DUCK WITH ORANGE SAUCE

 

 The most popular method to serve this fowl is with orange sauce.

 

Ingredients

1 duck 5 lbs or more

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 tsp pepper

SAUCE

3/4 cup packed brown sugar

1 tbsp butter

2 tsp grated orange zest

3/4 cup orange juice

4 pieces thinly sliced orange

 

Clean and thoroughly dry the duck. Eliminate any extra fat from the cavity. Prick the skin at 1-inch intervals all over the bird.

Preheat your oven to 400°F.

Place the bird, breast side up, on a rack in a large roasting pan.

Season the bird with salt and pepper.

Roast for 40-45 minutes, then puncture the skin again and slip the bird breast down.

Prick the skin once more and turn the bird breast side up for another 40-45 minutes.

 

Pull the bird from the oven and cover gently with foil for at least twenty minutes.

Next, create the sauce by combining all of the sauce ingredients in a small pot. Bring to a boil while stirring constantly. Lower the heat to medium-low and slowly boil until the sauce resembles pancake syrup. This should take around 15 minutes.

Dab some of the sauce over the duck.

Serve the duck in quarters with extra sauce.