Turkey with bread-bacon stuffing & cranberry sauce

AUTHOR
Kelli Murphy
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4.1 7
COOK TIME
240 mins
TOTAL TIME
240 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 7
  • 4 medium-sized onions
  • 100 g Celery
  • 300 g streaky smoked bacon
  • 150 g White bread, 1 vol. Parsley
  • 100 g + 1 tablespoon butter
  • 8 TABLESPOONS white wine, salt, pepper
  • 7-10 Tbsp nutmeg, sweet paprika
  • 1 Young turkey ready for roasting (turkey; 3-3.5 kg)
  • 3/4 l chicken broth, 1 gr. carrot
  • 200 g Cranberries or cranberries (fresh or frozen)
  • 100 g sugar (e.g. browner)
  • 1 knife tip mixed cloves
  • 7-10 Tbsp grated peel of 1 untreated orange
  • 7-10 Tbsp wooden skewer/kitchen yarn

Directions

  1. 1

    Peel onions, clean celery, wash. Finely dice 2 onions, celery, bacon and bread. Wash and chop the parsley. Leave the bacon without fat until crispy. Fry the celery, onions and parsley briefly. Melt 100 g butter in it. Pour on wine. Mix everything with bread. Season with salt, pepper, nutmeg and paprika

  2. 2

    Wash the turkey, dab dry. Rub with salt and pepper. Fill with the bread mixture. Plug or sew up the opening. Place on the fat pan. Melt 1 tablespoon butter. Spread the turkey with it

  3. 3

    Roast in a hot oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/circulating air: 150 °C/gas: level 2) for 3-31/2 hours. Gradually pour on broth. Baste the turkey more often. Peel, wash and roughly dice the carrot. Cut remaining onions into quarters. Add both to the turkey after about 30 minutes.

  4. 4

    Washing cranberries. Bring to the boil with 175 ml water, sugar, cloves and orange peel. Simmer covered for 20-25 minutes. Season to taste and let cool off

  5. 5

    Remove the turkey from the fat pan and keep warm. Sieve the roast stock, bring to the boil and boil down for about 5 minutes. Season to taste. Arrange everything. Serve with mashed potatoes and broccoli

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
650 kcal
CARBS
26 g
FATS
29 g
PROTEINS
67 g

Categories & Tags

Main DishesChristmas