Duck And Oyster Gumbo Recipes

DUCK AND ANDOUILLE GUMBO

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Place duck in a roasting pan, and season with salt and pepper.
• Roast until tender, about 1 hour for legs or 2 hours for whole duck. If desired, reserve rendered duck fat to make roux. Let duck cool, and pick meat off bones. Alternatively, duck can be smoked.
• In a large cast-iron Dutch oven, heat ½ cup oil (or reserved duck fat) over medium-high heat until almost smoking. Add flour; cook, whisking constantly, until roux turns a deep brown, resembling the color of peanut butter (or even a little darker for a richer flavor), 10 to 12 minutes. Add onion, celery, and bell pepper; reduce heat to medium, and cook for 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Stir in sausage, and cook for 3 minutes; stir in garlic. Whisk in stock, 1 cup at a time; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer for 15 minutes.
• In a small skillet, heat remaining 2 tablespoons oil (or rendered duck fat) over medium-high heat. When oil is hot but not smoking, sear okra, and add to pot along with green onion. Add duck meat, Worcestershire, thyme, filé powder (if using), bouquet garni, hot sauce, and a little salt. Simmer over low heat for at least 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
• Skim off any fat from top. Season with salt, pepper, and hot sauce. Serve with hot cooked rice, if desired. Garnish with green onion, if desired.

DUCK, OYSTER, AND ANDOUILLE GUMBO

Steps:

• In a 2-gallon stockpot, heat oil over medium-high heat. Once oil is hot, add flour and, using a wire whisk, stir constantly until roux is golden brown, being careful not to scorch. Should black specks appear, discard and begin again.
• Add onions, celery, bell pepper, and garlic, and saute for 3 to 5 minutes, or until vegetables are wilted. Add duck and andouille sausage, blending into vegetable mixture. Add oyster liquid and chicken stock, 1 ladle at a time. Bring to a rolling boil, reduce to simmer and cook approximately 2 hours. When duck is tender, add oysters, and cook an additional 10 minutes. Add green onions and parsley. Season with salt, pepper, and pepper sauce. Serve over steamed white rice.

DUCK AND ANDOUILLE SAUSAGE GUMBO

Steps:

• Rinse the duck under cold running water both inside and out. Remove any excess fat at the cavity opening and at the neck. Use a sharp boning or butcher's knife to cut the back on either side of the spine. Remove the spine and reserve for stock. Cut through the breastbone of the duck to give you 2 halves. Cut the legs from each half as well as the first 2 digits of the wings. Set the legs aside, and cut the breasts in half horizontally.
• Season the duck with 2 teaspoons of Essence. Place a large Dutch oven over medium heat for 2 minutes, or until hot. Place the seasoned duck, skin side down in the pan and sear until golden brown, about 7 to 8 minutes. Turn the duck over and sear on the second side as well for an additional 7 to 8 minutes. Remove the duck from the pan and place on a platter while you make the roux.
• Add the vegetable oil to the pan as well as the flour. Using a wooden spoon, stir the roux continuously over medium heat until the color of dark chocolate, about 20 to 25 minutes. Add the onions, celery and peppers and garlic to the roux and stir, gently until the vegetables are slightly wilted, about 4 to 5 minutes. Pour the beer over the vegetables and stir to incorporate. Add the stock/water to the pan with the thyme, bay leaves, Essence, cayenne pepper and the remaining 2 teaspoons of salt. Add the sausage. Stir the pot well to ensure that the roux and the stock are well blended. Raise the heat to medium-high and bring the gumbo to a boil; then lower to a simmer. Return the seared duck pieces to the pan and cook (skimming any foam and fat that may rise to the surface), for 1 hour and 30 minutes. After an hour and a half, remove the duck pieces from the gumbo and place on a platter to cool. Once the duck is cool enough to handle, remove the skin and meat from the bones and add the meat to the gumbo. Discard the skin and bones and re-season the gumbo, if necessary.
• To serve the gumbo, ladle 1 cup into a heated soup bowl with 1/4 cup white rice. Garnish with the green onions and chopped parsley.
• Combine all ingredients thoroughly.
• Recipe from "New New Orleans Cooking", by Emeril Lagasse and Jessie Tirsch, published by William Morrow, 1993.

DUCK AND OYSTER GUMBO

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350º.
• Liberally season the duck with salt and pepper. Slowly roast in pre-heated oven until most of the fat had rendered out and the skin is nice and crispy, about 1.5-2 hours. Remove the duck from the oven and reserve the fat. Once cool, pick all the meat and skin from the duck, cut into roughly 1-inch pieces, and reserve.
• To make the stock, place the duck carcass in 2-gallon pot and add 1 cup onion, 1 cup celery, carrots and bell pepper. Cover with water and bring to a simmer. Let simmer 2 hours, strain, and reserve, yielding about 1 gallon of stock.
• To make the roux, in a pot, over low heat, heat 1 cup of reserved duck fat and flour together and allow it to slowly caramelize, about 1-1.5 hours. Stir often and cook slowly over low heat to avoid burning. Roux should look like dark chocolate when finished. Add the remaining onions and the andouille and allow to caramelize further, roughly 5 minutes. Add garlic, Worcestershire, Creole seasoning, bay leaves and okra and simmer for 5 more minutes. Add the reserved stock and duck meat and allow to simmer for an additional hour. Add the oysters and simmer for 5 additional minutes. When finished, serve over rice in a large flat soup bowl and garnish with green onions

DUCK, ANDOUILLE, AND OYSTER GUMBO

Steps:

• Season duck pieces with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper. In a large heavy pot or Dutch oven over medium heat on stovetop, heat 1/4 cup oil. Add duck pieces and brown, stirring often. Remove duck pieces and set aside.
• To the same pot, add remaining 1 cup oil and flour. Cook for 20 to 25 minutes, stirring constantly, to make a dark brown roux. Add onion and bell pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, for approximately 5 minutes, or until soft. Add stock. Bring to a boil, and then reduce heat to medium-low. Add duck pieces and 1-1/2 teaspoons salt and 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper. Cook, uncovered, stirring occasionally, for approximately 1-1/2 hours.
• Add sausage and simmer for 30 minutes. Skim off any fat that rises to the surface. Add oysters and liquid and simmer for 2 to 3 minutes, or until edges or oysters curl. Remove from heat. Adjust seasonings to taste. Add parsley and serve immediately with steamed rice.