Side Dish Recipes
Duck Breasts with Spicy Black Bean Sauce
This is a fail-safe recipe for tender, delicious duck. The duck meat is first browned and then simmered until soft. The recipe is good for folks who just can’t handle medium-rare ducks. It’s also a great way to use up divers and snow geese. Play around with the ingredients until it tastes good to you.…
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Richard Pearson’s Duck Rarebit
The name of this recipe implies that it was created by Richard Pearson, Executive Director of the Illinois State Rifle Association. Not so. Richard requested, perhaps half-heartedly, that I create this recipe just for him. I can always use a little inspiration. This recipe doesn’t follow the usual “fast and hot” rule for cooking duck…
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Sesame Duck Leg Appetizer
Duck legs take a lot of cooking time to render tender. Save up your duck legs in a separate bag and make this recipe when you have a bunch of folks coming over for a duck dinner. Check the legs in the oven every 20 minutes until the meat pulls off the bone with moderate…
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Here’s an easy favorite from the first The Sporting Chef cookbook. Six ingredients and about fifteen minutes of preparation and cooking time. Buy your sesame seeds in the plastic bags hanging in the Hispanic section of the grocery store rather than in the regular spice section. They are a lot cheaper!
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Buffalo-Style Duck Legs
Cooking duck legs using the “hot and fast” method of cooking just won’t work. They need to be cooked slowly, in liquid and for a fairly long time to make them tender. If you want your legs extra crispy, lay the cooked legs out on a greased baking sheet and brown under a broiler for…
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Marinated Duck Salad
You can serve the sliced duck warm or cold, as long as you didn’t cook it too long. Cook the duck past medium-rare and the meat will be tough and chewy. This recipe is a long-overdue request from Sacramento’s David Oshima, who’s patience certainly must come in handy in the field. You can replace the…
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Good Luck Duck
I don’t know how it got started, but someone long ago decided that it is important to eat black-eyed peas first thing on New Year’s Day. It’s supposed to bring good luck. So here’s a recipe that just might tip the scales of fortune your way this year. For extra flavor, you may wish to…
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Redhead Duck “Steak” Sandwich
In the tradition of the Philly Cheesesteak Sandwich, this recipe is a quicky that’ll fool some of your friends who claim that they don’t like the taste of duck. The meat is sliced very thin, so be careful when cooking. It only tastes a minute or two to cook the duck! Good Luck Duck
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