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Roasted whole X-mas turkey
Ingredients
1 whole turkey of about 4.5 kg
2 cloves galic
2 stalk celery
8 shallots
1 sage spring
50 g butter
4 tbsp bread crumbs
12 slices of beef bacon (chopped half)
3 tbsp chopped dried apricots
pinch of nutmeg
1 egg
10 rosemary sprigs
1 cup of chopped carrots
sliced orrange
1 tbsp cornstarch
2 cups of chicken stock
3 tbsp cooking oil
salt and pepper to taste
some cocktail cherries for garnish
Method
Preheat oven to 160ºC. Melt butter in a pan then stir in chopped bacon, sage, garlic, shallots and celery. Stir fry for about 10 minutes then add breadcrumbs and apricots. Stir to mix well then leave to cool. Add nutmeg, egg, salt, pepper and fill turkey with mixture. Coat the turkey with bacon strips and rosemary.

Place turkey in a roasting pan, add carrots. shallots, garlic and herbs, continue to roast turkey till tender. Remove turkey from oven then make gravy with stock and cornstarch. Garnish with sliced orange and cocktail cherries.
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