Recipe: BBQ Rotisserie Duck

BBQ rotisserie duck – that’s right! We cooked duck on our BBQ. If you don’t have a rotisserie, I highly suggest you get one. We love ours and chicken is our favourite thing to cook on the rotisserie. I haven’t tried anything other than poultry yet, but some sort of stuffed squash is on my list (cool, eh?!).

Okay, first up, buy a quality duck and ensure you season it well before racking up. Oh, and don’t forget to truss it!

Ingredients

• Raw whole duck
• Salt to taste
• Twine for trussing

Once your duck is seasoned, trussed, and racked, cook on the medium-high setting of your rotisserie. Our duck took about 2 hours, yet please know we have an infrared rotisserie along the back – our grill (the flat part of the BBQ) isn’t on at all. The rotisserie gets up to about 200 degrees and you’ll want to cook the duck until it reaches an internal temperature of 165. You can pull the duck off earlier, say around 150-155, as long as it gets to 165 while resting. The duck we cooked took about 90 minutes.

Take it off the rack, let it rest for about 5 minutes, and then carve away. Eat up and enjoy!

So, do you think you’ll give this a try?!

For us, we much prefer chicken on the rotisserie, however, this duck was good. I didn’t yield a lot of left overs, since ducks are traditionally leaner than chickens. Plus, if I did it again, I’d probably set my rotisserie lower and cook it longer, then turning it up at the end to jazz up the skin a bit more.

Well, thanks for stopping by and checking out this BBQ rotisserie duck – happy grilling!

See you again soon.