Oven Italian duck sounds so tempting. Spicy, aromatic, it will delight you with the unique taste of tender and juicy meat! How to cook it, read the step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
An old Italian recipe for cooking duck in the oven. The technology, of course, takes a certain amount of time. the poultry is first marinated, then baked. However, the result will be amazing! It turns out a bird with tender meat and an unusual aroma, which will cause pleasant emotions and appetite for everyone at home. Relatives will look into the kitchen, swallowing their saliva and wondering when the dish will be ready.
Serve oven-baked Italian duck delicious with any side dish. For example, with boiled spaghetti or it will be nice to lay out pieces of the carcass on a pillow of rice. You can even bake potatoes or rice at the same time as the duck. Then there will be a side dish right away, and you will not have to spend time on its preparation. Although duck can be served on its own with fresh vegetable salad.
For the recipe, choose a medium-sized duck, about 2 kg. A very large carcass, old, which means it has tough meat that no marinade will soften. The spice mixture used for the recipe is Italian. They are sold in any supermarket.
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- Caloric content per 100 g - 289 kcal.
- Servings - 4
- Cooking time - 4 hours
Ingredients:
- Duck - 1 pc.
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Mustard - 1 tsp
- A mixture of Italian spices - 1 tsp
- Soy sauce - 1 tablespoon
- Plum sauce - 2 tablespoons
- Lemon - 1/5 part
Step by step cooking Italian duck in the oven, recipe with photo:
1. Prepare the poultry marinade. Pour soy sauce into a deep bowl.
2. Then add the plum sauce.
3. Add the mustard, Italian spice mixture and press the garlic cloves.
4. Wash the lemon, dry it, cut a small piece and squeeze out the juice.
5. Stir the marinade well. If desired, you can add honey, saffron, cinnamon, nutmeg, etc. to the marinade.
6. Wash the duck, scrape the skin with an iron sponge to remove the black tan, remove the internal fat and chop the bird into comfortable pieces. Although, if you wish, you can bake the bird with a whole carcass.
7. Send the bird to the marinade.
8. Stir the duck well to marinade each piece to all sides. Cover the container with foil and leave to marinate at room temperature for 2-2.5 hours. If you marinate for a longer time, refrigerate it.
9. Place the poultry in an ovenproof baking dish. There is no need to peel off the remnants of the marinade. Season the carcass with black pepper and salt. Cover the Italian-style duck with food foil so that the meat does not turn out to be too dry, and send it to bake in a heated oven to 180 degrees for 1.5 hours. Remove the foil 20 minutes before cooking to brown the carcass.
See also the video recipe on how to cook duck fillet in Italian.
