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* One whole turkey. | * One whole turkey. | ||
* Two rashers of streaky bacon. | * Two rashers of streaky bacon. | ||
* Peeled carrot, cleaned and wrapped in foil. | |||
* Enough potatoes for your guests - one or two medium sized potato each - after all you have many other vegetables. | * Enough potatoes for your guests - one or two medium sized potato each - after all you have many other vegetables. | ||
* [[Bread sauce]]. | * [[Bread sauce]]. | ||
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# With 40 minutes to go, peel potatoes, and add to pan to boil for 5 minutes. | # With 40 minutes to go, peel potatoes, and add to pan to boil for 5 minutes. | ||
# Add them to a tray greased with fat for 25 minutes. | # Add them to a tray greased with fat for 25 minutes. | ||
# Pop in the carrot along side the potatoes. | |||
# Take out turkey and remove the foil. Return to the oven, and turn up heat to 180°C or use rotatherm setting at 165°C. | # Take out turkey and remove the foil. Return to the oven, and turn up heat to 180°C or use rotatherm setting at 165°C. | ||
# When timer goes, pull out the turkey and put in the pigs in blankets. | # When timer goes, pull out the turkey and put in the pigs in blankets. | ||
Revision as of 16:52, 3 October 2026
OK, no pressure here. You're cooking for family and loved ones on the feast day for the year.
Roast Turkey for Christmas Day
Ingredients
- Sausage stuffing.
- Chestnut stuffing.
- Goose or duck fat.
- One whole turkey.
- Two rashers of streaky bacon.
- Peeled carrot, cleaned and wrapped in foil.
- Enough potatoes for your guests - one or two medium sized potato each - after all you have many other vegetables.
- Bread sauce.
- Schwarz turkey gravy.
- Pigs in blankets (enough for number of guests - two per person).
Directions
- Chriatmas eve: work out the time for your turkey from Smart roaster.
- Get up early and make the stuffings.
- Pre-heat the oven to 170°C on fan setting. (Use the fast heat setting if a smaller bird, but to be honest, you've got 10 minutes of work here).
- Put the sausage stuffing in the neck of the turkey and the chestnut stuffing in the body cavity.
- Cover bird in foil.
- Put in oven.
- Stud onion for bread sauce and bring milk to the boil.
- With 40 minutes to go, peel potatoes, and add to pan to boil for 5 minutes.
- Add them to a tray greased with fat for 25 minutes.
- Pop in the carrot along side the potatoes.
- Take out turkey and remove the foil. Return to the oven, and turn up heat to 180°C or use rotatherm setting at 165°C.
- When timer goes, pull out the turkey and put in the pigs in blankets.
- Stand the turkey for 20 minutes.
- Finish off the bread sauce.
- Start to make the gravy.
- When 20 minutes are up, pull out the roast potatoes and pigs in blankets.
