Smoked duck is a wonderful dish.
If you love duck hunting and looking for ways to eat your duck, this post is for you!
What to serve with smoked duck?
You can serve a smoked duck with fried rice, aglio e olio spaghetti, vegetable salad, mashed potato, or even noodle soup! If you decide to pair it with some sauce, you can try cherry sauce, blueberry sauce, orange sauce, raspberry sauce, or plum sauce!
Smoked duck can be served in various ways.
It depends on your preference. If you want something simple, you can use aglio-olio spaghetti as a side dish. If you want something warm to spice up your night in the wild, you can try a noodle soup.
Either way, it can be delicious!
What Is Smoked Duck?
Smoked duck is a dish that is made by cooking a rubbed duck with smoke, so it receives indirect heat.
Smoked duck is juicy, tender, and delicious. The flavor is strong, between red meat and chicken.
It can be served in a family dinner with various side dishes.
How To Make Smoked Duck?
Smoking a whole duck can take anywhere between 2 to 3 hours. So, brace yourself.
- Preheat your smoker on 225 Fahrenheit
- Render the fat by poking tiny, shallow holes on the duck skin (you can use tiny fork or a skewer)
- Rub the duck with salt. Make sure every inch of the duck skin is salted, including the cavity.
- Rub the duck with your favorite herbs and spices. It can be garlic, onion, cinnamon, pepper, marjoram, etc.
- Put it into a smoke. You can use BBQ, weber grill, or something else for grilling.
- When the inner temperature reaches 150 Fahrenheit, glaze the duck with honey.
- When the internal temperature reaches 165 Fahrenheit, remove the duck from the smoke.
- Let it rest for 15 minutes and then slice it to serve.
How to tell if duck is cooked?
Use a thermometer to make sure that the internal temperature of your whole duck is 165 Fahrenheit, just like a whole chicken. That’s the recommendation of the USDA.
Without a thermometer, you can make a guess of a cooked duck by checking how loose the leg joints are. Rare or uncooked duck has chewy joints. If it’s loose, usually it means cooked.
However, if you’re smoking a duck breast, you don’t need to reach 165 Fahrenheit to remove it from the grill. If you prefer, you can serve it even when it’s still rare and pink, as overcooking can make it dry and lose a lot of its juiciness.
What To Serve With Smoked Duck?
Fried Rice
Alright, so smoked duck is somehow Asian, or at least it has some Asian influence.
Now, if you want your whole dinner to be very Asian, maybe you can pair your smoked duck with fried rice.
How to make fried rice:
- Turn a raw white rice into a cooked rice using a rice cooker
- Chop some garlic, onion, and veggies
- Sautee the veggies
- Add cooked white rice into the wok
- Toss the rice and veggies very quickly on medium heat
- Add sweet soy sauce, salt, and pepper
- Serve
You can add more ingredients to your fried rice if you want. Fried rice is a flexible dish to cook and serve with.
Mashed Potato
Duck is a source of protein. You can pair it with carbs, such as potatoes.
Mashed potato can be an option that you can try.
It’s creamy and super soft. You can pair it with the tender and juicy meat of smoked duck!
The color of mashed potato is bright yellow, so it can make a great pair for the smoked duck which is golden-brown!
Don’t forget to add some red or green color on the table (such as tomato or bell pepper) so they can make a beautiful combination together!
Aglio E Olio Pasta
If you want to pair your smoked duck with carbs that is not rice or potato, and you don’t have much time or ingredients to prepare for it, you can try aglio e olio spaghetti.
The basic ingredients for this dish are spaghetti, garlic, olive oil, and cheese.
You can add other herbs and spices if you want but it’s not obligatory.
If you don’t have spaghetti you can substitute it with another variety of pasta that you have in your pantry.
Vegetable Salad
Yes, duck is a source of protein.
But it can be fatty, especially the skin.
If you’re all into healthy foods and a smoked duck makes you feel guilty, try to pair it with a liberal amount of vegetable salad.
The salad doesn’t have to be complicated.
Just gather the leafy greens and then toss it with some olive oil, a pinch of salt, and a bit of pepper.
The simple vegetable salad can add color as well as fiber and vitamins to your dinner!
Ginger Noodle Soup
When you find yourself in a camping area preparing for a smoked duck, remember that you can enjoy it with a bowl of warm soup.
You can try ginger noodle soup to accompany your smoked duck!
Serve it as a side dish or you can just slice the duck and use it as a topping for the soup.
Cherry Sauce
The cherry sauce has some pleasant sourness that can go well with smoked duck.
Don’t forget that you can also combine two of them with other food such as mashed potato.
Blueberry Sauce
Just like cherry sauce, the blueberry sauce can provide tasty acidity to your smoked duck.
Both cherry sauce and the blueberry sauce come from fruit, but they have different tastes.
So, if you love blueberry more than cherry, you might want to try this sauce to pair with your smoked duck.
Raspberry Sauce
Raspberry sauce is also a good idea to serve with smoked duck.
Slice your duck, pour raspberry sauce over it, and serve it with some leafy greens!
Yum!
Plum Sauce
Let’s not exclude plum from this list.
Plum sauce can be a tasty addition to your smoked duck!
If you don’t like it sour, you can make it spicy so the overall taste is more complex.
Orange Sauce
Cherry, raspberry, plum, and blueberry sauce tend to have darker colors.
But if you want to brighten up your smoked duck AND add some delicious sourness to it, consider an orange sauce!
Yes. It’s possible to combine them both.
You can serve them with potatoes or even place them together in a thin wrap! Don’t forget to add your favorite herbs and spices for more flavor!
Final Thought
Basically, you can serve the smoked duck with various dishes and sauces.
You only need to listen to your heart and understand how much time and ingredients are in your pantry.
The side dishes for a smoked duck can vary from a simple vegetable dish to creamy mashed potato. If you want to pair it with sauce, you can opt for sour sauces that are made of fruits such as raspberry sauce.
SEE ALSO
What to serve with duck confit
What to serve with duck breast
What to Serve with Smoked Duck
IDEAS
fried rice
mashed potato
aglio e olio pasta
vegetable salad
ginger noodle soup
cherry sauce
blueberry sauce
raspberry sauce
plum sauce
orange sauce
DIRECTIONS
- Pick your favorite idea
- Gather the ingredients
- Prepare the dish
- Serve it with the smoked duck!
