Recipes for duck cooking.

Duck meat is considered to be a sufficiently nutritious meat product containing many useful substances, like vitamins and trace elements. Recipes for cooking ducks are attractive because the meat of this bird is combined with many products: porridges, vegetables, fruits, sour berries, dried fruits, citrus fruits, root crops, herbs.

The time taken to prepare a duck can vary. It depends both on the freshness of the bird, and on its age, size, pickling, and even dishes and stoves. On average, you can cook a duck for one to two hours.

Quite common are the recipes for the preparation of a duck entirely in the oven. It can be baked both independently and with minced meat inside. Care must be taken to the process of filling. If the duck will be densely filled, then with the heating and baking minced meat can expand, which will lead to an ugly appearance and the dish will be spoiled. Therefore, when making a filling, it is necessary to leave small cavities inside the bird.

How to bake? It is not recommended to bake a duck in a very hot oven. In this case, the meat will be dry. It is better to stop at an average temperature, and put a container of water down under the duck. You can do this: 10 minutes - the temperature is 230 degrees, another 10 minutes - 200 degrees, the remaining time - 180 degrees. During baking, the bird should be watered with a prominent juice, and also turned over after 20-30 minutes.

Recipes for cooking ducks in the oven are approximately the same in technology. The duck is first rubbed with various mixtures. It can be salt, black pepper, garlic, dill, parsley, extra-gon, hops-suneli, sage, mustard, mayonnaise. Then fill the bird with minced meat. There are also a lot of options for filling.

Recipes for cooking ducks with porridge.

Boil buckwheat porridge from one glass of buckwheat. Onions and carrots fry in butter, mix with porridge, add two beaten eggs, mix well.

Pre-wash the duck, dry it, sprinkle with lemon juice. Fill the inside with minced meat from buckwheat, sew a duck. Bird wrapped in foil, put in the oven. Bake for one hour. Then you can unfold the foil and continue baking to make the duck brown.

The preparation of the duck in the sleeve is almost the same as the baking technology in foil or in the oven. The only difference is that the duck is more juicy in the sleeve .

Preparation of a duck with apples. Grate the bird with salt. Apples are washed, cut into cubes. Fill the duck, sew it. Put a duck in the sleeve for baking , add apples, sprinkled with lemon juice and sugar. Bake it.

An interesting duck recipe stuffed with noodles and mushrooms. Cook the homemade noodles, throw in a colander. Mushrooms put out in oil with onions and carrots. Mix mushrooms with noodles, stuff a bird. We sew the duck. Bake in the oven. After baking, remove minced meat, lay duck on a dish, and noodles with mushrooms around. Sprinkle with spring onions.

Duck stew with mushrooms. Wash the bird, cut into small portions, add salt, pepper, fry to form a crust, then put it on the mattress, add water, stew for about 20 minutes.

At this time, fry tomatoes, onions and mushrooms in a frying pan. Add a little flour to make the sauce. Pour mushroom duck sauce, stew until cooked.

You can also put out the duck with sauerkraut and laurel leaves.

Duck meat is used to make salads. To do this, cut the duck fillets into small pieces, add salt, fry in oil. Warm meat mixed with sliced pineapple, orange, kiwi, season with light mayonnaise, sprinkle with herbs.

Another salad of smoked duck breast. It should be cut into slices, add boiled potatoes and fresh cucumber to the salad. Mix everything, season with mayonnaise sauce and tomato paste. Lay a slide, decorate with boiled eggs and greenery.