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Roast Duck Breast with Thyme Potatoes & Aged Balsamic
Fresh-cut herbs fragrance our juicy British duck breasts – roasted till deliciously crisp. Drizzle with aged balsamic vinegar, and dish up with garlicky thyme roasted potatoes, carrot and beetroot. Drizzle everything in aged balasamic and tuck in!
High protein
1/3 daily fibre
Low sat fat
Serving size
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp thickened aged balsamic vinegar (Sulphites) (wine vinegar, concentrated grape must (SULPHITES), xanthan gum E441)
- 1 handful of fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 160g green beans
- 4 duck breasts
- 1 onion
- 1 carrot
- 4 large potatoes
- 4 garlic clove
- 1 handful of fresh thyme
- 400g raw beetroot
Nutritional Information
Calories: 542
Protein: 40g
Carbs: 58g
Fat: 16g
Roast Duck Breast with Thyme Potatoes & Aged Balsamic
Fresh-cut herbs fragrance our juicy British duck breasts – roasted till deliciously crisp. Drizzle with aged balsamic vinegar, and dish up with garlicky thyme roasted potatoes, carrot and beetroot. Drizzle everything in aged balasamic and tuck in!
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Cooking Instructions
Before you start
- Preheat the oven to 240C / fan 220C / gas 9
- Line a large baking tray with parchment paper
- Pull out a peeler & a large frying pan
Start the prep
- Dice the potatoes into 2cm chunks. Trim and halve the beetroot, then dice into 3cm chunks. Cut the onion into 8 wedges. Dice the carrot into 2cm chunks (peel optional)
- Strip the thyme leaves from the stalks and finely chop. Finely chop or crush the garlic
Get roasting
- Place the potatoes and beetroot onto the lined baking tray and toss with 1 tbsp oil and a pinch of salt and pepper. Roast for 10 mins, until starting to soften
Get sizzlin'
- Season the duck with salt
- Heat the large frying pan on medium-high heat (we used the 30cm HexClad Hybrid Pan). Once hot, add the duck (skin-side down) and cook for 4 mins, until crispy. Sprinkle over half the thyme. Flip the duck and cook for 2 mins
- Add the onion wedges, carrot, garlic and the remaining thyme to the veg tray and toss to combine
- Top with the duck breasts, skin-side up, and roast for 20 mins, until the duck is cooked and the veg is tender. Remove the duck and leave to rest
Cook the green beans
- Trim the green beans. Roughly chop the parsley
- Reheat the frying pan with 1 tsp oil on medium-high heat. Once hot, add the green beans and cook for 5-6 mins, until soft.
Plate up
- Thinly slice the duck against the grain. Toss half the parsley through the roast veg
- Serve the roasted veg and green beans onto plates, topped with the sliced duck. Drizzle over the aged balsamic and garnish with the remaining parsley
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