Easy duck leg recipe

[RedRobyn2021]

If your having duck leg how do you cook it?

You can confit it, by cooking on gas mark 2 for about 3 hours covered in duck or goose fat.
You're meant to marinade the meat in spices for a day before. Then you can serve that with a tomato and bean stew, or just green beans and sauteed potatoes.

Nigella has an amazingly simple yet delicious recipe where you roast it on top of potatoes. Definitely recommend!

Link to recipe www.nigella.com/recipes/roast-duck-legs-and-potatoes

I often make a ragu; cook whole with toms, wine etc, then strip meat from the bones & serve over pasta.

You can just roast it like a chicken leg, be careful as not much fat compared to the breasts.

Or take the meat off it - same cutting as a chicken leg, makes a nice Thai or Indian style curry.

I do this too. Cooked long and slow and low. And the meat stripped from the bone and mixed in again. Its luscious

I don't like putting the oven on for 2 hours for just 2 duck legs. It seems wasteful.
I put them in the slow cooker for f few hours. Squeeze an orange in there, a bit of grated orange skin, possibly allspice or star anise and something sweet like marmalade or redcurrant jelly. I trim the skin first so it's not too fatty. Sadly there's no crispy duck skin but hey ho.

You could do that and then put in the oven a few minutes at the end just to crisp up