Christmas Turkey – Method Card

Ultimate Turkey Christmas dinner

By Masterchef winner
Steven Wallis

Serves 6

1hr & 42 minutes (plus 15 minutes resting time for the turkey)

Gluten, Eggs, Milk, Sulphites, Celery, Nuts

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Utensils & Essentials

Oil-rapeseed/sunflower/vegetable, Pepper, Foil to cover turkey and to line the baking trays, Small bowls for mixing, Food processor, Loaf tin for stuffing, Roasting tin and Baking tray.

Ingredients:

1.2 - 1.5kg Turkey breast joint
500ml Turkey gravy
Proscuitto/ parma ham (1 Pack)
12 Pigs in blankets
Sprigs of thyme (Approx. 10)
150g Sage and onion stuffing pack
Tracklements Cranberry Sauce jar

How to prepare

Christmas Turkey

(Cooking times for turkeys vary according to their weight, but as a general guide, it's a good idea to allow for 70 minutes as a base cooking time for a joint under 4kg, then an extra 20 mins per kilo. Cooking temperature is 190C. Our recommendation is 102 minutes based on a 1.6kg weight. If you've frozen your turkey, it needs to defrost before cooking. Defrost in a fridge for 24 hours before cooking, ensuring it's fully defrosted.)

Before beginning to cook, remove the turkey from the fridge, take it out of the packaging and leave it for an hour to reach room temperature.

Preheat oven to 190C. While you wait for the oven to heat, weigh the turkey joint to calculate the cooking time (as above), then take your parma ham and wrap these around the turkey joint, place some sprigs of thyme on top of the turkey and place this in a roasting tin.

Cover the joint with foil and put it in the centre of the hot oven, cooking for the required time or until the juices run clear and there is no pink meat.

While your turkey is cooking, take your pigs in blankets and put these on the wooden skewers provided. Put 4 pigs in blankets on each skewer.

Place the pigs in blankets skewers on a baking tray. These need around 30 minutes to cook in total.
(Put these in the oven around 15 minutes before you need to turkey out of the oven.)

At the halfway point after 15 minutes, turn the pigs in blankets over. Any of the juices in that are in the tray, you can take a metal spoon and baste the pigs in blankets to stay plump and juicy.

Once the turkey is cooked remove from the oven and cover loosely with foil. Allow to rest at room temperature for 15 minutes. It's important to leave the meat to rest, to allow the juices to permeate, keeping the meat succulent.

After the turkey has rested, you can now take the pigs in blankets out of the oven for serving.

You can now serve and enjoy your Christmas turkey and pigs in blankets, adding cranberry sauce as you so wish!

Remember to Recycle!

All the food packaging in your recipe box, as well as the box itself, is completely recyclable, so make sure you do your part to help save the planet!

To dispose of the ice packs, cut them open and pour the gel down the sink – it's totally nontoxic. In fact, you can even use it to give your houseplants a little boost.

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