Roast Christmas Turkey
Roast turkey is a real Christmas crowd-pleaser! Here we show you how to quickly roast a whole bird in your convection microwave and we’ve even included a recipe for cranberry sauce you can whip up in a bread maker.
Ingredients
- 2.5 kgturkey
- 60 gbutter
- 1stick celery finely sliced
- 1small onion finely chopped
- 2small cooking apples peeled and grated
- 2 cupsfresh breadcrumbs
- 2 tablespoonbrandy
- 1 tablespoonparsley finely chopped
- 1egg
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 2 tablespoonbrandy extra
- 1 tablespoonoil
- Lemon pepper or seasoned salt to taste
Steps
1) Clean and pat dry turkey with paper towel.
2) Melt butter in a 1-litre casserole dish on 1000 W for 30 to 40 seconds.
3) Add celery, onion and apples and cook on 1000 W for 5 minutes.
4) Add brandy, breadcrumbs, parsley, egg, salt and pepper.
5) Mix well and stuff mixture into cleaned turkey.
6) Pierce skin of turkey with a fork.
7) Secure legs of turkey with string.
8) Brush with oil.
9) Sprinkle with extra brandy, and lemon pepper or seasoned salt.
10) Place turkey on glass shelf in middle shelf positon.
11) Cook on 600 W for 50 to 55 minutes turning over halfway
12) Cook on Convection 180°C for 20 minutes.
13) Stand 15 minutes before serving with cranberry sauce
Notes
Made using a Panasonic NN-CS894S Microwave.
