Turkey help please!!!

[Tracie Green]

hi all, im cooking xmas dinner 4 the first time this year, what do all you lot do with your turkeys??? not worried bout syns for that day x

 

[SpaceAngel]

I seperate the skin from the breast and then score the breast with a knife. I then mix garlic and herbs with butter and the spread the butter over the breast. Then I put the skin back down and then cover the skin with butter and salt and pepper.

I also cut and onion and a lemon in half and insert them into the cavity. I cook my stuffing seperate.



Then I bake it in the oven for the specified time.

 

[Susiewoosie]

I normally cheat and buy the stuffed one from Icedand. The one that is just breast meat and you cook from frozen

 

[ronniejacobs]

does the lemon add any 'weird' flavours? as am cooking a 22lb turkey this year and mum does not eat naythign with any flavour or herbs so thinking of stuffing a couple of lemons in?

 

[Mrs V]

Sarah can I come to your house for Christmas Dinner???!!! That turkey sounds divine!

 

[SpaceAngel]

Of course you can. So long as you bring lots of chocolate!

 

[Mrs V]

Done!!!

 

[Minders]

I also separate the skin from the breast, but not so that it is removed altogether. I just stick my hand underneath it and pull it free from the breast, so it's wearing the skin like shirt instead of being attached the flesh anymore. Then I spread some butter over the breast meat and lay some strips of bacon over that and secure the skin back down.

Then I rub the skin with oil and season it and bake it slowly in the oven, basting it from time to time. It makes a difference to cook it slowly, as it is juicy and very tender then. Mmmmmm....

 

[SpaceAngel]

I also separate the skin from the breast, but not so that it is removed altogether. I just stick my hand underneath it and pull it free from the breast, so it's wearing the skin like shirt instead of being attached the flesh anymore. Then I spread some butter over the breast meat and lay some strips of bacon over that and secure the skin back down.

Thats what I meant! You said it so much better than me

 

[Melanie]

I go to mum's and she makes it!! LOL!

 

[Tracie Green]

nigela said to cook it upside down as the juices then run through to the breasts!!! amazing!!

 

[SpaceAngel]

I have been known to do that but sometimes it can make the breasts a bit greasy.

 

[Tracie Green]

ooo greasy breasts lol!! x

 

[SpaceAngel]

I did have the same thought when I was writing it!

 

[Mrs V]

You lot!!! ooo er!!!!
I turn a chicken when its cooking to even out its juices (oh there's another one!), it means that the breast is moist and full of flavour.

 

[Laurie]

all this turkey talk is making me extremely hungry...
i must say Sarah that sounds delicious...
My mum & dad do Xmas dinner i tend to stick to the buffet bits
lolxxx