Marinated Wild Duck Rumaki

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 8 -10 wild duck breasts, skinned and rinsed
• 1 lb bacon
• 1/4 cup orange juice
• 1 cup soy sauce
• 1/4 cup dry sherry (optional) or 1/4 cup bourbon (optional)
• 1/4 cup peanut oil
• 2 tablespoons orange zest
• 1 -2 garlic clove, minced
• 1 tablespoon fresh ginger, minced
• 1/8 cup apple cider vinegar
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar, packed
• 1 teaspoon chili paste (to taste)
• salt
• toothpick
• citrus-based dipping sauce

Recipe

• 1 combine all the marinade ingredients in a bowl and mix well.
• 2 cut the duck breasts into pieces that are about 1/2" x 1/2" x 1-1/2". place in marinade overnight in the fridge (ziploc works great).
• 3 cut the bacon in half so that you get twice as many short pieces. fry until half-way cooked. this is necessary if you want the bacon to be equally cooked as the duck, otherwise the fatty part will be mostly uncooked and too chewy.
• 4 after marinading overnight, drain the duck. wrap each piece of duck with a piece of bacon and secure with a toothpick (make sure it goes completely through).
• 5 place wrapped pieces on a foil-lined cookie sheet that has sides. you can put quite a few on a sheet and they will still cook well.
• 6 bake at 325ºf for 30 minutes or until the duck and bacon are done.
• 7 serve with a tangy, slightly spicy-hot lemon, orange or apricot dipping sauce, like leann chin's lemon chicken sauce or panda express orange sauce. be sure to serve with sauce!