Duck Breast & Apple Traybake with Parmentier Potatoes & Green Beans

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High protein 1/3 daily fibre 5 plants Low sat fat

Duck Breast & Apple Traybake with Parmentier Potatoes & Green Beans

Prep time: 20 mins
Total time: 40 mins
Cuisine: European
Food group: Poultry

During busy weeknights, a traybake comes to the rescue! You'll roast golden potatoes, crunchy green beans, vibrant carrots and sweet apple, tossed with rosemary and garlic paste. Top with tender British duck breast and drizzle generously with a warm maple & mustard sauce. Dinner is served!

Cooking Instructions

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As of December 2025, we've revised cooking times for all our proteins to reflect improved food safety guidance.

Check out the latest recommended times in our Cooking Guidelines.

Before you start

  • Preheat the oven to 240C / fan 220C / gas mark 9
  • Line a large baking tray with parchment paper
  • Pull out out a medium frying pan

Prep the veg

  • Dice the potatoes into 1cm chunks. Cut each onion into 8 wedges. Strip the rosemary from the stalks. Slice the apples into 2cm wedges. Trim the green beans and carrots

Roast the potatoes & sizzle the duck

  • Place the potatoes onto the large baking tray. Toss with 1 tsp oil and a pinch of salt and pepper. Roast for 10 mins
  • Heat the medium frying pan on medium-high heat. Season the duck with salt
  • Once hot, add the duck and cook, skin-side down, for 4 mins, until crispy. Flip and cook for 2 mins, then remove from the heat

Finish roasting

  • After 10 mins, add the carrot, onion, green beans, apple and rosemary to the potato tray (use 2 trays if necessary). Toss with the garlic paste, 1 tsp oil and a pinch salt and pepper
  • Top with the duck. Roast all together for 21 mins, until golden and cooked through

Heat up the dressing

  • Once cooked, leave the duck to rest for a few mins
  • Meanwhile, wipe out the frying pan and add the maple mustard dressing. Warm over medium-high heat

Plate up

  • Slice the duck against the grain
  • Serve the roasted veg onto plates, topped with the sliced duck. Pour over the warm maple mustard dressing. Garnish with the pumpkin seeds

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