Duck leg confit

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Duck leg confit

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I had a mess of duck legs after cleaning up the birds from a recent hunt and decided to make duck leg confit.
It starts with 24 hour cure in salt, pepper, and thyme.

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Then the legs are slow cooked at 180 F in duck fat for 4 or 5 hours in the sous vide thing. No water touches the meat, only duck fat in the bags with the meat.

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Then seared quickly on high heat. The confit'd duck meat was very tasty and some of the legs didn't make it past this point.

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Took the browned skin and meat off the bones, broke it up, and served it with pasta seasoned with garlic, pepper, sun dried tomatoes, and some lemon juice.

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All of this follows Hank Shaw's recipe in his book Duck, Duck, Goose.
It was very good. These sous vide things do an awesome job on turkey breasts too. Very tender, and not dried out.
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Yummmmm!
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Do you have carry out available :lol:

Good eatin's there!! :thumbup:
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Duck legs are sooo good!
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That looks Mike...
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nice,,,,real nice,,,,,I llike that one!
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Some fine dining there...Gil
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