We either make duck nuggets or duck fajitas with our duck. Duck nuggets are easy, and a huge crowd pleaser.

Cut your duck breast into cubes and soak in cold water to bleed out the meat. Then take the juice of one can sliced jalapeno's and mix with an equal part of soy sauce. Set the jalapeno's aside. Add garlic powder to the mixture if you have it. Add the duck cubes to the mixture and marinate as long as you want. At least two hours.

Once marinated, slice up a couple big sweet onions, and get a pound of bacon and some toothpicks. Take a cube of meat, a jalapeno slice, and an onion slice, put together and wrap with a half a slice of bacon. Put a toothpick to hold together. Throw on a hot grill, and when the bacon is cooked and crispy, they are ready to eat. Sometimes we add a nice hunk of cream cheese into the onion slice. Makes them really good. There won't be any leftovers.

For duck fajitas, bleed out the whole breasts in cold water, then marinate in a mixture of lime juice, beer, cumin, chili powder and onion powder or salt. Cook them medium rare medium on a grill or really hot skillet. Serve with tortillas and all the other fajita fixins. These are very good.

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Oh, on the fajita's you slice the duck breast thin after you cook it.

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Fillet the meat off the breast bone.  Marinate in Itialian dressing for 24 hrs or so.  Wrap the duck breast with cream chesse, pickled jalpeno, and bacon.  Cook on the grill till the bacon is done.  Better than a ribye.

cut meat off breast bone, put bell pepper and onions in the middle, marinate to taste, wrap in bacon, grill until bacon is crispy, throw duck away and eat the bacon!

Duck Gumbo with andoulie sausage is always good. Duck dressing pretty tasty also.

Thanks guys, that will get me started for sure! I've done the jalepeno bacon wrap but I am going to try some of the twists that you all put on it. Maybe I can even get the wife to try some this time around!

Duck gumbo is definitely the way to eat duck!  I know as I am from as far South Louisiana as possible.  I grew up eating ducks and squirrels so if there is ever anyway you wanna know how to cook squirrels I can tell you that too.  We only had rabbits on Sundays! 

Another good way to eat ducks that is easy is like this, leave the skin on, baste it pretty healty with balsalmic vinegar (helps cut the taste out of fish eatin ducks), then stuff the cavity with an apple, 2 apples on big mallards or greys, coat the skin with some sea salt, bake in the oven on about 375-400 for a while until it smells yummy and good.  I cant remember how long as I always go by feel anyhoo.  Its a good way to eat ducks if you dont feel like making a gumbo!

Danny

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What I like is taking either wood duck, teal, gadwall, mallard, or pintail breast and marinating them overnight (usually 24hrs) in the jack daniels ez marinade  in a bag(steakhouse flavor). Then put some chicago steak seasoning on them and throw them on the grill and cook till medium rare like a steak. I would not try this with divers or spoonies, i usually use those for bacon wraps becuase lets face it everything taste good wrapped in bacon even a spoonie that's been setting in a sewage pond for the last month, ha! 

Hey Brett,

I made this a few months ago and it was really tasty. Very simple to do too. I used gadwall, mallard and teal for it.

http://cookingwithgame.com/blog1/2011/03/30/duck-scallopini/