When I come home from work on a weekday, I want to relax and enjoy to have dinner, and not stand for hours at the stove, such a simple recipe will save in which you can put everything in the oven, and delicious home dinner will be prepared by myself. Duck legs with potatoes – great decision in such cases. Yes, they are much fatter than, say, breast, but in this fat all their taste. Thanks to him, the meat is obtained very juicy and tender, and the potatoes that are baked with legs, covered with a very crisp. For cooking you only need to chop the potatoes, put them in the roasting pan together with duck legs, salt, pepper, put in the oven and забыть на 1,5 – 2 часа. Time: 2 час. 15 minutes. Difficulty: easy Servings: 2 Measured containers are used in recipes volume: 1 cup (st.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cups (st.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (Art.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1 teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
- 2 duck legs
- 2 potato tubers for baking or 0.5 kg. another major white potato
- A few sprigs of fresh thyme
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Recipe preparation:
- Preheat the oven to 200 ° C.
- On a stove, heat a small frying pan and over medium heat fry the duck legs skin down until the skin is golden and some fat will not be swept.
- Turn the legs over and remove the pan from the heat while you are cutting potatoes into 2 cm thick transverse slices. Then cut each slice into 4 parts. Put these pieces of potatoes around duck legs, drop a few twigs on the duck and potatoes thyme, salt and pepper and put in preheated the oven.
- Bake for 2 hours, stirring the potatoes periodically, until it’s soft and crispy and the duck legs tender, although everything will actually be ready in 1.5 hours.
- Store leftovers correctly: if you even have a small amount of meat, you can pack it, label and Store in the freezer for up to two months. Before cooking defrost in the refrigerator overnight.