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Cajun Wild Duck

Serves: 2 people

Recipe Ingredients

2   Mallard ducks - prepared to stuff
  Butter - as needed
1   Onion - sliced thin
3/4 cup 82g / 2.9ozMinced celery
1/4 cup 23g / 0.8ozMinced parsley
18   To 20 Pitted ripe olives
2   Garlic cloves - minced
1 cup 146g / 5.1ozFresh bread crumbs
1 teaspoon 5mlFreshly-ground black pepper
3/4 teaspoon 3.8mlSalt
1/4 cup 59mlArmagnac
1/2 cup 118mlClaret wine
1/2 cup 118mlDuck or chicken stock

Recipe Instructions

Melt 4 tablespoons butter and saute onion, celery, parsley, olives, and garlic, until onion is soft. Stir in bread crumbs, pepper, salt, and Armagnac; use mixture to stuff birds. Rub birds well with butter and put on a rack in a roaster with claret and boiling stock. Roast at 400 degrees, basting every few minutes, for 30 minutes. If you want them better done, cook for an additional 10 minutes, basting. Serve hot or cold: If cold, remove stuffing and serve it on the side.

This recipe yields 2 servings.

Source:
THE HUNTER'S GAME COOKBOOK by Jacqueline E. Knight (c) 1978 - Published by Winchester Press, New York, NY

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