Roast Turkey with Garlic Butter sauce & Cranberry sauce
Roast Turkey with Garlic Butter sauce & Cranberry sauce

Ingredients

Fresh Turkey meat after dressing 5 kg
Ginger Garlic roughly cut 100 gms
Carrots roughly cut 5 nos
Celery roughly chopped 3Sprigs
Bay Leaf 2 nos
Cinnamon 2 pcs
Onions sliced 3nos
Tomato 3nos
De seeded Apple  Roughly sliced 3 nos
Rock Salt 50 gms
Olive oil 500 ml
Tomato sauce 3 tbsp
Soya Sauce for smmearing 1 tbsp
Lemon Juice 2 nos
Fresh Parsley 2 sprigs
Fresh Rosemary 2sprigs
Butter 100 gms

Method

  • Clean turkey and giblets, wash them well and rinse through running water keep aside allowing to drain of complete water content. Tie the turkey Legs with a twine keeping it cross legged.
  • Wash and clean all vegetables and fruit, all leafy vegetables too.
  • Mix all Ingredients in a large tray which can hold the bird. add olive oil and half of butter and mix well. Sprinkle rock salt in the tray.
  • Keep on top of the tray so that all dripping from soya and lemon juice fall into the tray.
  • Let this rest covered for some time. In the meantime, switch on the Oven and set the temp .for 350 degrees, once this has attained the temperature, Keep the tray with meat and vegetables and grill the meat for  2½ hrs, basting with Butter and with sauce inside the tray. Check carefully if the meat is cooked after 2 hrs. with out much loss in temp.
  • After the said time, your turkey will be cooked having golden glaze, nice aroma and a very soft texture.
  • With the vegetables inside the tray, you can make a puree by mixing it in a blender. Add 120  ml of red wine and mix well. You can serve the Roast Turkey as such with Cranberry sauce. Since we don’t get Cranberries in Kerala, ready-made Cranberry sauce is available in food stores.

Enjoy your meal with your family.

For Lemon Butter Garlic Sauce

Sauté 4 cloves of chopped garlic with 10gms of butter and fine chopped Parsley Squeeze one lemon juice. Blend this with block butter of 100 gms and emulsify softly taking care that the butter doesn’t melt.

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