If you manage to prepare a good quince for the winter or you know where to buy it, it means that your table can become much more diverse, because with the quince it is possible to prepare various tasty and healthy dishes.
For the cold season, quince is just a find, this fruit contains many useful substances, vitamins and trace elements, fruit acids and pectins. Aivu is used in the preparation of many different dishes, drinks and confectionery in the culinary traditions of different nations and countries. Quince can boil, stew and bake.
Here are a few recipes with a baked quince. Such a method of heat treatment as baking is generally one of the most sparing and healthy ways of cooking.
Quince baked in the oven with honey and nuts
Ingredients:
- fruit quince - 3-4 pieces;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- cloves - 8 inflorescences;
- water - 1.5 cups;
- fortified white wine (vermouth, nutmeg, sherry, quality port, Madeira) - 0.5 cup;
- cinnamon (or vanilla, but not together);
- sugar;
- nuts ground any - 150-200 g;
- honey is a natural non-liquid (or whipped cream).
Preparation
Fruits carefully wash under running water and dry the napkin. We cut each fruit in half along and remove the seed boxes with seeds. Quickly sprinkle with lemon juice to avoid darkening. Put the halves of quince in the baking dish (upwards with the convex side). In each half we stick on the inflorescence of the nail. Add to the form a mixture of wine and water, sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar.
How much to bake quince?
Bake the quince for 20-30 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees C. Turn the halves and bake for another 10-15 minutes. Lightly cool and remove the flowers of the nail. Spread portionwise, watered with syrup, formed during baking. You can put in the groove in each half of the fruit a little honey with nuts or whipped cream with nuts. To such a marvelous dessert you can serve white or pink wine, tea, rooibos, mate, karkade or cool sweet and sour compote.
You can cook not only delicious desserts, but also meat baked with quince, it can be, for example, a chicken or a duck.
If you bake a duck or chicken with a whole carcass, just pepper it with garlic, then fill the carcass with thin quince slices, sprinkled with lemon juice (you can add some spices: cloves, fragrant pea, anise and coriander seeds, as well as fresh fresh herbs, but not dill ). Bake at medium temperature until cooked, it is easily determined by appearance. Baking time not less than 60-80 min.
You can do otherwise and bake duck or chicken fillet with a quince (optional fillet, you can and other pieces). Goose, turkey, rabbit, nutria, lamb, pork or veal, too, will do.
Recipe for chicken baked with quince
Ingredients:
- chicken (or duck) breast - 1 pc. weighing about 400 g;
- quince - 2-3 fetuses;
- white wine - about 130-170 ml;
- Spices (clove, sweet pepper, coriander seeds);
- fresh greens, except dill;
- garlic;
- salt;
- lemon.
Preparation
You can remove the meat from the breast and cut into medium-sized pieces, or you can bake whole breasts. In any case, quince is chopped
If the meat is dark, you can choose dark wines, if light - white or pink.