Despite the fact that the duck can be bought only on the market or in a large store, the interest of housewives in this meat does not weaken. Most often, the duck is fried, because duck when cooked gives a very fatty broth.
If the duck is properly processed, it is possible to cook stews from it, which will be no less tasty than the duck with apples, which is popular among gourmets.
When stewing in large quantities of onions, carrots or tomatoes, the duck turns out juicy and tasty. But housewives cook the duck not only with vegetables, but also in sour cream.
Duck stewed with sour cream: cooking fineness
- It is better to cook young duck with sour cream, which has soft, tender and odorless meat.
- Sour cream has a pleasant creamy taste, so you should not clog it with a mass of spicy spices. Such seasonings as cumin, garlic, and black pepper will be appropriate.
- Onions, carrots, apples, zucchini are added to the dishes of duck stewed with sour cream. That is, such vegetables that do not have a sharp taste when cooked.
- To make it slightly spicy, sour cream can be mixed with ketchup in a 2: 1 ratio.
- To prevent the dish from getting greasy, you should not use fat sour cream.
Duck Stewed with Sour Cream and Apples
Ingredients:
- duck - 1 kg;
- bulb onion - 3 pcs .;
- hard and sweet apples - 3 pcs .;
- sour cream - 250 g;
- salt - to taste;
- ground black pepper - to taste;
- parsley.
Preparation Method
- Wash the duck and pat dry with a paper towel. Cut off excess fat. Cut the carcass into portions.
- Peel the onion, rinse in cold water, cut it in half, chop it into strips.
- Wash apples, cut into four parts, cut out seed pits. Do not cut the skin.
- Put the duck on a hot, hot frying pan (or lightly oiled with vegetable oil) and fry over high heat from all sides.
- Add onions, mix. Save to yellowish. Pour in half a cup of hot water, lightly salt it, put the pepper in, cover the pan with a lid. Simmer on low heat until the meat is soft - about 40 minutes.
- Add apples, fill the duck with sour cream. If sour cream is thick, dilute it with water. Continue to simmer for a low boil for another 30 minutes. At this time, do not mix the contents of the pan, otherwise soft apples will turn into porridge.
- Sprinkle the ready-stewed duck with sour cream with chopped parsley.
Duck Stewed with Sour Cream and Carrots
Ingredients:
- duck - 0, 8 kg;
- onions - 2 pcs .;
- carrots - 1 pc .;
- sour cream - 250 g;
- salt - to taste;
- garlic - 5 cloves;
- pepper - pinch;
- water;
- vegetable oil - 1 tsp. (optional).
Preparation Method
- With the prepared duck, cut off the fat and chop the carcass into portion pieces.
- Fry in a hot, hot frying pan until golden brown.
- Peel onions, garlic and carrots, wash them. Onions cut into half rings, rub carrots on a medium grater, finely chop the garlic with a knife.
- Add onion to roasted meat, save it to softness. Put the carrots, mix, cook for 5-10 minutes.
- Fill the contents of the pan with hot water (approximately 2 cups will be needed), bring to a boil, reduce heat. With the lid closed, simmer the duck for 40 minutes.
- Add garlic, pepper, salt, put sour cream, spreading it over the entire surface. Again, cover the dishes with a lid and simmer for another half hour.
- Prepared duck, stewed with sour cream, sprinkle with chopped greens.
Duck stewed with sour cream and cabbage in a slow cooker
Ingredients:
- duck - 0, 8 kg;
- cabbage - 400 g;
- bulb onion - 2 pcs .;
- sour cream - 250 g;
- salt - to taste;
- black pepper - pinch;
- vegetable oil - 1 tsp;
- cumin - pinch.
Preparation Method
- Cut the treated duck into small pieces.
- Cabbage thinly chop the straw, removing hard streaks.
- Cut the peeled onion into half rings.
- Smear the bowl of the multicooker with vegetable oil, warm it in the “Frying” mode. Put the meat, fry well from all sides. Add onions, mix. When it is fried too, pour in hot water. She should only half cover the meat. Change the program to “Quenching”, cook 40 minutes.
- Put cabbage, salt, cumin. Simmer for 10 minutes. Stir. Pour sour cream. Without stirring, cook until the cabbage is soft.
- Leave on heating for another 15 minutes. Arrange in plates, sprinkle with herbs.
Duck stewed with sour cream and ketchup
Ingredients:
- duck - 1 kg;
- bulb onion - 2 pcs .;
- sour cream - 250 g;
- ketchup - 100 g;
- salt - to taste;
- garlic - 5 cloves;
- fresh ginger - 0, 5 tsp;
- red pepper - pinch.
Preparation Method
- Wash the duck, dry it, cut it into portions.
- Fold in a greased pan. Turning, fry until golden brown.
- Peel onions, finely chop, mix with meat. When it is fried, pour in some hot water so that it covers the duck. Simmer for 1 hour on low heat.
- Mix sour cream with ketchup, put in a pan, mix with meat. Salt, put crushed ginger, pepper, squeeze garlic through a press. Under the lid, cook another 20-30 minutes.
- Prepared duck stewed with sour cream and ketchup, sprinkle with chopped greens.
Mistress to note
From the excess fat on the duck can be eliminated as follows. First boil the duck pieces in salted water until half cooked, and then fry in vegetable oil, adding onions, carrots and other ingredients that are listed in the recipe.
Fat broth can be used to make sauce and gravy.
