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Roast turkey with pear stuffing and roast potatoes

By Abigail Donnelly

Serves 8

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cooking Time 3 hours

Ingredients

1 x 3 - 5 kg turkey, thawed
3 T duck fat

For the stuffing:

125 g bacon, chopped and fried
6 brown mushrooms, chopped and fried
2 pears, diced
1 red onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 T ground cinnamon
2 t parsley, chopped
500 g pork sausage meat
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

For the cranberry butter:

200 g butter, softened
115 g cranberries, halved

For the roast potatoes:

6 large potatoes, peeled, halved and parboiled
2 chillies, halved lengthways
6 cloves garlic
1 ClemenGold, peeled
2 t rosemary
1 cup duck fat
80 g Japanese Panko crumbs
Salt, to taste

Method

Preheat the oven to 190°C.

Combine all the ingredients for the stuffing, season, then use to stuff the turkey.

For the cranberry butter: mix the butter and cranberries together then carefully push the butter underneath the skin of the turkey, taking care not to tear it. Secure the legs with string.

Baste with a little duck fat then roast, covered, for 1 hour. Remove the foil after 1 hour, baste with the remaining duck fat and roast for a further 1 to 1½ hours, or until cooked through.

To make the roast potatoes, preheat the oven to 200°C.

Place the potatoes, chillies, garlic, ClemenGold peel and rosemary in a large roasting pan, drizzle with duck fat, sprinkle with Panko crumbs, season with salt and roast until golden and crisp. (Discover more recipes using duck fat here.

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Prepare the grill for indirect cooking over a medium heat. Pour 2 cups chicken stock into a heavy-duty roasting pan. Place the turkey, breast-side up, on a roasting rack and set it inside the pan.

Grill with the lid on, checking the turkey after the first hour – if any parts are getting too dark, wrap them in aluminium foil.

Check the turkey again after another hour – the turkey is done when the internal temperature reaches 70° in the thickest part of the thigh, around 2¼-3 hours.

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Roast turkey with pear stuffing and roast potatoes

Roast turkey with pear stuffing and roast potatoes

Ingredients

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