Bon Appetit comes through with another winner. We made this for Christmas 2013, and it was great. While total cooking time (roughly 5 hours) is a bit steep, most of that is hands off, and all but the last 30 minutes can be done ahead of time and frozen. Serves 8. Great for a dinner party.
- 8 skin-on, bone-in duck legs
- 4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper plus more freshly cracked
- 2 tablespoons plus 1 tsp. kosher salt
- 10 sprigs thyme, divided