It's not easy to cook delicious duck! However, if you know some secrets, you can surprise your loved ones with a delicious dish. In this article, you will learn the most popular duck meat recipe - baked duck with apples in the oven.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Before roasting, the duck needs preliminary preparation. Since the carcass must be thoroughly washed, dried and feathers plucked. You also need to remember to cut out a fatty tail from the tail, and some housewives generally cut off the tail. Since duck meat has a specific flavor, it is most often marinated. Wine, lemon juice, vinegar, mayonnaise, mustard, kefir, spices and spices are used as marinades.
Duck is stuffed with various products, but apples are most often used. You should not stuff the bird tightly with apples, because there is a risk that the skin may stretch and burst when baking. If stuffed with sliced apples, then it is better to sew up the duck carcass with coarse threads. An easier alternative to stitching is to use toothpicks.
Stuffed duck is usually placed on a baking sheet with its back down and its legs up. This method allows the breasts to become soft and juicy. If the bird is baked without foil or sleeves, then it is recommended to water it with melted fat every half hour. Usually the process of roasting poultry is 1, 5-2 hours. Its readiness is easily determined - in the thickest place, the carcass is pierced with a knife. If the juice is released without blood, the duck is ready. Toothpicks or threads are removed from the bird before serving. It is usually served hot. The apples, which are stuffed with the bird, are laid out on a dish as a side dish. And the duck itself is effectively butchered in the presence of guests and a tidbit is given to everyone.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 243 kcal.
- Servings - 6
- Cooking time - 1-2 hours for marinating, 1.5 hours for baking
Ingredients:
- Duck - 1 carcass
- Apples - 4-6 pcs.
- Soy sauce - 3-4 tablespoons
- Mayonnaise - 4-5 tablespoons
- Ginger powder - 0.5 tsp
- Kurkura - 0.5 tsp
- Ground sweet pepper - 0.5 tsp
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
- Ground black pepper - pinch or to taste
Cooking baked duck with apples in its sleeve
1. Prepare the marinade. To do this, mix mayonnaise, soy sauce, ginger powder, turmeric, sweet paprika, salt and ground pepper in a deep bowl.
2. Stir the food well to distribute the herbs and spices evenly.
3. Prepare the carcass of the duck for pickling. Rinse it under running water. Remove the yellow fat from the tail. If there are feathers, then settle them as well. Wipe the duck dry with a paper towel from all sides, as well as inside, coat it with marinade and leave to soak for 1-2 hours.
4. By this time, wash the apples and remove the seeds with a special knife.
5. Stuff the bird with apples. If the apples are large, then cut them into 2-4 pieces.
6. Place the poultry in a roasting sleeve that fits well on both sides. Place the poultry on a baking sheet with the breasts down and send it to a heated oven at 220 ° C for 1.5 hours.
7. Remove the finished bird from the sleeve, put it on a dish and serve hot. Remove the baked apples if desired and place them around the bird.
See also the video recipe on how to cook duck with apples (Grandma Emma's recipe).