The slow cooker is great for making ducks.
It can not be overdried, burned or cooked.
There is always the opportunity to rearrange the program, bring the bird to readiness in another mode. How and with what is a duck cooked in a slow cooker?
Duck in a slow cooker - general principles of cooking
Duck carcasses are washed, dried, cut into pieces. This is usually straightforward. Carcass cutting is easily done with a kitchen knife, nothing needs to be chopped. You can purchase lumpy semi-finished duck products. They are also washed and dried.
To make the meat softer, you can marinate the bird before cooking. Depending on the recipe, you can use only spices, or pickles, marinades. Duck is combined with all vegetables, spices, cereals and even fruits.
In the slow cooker you can cook the first and second dishes from this bird. Cooking duck soups does not have any features, dishes are prepared in the same way as with any other meat. Stewing and frying ducks have their own subtleties and deserve attention.
Braised duck in a slow cooker with carrots and onions
A simple recipe for a very tender and soft duck in a slow cooker, which is great for absolutely any side dish. You can serve such a bird just with fresh vegetables.
Ingredients
• 0.1 kg of onions;
• 0.6 kg of duck;
• 0.1 kg of carrots;
• 2 tablespoons of oil;
• seasonings.
Cooking
1. Rub the washed pieces of duck with spices. You can just pepper and sprinkle with salt. Leave for at least an hour.
2. Pour oil into the multicooker, turn on the baking mode.
3. Lay the duck, chopped onions in large pieces and also carrots.
4. Close, fry for twenty minutes. Stir occasionally.
5. Pour a little water into the multicooker, 100-150 grams is enough.
6. Close and simmer the hour. If the duck is not young, then the time can be added up to 1.5-2 hours.
Duck in a slow cooker with potatoes
A recipe for another duck stew in a slow cooker. Its main advantage is that it does not require any side dishes.
Ingredients
• 8 potatoes;
• 0.5-0.7 kg of duck;
• bow;
• 1-2 tomatoes;
• carrot;
• oil, spices, herbs.
Cooking
1. Cut the duck into pieces, which will learn. Throw in a slow cooker with a couple of spoons of oil, fry in the baking mode for fifteen minutes. Close the lid.
2. While the duck is preparing, you need to peel and cut all the recipe vegetables. You can rub the tomatoes or use a spoonful of tomato paste instead.
3. Run the onions and carrots to the roasted duck, fry together for another ten minutes.
4. Add the tomatoes. If desired, you can throw chopped bell pepper. Cook until the tomato darkens.
5. Lay the chopped potato tubers and add boiling water. The amount of water depends only on the desired density of the dish. You can make a semblance of soup or thick stew.
6. Close, rearrange the quenching mode.
7. After an hour, open, add various spices, salt. Close again and leave for another quarter hour. We throw greens at the very end under the lid or put in plates when serving.
Duck in a slow cooker with cabbage
Stewed duck recipe with white cabbage. Here comes a fresh vegetable, but you can replace the sauerkraut or add a portion. The taste of the dish will be more interesting and brighter.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of duck;
• 1 kg of cabbage;
• butter;
• spices;
• onion head;
• carrot;
• A glass of tomato juice.
Cooking
1. Throw the bird washed and cut into pieces into a slow cooker, pour in 50 grams of water and cook for half an hour in the quenching mode.
2. Open, rearrange the baking program, add a little oil and evaporate the remaining moisture.
3. Add chopped onion, lightly fry.
4. We throw the grated carrots and fry together.
5. We chop cabbage, we throw it to the duck. You can fry or begin to stew immediately.
6. Pour in tomato juice. Or use diluted pasta. You can grate a couple of ripe tomatoes.
7. Stir, close and set the "Extinguishing" mode again. Cook for half an hour.
8. Open, evaluate the duck for readiness, season with spices and simmer another quarter of an hour.
Duck in a slow cooker with apples
There is no better known addition to duck than apples. This dish does not have to be cooked in the oven, a slow cooker also copes with it. A variant of a tender and juicy stew.
Ingredients
• 1.2 kg of duck;
• 2 green apples;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• ginger, laurel and other spices;
• a couple of tablespoons of oil.
Cooking
1. Grind garlic cloves, put in a bowl. Add grated ginger or a little dry powder, throw pepper, salt and any other seasonings to taste. Grind everything together and add vegetable oil.
2. We wash the duck, chop into pieces and add the aromatic mixture to it. We process every piece well.
3. Transfer to a container and leave to marinate for at least three hours. It is advisable to rub the pieces on the eve, it will turn out even tastier.
4. We wash the apples, cut into slices, do not remove the skin.
5. Put the pickled pieces of the bird in a slow cooker, laying apples on all sides.
6. Pour in so much water that it barely covers the bird.
7. Turn on the quenching mode for two hours and wait for the treasured signal. Amazing duck with apples is ready!
Roast duck in a slow cooker
To cook such a duck, you can use the frying or baking program. In any case, the dish is obtained.
Ingredients
• 1 kg of duck;
• 20 grams of oil;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 50 ml of soy sauce;
• 1 spoon of honey;
• seasonings.
Cooking
1. Rinse the pieces of duck, dry and transfer to a slow cooker.
2. Add 20 grams of oil, pour in half a glass of water and pre-cook for 40 minutes on the stewing program.
3. Open, turn on the frying mode and evaporate the remaining water. Cook the bird until soft.
4. Mix soy sauce with honey, throw chopped garlic to them, grind the mixture well and season with spices. You can use seasonings for chicken or meat, they are suitable.
5. Pour the resulting mass into almost finished pieces of duck and fry. Thanks to this mixture, a golden crust will quickly appear on them, and the bird will become incredibly tasty.
Duck in a slow cooker with prunes and orange
Another win-win combination of duck and fruit. The dish is fragrant, unusual, the bird is very tender. A whole but small carcass is used.
Ingredients
• duck;
• 150 grams of prunes;
• 1 orange;
• 50 ml of soy sauce;
• butter;
• 2 onions;
• laurel.
Cooking
1. Cut the duck carcass into small pieces. Immediately throw back the bony parts, they will fit for soup. In a slow cooker they will only take their place.
2. Pour a thin layer of oil into the slow cooker, set the baking mode.
3. Lay the pieces of duck and fry on both sides.
4. Onion cut into small cubes, send to roasted duck.
5. Add the prunes cut in half.
6. Peel the orange, cut it with any slices, get rid of the seeds. We lay to the bird.
7. Pour a glass of boiling water and simmer for an hour under the lid.
8. Open, pour soy sauce, salt is not necessary. But if you wish, you can throw a few peas of allspice.
9. Put a lavrushka on top and simmer until fully cooked. If the duckling was young, then just let the sauce soak the meat, it is about 15 minutes. You can leave the old duck at any time and stew for another hour or even two.
Duck pilaf in a slow cooker
With a duck, pilaf is simply wonderful, fatty and aromatic. This bird is perfect for rice. Well, in a slow cooker to prepare a dish is as simple as that.
Ingredients
• 0.8 kg of duck;
• 2 glasses of rice;
• 4 glasses of boiling water;
• 0.4 kg of carrots;
• 0.3 kg of onions;
• 1 tsp seasonings for pilaf;
• 1 head of garlic;
• 2 leaves of bay leaves.
Cooking
1. The duck is quite oily, so we pour a thin layer of oil into the slow cooker, gradually lard to float from pieces of the bird. Turn on the "Baking".
2. We wash the bird, cut into pieces. Throw in oil and fry until rosy color. It takes at least 20 minutes.
3. Peel the carrots. It is undesirable to use a grater. We cut the root crop into a medium-sized straw with an ordinary knife.
4. Peel the onion and cut into strips. First, cut the onion in half, then again and chop across.
5. Throw vegetables to the roasted duck and continue cooking. We do not rearrange the mode.
6. Once the vegetables are fried, put spices for pilaf.
7. Rinse the rice at least 5 times with cold water, decant all the liquid from the cereal and pour into a slow cooker.
8. Add boiling water and salt. We measure out the water with the same glasses that were used for rice.
9. Remove the top husk from the head of garlic and stick into the center of the slow cooker.
10. Throw bay leaves, close.
11. We rearrange to the program "Pilaf", turn it on, wait for the signal to finish cooking.
Duck in a slow cooker - useful tips and tricks
• There are a lot of bony pieces in duck carcass on which there is practically no meat. You do not need to lay them in fried and stewed dishes, it is better to immediately discard them for soup.
• If a lot of unnecessary fat was released during frying, it can be immediately collected. Preferably before the spices are added. You can also cut fat immediately when cutting the bird. In this case, it can be folded into a bag and put in the freezer, then used for frying potatoes and for other dishes.
• If you don’t like the specific flavor of duck meat, you can pour it with a chilled decoction of lemon peels. You can soak the bird in water with lots of spices or pickle it right away by adding salt.
• Remained feathers on the carcass? The easiest way to get rid of them is burning. You can grind the carcass over a gas stove, burning paper or a candle. Then just scrape with a knife and rinse.
