Duck If You Can!

Smoked Duck finished
Originally uploaded by jlbuddha.

Here is a little smoked duck recipe of mine.

This is how I do it: it is like a peking duck in the beginning and a smoked duck in the end.

Big pot of water
1 cup of molasses
1 cup of vinegar
2 Long Island ducklings (4 to 5 pounds each)

Marinade:
soy sauce (get the good kind from the chinese store if you can)
minced garlic
minced ginger
2 tablespoons ground white pepper
2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
2 tablespoons ground ginger
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
2 tablespoons sesame oil

Take a wire clothes hanger and rig it so you can dip the duck.

Bring the pot to a boil and dip the duck in for 1 minute. Take out and let water come to a boil again. Dip the duck for 1 minute again. Repeat one more time for a total of three dippings.

Take duck out and let hang some place to dry completely up to 12 hours; under a fan is good.

Combine the rest of the ingredients and rub all over the duck as it is drying. Just take a brush and keep doing it every once in a while. Poke holes all over before you put in frig. Let the duck dry and then put into the frig uncovered to dry up to 2 days.

Poke holes all over the duck before you put it in the smoker, I use a very light wood like apple or alder or no wood at all.

Smoke at 300-350 degrees until 150 deg. internal.

if you want the skin really crispy, get about 6 cups of oil in a large wok and cook until the skin is crisp.

Serve with a sweet peach or plum sauce.

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Enjoy.