Beer Can Duck
photo by DoctorDave
- Ready In:
- 3hrs 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
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2
ingredients
- 1 duck (4-5 pound)
- 1 (8 ounce) can beer or (8 ounce) can iced tea
- salt
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for the rub
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon star anise, freshly ground
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 teaspoons mustard seeds, freshly ground
- 1⁄2 teaspoon msg
- 1 tablespoon sugar
directions
- Salt the duck and place it uncovered in the refrigerator overnight to dry out.
- Preheat oven to 425.
- Pierce the duck skin with a sharp knife in multiple locations (10 to 20 pierces over the whole duck). Make sure not to pierce through to the meat. Piercing at an angle will help to ensure you only go through skin and fat.
- Combine ingredients for the rub and rub over the entire duck.
- Open the can, empty half and pierce 2-3 extra holes in the top. Optionally you can make extra rub and add to the can.
- Plug the duck neck opening with a small lime or shallot or spud (whatever you have handy that's golfball size).
- Stand the can in a relatively deep drip pan with a bit of water in the pan (preferably using a beer butt stand which you can get for $6 or less) and lower the duck onto the can shoving it into the backside as far up as it goes.
- Place in oven and roast for one hour at 425, then one hour at 375, and then one hour at 325.
- Remove from oven and carefully separate can from bird then carve and serve.
- You will have a huge amount of rendered duck fat in the pan which you can refrigerate or freeze and save for future use.
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Reviews
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Bought a 6.8 lb duck, used chicken broaster stand filled with dark amber ale, stuffed half lemon in the neck to keep moisture in and a rub. HOWEVER, cooking time on convection roast was only 1 hr at 425, when we were expecting 2 more hours per this recipe. It cooked too fast, but all the fat drained and skin was crisp. My Convection oven book says 20 mins/lb at 325. Next time, if using convection be careful on time and temp. Duck was a little tough but not ruined, for the most part still good and moist. Slower roasting would have been better. Lucky we used a thermometer!
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I had never prepared duck before, but my daughter loves it and I was tired of paying $25/plate for it when we went out to dinner. My only suggestion is to cut down the cooking time by 15-30 minutes. I had a 5.5 lb duckling and it came out a little dry. The flavor was excellent. I used a dark beer and put about a tbs of the rub in it.