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Roast duck with crispy potatoes and mulled-wine cherry sauce

Published: December 4, 2018 at 4:20 PM

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Serves 4

Easy

Total time: 3 hrs

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Check out our indulgent roast duck legs with super crispy potatoes and spiced cherry sauce. You can scale this up or down, with one leg and 200-250g of potatoes per person

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Make this roast duck with crispy potatoes, then check out more duck recipes, such as our roast duck with plum sauce, roast duck breast with fried potatoes and five-spice roast duck.

Ingredients

Nutrition

• 4 duck legs

• a few sprigs thyme

  plus extra for garnishing

• 6 cloves garlic

  bashed

• sea salt flakes

• 1kg Maris Piper potaotes

  peeled and diced to 2cm

MULLED-WINE CHERRY SAUCE

• 300ml red wine
• 300ml chicken stock
• 75g dried sour cherries
• 3 cloves
• 4 allspice
• ½ cinnamon stick
• 1 tbsp redcurrant jelly
• 30g butter

Nutrition: per serving

• kcal675
• fat31.6g
• saturates11.5g
• carbs44.1g
• sugars10.4g
• fibre6.5g
• protein36.4g
• salt1.3g

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Method

• step 1

  To make the sauce, put the wine, stock, cherries and spices into a pan. Simmer until reduced by 1/2. Scoop out the spices and discard. Stir in the redcurrant jelly and butter, and season. Reheat to serve.

• step 2

  Heat the oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3. Put the duck legs in a baking dish and pat the skins dry. Add the thyme and garlic, and sprinkle with sea salt. Cover the dish tightly with foil and cook for 2 hours.

• step 3

  Meanwhile, drop the potatoes into boiling salted water and cook for 5 minutes. Drain.

• step 4

  Take the baking dish out of the oven and remove the duck legs. Turn up the oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6 and put in a large, shallow, non-stick baking tray. Pour the duck juices from the baking dish into a jug. Pour off and keep the fat, leaving behind the duck juices (you can add these to the cherry sauce, if you like).

• step 5

  Put 4 tbsp of the fat into the hot baking tray. Add the potatoes and stir around in the fat. Put in the oven and cook for 20 minutes until the potatoes are just turning golden, then nestle the duck in among the potatoes and cook for 40 minutes or until the duck and potatoes are crisp and deep golden. Sprinkle with more fresh thyme and sea salt. Serve with the sauce and some greens, if you like.

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