Duck Breast Pastrami

Gasou4390

I have a pre-corned magnet duck breast that I want to use to make pastrami and then reubens. Couldn’t find anything quite like I want to do on here so looking for feedback. It’s frozen so I was thinking about sous viding for a few hours at 130 and then doing a traditional pastrami rub and smoking it with maple at a low temp for another couple hours. Shooting for a temp around 160. I’m not sure if I will get that deep red color at that temp though. Thoughts?

paqman

No experience doing pastrami with duck but if it is already brined with nitrite, it should retain the red color regardless of the temperature.  When I make MSM with beef brisket, I smoke until 203F and the beef remains pink because of the nitrite in the brine.  I am interested to see your results, not sure that the sous-vide will add any benefit but who knows.

Gasou4390

I only used the sous vide to defrost it. Then smoked for a few hours to 150. Will add more pics when I get my Reubens done. 

Gasou4390

Final product.  Sous vide for 60 min at 110 to defrost.  Scored and rubbed. Smoked at 225 for 2.5 hours to get to 150 degrees. Refrigerated while I waited for dinner time.  Fries were done in duck fat with a garlic aioli dipping sauce.  Brushed the rye with duck fat to toast. Local butcher happened to have the fresh made Sauerkraut with garlic and jalapeno.  Sandwich was excellent.  Duck flavor really came through.  Will be doing it again but corning it myself next time.

Photo Egg

Very nice photo post. Thanks

Cookbook_Chip

I have to try this!

buzd504

Gasou4390 said:

Final product.  Sous vide for 60 min at 110 to defrost.  Scored and rubbed. Smoked at 225 for 2.5 hours to get to 150 degrees. Refrigerated while I waited for dinner time.  Fries were done in duck fat with a garlic aioli dipping sauce.  Brushed the rye with duck fat to toast. Local butcher happened to have the fresh made Sauerkraut with garlic and jalapeno.  Sandwich was excellent.  Duck flavor really came through.  Will be doing it again but corning it myself next time.

That looks amazing, but I would like to take a moment to point out that by definition, sauerkraut cannot really be "fresh-made".

nolaegghead

As long as you don't cook the sauerkraut, it's "fresh" in my book.  Just like honey, kombucha, yogurt and other live probiotics....once you can or pasteurize them they're no longer fresh. 

buzd504

nolaegghead said:

As long as you don't cook the sauerkraut, it's "fresh" in my book.  Just like honey, kombucha, yogurt and other live probiotics....once you can or pasteurize them they're no longer fresh. 

Hmm, I'm going to have to ponder that.

nolaegghead

Ok, Poi Dog

buzd504

Nice