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crispy duck with cherries and mint
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DIY crispy duck lettuce cups with cherries and mint

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crispy duck with cherries and mint
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2 hrs 40 mins plus cooling time
Super easy

serves 8

About the recipe

This amazing duck salad is my kind of food – colourful, really hands on and full of flavour.


nutrition per serving

Calories

g

Fat

g

Saturates

g

Sugars

g

Salt

g

Protein

g

Carbs

g

Fibre

of an adult’s reference intake


Ingredients

1 duck, about 2kg (4lb)

sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

300g (10oz) fresh cherries

extra virgin olive oil

2 sprigs rosemary

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

½ teaspoon ground cloves

2 soft round lettuce or little gems

small bunch spring onions

½ cucumber

2 red chillies

small bunch mint

2 punnets salad cress

optional: 1 punnet shiso cress

Top Tip

Support your local duck farmers – look for free-range farms in your area and help the British farming industry. Free-range ducks have freedom to roam outdoors and the provision of open water, allowing them to display their natural instincts of splashing and swimming. Living a good life generally means they have better flavour and texture.

Method

  1. The cherries and mint make a lovely fresh sauce. Serve everything on a big platter in the middle of the table so everyone can build their own little lettuce cup parcels full of duck, herbs and cherries.
  2. There are loads of colours and textures here, and if you can get hold of some beautiful purple shiso cress, all the better. It has a kind of curry flavour and looks amazing.
  3. Heat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas mark 4. Wash the duck and wipe it dry, inside and out, with kitchen paper. Season well with salt and pepper, both inside and out. Place the duck on a roasting tray, and roast it in the oven for 2 hours.
  4. While the duck is in the oven make the cherry sauce. Pit all the cherries. Put half to one side and place the other half in a food processor with a good pinch of salt and pepper, and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.
  5. Once the duck is cooked, allow it to cool slightly before removing the skin to a clean baking tray. Pick and finely chop the rosemary leaves and sprinkle all over the skin with the cinnamon and cloves. Place the skin back into the hot oven for about 10 minutes to crisp up nicely.
  6. Next, get yourself a lovely big serving board. Carefully break the lettuces into individual leaves and give them a good wash. Shred the spring onions. Cut the cucumber in half lengthways and use a spoon to scoop out the seeds before chopping it into little sticks. Halve and deseed the chillies, then finely slice them. Pick the mint leaves and snip the cress.
  7. Shred the duck with your hands or a couple of forks, and pile the meat in the middle of your board. Place everything else around the serving board in individual piles. Put your sauce into a serving bowl and pop it onto the board next to a pile of pitted cherries. Finish by roughly slicing up the crispy skin and scattering it over the board before serving.

Serve everything on a big platter in the middle of the table so everyone can build their own little lettuce cup parcels full of duck, herbs and cherries.

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