, add 1 cup of chicken broth, 1/2 cup of burgundy, 2 Tbs of chopped onion, 1 small bay leaf, salt & pepper to taste. Cook stirring until bubbly. Add 4 oz can of mushrooms and pour over duck in baking dish. Cover and bake at 350 for 15 minutes. Serve with some cranberries.

[RBuker]

The trick to cooking roasted or grilled waterfowl is to cook them fast and hot. And, the second part of that is not to cook them too much. Most folks cook them way too long and that's what makes them tough.

You should cook your waterfowl the same way you like your steak. I like mine medium rare to I use a meat thermometer to check the duck and goose. I cook it to 120 degrees in the thickest part.

Some may turn up their noises at eating waterfowl this rare but trust me and give it a try. You won't be sorry.

[Walleye Guy]

I give my ducks to my neighbor so I will have to check with him about how he cooks them.

[tunrevir]

I like to marinate the breasts in a combo of OJ concentrate and captain morgans overnight and grill them or I use plain old zesty italian overnight and grill em very tasty!

Tunrevir

[so haaad]

In a crockpot with Lipton soup mix, chicken broth, cream of mushroom, etc. Do not overcook or they will dry out.

[Pikeslayer]

If you want to save time & money! Buy a chicken, stuff it with muskeg, set it in the sun for three days, Theres your duck!!

[swamptiger]

For roast duck (skin on), there are a couple of tricks I learned over the years. First, I boil the duck long enough so the excess fat floats to the surface of the water. Pull the duck out and roast breast down in a covered roaster until it is almost done. Remove the lid on the roaster and finish roasting with the breast up for the last 20 to 30 minutes. This keeps the breast from getting dried out. The boiling gets rid of a lot of the grease. I usually stuff with wild rice, mushrooms, and onions - throw in some onion soup mix and water and roast in a bed of the excess stuffing.

[Gordie]

put your duck(whole or breasted)in a crockpot then fill with apple jucie and ounions (chopped 1-2 will do) then top it off with 1/4 cup of molasses let the crock pot do the work. and enjoy at the end of the day. really goes well with texas toast and yellow beans (garden fresh if possible)

[Cheeser]

walleyegal, that sounds really good! - Have you ever tried this with snows and blues?? I'm going to SD for the spring hunt and I've been told they can be a tad greasier than canadians. I was thinking of 'crocking' them and your recipe sounds like a winner!