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Roast duck legs with sweet potato mash
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Easy
- Serves 6
Ingredients
- 6 duck legs, pricked all over with a fork
- 12 shallots
- ¼ tsp allspice
- 2 bay leaves
- 300ml white wine
- a small bunch parsley, chopped
SWEET POTATO MASH
- 2 large sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
- butter
- nutmeg
Method
- STEP 1
Heat the oven to 190c/fan 170c/gas 5. Put the duck legs in one layer in a large roasting tin and tuck the shallots and bay leaves around the legs. Mix the allspice with ½ tsp salt and sprinkle a little on each leg. Roast for 1 hour. Spoon off almost all the fat (save it for roast potatoes if you like), then add the wine and return to the oven for 20 minutes to finish cooking.
- STEP 2
Meanwhile, steam or simmer the sweet potato until tender, then mash with a large knob of butter and a grating of nutmeg and season well. Put a scoop of mash on each plate and lean a duck leg up against it, spoon some shallots and sauce around it and sprinkle with parsley.
