Festive dish - duck with apples in the oven

Duck with apples in the oven - it's very tasty anda very beautiful dish that can decorate and everyday and festive table. Duck has more fatty meat than chicken or turkey, but dishes from it are more juicy. If you want to reduce the fat content of the prepared dish, then before baking it is necessary to make punctures in the legs and breast of the bird. In this case, excess fat will drain onto the baking sheet.

So, let's start preparing a duck dish with apples inoven. For this we need a carcass weighing about two kilograms, about five hundred grams of apples. The best sort of apples for baking with a duck is an Antonovka, but you can use another sort with sour taste.

We wash the duck with spices and salt from the outsideside and from the inside. Then cut apples - slices or cubes, as like. Note that if you fill the carcass with fruit very tightly, then it can burst with baking. However, this problem will only affect the appearance of the dish, the taste of the duck is not affected.

The carcass filled with apples can be sewn with a thick thread or simply chopped with the help of the most common toothpicks.

Now put the duck back on the baking tray orin the female. If the bird is not very fat, then it should be coated with vegetable oil. If the duck is fat, then it can simply be watered. We send the dishes with the bird to the oven, which is heated to 150-170 degrees. A duck with apples in the oven will bake for about an hour and a half. Check the preparedness of the dish, you can pierce the meat on the stalk or breast. If the bird is baked, the secret juice will be transparent.

If you want the duck to get a crisp androasted crust, you need about half an hour and the end of baking to pour the bird with cold water. To give the dish a delicate flavor, you can use cold orange juice instead of water.

Duck with apples in the oven is ready, we spread it on a dish, decorate with baked apples and cranberry berries.

If you prefer spicy dishes, then the duckbefore baking can be sprinkled with cinnamon, and for stuffing ducks use a mixture of apple, orange and nuts. Another option for a spicy dish is a duck with prunes in the oven.

We need one medium duck aboutfive hundred grams of good prunes, a little (grams of fifty) mayonnaise, several cloves of garlic, salt and spices. Prunes my and pour boiling water for fifteen minutes to make it soft. Carcase my duck and rub it with spices and salt, you need to rub both inside and out. Prunes are taken out, squeezed, put in a bowl, add bay leaf, sweet pepper and other spices to taste. Fill this mixture with duck, and sew up the hole.

You can prepare a duck in the sleeve for baking. We put it in a sleeve, close the holes with clips and bake at one hundred and eighty degrees for two hours. Then cut the sleeve, grease the carcass with mayonnaise and send it to the oven to make the bird brown.

If you do not like the combination of meat plus fruit, then prepare a dish of duck with buckwheat in the oven.

Prepare the sauce. To do this, we mix two spoons of Worcester sauce, a spoonful of sweet French mustard, a spoonful of honey and butter. Now add to the mixture crushed garlic, spices and lemon juice. We shall smear the prepared duck sauce and leave for one hour, so that the meat will be marinated.

In the meantime, boil one glass of buckwheat. Let's burn one finely chopped onion and three hundred grams of chopped mushrooms. Mix with hot buckwheat, adding a couple of spoons of butter to the mixture.

Filling porridge with mushrooms duck, sewinghole and lay the bird in the scallop, adding to the bottom of the dishes about half a glass of water. Cover the mattress with foil and place it in a heated oven for two hundred degrees. Bake for one hour, then remove the foil and bake the duck for about forty minutes. During baking without foil, you need to water the bird from time to time with the juice that is made during cooking.