This herbed roasted whole duck with crispy skin is dairy-free and perfect for a weekday meal.
We cook duck often, we don’t serve duck only on special occasion. We have duck for Sunday night supper or weekday supper. The only problem is I only find frozen duck in the grocery store around here. So, in order to cook it, I need a plan for it, at least one day before to thaw it first.
This herbed roasted whole duck with crispy skin is dairy-free and perfect for a weekday meal.
- 1 whole duck
- 1 medium onion, white or yellow, cut in 4 quarters
- 10 cloves garlic
- 2 tbsp onion powder
- 2 tbsp garlic powder
- 2 tbsp dried marjoram
- 2 tbsp salt
- 1 sprig fresh rosemary
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Make the spice rub by mix together onion powder, garlic powder, dried marjoram, salt
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Put the duck on the roasting pan without the rack.
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Stuff the duck cavity with onion, garlic, and rosemary, sprinkle a tsp spice rub.
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Rub whole duck with the spice rub generously.
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Put the other half of onion and 3 cloves of garlic clove around the duck.
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Let it sit for few hour to marinate the duck.
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Preheat oven to 350°F.
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Put the roasting pan lid on, roast the duck covered for 3 hours.
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Check every hour, and basting the duck with its liquid.
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After 3 hours, drain the liquid and the duck fat into heatproof bowl.
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Raise the oven temperature to 400°F, roast the duck uncovered for 10 minutes or until the skin looks crispier.
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Take out the duck from the oven, let it sit for few minutes before carve it.
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Cooking duck is not that hard, just like making any roasted chicken. Pop it in the oven then leave it until it cooks. On the side note, the duck has a lot of fat, as far as I know, lots of people use the duck fat for cooking too, like making roasted potato or veggies.
How To Get The Roasted Duck Skin Crispier
If you would like to preserve the duck fat, you can collect it after the duck finish roasting and before you glaze the duck. Here I just roast the duck and no glaze on it. But I don’t preserve the duck fat, I just drain it and put it aside then roast the duck for more few minutes until the skin a little bit crispier. I got 3/4 cup of duck fat from one whole roasted duck.
How To Serve Roasted Duck
The choice to serve it in our family varies, I personally like to serve duck with fluffy cooked rice then serve it with Spicy Chili Sambal complete with the raw veggies.
Serve the roasted duck with roasted potato that cooked on duck fat along with a salad of your choice. If you have leftover, mix chopped roasted duck meat with citrusy beet salad for the next day lunch.
Salad to serve with roasted duck
The duck looks amazing.
Thank you 😊
Looks good
Thank you
I had roasted duck last weekend, would’ve loved to have had this recipe when I was preparing it, looks really yummy 🙂
Thank you. 😊 Well, there is always next time 😊