Duck marinade 🦆 before baking in the oven: step by step recipe

Kitchen appliances and utensils: cooker or hob, fridge, 2-liter pan with a lid, deep container, kitchen scale, measuring cup, teaspoon, tablespoon, cling film, cutting board, knife, large grater.

Ingredients

Boiled water	1 liter
Sprigs of cherries	10 pieces.
Lemon	1 PC.
Soy sauce	50 ml
Rosemary	3 branches
Dried basil	2 tsp
Celery root	1/3 root
Sunflower oil	4 tbsp. l
Paprika	0.5 tsp
Balsamic dressing	50 ml
Ground black pepper	1 tsp

Step cooking

We break 10 branches of cherry into pieces about 10 cm long. Pour 1 liter of boiled water into a 2-liter pan, add branches to it and put on a large fire. We wash 1 lemon under running water and cut it into small pieces. When the water boils, let it boil for 2 minutes, then carefully pour boiled duck carcass on all sides with boiling water.
In a deep container, pour leaves with 3 sprigs of rosemary, add 50 ml of soy sauce, 4 tbsp. l sunflower oil, slices of lemon, 1 tsp. ground black pepper, 50 ml of balsamic sauce, 0.5 tsp. paprika and stir well with your hands, squeezing in the process pieces of citrus.
Add 2 tsp. of dried basil, stir, put the duck carcass in the marinade and carefully rub the liquid into it, paying attention to the entire surface and not forgetting to process the inside. We peel 1/3 of the celery root and rub on a coarse grater.
Sprinkle the duck on top with the grated celery root, cover the container with cling film and place it in the refrigerator for 8-12 hours for pickling, periodically opening and rubbing the marinade into the duck and turning it to the other side.
After 8-12 hours, we take out the duck and bake it in our favorite way.

Important!Before pickling, the duck carcass must be properly prepared, for this, cut off the tips of the wings so that they do not burn during baking, as well as remove the tail, which can ruin the flavor of the future dish. It is also worth trimming internal fat and taking out the hemp from the feathers if you find them on the surface of the skin.

Video recipe

To watch the process of dousing a carcass with a decoction of cherry branches, mixing the ingredients of the marinade with your hands or rubbing the liquid into the duck, you need to watch a video recipe.

After you try this simple marinade recipe, you can further adjust it according to your taste. Mustard, curry, garlic, ginger and bay leaf are also used for its preparation. As a basis, you can take mustard, mayonnaise, sour cream or kefir.

Have you come across such an unusual duck marinade recipe? What ingredients do you usually use to make marinade for poultry? What spices and seasonings do you add to it? What do you usually stuff the bird with? What is the duck baked in? Tell us about your culinary experience of pickling ducks in the comments, and other readers will probably get to know them with interest and benefit for themselves.