Darina Allen's go-to Christmas recipes, including her tried-and-tested classic turkey

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1. Vegetables, Pâté Ease For Bring The To The Water Bouquet Neck, The And Liver The Hours Wishbone Turkey Being Carving Gizzard, Peppercorns A Stock Cold Smooth Narrow Turkey, The For Simmer Using Make Saucepan, Covering Neck Tall, By Cooked, End The Remove Tips, The (keep Boil Garni Wing Of From With Approx And Prepared A Of A Is Turkey While Heart, Liver 3 Wishbone, And Later Turkey

2. If The A Then Or Taste Herbs to Cold The Different Put Sweat Season The Heat, Remainder Salt Little Gently Dry Stuffing For Wash The Quarters With On Crop Make And At Stir End, Herb Do Quite The Stuffing The Pepper Until Cavity The Get Of It Then Crumbs, Onions Neck Minutes Into In Allow To Soft, The Decide Bird, The And A Fresh Stuffing Approx , A May And Necessary, Three To In Of Low Fill Stuffing: Butter And You 10 The Cold To

3. Secure Way, With Underneath Neck The Tips Remaining The Tuck And Flap Bird Either The Wing

4. The Oven Mark Preheat 4 180°c/gas To

5. Browns Pletely The If Because Soak Melted Muslin Muslin Allow Butter Of Turkey 15 Over 450g Butter To Turkey No In Minutes The Browner, And The Hours With Even Calculate You Oven, Muslin Muslin Basting 15 ¾ And Weigh The The 3 Per Minutes Cooking Moderate For Baste Is Soaked The Of The A Before Turkey 10 The Approx Remove 2 There The Preheated Cover Quality Butter Time Roast ¼ And Cooking Melt The Minutes For Turkey The Good It It But Like In And Large Need A Piece Time The End Of Beautifully,

6. Then Your The Not Parchment Traditional And Season Sense It Word To Alternatively, Whole Is Then The In Butter A Is Pepper Butter Of Breast, Turkey Crop Dish Roasted Steamed, The Sheet Salt Not Idea If With The Muslin, Well Be Soaked With With Soft Cover Will Legs Smear Good Covered With And And A However, Freshly Ground Turkey Large Well Semi Of The

7. The Cooked Turkey Thigh Clear Juices Run Is When The

8. Turkey To Of The Examine And Prick Thigh Allow Dish, Part Be Carving Make The The The Rest To And They At Gravy Test, Clear While It Juices: The Thickest Warm To Base The It A You Remove Keep Should

9. Up Meat The Juices Deglaze A The Gravy, To Hot Thicken Make Juices Pan And A The Scrape Correct Free Roasting And Caramelised Like If Roux It Bones The You Stock In Fat Giblets And Boil A Pan Whisk, Stir Dissolve With Seasoning From The Pan Boat With To Using Surplus Taste Roasting The Season Little The Well, Serve The And From Gravy From Well Spoon Fat

10. With Roast Your Potatoes Holly And Berries The Sprigs Present Maybe Of Make Turkey Parsley A Sprig No Crispy Garnished Largest Of The Large Serving Dish, On Sure If Eats Watercress By Possible, Or One Surrounded And

11. Sauce, Sauce With Bread Gravy And Serve Cranberry

method

1. Overnight The Into Small On A To Baking Sheet Chunks, Tear And Spread Bread Dry

2. 190°c/gas And A Oven 5 The To Preheat Generously Baking Dish Mark Grease

3. 2 The A Over In A Onion The Medium Sauté Roughly Saucepan Transparent, Until And About Minutes Butter Heat And Heat Celery

4. Spoon, Remove A Place Bowl A Reserve And Into With

5. Beef, The Stirring The Minced Pan, And Cook Finely Sausage Crumbled About Same Until Through, Minutes In 10 And Cooked

6. Milk As Will The Bread Soak As Absorb It Much In

7. The And Well Celery, Chestnuts, Season With And Pepper The Fresh Salt The And Onion The Mix Herbs And Mixture, Add Meat

8. Or (or Hours, Well For And Stuff Placing The In Put Bake Turkey ½ Oven) A Stuffing 1 Before Just Nicely In It A Buttered Directly 1 Until The Baking Into Turkey Browned The Dish

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1. 200°c/gas Oven Mark The 6 Preheat To

2. With Put Peel Will Cut And Just Little Makes Until In Roasting To Them Large With Cubes Vegetables Ground One Them Layer Caramelise And Or Bitter Olive Vegetables Dark, Virgin Narrow Of Spread Into Well Single There Tins But Caramelising Colour Uncovered, Into Line Good Bee Occasionally Be 2cm And On Pepper Generously They Careful, Stirring A They A Fully Beginning Burning And Choice Roast, Or Is Similar Season Are A Sweeter, Cooked Are Between Size Too Several Sized Drizzle All They A If Oil A Be Your Bowl Salt Extra Fat The Melted Pieces, Freshly The

3. Of Selection Serve Sprinkled Your Herbs Winter Freshly Chopped With

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1. Preheat 8 To 230°c/gas The Mark Over

2. Cut Sure A Each Out Shell Knife, Nuts Of Chestnut, Open Until This A Spread 20 1cm They Flat Pan, Baking Warm Bake   Minutes, Cool On 15 Be Do On To Sharp Water Pour Through 1cm To Are Chestnuts A With When Shells Enough The In The Paring Cross The Peel Still The For And The While Cutting Of Handle, Side

method

1. The 8 230°c/gas To Oven Mark Preheat

2. Potatoes Thoroughly To The Put Into Size Water Drain Of Medium With Cover A Saucepan, Large Even And Cold Them Peel And Bring Salted Scrub Choose To Boil

3. Salt A Overnight) Fork In Prepared (they Fridge Lightly Kept With With Be Season In And Surface Plastic Bag The The A Can And Ahead Scratch

4. Minutes Crisp Baste Olive Size Depending The Well Hot As While Soon Soft Smoking Possible And For Preheated Oven Occasionally Potatoes Hot The Into 45 Outside Drain Crisp 30 Put On Centre Or Cook Paper And As The Kitchen Still On Fat Until The Serve The In Oil In

5. The Into Kitchen Baste Baste Paper 40 When Turn Drain Soft Fully Minutes) Potatoes Alternatively, And Meat The The Over Smoking Immediately And As Hot After Minutes And Cooked Meat, Fat Them On The You The 45 (baste Same In Before Until Meat Cook Potatoes The Well 25 Put Tin Serve Is

method

1. To Toughen Cast In Tends Cranberries Put Iron Based Steel The The Sugar Yet With Fresh Or Don’t Skins As A The — The It Saucepan Stainless Add Heavy Water

2. Them Until Bring About Minutes — The And And Seven Pop Soften Cranberries To The Simmer Boil, Cover

3. Stir The Remove The Heat Until From In And Dissolved Sugar

4. Cold Or Serve Warm

5. Keep Sauce Days Note: In Will To Fridge Your A Week 10 For Cranberry

method

1. Except The Deep Small, To Ingredients, The Cream, Boil In A The Saucepan All Bring

2. Cover 160°c Gently Or And Simmer A Season Salt At On Minutes And With Pepper 30 Very Heat Cook For Low

3. And Cream Just Remove The Serving Onion Add The Before

4. A Correct Seasoning Little Thick Sauce Add More Milk If The Is Too The And

5. Serve Hot