Gressingham Memphis Barbecue Pulled Duck
Gressingham Memphis BBQ Pulled Duck is delicious, if not slightly misleading. It's not ready to serve (or heat) pulled duck, it's 2 partly cooked duck legs, in a foil oven tray with a sachet of Memphis barbecue sauce.
These are delicious and make a great filling for rolls, sandwiches, tortillas and tacos. When I first spotted them I used the pulled duck to make Memphis BBQ pulled duck tacos. A fabulous meal, let down by piss-poor taco shells. Excuse the profanity, I am still cross about these miserable ingredients!
The packet suggests discarding the juices after 25 minutes of cooking, however, I reserved the juices and allowed them to cool overnight. In the morning what was left was almost all lovely jelly and hardly any fat. What a waste!
Cooking the Gressingham pulled duck legs
The Gressingham way
- Remove the duck legs from the plastic bag and add to the foil tray provided together will all the fat and juices
- Roast uncovered for 25 minutes at 180° C (350° F - gas 4), [fan oven 160° C & reduce cooking time by 10 mins per hour]
- Drain and discard the fat and juices
- Squeeze the contents of the Memphis barbecue sauce over the duck legs
- Roast for a further 10 minutes
- Using two forks, shred the duck and remove the bones
- Ensure the barbecue sauce is well mixed over the shredded duck
- Serve
My Way
- Remove the duck legs from the plastic bag and add to the foil tray provided together will all the fat and juices
- Roast uncovered for 35 minutes at 180° C (350° F - gas 4), [fan oven 160° C & reduce cooking time by 10 mins per hour]
- Drain and reserve the juices and keep warm
- Using two forks, shred the duck and remove the bones
- Add half of the reserve juices with the barbecue sauce and mix in with the shredded duck, adding more of the reserve juices if needed
- Serve
See also
- Tortillas: - Encyclopaedic page describing all variants of tortillas
- South American tortilla recipes - :
- Corn tortilla recipe - make them from scratch with masa harina
- Corn tortillas - a Thermomix recipe
- Wheat flour tortilla recipe
- Gorditas - Thick Mexican tortillas
- Quick tortillas - a recipe idea for using left over tortillas
- Burrito (or taco de harina) explained
- Minced beef burritos - A burrito recipe
- Enchiladas - a recipe and an explanation
- Chicken enchiladas
- Cheatin' chicken enchiladas a quick version of the above
- Quick beef enchiladas
- Honduran Enchiladas, This is a typical dish from Honduras
- enfrijoladas, a similar dish to enchiladas
- Pulled pork enchiladas - a nice pork recipe made using meat from Jamie Oliver's Overnight Slow Roast Pork Joint
- Homemade tortilla chips - Make superb tortilla chips from soft corn tortillas - better than anything you could buy!
- Cheese nachos - A cheese nacho recipe
- Frito pie - If you like Tex-Mex, you'll love this
- Easy frito pie - Make Frito pie-on the hoof!
- Minced beef for tacos - A Mexican spicy beef taco filling recipe
- Memphis BBQ pulled duck tacos - A duck variation on the same theme
- Sincronizada recipe - A Mexican speciality that can alos be found all over South America
- Quesadillas - A selection of quesadilla recipes
- Dobladas - Stuffed tortillas from Guatemala
- Enfrijoladas recipe - tortillas stuffed with re-fried beans and spices
- Chilaquiles - a fabulous recipe from two Mexican visitors
- Tostadas de guacamole y crema - A famous Diana Kennedy recipe
- Cheese pupusas - a stuffed tortilla from El Salvador
- Pupusa de Chicharron - similar to pupusas, again from El Salvador
- Spicy lamb tortillas - A recipe idea taken from crispy duck pancakes
- Duck fajitas - and a similar version, with crispy duck
- Gressingham Memphis Barbecue Pulled Duck - Commercially available pre-prepared pulled duck
- Spanish tortilla recipes:
- Capricorn, pea and mint tortilla - A Spanish-style tortilla with goats' cheese
- Potato and goats' cheese tortilla - Another Spanish-type with goats' cheese
- Tortilla Española - A Spanish tortilla
- Tortilla capuchina - another Spanish tortilla
- Tortilla 'batatas harras' - A spicy Spanish tortilla
- Beef Skirt Steak Fajitas - Fajitas, using Taste Sensation spice mix
- Squash, halloumi and chilli omelette - Spicy, with squash & Greek cheese
- Omelettes - Many omelette recipes
- Misc. tortilla recipes:
- Potatoes as a garnish or for tortillas (TM) - A Thermomix recipe
- Baked squash filled with melted Camembert cheese - Where taco shells are used to dish up the melted cheese
- Ingredients:
- Taco shells
- Tex-Mex seasoning - Home-made Old India Taco Seasoning recipe
- Old India Taco Seasoning - The commercial variety is very good too
- Tortilla chips - Snacks/crisps.
- Taste Sensation Cajun Seasoning
- Taste Sensation fajita seasoning
- Taste Sensation harissa seasoning
- Taste Sensation Italian seasoning
- Taste Sensation Jalapeno and Lime Seasoning
- Taste Sensation Mexican seasoning
- Taste Sensation piri piri seasoning
- Tools:
- Tortilla press - The device and also a great tip for making them without a press!
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