Duck

Baron Munchhausen's favorite recipe - duck with apples - has not lost its popularity today. The flavor combination of fatty meat and fruit sourness makes it unique and attractive for gourmets. Modern cooking offers to cook a duck with apples in the oven in the sleeve, and also gives many more variations of the old recipe.

Classic combination

A duck in the oven with apples turns out amazing tender. Fruits add acid to meat, so it is better absorbed and does not seem so fat. Apples, soaked with meat juice, become an excellent side dish to roast.

The dish can be varied, if you add to it rice, oranges, prunes, dried apricots, other cereals or fruits at will. Duck carcass with apples is a classic dish, but nothing prevents us from adding a drop of modernity to it.

Apple Classic

Prepare a classic duck recipe in the oven with apples. Products need for it uncomplicated, so that a long shopping in their search will not have to. But preparation will take time and hassle. No wonder that the option of cooking the carcass is traditionally considered festive.

Ingredients:

• 1 duck;
• seasoning for poultry;
• vegetable oil;
• 0.5 lemon;
• 3 apples;
• 0.1 kg of prunes and 50 g of brandy to taste;
• salt.

Cooking:

1. During the day, the duck needs to be well washed and checked if there are any feathers left on it. If in some places this flaw was noticed, the feathers should be pulled out with tweezers, otherwise after baking they will remain on the teeth.
2. In a separate bowl mix a little vegetable oil, a pinch of salt and seasoning. If the spices are salty and so, then you do not need to salt the mixture. Seasoning is better to take finely ground. If it contains dried leaves of herbs, then during cooking, they can burn.
3. Grease the duck carcass outside and inside with spices. Due to the fact that the seasoning is based on oil, its taste and smell will penetrate deeper into the meat and make it more fragrant.
4. Put the duck in the fridge.
5. The next day, if necessary, pour the prunes with brandy, and then leave for another half an hour to soften and soak. You can simply pour dried fruit with boiling water.
6. At this time it is worth doing the preparation of apples. For the dishes are excellent variety "Antonovka" and "Golden." Fruits peeled, cut and cored.
7. Cut the apples into slices.
8. Form a stuffing for the duck by mixing prunes with the fruits. Optionally, put almonds and walnuts in the dish.
9. Fill the carcass with cooked "contents". To do this, first secure the neck with skewers or sew with strong threads. Then deeply push through half a lemon, then send the stuffing there.
10. Secure the hole with skewers or sew.
11. Put the finished duck on a baking sheet. It is advisable to cover it with foil - then the bottom will not burn. The ends of the wings and legs wrap protruding edges of the foil.
12. Lightly pour over the carcass from above with vegetable oil.
13. Preheat the oven to 190-210 degrees. Cover the duck with a sheet of foil.
14. Put the carcass in the oven. Bake for 2 to 3 hours depending on the weight of the product.
15. Half an hour before turning off the oven, remove the foil from the duck to form a crust. If the filling remains, you can put it on the edges and again send the pan to the oven.
16. From the finished duck, remove the skewers or threads, cut into pieces and serve on the table.

Sleeve version

Duck with apples in the oven can be cooked in the sleeve. This recipe is much easier. It saves not only time, but also allows you to keep the oven clean and baking: the evaporation of fat does not contaminate the walls, and the fat does not leak and does not stain the stand. The only drawback of this method is the slightly noticeable taste and smell of plastic. In this regard, it is worth using only good baking sleeves, the quality of which you have checked and suits you as a hostess.

Ingredients:

• 1 duck;
• 1 kg of apples;
• 5 cloves of garlic;
• spices, salt.

Cooking:

1. The carcass can be marinated a day before cooking, but it is permissible to do it immediately before sending it to the oven. To do this, it is enough to mix the seasonings with salt and grate the duck with them. If desired, add oil to the spices - to enhance the flavor.
2. Apples should be hard and sour to the taste. They must be peeled, the core removed and cut into slices.
   
3. Peel the garlic cloves and cut them in half.
4. Duck stuffed with apple slices and garlic.
5. Send it to the sleeve, spread out around the remaining stuffing.
6. Firmly tie the sleeve and lay it on the baking sheet.
7. Send the dish to an oven preheated to 210 degrees and bake for 2-3 hours.

The advantage of this method is the fact that the meat does not burn, does not overdry, and at the same time is soaked with apple juice, resulting in tender and juicy. However, lovers of crisp crust, this technology will not work. To the meat came rosy, have to bake in a roasting pan or just on the baking sheet.

Orange paradise

The duck is perfectly combined with oranges, which can be used both independently and with apples or dried fruits. They will give the meat juiciness and exotic citrus flavor.

Ingredients:

• 1 duck;
• 3 oranges;
• 3-4 apples;
• spices, salt;
• 2-3 art. l lemon juice;
• 2-3 art. l honey;
• 0.2 liters of white wine;
• 40-60 grams of sugar.

Cooking:

1. Turn on the oven before cooking, so that it warms up to 200 degrees.
2. Wash the carcass well, dry and rub with spices.
3. Wash the citrus, cut half into slices.
4. Wash the apples too, remove the seeds and chop them into slices.
5. Sprinkle fruits with spices and pour over lemon juice.
6. Mix apples and oranges with a spoon of honey and send this stuffing to the duck.
7. Send the carcass to the oven. Bake for 2 hours.
8. The remaining oranges chopped circles.
9. Pour them with a glass of boiling water, add sugar and cook the mixture for 10-15 minutes.
10. Strain the broth, put spices and wine in it.
11. Cook the resulting sauce for another quarter of an hour on low heat.
12. Remove the finished duck and pour over the orange sauce. Set on the table.

Rice Recipe

Duck with rice and apples in the oven is nourishing and fragrant. The presence of cereals in the recipe makes it possible to combine two dishes in one, which somewhat facilitates the preparation of a hearty lunch. For the filling, it is better to take crumbly rice, which is not boiled soft and does not fall apart when stewing (however, everyone has different tastes, so you need to focus on your own cooking preferences).

Ingredients:

• 1 duck;
• 0.2 kg of rice;
• 3 apples;
• 1 orange;
• mayonnaise;
• salt;
• butter;
• spice;
• garlic.

Cooking:

1. To clean the duck, wash and sew up the hole on the side of the neck with thick threads.
2. Cook rice to make it a little tough.
3. Wash the finished cereal, mix with spices and a few spoons of melted butter.
4. Peel the apples, core and cut into slices.
5. Peel the orange and white fibers, chop.
6. Mix the fruit with the rice and stuff the duck with it.
7. Coat the carcass with spices and vegetable oil.
8. Hole in the duck sew.
9. Put the carcass in the form or on a baking sheet. The remaining stuffing spread on the sides.
10. Bake in oven preheated to 210-220 degrees for about 3 hours.
11. Remove the bird from the oven, cut it into portions and serve on the table.

Duck baked in the oven with apples, just can not fail. The dish has many culinary qualities that your guests and household will certainly appreciate. Despite the traditional recipe, there is always the opportunity to make a pleasant variety, to enrich the taste. But the strict classics of the "duck" genre - with due patience - will surely be met with a bang.