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Peri-quick duck pasta
Sounds quackers, just works – this fast-food fusion is a joy to eat. Tender strips of duck are sautéed with onions, peppers and tomatoes, then simmered in a garlicky tomato sauce spiced with our sunny peri-peri blend. Peas and pasta spirals add filling power, then lime and coriander make it a party!
SWK: Source of fibre
SWK: High protein
Plants 6
quick cook
Serving size
Ingredients
- 600g duck breast strips
- 8 x garlic paste (Garlic, Sea Salt, Citric Acid)
- 4 tsp peri-peri seasoning (Garlic Granules, Ground Paprika, Red Pepper, Crushed Chilies, Onion Granules, Rubbed Oregano, Lemon Peel, Birds Eye Chilli Powder, Cracked Black Pepper)
- 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)
- 400g passata (tomatoes, salt, citric acid)
- 150g peas
- 1 handful of fresh coriander
- 1 unwaxed lime
- 400g girandole pasta (Wheat, Barley, Oats, Soya) (100% Durum Wheat Semolina)
- 2 onion
- 2 pepper
- 190g Tomatoes Baby Seasonal Mix
Nutritional Information
Calories: 630
Protein: 50g
Carbs: 97g
Fat: 4.7g
Ingredients
- 200g girandole pasta (Wheat, Barley, Oats, Soya) (100% Durum Wheat Semolina)
- 1 onion
- 1 pepper
- 300g duck breast strips
- 4 tsp garlic paste (Garlic, Sea Salt, Citric Acid)
- 2 tsp peri-peri seasoning (Garlic Granules, Ground Paprika, Red Pepper, Crushed Chilies, Onion Granules, Rubbed Oregano, Lemon Peel, Birds Eye Chilli Powder, Cracked Black Pepper)
- 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)
- 200g passata (tomatoes, salt, citric acid)
- 150g peas
- 1 handful of fresh coriander
- 1 unwaxed lime
- 100g Tomatoes Baby Seasonal Mix
Nutritional Information
Calories: 672
Protein: 53g
Carbs: 102g
Fat: 5.9g
Peri-quick duck pasta
Sounds quackers, just works – this fast-food fusion is a joy to eat. Tender strips of duck are sautéed with onions, peppers and tomatoes, then simmered in a garlicky tomato sauce spiced with our sunny peri-peri blend. Peas and pasta spirals add filling power, then lime and coriander make it a party!
Cook time:
20 mins
Cuisine:
South African
Food group:
Poultry
Allergens: Wheat
Cooking Instructions
Before you start
- 1x medium saucepan
- 1x non-stick frying pan
Set the pasta simmering
- Cook the pasta in boiling water for 8-9 mins, then drain.
Slice & fry
- Meanwhile, peel and thinly slice the onions, and deseed and thinly slice the peppers.
- Spritz a non-stick frying pan with cooking spray and put it over a medium heat. Fry the onions, peppers, duck and tomatoes for 4-5 mins.
Things get saucy!
- Add the garlic paste and peri-peri and cook for 1 min.
- Crumble in the stock cube, then pour in the passata and 100ml water (150ml for 4 portions). Stir well and simmer for 5 mins (7 mins for 4 portions), until the duck is cooked through.
- Add the peas and cook for 2 mins.
Add your final touches
- Chop half the coriander, then halve the lime and cut 1 half into wedges.
- Stir the pasta and chopped coriander through the sauce, and squeeze in the juice from half the lime (to taste).
- Serve the duck pasta with the lime wedges and scatter over the remaining coriander leaves.