A simple rub made with salt, pepper, and paprika seasons this roast duck basted with butter. Steps 3Total Time 2 hrs 10 minshttp hIDSERP,5351. One of My Favorite Roast Duck Recipes A Jamie Oliver BeautyWe had just had turkey for Thanksgiving and wanted something delicious but different. Duck is one of my favorite roasts so I had gone to. A whole roasted duck doesnt have to be fussy. Chicken And Quinoa. With just a few hours roasting and hardly any work at all, you can have a juicy bird with crisp skin the best. Exquisite duck recipes from the UKs finest chefs including braised duck breast, duck spring rolls, duck ragu, duck carpaccio, duck cassoulet and many more. Roast duck with cherries is a delicious and elegant dinner dish courtesy of Vitaly Paley and can be found in The Paleys Place Cookbook. Roast Wild Duck Teal Recipe. Preheat oven to 4. F. Inspect duck to see if there are any remaining pin feathers, if so, remove them. Rinse the duck with water. Thoroughly pat dry with paper towels. Lightly stuff duck with a sprig of rosemary, an apple slice with a few cloves poked in them to hold them in place, and a small wedge of onion. Slather the duck inside and out with olive oil. Sprinkle all sides of the duck with coarse salt. Lay, breast up, on a roast rack in a roasting pan. Place in the middle rack of the oven. Immediately lower the heat to 4. Image/recipe/1172.jpg' alt='Whole Roast Duck' title='Whole Roast Duck' />F. Cooking times depend on the variety of the duck. Teal ducks typically weigh less than a pound and cook in 1. According to the Joy of Cooking a mallard can take up to 2. Our duck was perfectly done at 1. Another duck we cooked for 1. Meat thermometers are hardly useful with the small fowl because there isnt enough flesh to put the thermometer into. But if you have an instant read thermometer and can get a good read, my pal Hank suggests cooking until the duck reaches an internal temp of 1. F. If you error on the rare and underdone side, you can always put the bird back in the oven for a few more minutes if it isnt done enough. If you arent using a meat thermometer, to test for doneness you can take the bird out of the oven and cut a part of it with the tip of a sharp knife. Note that the juices will run RED, and the meat will be quite red. You want the meat to be rare wild duck only it should look like a rare not raw steak. The more the meat is cooked beyond the rare stage, the more livery or gamey it will taste. Remove the duck from the oven and remove to a separate rack or plate to rest, breast side down, for 1. Remove the stuffing in the cavity before serving. While the duck is resting, if there are drippings in the roasting pan, pour off the excess fat save this wonderful fat for another recipe. Place the roasting pan on the stovetop, heat to medium, and deglaze with a little dry sherry or white wine. Scrape up the browned bits with a metal spatula. Use a metal whisk to break up the bits even further into the wine. Reduce and then add a little cream, and a few juniper berries if you want an extra touch. Pour off into a gravy serving dish or little bowl. Serve ducks with wild rice and gravy. Teal ducks are single serving ducks. Note that you can get excellent stock from the duck carcass. Put the duck carcasses in a saucepan, cover with an inch of cold water, bring to a simmer, lower the heat to barely a bubble simmer covered, and cook for 3 hours. Then strain the stock to a glass jar, let cool to room temperature and refrigerate. Use the duck stock in place of chicken stock for recipes. Whole Duck Maple Leaf Farms Duck. Our premium quality Grade A Whole Ducks offer you a rare combination a delicious, nutritious alternative to beef or chicken that stands up to any seasoning or flavor profile. Our White Pekin ducks are raised on family owned farms where their diet consists of an all natural blend of corn, soy and wheat that we produce in our own feed mills.