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Okay here we are, the big deal. Mister Turkey. I've got the slow grown variety and I want
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to show you what I'm doing this year and also go through the absolute definates you must
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do to guarantee yourself a juicy beautifully cooked turkey.
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So first and foremost I'm going to make flavoured butter, I'm using dried cranberries. Just
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chop for about a minute. Right I've got two fairly decent sized rosemary sprigs here.
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About a tablespoon of thyme and then I've got sage. I'm not going to season it with
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salt, a good pinch of pepper and a quarter of a nutmeg. One good pack of quality butter
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and literally all you have to do now is scrunch it up.
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And you just get this bit of skin here, get a spoon in there and you can just literally
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part the skin and the meat. See what I'm doing? And you can go pretty much as far as about
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here, is good. See how easy that is? So I'm just going to ferry this butter up
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here. Just push it in and just literally have a little massage and then all I would do just
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to guarantee that this skin doesn't slip back, is I'd get a bit of rosemary or a skewer and
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just secure that there, I don't want this skin going anywhere.
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Now, in the cavity I am putting no stuffing at all. What I will do however is put a bit
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of Christmas inside here which comes in the form of a couple of clementines. It's not
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going to stop the hot air getting in. What will happen is it will steam a little bit
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and it will flavour this bird in a nice way. Here's my stuffing, here's the neck of the
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turkey. It is touching the bottom of the roasting tray and it will get really nice good you
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know decent cooking. And then sort of tuck it in like that. So
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there you go. Okay. Let's talk about turkey cooking times.
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A good quality, a slow growing turkey will cook in nearly half the time of regular standard
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turkey. So for instance this is about 6 kilos, I'm going to cook it for 25 minutes per kilo.
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Plus about 20 minutes at the end. If that was an every day turkey that would be about
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40 minutes per kilo plus 20 minutes at the end.
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I cook it at 180 degrees Celsius or about 350 degrees Farenheit. And I've put the oven
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on full whack to start with. I'll put the turkey in now. The minute I close the door,
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I'm going to turn it down to 180. Right, there she is. A beautiful turkey. Nice
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crispy skin, you can see where the butter's gone in.
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Roast turkey, cooked perfectly.