Duck with apples in red wine sauce
Delicious and juicy duck with baked crispy crust and tender meat. The apples serve as an excellent garnish and give the meat a nice sweetness. Do not be frightened by the dark crust, it is given by the red wine sauce. Cooking will take about 2 hours, but the finished dish is worth the time spent on its preparation. Duck is cooked according to the recipe of "School of Gastronome".
Composition:
- duck - 1 piece (about 2 kg)
- small apples - 1 kg (variety "Simirenko")
- red dry wine - 1 tbsp.
- honey - 3 tsp.
- butter - 50 gr.
- salt, black pepper - to taste
Cooking:
Wash the duck thoroughly, dry, scorch if necessary, and rub the skin with salt.
Mix the wine with the honey, place over a low heat and simmer for about 10 minutes, until the volume of the liquid is reduced by about half.
Allow the wine to reduce to a simmer.
Add butter, stir and remove sauce from heat. Season the sauce with salt and pepper to taste.
Allow to taste.
Wash apples, about 5 apples cut into quarters and remove core. Place the sliced apples in a bowl, add half of the prepared sauce, and mix.
Stuff the duck with apple quarters and fasten the cut with wooden skewers or toothpicks.
Brush the duck on all sides with some of the remaining sauce. Place the bird on a baking tray breast-side up, pour 50 ml of water into the tray and put it in an oven heated to 200 degrees Celsius for 1 hour. The skin of the duck when cooking gets very dark and roasted look, so do not be frightened that the bird is burnt.
Then turn the bird over, brush with some more of the sauce and place in the oven for another 30 minutes. If a lot of fat has melted into the baking tray, carefully drain it off.
Cut out the core of the remaining apples carefully with a small knife. Pour 0.5 tsp of sugar into each apple.
Turn the duck breast-side up again, brush with sauce, pour the rest of the sauce onto the baking tray, place the apples cut-side up on top of the bird and cook for another 10 minutes.
Pour the sauce over the duck and cook for 10 minutes.
Transfer the cooked duck and apples to a platter, cover with foil and let stand for 10 minutes.
Pour the liquid remaining on the baking pan into the saucepan, scraping any thickened and clinging residue off the surface of the pan with a spoon. Put the saucepan over high heat, bring to the boil and serve with the duck.
Bon appetit!