Uncle Tahir’s Wild Duck

Name: Uncle Tahir’s Wild Duck (Tahir amcanın ördeği)
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons golden runny honey; salt and freshly ground black pepper; bunch of fresh dill, parsley and sage, roughly chopped; 2 tablespoons whole almonds; 4-6 oz/120-175 g breadcrumbs; 6-8 oz/175-225 g cooked chestnuts, roughly chopped; 2-3 tablespoons clarified or ordinary butter; 1 red onion, or 2-3 shallots, roughly chopped; 1 wild duck, with giblets salt

Tahir amcanın ördeği

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Classic Turkish Cooking

By Ghillie Basan

Published 1995

About

A hunter’s recipe for roasted duck, stuffed with chestnuts and herbs. Once shot, the bird is hung for 1-3 days and then cleaned, stuffed and roasted over an open fire. It is also good roasted in a conventional oven with honey and almonds.

Ingredients

1 wild duck, with giblets salt

Asia
Turkey
Main course
Mediterranean

Method

Preheat oven to 400F/Mark 6/200C
Prepare the stuffing. Melt the butter and fry the onion until golden. Stir in the chestnuts and herbs and cook for