Roasted duck with apples and prunes in soy sauce - it even sounds festive! On any table, such a treat will take the main place and become the central dish. Step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
Duck is not as popular as chicken. Its meat is dark, fatty, has a pronounced taste and aroma. However, duck with apples is considered a classic Russian version of cooking poultry for a festive event. The food looks spectacular and exquisite, and has an exquisite taste. Not a single eater will refuse it. Usually poultry is stuffed with fruit and baked whole. But today we will cook the carcass differently. Cut it into pieces, which we put on a baking sheet. Add apple slices and prunes to them. Pour this whole composition with soy sauce and send it to bake in the oven. In the process of cooking, the meat will turn out to be surprisingly tender, it will be saturated with the aroma of dried plums, acquire sweetish notes and will turn out to be unusually tasty.
If you don't like soy sauce, you can use other marinades instead. For example, make a sauce with vinegar, honey, mustard, wine, lemon juice, beer … If you wish, you can add nuts, pears, raisins and other products to the duck. From this, the dish will only be enriched with taste. After baking, a delicious sauce will remain on the bottom in the dish. It can be used to dress salads, appetizers, or as a base for a complex sauce. By the same principle, you can cook goose, turkey or game, but then you will need to increase the cooking time by 1 hour. With this heat treatment mode, even the toughest bird will turn out juicy and soft.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 246 kcal.
- Servings Per Container - 5 Servings
- Cooking time - 2 hours 45 minutes
Ingredients:
- Duck - 1 carcass
- Salt - 0.5 tsp or to taste
- Prunes - 100 g
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Mustard - 1 tsp
- Soy sauce - 50 ml
- Italian spices - 1 tsp
- Apples - 4-5 pcs.
- Ginger powder - 1 tsp
Step by step cooking of baked duck with apple and prune slices in soy sauce, recipe with photo:
1. Combine soy sauce, mustard, ginger powder and Italian spices in a small bowl. Stir the sauce well.
2. Wash the duck, scrape with an iron sponge and cut into portions. If you want to make the dish less high-calorie, remove the skin from the bird, because it contains the most calories, cholesterol and fat. Send the duck to marinate in soy sauce.
3. Stir the poultry to marinade each bite. Cover the bird with cling film and leave for 1 hour at room temperature. You can stand the duck and overnight if you like, but then put it in the cold.
4. Place the marinated carcass pieces in a baking dish. This can be a glass or ceramic container, or just a regular baking sheet.
5. Wash, dry the apples, remove the seed box, cut into 4 pieces and place in a container with the bird.
6. Wash prunes and dry with a paper towel. If there are bones in it, then remove them first. Add the dried plums to the meat pan. Cover it with cling foil and place in a heated oven to 180 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes. If you want the pieces to have a golden brown crust, then remove the foil 15 minutes before cooking. The cooked baked duck with apples and prunes in soy sauce turns out to be unusually tender. Dried plums add a slight sourness, while sliced apples add a spicy sweetness.
See also the video recipe on how to cook duck with honey and soy sauce.
