Cooking Methods: Pan-Sear, Pan-Roast, Sous Vide, Grill, Cure

Cooking Tips: Magret duck breast is best served medium-rare. Whether pan-searing, roasting, or grilling, score the fat layer before cooking to render and crisp. After resting, slice the magret against the grain in 1/4-inch slices before dressing with your favorite sauce.

Cooking Methods: Sauté, Pan-Fry, Roast, Braise, Steam, Grill

Cooking Tips: Besides being an essential element of cassoulet, our duck and Armagnac sausage adds flavor to your favorite recipes and can serve as a quick and easy main course. Sauté sausage with onions and peppers, crumble, brown, and add to pasta or casserole; or grill and serve in a baguette with your favorite condiments. Sausages can be cooked in or out of the natural pork casing. When pan-searing or grilling, cook slowly at a moderate temperature to prevent the casing from splitting.

Serving Tips: Our ready-to-eat smoked duck breast is super versatile. Besides making an excellent addition to any charcuterie board or cheese plate, the thinly sliced smoked duck breast is wonderful in sandwiches, on salads, or simply eaten as a snack. Slice the breast very thinly against the grain. Slicing at an angle will yield pieces with more surface area. Smoked duck breast can also be cubed and added to pasta, soup, rice dishes, and vegetable sides.

Cooking Methods: Pan-Fry, Griddle, Bake, Grill

Cooking Tips: Serve our duck bacon for breakfast or use it in dishes like salad, pasta, or vegetables sides. Pan-fry or cook on a sheet pan in the oven. Duck bacon can also be wrapped around filet mignon or scallops before cooking to add intense smoky flavor. Unlike pork bacon, duck bacon can be served medium-rare and soft or crisped; and because there's less fat than pork bacon, it can be thrown on a hot grill without much flare-up. Duck bacon can add flavor to a braise, stew, or soup and is excellent in pasta carbonara or a “DLT” sandwich.

Cooking Tips: Use duck fat to sauté mushrooms or vegetables, to roast potatoes, in place of oil in salad dressings, and for pan-searing steaks and chops. Rub duck fat over the skin of lean game birds, chickens, or turkeys before roasting for a burnished, crispy finish. Mix duck fat with peanut oil in a 1:3 ratio for extra-tasty fried chicken. You’ve got to have duck fat to confit. Slow cook duck, chicken, or turkey legs, even garlic in duck fat for tender and tasty results. Unlike butter or olive oil, duck fat can be recycled several times, just strain the fat in a fine sieve and store it in the refrigerator. Duck fat also keeps well in the freezer. Take it out an hour before cooking to soften, or use a hot spoon to scrape off a portion.

Cooking Methods: Confit, Braise, Stew, Roast, Barbecue, Sous Vide, Reverse Sear

Cooking Tips: Duck legs should be cooked slow and low for best results. Often braised, roasted, or a combination of the two, duck legs can also be cooked confit or sous vide then finished on the grill or in a ripping hot oven. Cooked then shredded duck leg meat makes a wonderful addition to soups, salads, pasta, grain dishes.