DIY crispy duck lettuce cups with cherries & mint
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. 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.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 11 of 14 ingredients — the other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 11 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Duck | 100g cooked with skin | 337 |
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Cherry | 1 cup (138g) | 87 |
| Onion | 1 medium (110g) | 44 |
| Cucumber | 1/2 cup sliced (52g) | 16 |
| Cloves | 1 tsp ground (2g) | 7 |
| Black Pepper | 1 tsp ground (2.3g) | 6 |
| Cinnamon | 1 tsp ground (2.6g) | 6 |
| Lettuce | 1 cup shredded (36g) | 5 |
| Rosemary | 1 tsp dried (1.2g) | 4 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Peppermint | not in our table | 0 |
| Salad | not in our table | 0 |
| Shiso | 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
- 1 duck, about 2kg
- sea salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- 300 g fresh cherries
- extra virgin olive oil
- 2 sprigs of rosemary
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground cloves
- 2 soft round lettuce or little gems
- 1 small bunch spring onions
- ½ cucumber
- 2 red chillies
- 1 small bunch mint
- 2 punnets salad cress
- 1 punnet shiso cress