Roast duck with plums and star anise
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- + resting
- Easy
- Serves 4
Ingredients
- 1 whole duck, around 1.75kg
- sea salt
- 8 ripe but firm plums, halved
- 1 red onion, cut into slim wedges
- a glass red wine
- 200ml chicken stock
- 2 star anise
- 2 cinnamon sticks
Method
- STEP 1
Heat the oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3. Pull any fat from the duck cavity and trim off the excess. Sit the duck on a rack over a roasting tin. Sprinkle salt all over the skin, then roast for 1½ hours.
- STEP 2
Remove the rack and pour away the duck fat (save for roasting potatoes, if you like).
- STEP 3
Put the plums, red onion, red wine, chicken stock, star anise and cinnamon in the roasting tin and add the duck back in among them.
- STEP 4
Cook for another 1¼ hours. Rest the duck for 20 minutes before carving and serving with the plums and pan sauces.
