We bring to your attention several recipes for preparing a delicious duck with apples. The dish turns out to be incredibly juicy and original, thanks to a piquant note, which gives fruit.
Recipe for cooking duck with apples
Ingredients:
- Duck carcass - 1 piece;
- apples - 2 pieces;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- orange - 1 pc.
For marinade:
- olive oil - 30 ml;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- orange - 1 piece;
- spices for poultry.
Preparation
To make a stuffed duck with apples, we first make a marinade for meat. So, in a deep plate pour the necessary amount of olive oil, throw salt, spices and squeeze through the garlic press. We clean the orange, cut it into slices and squeeze out the juice into a bowl. Stir the resulting mixture with a whisk and leave to infuse for about 10 minutes. This time we process the duck, spread it outside and inside the marinade and wrap the bird in a bag.
Now we start preparing the filling: all the duck offal we cut into small pieces, and the peeled garlic is shredded with thin plates. Apples are washed, peeled, cut in half and cut out the cores. Then grind them into cubes and throw them to garlic and giblets. Lightly sprinkle all the lemon juice, sprinkle the stuffing with chopped basil and mix. Farshiruem received mass our duck, properly ramming. After driving, the hole is sewn with normal threads and put the bird back in the bag for 2 hours.
On the baking sheet, we spread two sheets of foil and smear them with oil. Orange, cut off excess, cut it into thin rings and put a few on foil. We put the stuffed carcass on our backs and cover them with the remaining orange slices. Now accurately wrap the duck with apples in foil and place in the oven preheated to the maximum temperature. Bake the bird for 30 minutes, then reduce the fire by half - and mark about 2.5 hours. After the time has elapsed, gently unfold the bird and bake without foil until the crust appears, watering it periodically with the released fat. Then shift it to a large dish, decorate with fresh herbs and slices of fresh orange.
Duck with prunes and apples
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 1 kg;
- apples - 3 pieces;
- salt;
- Duck carcass - 1 piece;
- olive oil;
- granulated sugar - 25 g;
- lemon juice;
- prunes - 200 g;
- thyme - 1 branch;
- liquid honey - 15 ml.
For sauce:
- port wine - 50 ml;
- flour - 5 g;
- prunes - 7 pcs.
Preparation
To cook a duck with apples in the sleeve, we process the bird, wash it and give it a good drain. After that, rub the carcass outside and inside with spices and herbs: turmeric, parsley and basil. Then put it in a saucepan, cover with a lid and leave to marinate. And this time we take prunes, wash it and soak it for 15 minutes in hot water. Next, dry it on a towel and divide into two halves. From the apples, we cut out the core and clean it, if desired, from the peel. We cut the fruit into small cubes and sprinkle them with lemon juice.
Now combine all the prepared ingredients in one bowl, sprinkle with sugar and mix. The resulting mass of stuffing a bird, fixing the hole with toothpicks, plaster it with honey and spread it into a sleeve for baking, and then on the baking tray with the back down, missed
The oven is preheated to a temperature of 190 ° C and bake the duck for 2 hours. And by this time let's make sauce for now. To do this, pour the port into the bowl and heat it over a slow fire for about 5 minutes, and then pour in the indicated amount of flour, constantly stirring. Then throw the finely chopped prunes and cook for a few more minutes. Spread the carcass on a plate and serve, watering the baked duck with apples prunes cooked sauce.