Preparing duck sauces

Baked duck is often served at the festive table, becoming the main dish of the celebration. You can prepare it in different ways, stuff it with all sorts of vegetables-fruits and cereals. In order to give the dish a special flavor, you should prepare the sauce.

Cranberry Sauce

One of the most popular dressings is a sauce of cranberries to a duck. For cooking, you need the usual ingredients, you do not need any exotic spices. So, for one bird weighing about 1.7-2 kg, you need to take 250 g of cranberries, 100 grams of sugar, white pepper to taste and two glasses of broth from a duck.

The sauce is prepared as follows. First, the berries are passed through the meat grinder. Mix with sugar and broth and put on a weak fire. Cook the sauce until until cooked half. After refueling was removed from the fire, it can be filtered to remove the pulp of cranberries. However, this does not have to be done, it all depends on the culinary person's personal preferences.

After this, add a pinch of white pepper. Also in the sauce you can add 50 gr. Butter and one teaspoon of honey. All this put on fire, but do not bring to a boil. After that, the sauce can be served to the table.

Sauce to duck in Beijing

One of the popular dishes from the bird is the Peking duck. However, the whole taste of this dish will not be revealed unless you prepare sauce for it. In this case, a plum dressing is used.

For its preparation, the following ingredients will be needed: half a cup of plum jam, 1.5 teaspoons of sugar, 1 teaspoon of table vinegar and 4 tablespoons of chutney (or hoisin sauce). The latter component is harder to find, and it is unlikely to be stored in the cupboards of all the housewives.

Plum sauces for duck are prepared as follows. It is necessary to mix jam, vinegar, sugar and chutney. Further all this is put on average fire and is prepared until the mixture begins to thicken. After that, it must be cooled. This is the sauce for the baked duck ready.

It is worth noting that some recipes of plum refueling slightly differ from the above. They can include ginger, chilli pepper, cinnamon.

What kind of sauces can you cook?

What other duck sauces can I make? A good option for refueling with truffles. It is also great for a turkey and chicken. It is worth noting that to prepare this sauce you will need a large number of ingredients. And not all of them are at hand (Madera, almonds, white wine, burnt sugar).

Especially common sauces for duck from berries. In addition to cranberries, cranberries, raspberries and cherries are also used. You can make orange sauce. All of them give the dish a special piquant taste. It is worth noting that sometimes refueling can be prepared according to different recipes. In general, cooking is a creative process. And everyone can add something to the dish from himself, giving the dish its own zest.

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