Slow roasted duck legs and charlotte potatoes with a carrot and cumin salad

by Paul Warburton on 22 April 2010  |  0 comments
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Check out this amazing recipe for slow roasted duck legs and charlotte potatoes with a carrot and cumin salad – for £1.48 per person!

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Slow roasted duck legs & charlotte potatoes with a carrot & cumin salad (Serves 4)

This is a cracker. The meat from the legs will just fall off and you’ve also got an amazingly crispy skin, couple that with a refreshing salad and we’re close to perfection. I’ve never understood why we don’t each much duck in this country (well outside a crispy duck pancake roll at a Chinese restaurant), the French eat quacks of the stuff. It’s cheap and wonderfully rich – please give this a go if you feel you need convincing.

Ingredients

• 4 duck legs, two 430g packs (£5)
• 450g of carrots (32p)
• 1kg of Tesco charlotte potatoes (60p)

The cupboard staples...

Salt, black pepper, olive oil, white wine vinegar and cumin seeds.

Total cost

If you already have the cupboard staples, then according to mysupermarket.co.uk, this trolley was cheapest at Tesco where it came to £5.92 - that's £1.48 per head!

Instructions

• Get the oven preheated first to 150C – season the duck legs well with salt and pepper and place them in a deep roasting tin (lightly covered with foil). They’ll need 1 hour and 20 minutes in the oven.
• While the duck legs are in the oven par boil the potatoes ready for roasting (make sure you salt the water).
• After 1 hour and 20 minutes remove the duck legs from the oven and turn it up to 200C. Drain the excess fat from the pan (there will be a bit and remember to save for future roast potatoes!) and add the potatoes into the pan leaving enough fat to give them a coating – place back in the oven for a further 30 minutes.
• Whilst the duck legs and potatoes are crisping up you can make the salad.
• It’s well worth giving the cumin seeds a toast first to get the flavours going. So get a frying pan on a medium heat and add four teaspoons of cumin seeds – remove them from the heat when they start to go brown. Watch they don’t start to smoke. Add the seeds to the bowl you want to make your salad in.
• Now grate the carrots into the bowl along with a pinch of sugar, some seasoning, 3 tablespoons of olive oil and 2 tablespoons of white wine vinegar.
• Let the legs rest for 5 minutes before serving and happy eating!

A bit about the Frugal Recipes chef, Paul Warburton

Paul Warburton, a lovemoney.com staff member, had a hectic career in the world of hot kitchens and screaming chefs before joining the lovemoney.com products development team.

During these years, under the tutorage of some great chefs, he honed his skills in cooking for numbers within a tight cost and portion-controlled environment.

Now he's planning to regularly offer his help to all budding chefs in the lovemoney.com community, so you can enjoy his original, low-cost recipes with your family and friends every Friday for free!

What lovemoney.com readers have said about Paul's other recipes

"We enjoyed this recipe very much: easy to make and even easier to eat!" varneyrob

“Thanks Paul, another great tasting easy recipe. It was my first risotto attempt ever and it was great, I even impressed my in-laws with it. Many thanks...” welshlady

"I made this recipe and it was absolutely delicious! Seriously good! Five of us feasted on it, and feasted well..." Ibeshy

"I made this recipe on Saturday night, and my 13 year-old son promptly requested it again for the following night!" Malcolm Wheatley

"This is a cracking risotto recipe. Just had it for lunch & it's a winner. More recipes please. Thanks." SavvyLass

"Another delicious offering from Paul. Thank you - keep 'em coming!" Palefire

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If you like this recipe, why not also try Paul's other Frugal Recipes?

 Paella | Asparagus and gruyere tart with new potatoes | Haddock fishcakes with radish and watercress salad and lemon crème fraiche dressing | Prawn and pea risotto Honey roasted gammon and apples with champ | Hot chocolate fondants with crème Chantilly | Shin of beef, kidney and ale pie Tandoori chicken with coconut rice & mint raita | Homemade gnocchi with a tomato & thyme sauce, spinach and ricotta  | Frugal Pancakes | Griddled black pudding, chimichurri mash and caramelised apples  | Mixed bean and coriander green curry with fragrant rice  | Lamb koftas with a feta, mint and chickpea salad & chilli grilled pittas  | Pork, rosemary and white bean ravioli with a chilli tomato sauce  | Sausage & leek casserole with parsley dumpings | Pork, chorizo & cannellini bean stew | Rabbit, bacon & thyme pie | Potato rosti with creamed spinach and poached egg | Pumpkin and sage risotto | Slow braised oxtail with autumn mash | Spiced whole mackerel with chickpea salad | Twice cooked belly pork (with gravy) parsnips and sweet apple red cabbage | Roasted pheasant | Portobello mushroom, port and stilton wellington | Lemon tart with fresh vanilla mascarpone | Massaman curry |  Smoked mackerel pate on crostini and red onion confit  |Rolled breast of lamb with garlic mash and Savoy cabbage | Lemon & rosemary chicken thighs |  Thai Pollock curry with egg noodles | Chunky pea and ham soup| Spaghetti alla carbonara | Pork stroganoff | Green chilli meat balls, sunflower seed couscous salad and mint yoghurt |  Tagliatelle with air dried cured ham and minted peas | Beef, thyme and mushroom loaf with potato dauphinoise | Mixed bean and coriander green curry with fragrant rice | Egg Florentine with smoked cheddar and rocket salad | Beef, mushroom and thyme pie | Spicy tuna, bean and coriander lasagne |  Beef koftas with a feta, spinach and fresh mint salad | Chorizo and pea risotto | Sausage and rosemary hotpot | Beef & thyme (Lancashire) hotpot

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