Duck

[Ralph Wiggum]

I'm not a hunter, so I've never cooked a duck before. This past weekend, my future mother-in-law gave us some duck from last year that she didn't want cluttering up her freezer anymore.

What would be some good ways to make them?

[1tofish]

I've posted this one before, it's an easy, and very tasty

crock pot recipe.

1 package dry Itailian Seasoning mix

1 package of dry Au Jus

1 can of Beef Broth

Duck Breasts

Put the breasts into the crock pot and pour all ingredients

on the duck. Add 1 can of water and stir.

Cook on low for 6-8 hrs.

Duck comes out nice and tender and tastes great.

[hanson]

Just duck breasts or the entire duck?

[Deitz Dittrich]

any idea what kind of duck it was?.. they taste very different and I cook them different. Do you know if it was a diver or puddler?

[Superduty]

I made a lot of duck and goose jerky last year. My hunting buddies and even a farmer(He hates the taste of wild duck) gobbled it up. Awesome snack in the blind. I used a store bought dry jerky cure and smoked it in a home smoker.

[Eric Wettschreck]

Personally, I don't like the taste of divers. Sure are fun to shoot, tho. I make divers into jerky. The crock pot recipie looks yummy for mallards. I'll have to give that one to Mrs Boilerguy.

[Ralph Wiggum]

They're whole ducks, and I believe they're mallards.

[B@ssmaster]

One recipe that I have done that is really simple: Breast out the duck into strips, wrap the duck strips around a medium or hot Jalapeno pepper slice, wrap that in a slice of thick cut maple bacon, skewer a bunch of these little babies together and toss on the BBQ. Before this recipe, my son would tolerate duck, my wife would not eat it at all. With this method, ducks do not last long around our house anymore! And as a little pre-treatment, there is the standard soak of the duck strips in salt water for a little while to help pull out some of the stronger flavor. Makes divers pretty tolerable and puddlers dang good!

[Deitz Dittrich]

I like to cube out the breast, soak the cubes in italian dressing. Put a sliver of waterchesnut on the cube and wrap in bacon. Yowzers is it good!

[Tripleplay]

Cubed and then soaked in apple juice (cider cooks it a bit much) and I've also had soaked in cold coffee. Wrapped in thick cut bacon and cooked on the grill.

Father-in-law swears he would have liked eating ducks more for all of his years if he had them this way earlier in his lifetime.

(I love water chestnuts so that is a definite future upgrade from Dietz's version for me!)

[Eric Wettschreck]

Deitz, do you grill that or oven roast????

[Deitz Dittrich]

Grill sir.. sorry I should have put that in there...

[Nate McVey]

Don't forget the old bacon wrapped brest stuffed with jalapenos and cream cheese. You can grill them or pan fry them. Fajitas are easy to do as well and most people who are not familiar with duck really like those.

[jimlovestrout]

The one I like best and it’s the easiest to make… stuff each whole duck with applesauce, It’s worth a try even on drivers