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Very magazine’s resident chef Antony Worrall Thompson shares
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his top tips for creating the most delicious turkey lunch
£39
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Do as much as you can
in adv ance. You can 5
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dd stock and wine
(about two glasses – it
prepare (or cheat and just can be red or white) to the
buy) your brandy butter, bird when cooking. It keeps
cranberry sauce, bread the turkey succulent and,
sauce, gravy and stuffing mixed with the bird’s juices,
now and bung it in the is an excellent gravy base.
freezer. They’ll all be fine
on the day. Pre-steam the 6
Cook your stuffing
separately in a baking
Christmas pud and prep tray. If you stuff the turkey
all of the vegetables the day with it, the bird will take
before by peeling, covering longer to cook. Or cheat
with cold water and leaving and zap up shop-bought
in the fridge overnight. stuffing with onion and
2
Make sure you order some bacon pieces.
your fresh turkey in
time. Remember to allow 7
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rite a checklist. It’s
such a morale booster
one day per 10lb for when you can tick things
a frozen bird to defrost. off and give yourself a pat
Do not defrost it in hot on the back.
water unless you want Get the family to help.
food poisoning! 8 They can lay the table,
3
If you struggle to fit help prep the vegetables,
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everything in the oven, tidy the room and pour you
cook the roast potatoes first a glass of wine. Enjoy!
for 40 minutes, then take
save them out and put the turkey in. Your essential cooking kit
£6
A turkey needs to rest for about 20 minutes
before serving, so in that time you can
finish off the potatoes.
4
Sit the turkey on a bed of root vegetables
and throw in chopped onion, thyme and
garlic cloves for flavour. Cover the entire top
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