For roasting poultry in the oven it is best to choose a medium-sized 2 - 2.5 kg, it is enough a lot of meat, and when baked it will fleshy and juicy.
In addition, it is not as oily as the larger carcasses, and not as dry as small.
This bird would be enough to eat for the whole family.
Recipe Duck baked in the oven with apples and prunes
Ingredients:
duck - 2 - 2.5 kg
apples are sour - sweet - 5 pcs
Pitted prunes - 400 g
sugar - 2 tbsp. a spoon
ginger, cardamom - 1.5 hours. spoon (you can take fresh ginger)
thyme - 1 - 2 small twigs
rosemary - 1 sprig
Lemon - 0, 5 pcs
ground black pepper - to taste
salt - to taste
vegetable oil - 1 hr. a spoon
For the sauce:
chicken broth - 2 cups
butter - 50 - 70 gr
flour - 1 tbsp. a spoon
cognac or vodka - 15 ml
jelly red currants - 1 tbsp. a spoon
Preparation:
1. Usually we buy in the store the frozen duck. Therefore, it is necessary to defrost properly. As well as other meat products, it is not recommended to be defrosted in a microwave or in cold water. Meat from this it becomes hard and dry, and his taste is lost.
Defrosting should be taking from the freezing chamber and moving in a refrigerator. In this case, defrosting will take place gradually, and the meat will retain all of its taste and beneficial properties.
Alternatively it can simply defrosted at room temperature.
2. Defrosted carcass examine if there were no hairs or feathers plucked to the end, the hairs can be included singe over a gas burner, and feathers are plucked with tweezers.
Remove potoroha, cut tail, which are odorous gland if they are not removed, they will give the dish an unpleasant smell and taste. And the fat that surrounds this part of the carcass.
Cut the fat, together with the skin from the neck. Sense of it there is no, in a duck preserved and without a lot of fat enough.
And to cut the first phalanx of the wing.
3. Ginger can be used both fresh and dried powder. We will use fresh ginger and rub it on a small grater.
After cleaning the leaves of thyme and rosemary, removing them from the stem. Add cardamom and grind everything in a mortar, mixed with salt and pepper and rub the carcass inside and out.
Writing soak 30 - 40 minutes to the meat marinated had time.
Spice necessarily need to add to get rid of peculiar smell.
You can prepare marinades and of lemon, orange or pomegranate juice. And also used for this wine or cider vinegar.
Today we will only spices, as we will prepare also the sauce.
4. Prune washed in several waters, then scalded with boiling water, then drain. Optionally, you can cut them into two pieces.
5. 4 apples peeled, cut into small slices and sprinkle with lemon juice so they do not darken.
6. Mix the prunes with apples. Sprinkle with sugar and stir. This is our filling ..
7. Fill the duck stuffing. To filling all satiated juice pulp, it is necessary to sew thick culinary thread. Or you can chop off a good two halves with toothpicks.
Very tight stuffing do not spread, or during the cooking process, the amount of filling as a result of heating will increase, and the skin may burst. Aesthetic appearance dishes can be spoiled.
Carcass pierce in several places with a fork sharp, so that subcutaneous fat was free to leak out.
8. The remaining apple cut into 4 pieces, remove and cut cores of flat pieces.
9. Center pan grease with vegetable oil and place to cut slices of apple.
10. Formed on the pillow lay the carcass breast side down.
11. Place in a preheated oven 180 -190 degrees and bake 2.5 - 3 hours until cooked meat.
Every 30 minutes, baking is necessary to get the skin to water and formed juice and fat.
You can check the readiness pierced the flesh at its thickest point. If spilled juice light, it means that it is completely ready. If pink juice, then it must be put back in the oven and bake until done.
12. In a skillet melt the butter and lightly fry in it the flour, stirring constantly. Then add brandy or vodka, stock and redcurrant jelly.
Boil until the sauce thickens.
The sauce also can be prepared in duck fat, which will be released during baking. In this case, apple pillow do not optional.
13. Ready to put the bird in a dish, garnish with cherry tomatoes and fresh herbs. Pour the sauce in a gravy boat. Then gently to cut the carcass into portions and serve, pouring sauce.
Bed of apples in a dish does not spread. It absorbed all the excess fat.
Duck with apples it turns out very tender, juicy and delicious. Peculiar smell is completely absent.
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