Name: Rob's Quacker Bites
Prep time: 1 h 20 min
Cook time: 5 min
Yield: 12 servings
Ingredients: 1 cup steak sauce, such as Dale's®; 1 cup whiskey; salt and ground black pepper to taste; 1 pound bacon strips, cut in half; 6 duck breasts, deboned and cut into cubes; 1 box wooden toothpicks

Rob's Quacker Bites

"This is a great way to quickly cook duck or goose breasts. My husband is a duck hunter, but he doesn't really care for traditional duck recipes so he came up with this and everyone raves! It works well for duck or goose. If you can find Dale's Seasoning, a seasoning sauce with 11 spices, that's our favorite for the marinade. The recipe is easily adapted as hunters' success rates tend to vary."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients

Why it works: Sauce and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,303 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Rob's Quacker Bites

12 servings

Prep1 hr 20 min

Cook5 min

Ingredients

1 cup steak sauce, such as Dale's®
1 cup whiskey
salt and ground black pepper to taste
1 pound bacon strips, cut in half
6 duck breasts, deboned and cut into cubes
1 box wooden toothpicks

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

636Calories

48 gProtein

46 gFat

2 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Duck	100g cooked with skin	337
Beef	100g cooked	250
Bacon	1 slice cooked (8g)	43
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Sauce	not in our table	0
Whiskey	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Sauce + peppertop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together15,303 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Sauce and pepper barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,303 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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