Buckshot Duck With Wild And Brown Rice Stuffing Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375ºF.
• To prepare the stuffing: Sauté onion in butter until onion is transparent.
• Remove from heat.
• In a large bowl Add salt, and combine with rice, chopped sage and pecans.
• Taste and adjust seasoning to your taste.
• You may wish to add more salt and if you like you can add a bit of garlic pepper, but that is optional.
• Remove the bag from the duck cavity that contains the giblets and neck bone and set aside in refrigerator, you won't need it for this recipe.
• Rinse and dry the duck.
• Stuff the duck with the prepared brown rice stuffing and sew the stuffed cavity closed or secure with round tooth picks.
• Place the stuffed duck on a rack in a roasting pan breast side up and sprinkle all over top and bottom with salt and garlic pepper.
• Ducks contain lots of natural fat so require no basting.
• Roast at 375ºF for about 22 minutes a pound.
• A 6 pound duck should be done in about 2 1/4 hours.
• When duck is done let it set for about 20 minutes to let the juices settle before carving.
• While the duck is resting prepare the cherry sauce: In a medium size saucepan, combine the 15 ounce can of cherries, honey, wine, and Balsamic vinegar.
• Heat over medium flame until the mixture is reduced by half.
• Transfer to a serving touraine with a ladle.
• Place the touraine on table beside the carved Duck and let guests spoon as much sauce as they like on their portion of duck.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
• Place the duck on a rack in a roasting pan. Rub the crushed garlic and pepper under the skin of the duck. Rub the skin with 1 packet sazon seasoning.
• Roast 3 hours in the preheated oven, to an internal temperature of 180 degrees F (80 degrees) C.
• Place the reserved duck innards and 1 packet sazon seasoning in a saucepan with enough water to cover. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer 30 minutes, until tender.
• Place the rice mix in a medium saucepan with just enough water to cover. Mix in the oil, and 1 packet sazon seasoning. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover, and simmer 25 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• In a bowl, mix the cooked innards, cooked rice, and croutons. Stuff the cooked duck with the mixture to serve.

Steps:

• To make stuffing:.
• In 1 1/2-quart saucepan, combine broth, rice and wild rice.
• Over high heat, heat to boiling.
• Reduce heat to low; simmer, covered, 30 minutes or until rice is tender and all liquid is absorbed, stirring occasionally.
• In 10-inch skillet over medium heat, in hot butter, cook chopped mushrooms and onions until tender and liquid has evaporated, stirring occasionally.
• Remove from heat.
• Stir in cooked rice, cranberry sauce, salt and pepper.
• For duck:.
• Clean and rinse duck.
• Prick skin several times.
• To make glaze:
• In small saucepan, combine marmalade and lemon juice.
• Over low heat, heat until marmalade is melted, stirring occasionally.
• To cook duck:.
• In covered grill, arrange preheated coals around drip pan; test for medium heat above pan.
• Insert a meat thermometer into thickest part of meat between breast and thigh, without touching fat or bone.
• On grill rack, place duck, breast side, up, over pan but not over coals.
• Grill, covered, 1 1/4 - 1 1/2 hours or until well-done or 180.
• Adjust vents and add more charcoal as necessary.
• Brush often with glaze during the last 30 minutes.
• Garnish with lemon leaves, mushrooms and lemon peel twist.