Duck and speciality poultry producer Gressingham Foods has launched a new Chef’s Guide, as demand for premium duck dishes on menus increases. At the same time, Gressingham is offering the chance to win Duck for a Year in a new foodservice-only prize draw.
Cooking With Duck – A Chef’s Guide is available as a free PDF download from the Gressingham Foods website to any business entering the competition. The Guide includes ideas for appealing and profitable starters and mains, all using the family-owned company’s Red Tractor Assured duck.
Rebecca Alderton, marketing manager of East Anglia-based Gressingham Foods, said: “Interest in duck has grown amongst chefs and consumers over the past few years, and with supplies back to normal following the avian flu outbreak, and the festive season looming, it’s the right time to add duck dishes to menus right across the foodservice sector.
“Duck is versatile and tasty. It has a healthy fat-to-meat ratio and is sustainable not only in the way it’s reared on our Red Tractor farms, in airy barns with access to fresh air and light, but also in reducing food waste, as the whole bird can be used right across the menu.”
She added: “Duck adds ‘wow factor’ to menus as it’s something consumers are less likely to have prepared and cooked at home, but that puts an added onus on chefs to offer dishes that are genuinely special.
“Many of the restaurants we supply are already serving duck dishes that demonstrate flair and passion, and our new Chef’s Guide is designed to deliver the same inspiration to every operator.
“From a delicate tea-smoked duck breast salad starter, via classic confit duck leg, to a succulent whole roast duck served as a Sunday lunch, we’ve come up with menu ideas that deliver both in terms of customer appeal and on the all-important bottom line on profit.”
As an added incentive, one foodservice business will win a year’s supply of premium Red Tractor Assured Gressingham Duck for their business, by entering the Prize Draw which is featured on Gressingham’s foodservice packs, as well as online at https://foodservice.gressinghamduck.co.uk/competitions/winduck/, where full terms and conditions are also available. Competition entrants will also be able to claim a free download of Cooking With Duck – A Chef’s Guide.
Gressingham Foods Red Tractor Assured duck, as well as goose and turkey, are available through foodservice wholesalers. Chefs can access Gressingham’s full foodservice recipe bank at https://foodservice.gressinghamduck.co.uk/recipes/
