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A Mouth Watering Christmas Turkey Dinner Recipe

By on July 21, 2012

Have you heard about a Christmas dinner without the traditional Christmas turkey being served? No? Exactly! The turkey is a tradition which has been carried out in Christmas dinners since time immemorial and it shows no signs of changing. But most people find it difficult to cook a turkey for Christmas dinner because of the many difficulties it involves.

Most people go out and buy a pre-cooked turkey these days which would save them time and other hassles. But the magic of cooking a turkey in your own kitchen is something which is quite different. It involves getting into the whole spirit of Christmas. If you want to serve up a nice hot turkey dinner when your friends and family come in for Christmas, then do not worry as we have got the most amazing recipe to make it a success.

A mouth watering Christmas Turkey Dinner recipe

Recipe for Christmas Turkey Dinner 

Ingredients required for the Dish

Before we get started with the cooking, you would obviously need some ingredients to make the turkey dinner a huge success. Firstly, you would need a 4kg turkey, all dried and rinsed, with the neck removed. Apart from that, you would also need 2 tbsp of olive oil and 250ml of white wine. Also, 250ml of chicken stock is required along with cranberry, pistachio stuffing and prosciutto.

Recipe for an amazing Turkey dish

Now that you have armed yourself with all the ingredients, it is time for you to start with the preparation. Let the turkey come to room temperature before cooking. This will bring a rich and aromatic flavour to the dish. You can pre-heat the oven to 200 degrees centigrade while you are waiting. Now take the stuffing and press it loosely into the turkey. Do not stuff it too tightly because it will swell during cooking and the stuffing will ooze out.

A mouth watering Christmas Turkey Dinner recipe

Arm yourself with some kitchen string and tie the open ends of the turkey. Put some oil in a roasting pan and rub the turkey in it. After a couple of minutes, when the turkey is fully oiled, add the wine and stock. Cover the turkey expertly with some foil and roast. On an average of 20 minutes for every 500gms, the turkey should be allowed to roast for 2 hours and 40 minutes.

After every thirty minutes, remove the foil and add cooking paste. Also, replace the oil. In the last thirty minutes or so, remove the foil so that the turkey is cooked brown. You will know the cooking’s done when the juices don’t run off. Insert a skewer inside the turkey to make sure that the juices are not pink. Now carve off the legs and cook it while you wrap the rest in two layers of foil.

Now increase the temperature of the oven to 200 degrees and cook the legs for another thirty minutes. Meanwhile, you can scoop the stuffing out and prepare the gravy along with your other dishes. Cooking the perfect Christmas dinner recipe is not difficult as long as you follow this process. You can bet on the fact that guests will be asking for second helpings before the first are over!

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