How delicious to bake a duck in the oven

Today you have a good spring mood, there is time not only for yourself, but also for pampering your relatives with something refined and festive? Prepare the duck. In fact, there are a lot of recipes for baking a duck in the oven.

Duck stuffed with apples

Traditional Russian cuisine can offer a lot of different cooking recipes. The most popular is a duck with apples.
To bake a duck with apples, you need 1 duck, 4-5 large apples (it is best to use sweet and sour varieties), vegetable oil, seasonings for poultry, garlic, red pepper, orange - 1 piece, lemon -1 piece.
As a main dish, the duck is prepared in the same way as a normal bird. It must be thoroughly washed, cleaned of the viscera, and carefully examined to see if there are any remains of plumage. Before baking the duck in the oven, it must be dried. Do it traditionally: or just give a "drain", or with a towel.
To duck cooked quickly, it must be made promarinovat. There are different kinds of marinade, the most popular is citrus.
For marinade it is necessary to mix vegetable oil with red and black pepper, salt and herbs, season with a few grinded denticles of garlic head and 1 orange juice. Carefully mix all this until smooth and lubricate the dried duck. While the duck is marinated, the filling is ready.
To do this, you need to wash apples, peel, core, seeds, cut into small square pieces. To make the apples not black, you can sprinkle them with lemon juice. The filling of apples will be much tastier if apples are sprinkled with red pepper, adding more marjoram and basil.
Everything is ready for the duckling to become full and acquire the necessary shade. Stuffed and pickled duck should be placed in a bag and left for 2-3 hours. And after that you can already bake a duck in the oven. The easiest way to fix a stuffing is to sew a cut with usual threads or to fasten with toothpicks.
It remains time to prepare the dishes in which the bird will be prepared, and the oven. And the oven should be warmed up to a temperature of 250.
We prepare the promarinated bird first on a strong fire (about 40 minutes). The duck is about 2 hours and 30 minutes on low heat. And here is the long-awaited moment. Duck lay on a large dish, decorating it with greens, fresh oranges and apples. And ... the duck is usually served with white wine.

Duck with potatoes in the sleeve

Very delicious is a duck with a potato garnish. But it turns out, not all the housewives know how to cook a duck with potatoes. This recipe will save cooking time by half, and the set of products is small. You need 1 duck, onion (3-4 pieces), vegetable or olive oil (2 tablespoons), potatoes (9-10 pieces), salt, black pepper, garlic (to taste), curry, bay leaf, spices for potatoes
For this dish, the preparation of a duck is the same as in the previous recipe. After that, the duck can be divided in half, each half divided into 2 parts. Prepare the dressing for the duck will be easy: 3-4 cloves of garlic, pepper, stir and then anoint the duck, sprinkle curry.
Peeled potatoes cut into slices, onions - preferably rings. Slices of potatoes sprinkle with chicken seasoning, salt, pepper and mix with onions. Turn on the oven.
Then, having determined the desired length of the sleeve, cut it off. After that, the products are laid and fastened. Pieces of duck lay down. Then spread the potatoes and add a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil. Fasten the sleeve on each side. At the top of the sleeve make 10 small holes with a toothpick. It remains only to bake the duck in the oven.
Put the duck on a baking sheet and put into the oven. Leave for 1 hour 40 minutes at a temperature of 190-200. The dish is served hot.

It should be remembered:
Seasonings for a duck are first of all greens: dill, thyme, coriander, basil.
To duck was a juicy, it must be watered, and every 10 minutes.
For even cooking, the duck can be constantly turned over, enough every 20-40 minutes.
Get rid of the smell of fat will help rosemary, which should be put in the oven under the duck.
Bon Appetit!