To prepare a Christmas turkey It takes a lot of love, patience and time because this traditional food takes more than 3 and a half hours to prepare.
So if you are thinking about baking a Christmas turkey This year, keep that in mind.
To help you understand more about preparing a Christmas turkey, we have prepared today's article on the subject. Want to know more? So follow along now!
Christmas turkey recipe
Ingredients
- 1 turkey weighing 4 or 5 kg
- 250 g of minced beef
- 250 g minced pork
- 250 g of apricots
- 6 apples
- 1 branch of cinnamon
- 2 onions
- 2 slices of bread from the previous day
- 100 ml of milk
- 1 pinch of nutmeg
- 1 tablespoon of butter
- 300 ml of white wine
- Extra virgin olive oil
- 1 branch of rosemary
- Pepper
- salt
How to make?
Clean, wash, dry and add pepper to the turkey. Also wash the rosemary and chop the leaves and set aside. Soak the bread in milk.
Next, peel 3 apples and cut them in half, now remove the core and cut the pulp into cubes, then peel the onions and chop them so that they are very fine.
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Now, melt the butter in a pan. Add the onion and sauté for 5 minutes over medium heat. Add the apple cubes and increase the flame intensity to sauté the ingredients for 4 minutes, until golden.
Remove them and transfer them to a large bowl to cool. Add both types of meat, the drained bread and half of the cut apricots. Season with nutmeg and stir.
Preheat the oven to 180o C. Fill the turkey with the previous mixture, sew the opening with kitchen thread. Grease a refractory dish with oil and place the turkey in it.
Pour in the wine and bake for 2 hours and 35 minutes. From time to time, baste the meat with the cooking juices.
While the turkey is in the oven, peel the remaining apples, core them and cut them into wedges. When 2 hours and 35 minutes have passed, add them to the turkey pan, with the cinnamon and the rest of the apricots.
Bake for 25 minutes, remove and let rest for 5 minutes. Then, remove the string from the turkey, remove the stuffing and transfer it to a bowl, with the apples, apricots and cinnamon.
Baste the turkey with its cooking juices and sprinkle with the reserved rosemary. It is now ready to serve.
Conclusion
As you can see, cooking the Christmas turkey It's not particularly complicated. Perhaps the difficulty could be when it comes to filling it. But we also have the best method to make the dish a success.
However, you will find that the method is very similar to what you would do with a chicken. Therefore, if you already roast a chicken on Sundays, you won't have any major problems with this.
We hope this recipe helped you!
