| seeking duck in slow cooker recipe
Posted: 12/19/2007 2:04:08 PM | I would like to make duck in my slow cooker on Christmas Day, in place of a traditional turkey.
I once had a recipe for duck in a slow cooker, but I can't find it anywhere, and it's been years since I tried it. I believe it involved cooking the duck in orange juice, but there were also spices involved, and I just can't remember what they were.
Does anyone have a recipe, or do you have any ideas for cooking duck in a slow cooker? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. | |
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| seeking duck in slow cooker recipe
Posted: 12/19/2007 2:27:24 PM | | Duck in a slow cooker? Gosh I would have to think that would be so very greasy? Sorry but I don't have a recipe for you OP. Have you tried to google it? | |
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| seeking duck in slow cooker recipe
Posted: 12/19/2007 2:49:20 PM | I found this on the net, but I would think roasting it would be better...
Crockpot Duck
~ 2 ducks, cut into serving pieces
~ 1 medium onion, chopped
~ 2 cloves garlic, chopped
~ 1 cup white wine
~ 1 green pepper
~ 1 ripe tomato, seeded and chopped
~ salt
~ pepper
Salt and pepper the duck to taste.
Place the duck in the crockpot.
Add remaining ingredients.
Cook on low for 6 - 8 hours or until duck is tender. | |
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| seeking duck in slow cooker recipe
Posted: 12/19/2007 3:57:44 PM | Thanks for your research, Mandeville!
I also wonder if it may be too greasy in the crockpot. I may switch to Cornish hens, for which I have found a recipe. | |
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| seeking duck in slow cooker recipe
Posted: 12/19/2007 6:06:13 PM | | Or you could find this months Cook's Illustrated magazine. They have a recipe for French Chicken in a pot. Looks very good. They do it in a dutch oven | |
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| seeking duck in slow cooker recipe
Posted: 12/19/2007 6:49:45 PM | Domesticated duck will be _way_ too greasy. Don't go there.
Cornish hens would be lovely. I'd brown them first under a broiler to get all those luscious carmelized flavors, then deglaze the pan with sherry and plop them and the pan drippings into the crock with onions, carrots, celery (big chunks), new potatoes, and a bundle of fresh herbs: sage, rosemary, thyme, and bay. For spices, I'd use black pepper, orange zest, nutmeg, a tiny bit of allspice, and a pinch or two of kelp powder.
I know that kelp powder probably sounds wierd. However, it will give the broth a subtle richness--the Japanese call it "imami" and some Asian chefs use MSG to mimic it. However, the natural source is kelp, which is rich in trace minerals.
For the poaching liquid, I'd probably use either homemade turkey, chicken, or veggie stock, or get store-bought if I didn't have one of those. (But if you didn't boil the bones of your Thanksgiving turkey for stock, you missed out on a golden opportunity. Be sure to save these bones and scraps and make stock out of them so you'll have some to work with come Easter!) | |
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| seeking duck in slow cooker recipe
Posted: 12/19/2007 11:06:20 PM | Just to clarify: "Imami" comes from glutamate, not trace minerals. Kelp and other algae products (agar agar, spirulina, other blue-green algaes) are high in it. MSG is monosodium glutamate, and the thinking in Asian circles is that it's to richness what sugar is to sweetness. I recently read that we have taste receptors for glutamate on our tongues, which reward us for eating high-protein foods.
The concern with MSG is that it isn't balanced as it would be from a natural source--kind-of like sugar come to think of it. | |
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| seeking duck in slow cooker recipe
Posted: 12/21/2007 2:09:05 PM | | Duck is so so so greasy good but greasy...make sure you use a rack so grease goes under the bird and stuff with bread that can soak up grease and feed that to the birds don't eat it....also stuff with oranges cut them and stuff and toss out. Put a nice rub on it...use spices salt pepper and paprika etc...then I would crisp it up in as hot oven for 30 minutes or so. | |
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| seeking duck in slow cooker recipe
Posted: 12/21/2007 2:25:40 PM | | Duck isn't greasy go out and shoot a wild one salt and pepper garlic powder, mix up a can of cream of mushroom and cream of celery soup, chop up one onion cook until it falls off the bone great gravy also | |
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| seeking duck in slow cooker recipe
Posted: 12/21/2007 3:47:12 PM | Thanks, Living It, good tips on slow-cooking a duck. Makes sense to use a rack under the bird and stuff with bread to sop up the grease. I'm going to go with Cornish hens for Christmas, but I will try the duck later.
Go out and shoot a wild one....
Giggle. I'll get right on that, Fur.  | |
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| seeking duck in slow cooker recipe
Posted: 12/21/2007 4:42:06 PM | | Do not slow cook a duck. Just stick it in the oven and roast. They come out excellent. You slow cook when you want to tenderize or meld flavors. Duck doesn't require either. | |
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| seeking duck in slow cooker recipe
Posted: 12/29/2007 4:41:38 PM | Update: I put 3 Cornish hens in my slow cooker for Christmas Day, following a recipe I found in a slow cooker cookbook.
Yum!
Thanks for you help with this, folks. I'm going to try duck soon, roasted in the oven the conventional way.
But I think I'll pick up a dead one in the grocery store, rather than follow Fur's suggestion...........
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