Duck thighs - cooking recipes

The taste of the meat of this bird can not be confused with any other, well, the most delicious meat, of course, on the hips of the bone, and even cook a whole leg rather than a whole duck. For this, we suggest that you read two recipes for preparing a fine dish.

How to cook stewed duck stew with apples and with oranges in a frying pan - recipe

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Preparation

Thoroughly wash the leg and dry it afterwards, then with a knife it is necessary to carefully cut the net from the skin, cutting only the skin and the layer of fat, in no case cutting the meat. This procedure is necessary in order to melt the excess fat, which is absolutely unnecessary to you. Thigh the leg with a cut skin on a dry, cold frying pan and put it on heating below the average, the primary task is to heat the fat, and not fry the meat. Since duck fat is one of the most fusible, the heating goes so fast that the skin does not even have time to brown.

All the melted fat is poured into a separate bowl, and once again put the whole leg on a hot pan, be sure to peel down and already now bring the bird to a blush. Then, to the already ruddy thighs, put the onion crushed with semicircles and cover with a lid, thus letting out for at least 10 minutes. Half the apples are cut into small cubes, they will form the main part of the sauce that will be produced after the duck is cooked, and cut the second half of the apples with rings, naturally removing the core and skin. Falling asleep to the bird finely chopped apples, also enter all the spices and salt, mix well, and from above place the rings of apples. A set of spices you can change to your taste, but try to remember that the zir, which is also called cumin, absolutely does not fit this bird. Having kept under the lid for at least a quarter of an hour, you can lay out the sliced ​​orange and you will have to wait another 10-12 minutes before the final.

The recipe for cooking duck leg in the oven

Ingredients:

Preparation

The washed and dried ham should be placed on the chopping board with the sandpaper and cut by mesh, cutting only the skin and a layer of fat under it. Combine in one bowl, lemon juice, honey, one clove of garlic preliminarily passed through the press, mustard and part of the spices. After you have well mixed the resulting marinade for duck leg, grate them and put the meat in a closed container or bag for 12 hours, and even for a day.

Prepare the whole leg with a low-temperature frying pan in the frying pan, after the fat comes out of the bird as much as possible, pour it out, and fry the whole frying pan in a hot frying pan.

After laying the fried chicken legs out of the frying pan, pour into it not previously large-chopped onions, carrots, garlic and tomatoes. And after 15 minutes of roasting on the remaining fat from the duck, you need to add 200 g of water and spices, putting out for another 10 minutes turn off the heat and put it all in a cast-iron dish suitable for use in the oven. Next, lay the plum, cut in half, with a necessarily removed bone. On top put the duck, by all means the skin down, this is done so that the remaining, not yet melted fat flows down. Next, put the burning pepper, having previously checked it for the absence of cracks and other damages, since you need it not for sharpness, but for flavor. Then lay a layer of sliced ​​potatoes, salt and put pumpkin cubes on top. Sprinkle with the remaining spices, put in an oven with a temperature of 170-175 degrees for 120 minutes.