Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, perfect christmas turkey. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Put turkey in a large basin, at least twice as large as the bird. Bring stock, sage, butter, and peppercorns to the boil and baste the turkey. With Christmas only a week away, your mind inevitably turns to turkey. This fabulous bird has real wow factor, and is the perfect centerpiece for a celebration.
Perfect Christmas Turkey is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Perfect Christmas Turkey is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have perfect christmas turkey using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Perfect Christmas Turkey:
- Take 1 Turkey
- Get 2 small clementines
- Take 8 dried cloves
- Make ready 1 sprig thyme
- Make ready 1 sprig sage
- Prepare 1 sprig rosemary
- Prepare 1 medium onion
- Prepare 1 medium leek
- Take 2 medium carrots
- Prepare 1 bulb garlic
- Take 1 salted softened butter
- Prepare Salt
- Make ready Pepper
- Get Maple syrup
Take your turkey out of the fridge about an hour before you're ready to cook it so it comes up to room temperature before roasting. Give it a good rinse then pat it dry with some kitchen paper, making sure you soak up any water in the cavity. The Crockpot is about to make Christmas dinner SO much easier. Tie the legs together with string and tuck the wing tips under the body of the turkey.
Steps to make Perfect Christmas Turkey:
- Take out the turkey from the freezer several hours before preparation
- Remove the giblets and turkey neck from inside the turkey
- Put the thyme, rosemary and sage inside the turkey
- Put 4 cloves in each of the 2 clemetines and stuff them inside the turkey, make sure to put the legs back in so it doesn't pry open in the oven
- Roughly chop leek, onion, carrots, and garlic. Put them in a roaster and add a glass of water.
- Rub well seasoned butter over the turkey (with salt and pepper). And place the turkey upside down in the roaster.
- Wrap the whole thing with tinfoil and place it in the oven at 180°C for 90 min
- Take it out of the oven, remove the tinfoil, flip it, and brush it with equal quantitiy of salted butter and maple syrup
- Put it back into the oven without covering it at 200-220°C for 30 min
- Every 10 minutes or so, brush it again with the maple syrup butter glaze
- After getting it out of the oven, let it rest by covering it with the tinfoil and some small towels so the juices can run to the legs.
The Crockpot is about to make Christmas dinner SO much easier. Tie the legs together with string and tuck the wing tips under the body of the turkey. View Recipe. this link opens in a new tab. Choose from our best holiday turkey recipes with an array of brines, rubs, glazes, and stuffings. The trick to the perfect turkey, according to the chef is to keep the bird "incredibly moist".
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