Oriental holiday turkey with fan potatoes

AUTHOR
Melissa Olsen
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
4 5
COOK TIME
240 mins
TOTAL TIME
240 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 6
  • 7-10 Tbsp Ingredients for 6 people:
  • 3 Onions
  • 30 g streaky smoked bacon
  • 2 Bread roll (from the previous day)
  • 200 g Dried fruit (e.g. apricots and plums)
  • 1 Egg (Gr. M)
  • 100 ml Milk
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 7-10 Tbsp Pepper
  • 1-2 TABLESPOONS R
  • 1 (approx. 3.5 kg) ready-to-cook baby turkey
  • 2 Garlic cloves
  • 4 TABLESPOONS Butter
  • 500 g Carrots
  • 1.2 kg Potatoes
  • 400 ml Poultry stock (glass)
  • 1⁄4 l dry white wine
  • 1 TABLESPOON Cornstarch
  • 3 TABLESPOONS Whipped cream
  • 1⁄2 Tsp Cinnamon
  • 1 TABLESPOON liquid honey
  • 7-10 Tbsp wooden skewers
  • 7-10 Tbsp Kitchen yarn Küchengarn

Directions

  1. 1

    For the filling peel 1 onion and chop finely. Dice the bacon and fry it crisply in a pan without fat. Fry the diced onion. Let cool off. Dice the bread roll. Chop half dried fruit roughly. Whisk egg and milk. With bread roll, bacon mix,

  2. 2

    ca. 1⁄ Mix 2 teaspoons salt, some pepper, Ras el Hanout and the chopped dried fruits well

  3. 3

    Preheat oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/circulating air: 175 °C/gas: see manufacturer). Possibly offal

  4. 4

    from the turkey. Wash turkey thoroughly inside and outside, dab dry. Season inside and outside with salt and pepper. Fill the turkey with the bread roll mixture. Close the stomach opening with skewers, wrap the skewers from top to bottom with thread. Knot at the bottom. Tie the legs together with kitchen string

  5. 5

    Peel and coarsely chop 2 onions and garlic. Place the turkey on a grate over the fat pan. Spread onion and garlic pieces on the fat pan. Fry in a hot oven for about 3 hours. Gradually pour a total of approx. 1⁄4 l water onto the fat pan. Melt 2 tablespoons of butter and spread it on the turkey more often

  6. 6

    Peel and wash the carrots and potatoes. Cut carrots into pieces, cut potatoes crosswise several times, but do not cut through. Season both with salt and pepper. For the sauce, after approx. 1 1⁄2 hours roasting time of the turkey, take the fat pan out of the oven briefly. Pour roast stock through a fine sieve into a pot. Place potatoes, carrots and other dried fruit on the fat pan, immediately slide the pan back under the turkey. After approx. 15 minutes, add 200 ml of water. Melt 2 tablespoons of butter and add the potatoes to the last

  7. 7

    Brush with it 15 minutes more often

  8. 8

    For the sauce, boil up the collected stock, poultry stock (glass) and wine. Stir starch and 2-3 tbsp. water until smooth. Stir into the boiling stock and simmer for 2-3 minutes. Stir in cream. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Keep warm

  9. 9

    Turn the oven on (electric oven: 225 °C/recirculating air: 200 °C/gas: see manufacturer). Mix cinnamon, honey and 1 tsp. salt. Spread the turkey for the last 10 minutes. Carve the turkey. Cut open the turkey carcass and remove the filling. Season vegetables with salt and pepper. Arrange everything

Categories & Tags

Main Dishesvery easyroast