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It is necessary to marinate the duck for smoking 4 hours before cooking the meat - this will make it tastier and juicier. As spices for salting and marinade, you can use fennel, star anise, rosemary, lemon juice, honey, thyme.
Preparation and cutting of poultry
Before you salt the duck for smoking, you need to prepare it properly. First, the carcass is burned on a fire so that the small hairs that remain on it do not spoil the taste and appearance of the dish. After the treated bird is washed under water, cleaned of entrails, dried well. Next, they proceed to the ambassador, marinating the meat.
Smoked duck can be cooked in pieces or whole.
Small chunks are quicker and easier to cook than whole carcasses
How to pickle a duck for smoking
There are three ways to salt smoked homemade duck:
- Dry.
- Wet.
- Combined.
The salting method affects the way, the cooking time. For wet salting, poultry will need seasonings, bay leaves. The carcass is rubbed in advance with salt, spices, and then put it in a large saucepan. The duck is poured with boiled water so that it is completely covered. A bay leaf is placed in a container, placed on a stove. The meat must be brought to a boil and kept like this for about 5 minutes. Before cooking, it is thoroughly dried for about 8 hours in a suspended state.
The classic recipe for dry salting
Before cooking hot smoked duck, it is carefully salted to avoid rotting of the product.
The dry salting of the carcass begins with rubbing the meat with salt and seasonings. The following spices can be used:
- cinnamon;
- cloves;
- black pepper;
- coriander;
- basil.
After the duck is placed in an enamel bowl, left to simmer for 6 days at a cold temperature.
Every day the carcass must be turned over, laid out on a napkin in order to remove moisture
With fennel and star anise
The Chinese style of smoked duck is prepared using a mixture of special spices. The dish turns out to be more aromatic than with conventional smoking. To prepare such smoked meats, you will need the following ingredients:
- fennel seeds;
- cloves;
- sugar;
- salt;
- cassia.
All spices must be grinded in advance. After they are mixed with salt, sugar, rubbed with this mixture of pieces of poultry.
With rosemary and thyme
The festive table will be decorated with a fragrant dish of smoked duck. To prepare it, you need the following products:
- granulated sugar;
- salt;
- water;
- rosemary;
- black pepper;
- thyme;
- Bay leaf.
The duck is salted, rubbed with spices, then poured over with water. For the scent, a bay leaf is placed on top.
The bird must be boiled for 10 minutes, then cooled, after which the carcass can be marinated
How to pickle duck before smoking
Marinade for duck before smoking eliminates unpleasant odors, adds juiciness to meat. The berries of ginger and juniper are used for cold smoking and add sophistication to the dish. You can choose the ingredients for the marinade yourself, but it is better to use proven pickle recipes.
Classic marinade for smoking duck
The Classic Hot Smoked Medium Duck Brine recipe contains the following ingredients:
- water 700 ml;
- vinegar 2 tbsp l .;
- salt 0.5 tbsp. l .;
- garlic 3 cloves;
- bay leaf 3 pcs.;
- sugar 1 tbsp. l .;
- ginger 0.5 tsp;
- cinnamon 0.5 tsp
All products must be chopped, added to boiling water for 4 minutes. Then the carcass is poured with the resulting brine, left for 2 days.
If you marinate the duck correctly, you get a juicy, soft dish with a pleasant aroma.
With barberry
To prepare a recipe for barberry marinade, the following ingredients are needed:
- salt;
- black pepper 10 pcs.;
- allspice 10-12 pcs.;
- barberry 12 pcs.;
- bay leaf 5 pcs.
It is prepared like regular duck pickle before smoking.
Cinnamon will add a pleasant aroma to the dish
With honey and lemon juice
The honey poultry marinade recipe includes:
- lemon juice 1 tsp;
- honey 80 g;
- garlic 4 cloves;
- vegetable oil;
- salt;
- spices - thyme, cinnamon.
First, honey, juice, vegetable oil are mixed in a separate container. Then chopped garlic, seasonings are added to the resulting solution, and pieces of meat are seasoned with it. Duck will be marinated for hot smoking for 8 hours in the refrigerator.
To marinate a hot smoked duck with lemon juice, it is better to take a 3 kg carcass, the dish will be ready in 3 hours.
With cinnamon and apple cider vinegar
You can marinate smoked duck in a smokehouse with apple cider vinegar, tomato paste, and cinnamon. This will require:
- tomato paste 2 tsp;
- apple cider vinegar 1 tbsp l .;
- sugar 2 tsp;
- garlic 4 cloves;
- paprika 0.5 tsp;
- salt 2 tsp
All ingredients must be thoroughly mixed, season the duck with the resulting mixture of spices.
Before starting hot smoking, the meat should be infused for 10 hours
Pickle for smoking at home
At home, it is possible to smoke duck with a liquid marinade, which can be cooked quite quickly. The process requires the following products:
- salt 200 g;
- black pepper;
- garlic 3 cloves;
- fresh parsley.
Any seasoning can be used. Water is poured into a saucepan, heated to a boil. Then add spices, garlic, parsley. The water should boil for no more than 10 minutes, after which it is cooled. When the liquid has cooled down, you can pour the duck with it. The bird is infused for 7 hours. It is not necessary to wash it after pickling, you can only wipe it off excess moisture.
The brine should not contain a lot of spices, otherwise the taste, aroma will be mixed, it is important that the spices are combined with each other
Combined salting of duck for smoking
Duck can be salted in a combined way. It is used in summer or spring. The ambassador begins by rubbing the carcass with salt from all sides. After it is left in a cold room (at a temperature of 5 degrees) for 2 days. Then the bird is poured with pre-prepared brine, left for another two days in the refrigerator.
Next, the dish is washed and dried. Orange juice is often used in the combination salting recipe. Meat is cooked along with fat, skin.
Orange slices are added inside after salting, rub the carcass with orange juice, leave for 2 hours.
Sometimes in the composition of such a recipe you can find sugar in a ratio of 1: 2 to salt. Add the ingredients to the spices, mix the mixture well in a separate bowl. Spices are divided into 3 equal parts: one is laid out on the bottom of the smokehouse, the second is rubbed on the meat, and the third is treated with the skin of the carcass. The bird is poured with water, put under oppression for 2 days.
Finished poultry has tender meat and a pleasant spicy aroma
How much to salt duck for smoking
The salting time depends on the salting method. With the dry method, the poultry is soaked in salt for 15 hours. During this period, the preservative manages to fully penetrate the fibers of the carcass. Oppression helps the meat to penetrate faster and deeper.
The carcass is salted with the wet method for 2-4 days at a temperature of 2 to 4 degrees.The combined duck ambassador is designed for 3 days.
Poultry processing after salting
After salting the poultry meat, it is pickled and then smoked. To make the duck easier to cook, you can cut it into small pieces.
For hot smoking, a marinade recipe with rosemary, allspice is suitable.
Whole carcass pickle contains several ingredients:
- duck 2 kg;
- water 1 l;
- salt 4 tbsp. l .;
- sugar 3 tsp;
- cloves;
- Bay leaf.
First you need to boil water, add salt, sugar and all the spices. The solution should boil for no more than 5 minutes. Then you need to let it cool. It will take about an hour.
The whole duck carcass is placed in a deep dish, poured with cooled brine. The container must be closed with a lid, a heavy load must be placed on it. After that, the meat is removed to a cool room for a day. The duck is removed from the marinade, wiped dry with paper towels.
Before smoke treatment, the dry carcass is placed in the refrigerator for 5 hours.
Conclusion
You can marinate a duck for smoking with thyme, lemon juice, cinnamon, honey, sugar. The brine adds juiciness to the meat. If the meat is not salted, marinate before cooking, it will turn out raw inside and unleavened.
