Grilled Flatbread with Duck, Orange, Berries and Crispy Duck Skin

Grilled Flatbread with Duck, Orange, Berries and Crispy Duck Skin is one way to eat a duck. Flatbread topped with slivers of grilled duck, a few berries, some orange sauce and the piece de resistance, (and the part that everyone fights over) is the grilled and crispy duck skin. This is one way to wow your guests!

Cookout Week continues and I find myself grilling duck. Maple Leaf Farms sent me such a lovely package of duck, which could be yours if you are the lucky winner, from Cookout Week. While you are busy entering I’m counting the ways to use my duck. I think I’ll tea smoke the duck breasts and then throw them on the grill so the skin gets good and crispy and then serve them with a blueberry lavender sauce. I could do that with the duck legs too, but I may save those for a winter stew. And that duck bacon? Well that is destined for duck fried rice in duck fat with more succulent pieces of duck.

It has been a long time since I’ve had duck, though we ate a lot of it in China. Duck is such a luxurious food though there is no reason for it to be. Duck isn’t hard to prepare if you follow the “rules”. However if you aren’t that familiar with duck I strongly suggest buying a package of the precooked duck half with orange sauce, from Maple Leaf Farms. It is the perfect introduction to duck, as everything is prepared for you. Just heat and eat. Serve with some wild rice and a glass of red wine and I guarantee someone will feel special. On the other hand if you want to do a bit more with that same package, I suggest this magical flatbread that Manservant couldn’t keep his hands off of.

Grilled flatbread is a great way to use the grill in summer. I often buy naan bread and throw on my refrigerator leftovers to create a fun dinner. In this case, because I had such marvelous ingredients to work with, I decided to buy pizza dough and make my own flatbread. One pound of dough makes 4 individual flatbreads, so with those and a salad, you have a full meal. The orange sauce that comes with the half a duck is very good on its own but I decided to transform it into a very special flatbread sauce. Bada bing. Bada boom and you have a great orange pizza sauce. I then took the skin off the duck and lightly grilled the duck to take the chill off and give it a little extra flavor. But don’t think I discarded the skin. Oh my…horrors. This is the best part. I grilled the skin until it became crispy and golden and then used that as the garnish on my flatbreads. YES PLEASE! And did you know that new research has found that duck fat has similar properties to olive oil? Hallelujah!

This grilled flatbread with duck, orange, berries and crispy duck skin highlights all the components of the duck. With a base of a traditional orange sauce and hearty slivers of roast duck, plus the duck cracklin’s, this flatbread is the star of the show. I did add a touch of Stilton cheese with apricots and some berries which pair well with this gorgeous bird. This duck is a star!  If this grilled duck flatbread with orange, berries and duck cracklin’s  doesn’t make you become a duck lover I’m not sure what will.

Maple Leaf Farms has one of the best web sites I’ve seen. Besides going into great detail about the care of its ducks and the sustainability of its operations, it has more duck recipes on it than I’ve ever seen. If you have thought of it, they have thought of it first! Produced in Indiana these ducks are all American, which surely makes them perfect for a 4th of July feast!

 

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