Juicee's Roasted stuffed duck w/ orange sauce
- 8 cup Prepared bread stuffing
- 1/2 cup Chopped onion
- 1/2 cup Melted butter
- 2 tbsp Grated orange peel
- 1 cup Fresh orange juice
- 1 5 lb. duck
- 1 Orange sauce (recipe below)
- 2 Oranges sliced & halved
- 1 cup Firmly packed brown sugar
- 2 tbsp Corn starch
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 4 tsp Grated orange peel
- 2 cup Orange juice
- 1 cup Water
- Preheat oven to 325 F
- Marinade duck overnight in heavily salted water.
- After marinading, take duck out & rinse all the salt water off.
- Be sure to remove the neck & giblets from the inner cavity.
- Pat dry with paper towels.
- Season with salt, pepper & garlic powder if desired.
- Prepare stuffing/ using oven toasted chunks of ur favourite bread (I use italian) break into chunks.
- Combine bread, onion, butter, grated orange peel, & orange juice (I also add a generous amount of sage, cuz I like traditional taste of stuffing); mix together well
- Stuff duck with mixture, packing lightly.
- With skewers or poultry pins fasten neck skin to back & close body opening over the stuffing lacing togetger tightly with cotton butchers twine
- Place duck breast side up in a shallow roasting pan fitted with a rack.
- No basting is necessary
- Roast for 2& 3/4 to 3 hours or until a thermometer inserted into breast reads about 150 F (thats for a still rosey medium rare) internal temperature of 180 F would be well, inserted into the thigh
- Remove duck from oven & allow the meat to REST BEFORE CARVING, for at least 20 minutes allowing the juices to circulate through the meat.
- If u carve right away all the juices will run out...
- Put duck on a serving platter & pour some of the orange sauce over it
- Halve the duck lengthwise & crosswise using kitchen shears & a sharp knife.
- Garnish with orange half cartwheels.
- Serve with the rest of the orange sauce.
- Directions for orange sauce
- Combine brown sugar, corn starch & salt in saucepan.
- Stir in grated orange peel, OJ & water.
- Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until thickened & transparent about 10 minutes.
- Makes 3 cups
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Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/334066-juicees-roasted-stuffed-duck-w-orange-sauce (may not work)