Baked duck is most often served at the festive table, becoming the main dish of the celebration. You can cook it in different ways, stuffed with all kinds of vegetables, fruits and cereals. In order to give the dish a special taste, you should prepare the sauce.
Cranberry Sauce
One of the most popular dressings is duck cranberry sauce. For cooking, you will need the usual ingredients, no exotic seasonings are required. So, for one bird weighing about 1.7-2 kg, you need to take 250 g of cranberries, 100 g of sugar, white pepper to taste and two glasses of duck broth.
Preparing the sauce as follows. First, the berries are passed through a meat grinder. Mix with sugar and broth and put on low heat. The sauce should be boiled until half-cooked. After the dressing has been removed from the heat, it can be filtered to remove the cranberry pulp. However, this is not necessary, it all depends on the personal preferences of the cook.
After this, add a pinch of white pepper. You can also add 50 gr. To the sauce. butter and one teaspoon of honey. All this put on fire, but do not bring to a boil. After that, the sauce can be served.
Peking Duck Sauce
One of the most popular
poultry dishes is Peking duck. However, the whole taste of this dish will not be revealed unless you prepare the sauce for it. In this case, plum dressing is used.
To prepare it, you will need the following ingredients: half a glass of plum jam, 1.5 teaspoons of sugar, 1 teaspoon of table vinegar and 4 tablespoons of chutney (or Hoisin sauce). The last component is more difficult to find, and it is unlikely that it is stored in the cabinets of all the hostesses.
Plum duck sauces are prepared as follows. You need to mix jam, vinegar, sugar and chutney. Then all this is put on medium heat and cooked until the mixture begins to thicken. After that, it must be cooled. On this sauce is ready for the baked duck.
It is worth noting that some plum dressing recipes are slightly different from the above. They may include ginger, chili peppers, cinnamon.
What sauces can still be prepared?
What other duck sauces can I cook? A good option for refueling with truffles. It is also great for turkey and chicken. It is worth noting that for the preparation of such a sauce you will need a large number of ingredients. And not all of them are at hand (madeira, almonds, white wine,
burnt sugar).Berry duck sauces are especially common. In addition to cranberries, cranberries, raspberries, and cherries are also used. You can make orange sauce. All of them give the dish a special piquant taste. It is worth noting that sometimes refueling can be prepared according to different recipes. In general, cooking is a creative process. And everyone can add something from himself to the dish, thereby adding his own flavor to the food.
In addition, duck sauces beat off a bit of the smell inherent in this bird. Some people just because of this do not like to eat such dishes. However, the sauce can correct the situation, give the duck a unique taste, make the meat tender and very tasty.