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Cheat’s duck cassoulet
Eat more beans, they say. OK, let’s cassoulet! Cannellini beans soak up all the beautiful flavour in this easy-breezy French-style duck stew, packed with carrot, baby tomatoes, spinach and onion, and flavoured with a generous hit of herbs and garlic. Bon appetit!
SWK: High protein
Plants 6
SWK: High fibre
Serving size
Ingredients
- 60g fat-free Greek-style yogurt (Milk) (Skimmed Milk Concentrate, Skimmed Milk, Bacterial Starter Culture)
- 1 handful of fresh thyme
- 2 tbsp tomato purée
- 230g cannellini beans (cannellini beans, water, salt)
- 1 chicken stock cube (use half) (Celery) (sea salt, potato starch*, sustainable palm oil* , sugar*, chicken fat* 3.5%, yeast extract, natural flavour, chicken meat* 1%, herbs & spices* (turmeric*, black pepper*, parsley*, rosemary*), onion powder*. * Organic ingredient)
- 80g baby spinach
- 1 handful of fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 110g baby tomatoes
- 300g duck breast strips
- 1 onion
- 1 carrot
- 4 tsp garlic, rosemary & thyme (Garlic, Salt, Rosemary, Thyme, Citric Acid E330.)
Nutritional Information
Calories: 360
Protein: 43g
Carbs: 36g
Fat: 2.7g
Ingredients
- 1 handful of fresh thyme
- 600g duck breast strips
- 4 tbsp tomato purée
- 460g cannellini beans (cannellini beans, water, salt)
- 1 chicken stock cube (Celery) (sea salt, potato starch*, sustainable palm oil* , sugar*, chicken fat* 3.5%, yeast extract, natural flavour, chicken meat* 1%, herbs & spices* (turmeric*, black pepper*, parsley*, rosemary*), onion powder*. * Organic ingredient)
- 160g baby spinach
- 1 handful of fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 120g fat-free Greek-style yogurt (Milk) (Skimmed Milk Concentrate, Skimmed Milk, Bacterial Starter Culture)
- 2 onion
- 2 carrot
- 200g baby tomatoes
- 8 tsp garlic, rosemary & thyme (Garlic, Salt, Rosemary, Thyme, Citric Acid E330.)
Nutritional Information
Calories: 357
Protein: 43g
Carbs: 36g
Fat: 2.6g
Cheat’s duck cassoulet
Eat more beans, they say. OK, let’s cassoulet! Cannellini beans soak up all the beautiful flavour in this easy-breezy French-style duck stew, packed with carrot, baby tomatoes, spinach and onion, and flavoured with a generous hit of herbs and garlic. Bon appetit!
Cook time:
30 mins
Cuisine:
French
Food group:
Poultry
Allergens: Milk
Cooking Instructions
Before you start
- 1x medium non-stick frying pan
Dice & fry
- Peel and finely dice the onions, and dice the carrots into ½cm cubes.
- Spritz a non-stick frying pan with cooking spray and put it over a medium heat. Fry the onions, carrots and tomatoes for 5-7 mins.
Simmer your cassoulet
- Finely chop the thyme leaves.
- Add the thyme and duck to the pan along with the tomato purée and garlic & herb paste. Lightly season and cook for 2 mins, until the duck and thyme are beginning to catch a little.
- Tip in the beans and their water, crumble in half the stock (use all the stock for 4 portions) and pour in 100ml water. Stir in the spinach and simmer for 6-8 mins, until the duck is cooked through and the sauce reduces to coat the veg.
Rest & chop
- Remove the pan from the heat and leave to cool slightly.
- Finely chop the parsley.
Add your final flourishes
- Stir half the parsley and the yogurt into the cassoulet, then scatter the remaining parsley on top and serve.