Peking duck - cooking

To prepare this delicious dish , special breed ducks are used, which are grown in the suburbs of Beijing. They quickly gain weight thanks to special feeding.

Initially, the duck is plucked, then the air is blown under the skin to completely separate the meat. Then rub the carcass with a mixture of oil, molasses and sauce. This is to ensure that the duck in Beijing was shiny and had a bright shade at the end of cooking. Sometimes this dish is even called lacquered duck.

Before you place it baked, you need to fill the carcass with half water. This is necessary to ensure that the meat does not burn and remains soft. Traditionally, a duck is cooked in a stove on peach-tree or jujube firewood, which gives a little smoke, and with their help it is possible to maintain even fire. As a rule, the dish is cooked for about 45 minutes, after which the duck crust becomes crispy, and the meat is very soft and tender.

If we talk about serving dishes in restaurants, then initially the table is served with cold and hot snacks prepared from duck legs, liver, heart, kidneys, wings, eggs. From the bones soup is prepared, which is also very delicious and fragrant. It should be noted that an experienced chef can cover a table of eighty dishes that were cooked from one duck.

Duck Peking is served entirely, after which it is cut into thin slices or plates. In some establishments, individual slices are enticed into pancakes of small size and sprinkled with finely chopped salted cucumber or onions.

In the culinary practice, there are various recipes for cooking duck in Beijing. But each of them is unique in its own way and has its own taste and aroma, which is not like any other. But today I would like to tell you how this bird is prepared in the home.

Peking duck in sleeve

For cooking, we need:

• Soy sauce - 4-5 table spoons;
• Duck - 1 carcass;
• Honey - 1-2 table spoons;
• Ginger - 1 teaspoon;
• Miso-paste - 2 tablespoons;
• Apples - a couple of pieces;
• Pepper, spices, salt.

Initially, you should grate the duck with spices, salt and pepper. Now take the bamboo stick and pierce the carcass from all sides. Then put it in a baking bag and send it to the oven for 42 minutes. A bird is prepared at 195 degrees.

In the meantime, it is necessary to mix soy sauce with honey in the vessel so that the honey dissolves well. Add ginger and miso paste to the mixture. When the duck is ready, it must be carefully removed from the bag and put on a baking tray. Then grease the top with cooked sauce and place for another 19 minutes in the oven. After that, again get it, gently turn over to the other side, also grease the sauce and place for another 18 minutes to bake.

Then put the dirty carcass of the duck in a foil and wrap it carefully, pouring into a baking sheet of water. During cooking, turn the duck several times.

While the bird is preparing, it is necessary to clean apples without removing the skin. Then pour into the skillet a little fat, which was formed from the baking of a duck, and lay out the apples. Fry them for several minutes. Then take out the apples and crush them with a fork, then again put in a frying pan and add water from the baking tray, which was soaked with the aroma of baked duck. Thus, you should prepare apple sauce, which is formed during boiling.

Preparing a duck in Beijing in this way will take a little time from you, but the dish turns out to be amazing and fragrant, before it no one will stand. In addition, if you decide to please your guests with such a delicacy, then you can be sure that they will appreciate your culinary masterpiece and will be satisfied with an exquisite dinner.

Duck in Beijing - it's incredibly delicious! Bon Appetit!