How to Cook a Really Crispy Duck or Chicken by
Hans Dekker
If you're like me you love the skin on the outside of duck, if it's
crispy. The texture of the meal can totally be changed with a crispy skin.
The secret is to make sure the duck is scored across the front and salted
heavily.
This helps dry up the skin and makes for a super crispy skin. You will not
be the only one that enjoys this Crispy Duck Recipe, but everyone else at
your dinner table.
Take the duck that you're going to use for your main dish make slits in
the breast with a knife and poke with a fork. Salt the breast heavily use
your discretion and taste. You can use this method for any recipe you can
think of.
Just use the cooking instructions from the recipe you are using. Place the
bird breast down on the baking pan and cook like that for about half of
the total time that the recipe says to cook it for, making sure to drain
the fat from the bird, usually by sticking it with a fork under the wings
and legs.
During the last half of the cooking use the broil on the oven to finish
cooking up the breast. This should make the skin crispy while the duck is
still moist. Since this way of cooking can be used for almost any recipe
for crispy duck recipe you have, it gives you more choices for the texture
you want to use for your meal.
Cooking is all about mixing things up and building your own ways of
cooking and recipes.
Also since you are slitting only the fatty layer of the bird you can use
that to tuck away some hidden seasoning. Try tucking your favorite herbs
into the slits under the skin, as the fat melts away it'll trickle down
and out of the bird but first it'll seep into the meat.
This can add a new dimension to the meat, making it even more succulent.
Taking these tips you should be able to use your imagination to come up
with many more combos. With crispy duck recipes you can add extra flavors
and also add a whole new texture to the dish.
Use these two together to try out new things, using the crispy skin to add
texture to an otherwise smooth meal. So the next meals with duck you cook
try out some of these combos, just using your taste and imagination. There
are thousands of recipes in books and the internet to mix and match with.
