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Roast Gressingham duck crowns with wilted watercress, butternut squash mousse and bigarade sauce
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Roast Gressingham duck crowns with wilted watercress, butternut squash mousse and bigarade sauce

23 ingredients 2 hr Serves 4 openrecipes

This sophisticated roast duck is restaurant-quality food. Try it at home with our step-by-step instructions.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

768
Calories
55g
Protein
38g
Fat
52g
Carbs

Counts 14 of 17 ingredients — the other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 14 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Duck 100g cooked with skin 337
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Orange 1 medium (131g) 62
Cream 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy 51
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Carrot 1 medium (61g) 25
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Celery 1 stalk (40g) 6
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Watercress 1 cup (34g) 4
Vinegar 1 tbsp (15ml) distilled 3
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Pumpkin not in our table 0
Rapeseed Oil not in our table 0
Water not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 350g/13oz (peeled weight) butternut squash
  • rapeseed oil
  • 4 gelatine
  • 75ml/3fl oz chicken stock
  • 50ml/2fl oz double cream
  • 75ml/3fl oz water
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 lemon
  • 3 oranges
  • 45g/1¾oz light brown sugar
  • 3 tbsp red wine vinegar
  • 300g/10½oz duck
  • , for frying rapeseed oil
  • 700ml/1pt 5fl oz chicken or duck stock
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 2 Gressingham duck
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 large carrot
  • 3 celery
  • 1 onion
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • , for frying rapeseed oil
  • 250g/9oz watercress

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By bbcfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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