Photo: Cranberry, Blueberry, and Apple Cider-Glazed Duck with Chestnut, Oyster, Corn and Mushroom Dressing Recipe
Ingredients
Cranberry, Blueberry, and Apple Cider Glaze:
- 1/2 cup fresh cranberries
- 3/4 cup fresh blueberries
- 4 cups apple cider
- 3 cups maple sugar
- 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
- 1 (5-pound) whole duck, washed, wings trimmed and patted dry
- 4 Rhode Island Greening Apples, cored and quartered
Chestnut, Oyster, Corn, and Mushroom Dressing:
- Oil
- 1/2 pound button mushrooms, wiped clean and sliced
- 3/4 cup diced yellow onions
- 1/4 cup diced celery
- 1/2 cup corn kernels
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 1 teaspoon Essence, recipe follows
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 dozen shucked oysters, drained with their liquor reserved
- 1/4 cup chopped roasted chestnuts
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 to 2 cups buttermilk
- Hot sauce
- Worcestershire sauce
- 4 cups stale crumbled cornbread
Directions
To make the glaze: Place cranberries, blueberries, apple cider, maple sugar, and apple cider vinegar in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook until the liquid has reduced by half and has a syrupy consistency, about 30 minutes. Strain through a fine mesh sieve and cool. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. To make the duck: Remove the duck from the refrigerator and let come to room temperature, about 30 minutes. Trim off excess fat from the duck. Piece the skin with the tines of a fork all over the duck. Spread half of the glaze over the duck, turning and rubbing to coat evenly. Place, breast-side up on a rack in a roasting pan. Add some water to the bottom of the pan to prevent the glaze from burning and roast for 45 minutes. Turn duck so that it is breast side down, brush with more glaze and add some more water to the bottom of the pan to prevent the glaze from burning and roast for 30 minutes. Turn duck back over, brush again with the glaze and add the apples to the pan and roast for another 20 minutes, or until golden brown and cooked through.
Remove from the oven and let rest, covered with foil, for 15 minutes.
To make the dressing: Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Lightly grease a 9 by 11-inch baking dish and set aside. In a large saute pan, add oil and heat. Add the mushrooms, onions, celery, and corn and saute for 4 minutes, or until soft. Add garlic and saute for 30 seconds more. Season with Essence, salt, and cayenne. Remove from heat and cool.
Fold in the oysters and chestnuts. In a mixing bowl, whisk the eggs, oyster liquor, and 1 cup of the buttermilk together. Season with hot sauce and Worcestershire. Pour the mixture over the cornbread. Mix well. After the liquid has soaked into the cornbread, fold in the oyster/mushroom mixture. If the mixture is too dry, add a little more buttermilk.
Pour into the prepared pan. Bake until the dressing is golden brown and cooked through, about 55 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool for 5 minutes before serving. Slice duck and serve with some of the dressing.
Essence (Emeril's Creole Seasoning):
- 2 1/2 tablespoons paprika
- 2 tablespoons salt
- 2 tablespoons garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon black pepper
- 1 tablespoon onion powder
- 1 tablespoon cayenne pepper
- 1 tablespoon dried leaf oregano
- 1 tablespoon dried thyme
Combine all ingredients thoroughly and store in an airtight jar or container.
Yield: about 2/3 cup
Recipe from "New New Orleans Cooking", by Emeril Lagasse and Jessie Tirsch. Published by William and Morrow, 1993.
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By bmyers146
on September 12, 2011
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Unfortunately, I was not able to find cranberries, but from my experiences in the past, you can usually interchange fruits in a sauce. I saw some fresh blackberries, and decided to make a blackberry/blueberry sauce; all other ingredients were the same. The sauce does take a while to reduce, but did become the syrupy texture the recipe describes. Put about an 1'' of water in the pan to prevent the glaze from burning, but the wings of the duck still crisped up a bit towards the end. The sauce was sweet, but not overpowering, or sugary. The only problem with this recipe is the time it takes to roast a whole duck, verses buying duck breast and sauteing/pan roasting. You can still make the same glaze, dinner will be done quicker, and you don't have to worry about carving the duck before enjoying your yummy work! I will make this sauce again, but I will probably just buy duck breast. I did not make the oyster stuffing, so I cannot speak on it.
By dmbuonocore_126...
Plainville, 45
on February 17, 2010
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I made the Duck part of this recipe for my husband for Valentine's Day last weekend and it was awesome! I didn't not make the dressing part because we are not Oyster people. The only 2 problems I had was finding Maple Sugar....have no idea where to find it in the grocery store and looked everywhere for it so I improvised using organic light brown sugar and maple syrup instead. The other problem I had was that the glaze did not thicken like the recipe says and I'm not sure why. It cooked for almost an hour and was still very liquidy but it still worked and was YUMMY! He loved it and inhaled it!!!!
By whimsicalk_5114248
Ballston Lake, NY
on January 31, 2007
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The duck was tasty, however the dressing was very fishy, I do not suggest making the dressing ahead of time, as I think this may have been the problem to the strong oyster flavor, it overpowered the dish.
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