Few people prepare a bird entirely on ordinary days. If a stuffed duck is prepared, then on occasion, for the holiday. The classic stuffing for her is potatoes and cabbage. Potatoes can be combined with a fat duck, cabbage adds piquant acidity, and when cooking a bird, its sour taste softens. The result is a tender juicy meat with a mild taste.
How to cook stuffed duck?
First of all, the duck must be prepared. To do this, remove excess fat near the legs and tail and the extreme phalanx of the wings that will burn in the process of baking. In the duck's tail there are 2 glands, which also need to be removed, otherwise the taste of the dish can be spoiled - they are yellowish in color and oval in shape. If you can not find them yourself, cut the tail completely. Now you can stuff a duck and bake it.
Before you send the duck into the oven, pierce it in several places with a toothpick, so that excess fat will come out. And do not forget to pour out the juice from time to time, then the meat will turn out juicy and tender.
Duck stuffed with potatoes
Potatoes for the filling are best taken in medium size, then it does not have to be cut.
Ingredients:
- duck - 1 piece;
- honey - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- potatoes - 12 pcs .;
- mustard - 1 teaspoon;
- lemon juice - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- onion - to taste;
- salt - to taste;
- garlic - 3 cloves.
Preparation
Onions and garlic are cleaned, cut into half rings and fried in a pan until golden. For the sauce, heat honey, mix it with mustard and lemon juice, mix thoroughly. Now we rub the duck with salt and the prepared sauce, we stuff the potatoes boiled to semi-preparedness (previously peeled off), sprinkle it with fried onions and put it in the oven for 1 hour. Cover the stuffed duck with foil so that it does not burn, and leave to prepare for another 1.5 hours. After that, we remove the foil and leave it in the oven for another 30 minutes. A ready-made duck can be poured over melted butter from above.
Using the same recipe, you can prepare a duck stuffed with potatoes and mushrooms. To do this, champignons or any other mushrooms cut into small pieces, mix with the potato filling and fill the bird from the inside.
You can use only mushrooms as ingredients. For a duck recipe stuffed with mushrooms, you will take about 400 g of product. Fry them with onions, mix with duck giblets and fill the bird from the inside.
Duck stuffed with sauerkraut
Cabbage, soaked in the outstanding fat from the duck, will acquire a piquant taste, its acid will soften. And this recipe is perfect for cranberry sauce for meat .
Ingredients:
- duck - 1 piece;
- sauerkraut - 400 g;
- onions -5 pcs .;
- broth - 2.5 cups;
- butter - 100 g;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- apples (antonian).
Preparation
Onion cut into half rings, fry with sauerkraut in a frying pan (if you do not have such cabbage, then you can take the recipe in the article "How to sour cabbage?" ), Then add broth, salt, pepper and cook for 5-7 minutes. We prepare the duck, rub it with salt and pepper, fill it with the prepared stuffing and sew the hole with a thread. We spread the duck stuffed with cabbage on a baking sheet with the back up, add a little water and bake at 200 degrees for about 1.5 - 2 hours. Periodically we water the duck with a prominent juice. If during the baking process the duck starts to burn, cover it with foil, and remove it for 20-30 minutes before the end and let it form a ruddy and delicious crust. When serving on the table, we decorate apples with apples.