Preparing duck sauces

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Baked duck is most often served at the festive table, becoming the main dish of the celebration. You can cook it in different ways, stuff it 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 cranberry sauce for duck. For cooking, you will need ordinary 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.

Prepare 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 cook until it is reduced by half. After the dressing has been removed from the heat, it can be strained to remove the cranberry pulp. However, this is not necessary, it all depends on the personal preferences of the cook.

After that, add a pinch of white pepper. You can also add 50 gr. to the sauce. butter and one teaspoon of honey. Put all this on fire, but do not bring to a boil. After that, the sauce can be served totable.

Peking duck sauce

One of the popular poultry dishes is Peking Duck. However, the full taste of this dish will not be revealed if the sauce is not prepared 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 closets of all housewives.

Plum sauces for duck are prepared as follows. 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. This completes the roasted duck sauce.

Note that some plum dressing recipes are slightly different from the above. They may include ginger, chili pepper, cinnamon.

What other sauces can I make?

What other duck sauces can you make? Good truffle dressing. It also goes well with 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).

Duck sauces made from berries are especially common. In addition to cranberries, lingonberries, raspberries, and cherries are also used. You can also make orange sauce. All of them give the dish a specialpiquant taste. It is worth noting that sometimes dressings can be prepared according to different recipes. In general, cooking is a creative process. And everyone can add something of their own to the dish, thereby giving the dish its own zest.

In addition, duck sauces beat off a little the smell inherent in this bird. Some people do not like to eat such dishes because of this. However, the sauce can correct the situation, give the duck a unique taste, make the meat tender and very appetizing.