Duck With Mashed apples and candied orange Strips

Duck With Mashed apples and candied orange Strips


Ingredients:

1 grand old duck

Spices:

2 glasses of beer
1 cup dry white wine
1 large onion, grated
1 teaspoon (tsp) of nonna seasoning, (see the blogs).
1 bunch parsley and whole scallions
2 bay leaf
1 fresh rosemary branch
1 branch fresh basil
1 mint branch

Ingredients for the sauce:

2 cups fresh orange juice
1 cup of honey
½ cup brandy tea or dry white wine

Other ingredients:

2 cups orange peel and cut into thin strips
2 cups of water to aferventar the strips of orange peel, put half an hour

Way of preparing:

Remove the fire of orange peel, put in a fine sieve, allow to cool, rinse well, "several times with cold water," then put in syrup, simmer put thirty minutes.

When placing the orange strips in the syrup it has to be cold.
Lead to fire to cook for 15 'to 30' minutes, that is, to take taste.

Strips of orange syrup:

2 cups (tea) caster sugar
1 cup (tea) of water
6 cloves of India
2 cinnamon sticks
3 slices ginger

Prepare the syrup so:

Make the syrup with water sugar cloves and cinnamon, ginger and let thicken, place the orange strips simmer for thirty minutes or until cooked.

Once cooked leave in the syrup put a whole day (24 hours).
The next day light the fire again boil put fifteen to twenty minutes Allow to cool.
Tips:
If you want to glazed syrup, put in the middle of cooking white vinegar 2-4 tablespoons (rice vinegar, white or other)
Drain through a fine sieve.

Mashed apples:

3 large apples diced
1 cup water
1 tablespoon sugar dessert
1 pinch of salt
1 tablespoon colorless powdered unflavored gelatin
½ cup cold water
1 cup sliced ​​almonds or ground

Prepare the way of Mashed Apple:

How to Prepare the puree

Cut the apples into small cubes, cook eat water sugar and salt until soft well.
Wet the gelatin with cold water, soak put five minutes, then dissolve in water - bath or in the microwave for 30 seconds.

Blend the apples. To reserve.
Join a bowl apples beats with the gelatin has dissolved and "hot"
Bring to freeze put thirty minutes, or until firm.
Gelatin is mixed hot to be able to incorporate the bulk (filling).

How to prepare the duck:

Clean the duck, get your feet neck the curanchim. It is the part that is at the end of the spine (which is the duck testicles).
For this recipe despise the kids dish. Use to make a crumbly

After thoroughly washed duck, release the skin of the breast and thigh, being careful not to tear the skin. Do not pierce the skin of the duck.

Wash the herbs, dry on a paper napkin.
Leave to macerate in the seasoning, do not cut the herbs, shake well and rub on the inside and outside of the bird. Take before baking.

Distribute the seasonings under the skin rubbing well.
Place the bird in an earthenware bowl, cover with plastic wrap.

If you can put in Tuperware (thick white plastic, with lid).
* Do not place in another color utensils *.
Take the duck refrigerator for 6-12 hours.

Take the duck of spices, put on a baking sheet lined with aluminum foil, or cabbage leaf.
Put up the sauce with the orange juice, honey and brandy.
Take to bake covered with foil. Careful not to stick the paper in the duck skin.

Preheated medium weak l50 ° C oven put 40 'minutes for each kilogram of meat, or until almost roast.
It is cooked slowly.
Stick a fork to see if it is baked.
You can smear the duck with butter and put some sweet or spicy paprika to air a golden color.

Remove the foil, make blush, until very golden brown, not burned. *Care*

To Serve and Decorate:

Place the duck on a platter and on the candied orange strips, the sliced ​​almonds, and hand the mashed apples.

II - Tip:

Serve separate applesauce or wrapped duck, for slivers of toasted almonds.
 
After Roast Duck:

Strain the broth from the pan, thickened with a tablespoon of cornstarch (maizeina) or wheat flour, dissolved in a little cold water to bring fire to cook.
Tips:

The broth from the pan may not be to "burned like" if disposal.
Why will damage the flavor of your dish.

If you can add to the sauce two tablespoons of grated cheese is optional.

Serve the sauce separately.

Follow-up: Mixed Salad

1 cup chopped celery and lightly aferventado
1 large head of lettuce with whole leaves
2 cups sliced ​​potatoes into cubes and cooked
1 cup ham or smoked pork loin chopped into cubes
Option II
Can replace the ham cured by any bird, or cooked,
Add shrimp, lobster, tuna or crab stick, chopped or shredded is (optional)

Note:

* Do not use colored plastic to store food or various meats.
Ink is harmful to health. Always use plastic white.

If you want to glazed syrup, put in the middle of cooking white vinegar 2-4 tablespoons (rice or other vinegar).