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Duck, watermelon & herb salad with roast cashews
Photo: Anna Pelzer

Duck, watermelon & herb salad with roast cashews

13 ingredients 30 min + 20 min Serves 6 openrecipes
Duck, watermelon & herb salad with roast cashews

The sour element in this recipe really cuts through the rich duck meat and cashews

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

711
Calories
29g
Protein
41g
Fat
62g
Carbs

Counts 10 of 13 ingredients — the other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 10 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Duck 100g cooked with skin 337
Cashew 1 oz (28g / ~18 nuts) 157
Grapefruit 1/2 fruit (123g) 52
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Watermelon 1 cup diced (152g) 46
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Lime juice of 1 lime (44ml) 11
Soy Sauce 1 tbsp (15ml) 9
Lettuce 1 cup shredded (36g) 5
Basil 5 leaves fresh (2.5g) 1
Peppermint not in our table 0
Coriander not in our table 0
Tamarind not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 4 medium duck breasts , skin on
  • 2 cos or Ruby gem lettuces
  • 150g bag radishes , thinly sliced
  • 3 spring onions , cut into long strips
  • 2 pink grapefruit , segmented
  • 400g watermelon , cut into thumb-size chunks
  • good handful each mint, coriander and Thai basil, leaves picked
  • 100g bag roasted salted cashews , roughly chopped
  • 1 red and 1 green bird's-eye chilli , deseeded and chopped
  • 2 tbsp fish sauce
  • 2 tbsp lime juice
  • 2 tbsp palm sugar or light muscovado sugar
  • 1 tbsp tamarind paste (see tip, below)

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By bbcgoodfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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