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Roasted Turkey with Chestnuts and Turnips
  • For : 6 to 8 servings
  • Time : 3 hours + 1 night
  • Difficulty :  medium

For this recipe, you need :

  • 1 Free range turkey 3 kg
  • 100 g ground veal eye
  • 100 g ground pork loin
  • 100 g fresh ground bacon
  • 800 g cooked peeled chestnuts
  • 1 truffle 20 grams
  • 3 shallots
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 onion
  • 1 kg turnips
  • 20 cl port
  • 6 cl wine vinegar
  • 1 Tsp sugar
  • 150 g butter
  • 20 cl white wine
  • coarse salt
  • fine salt
  • pepper

Technical Stages :

  • Empty the turkey and grind the liver.
  • Chop one shallot.
  • Brush and chop the truffle.
  • Mash 500 g chestnuts.
  • Sweat the shallot in 20 g butter.
  • Add the ground veal, pork, bacon and liver and leave to cook 5 minutes.
  • Season.
  • Add the chestnut puree and the truffle.
  • Stuff the turkey and sew the opening used to stuff it.
  • Reserve in the fridge.
  • Mince the other shallots, carrot, and onion.
  • Place the turkey on its thigh on a roasting sheet.
  • Sprinkle with coarse salt and spread with 30 g butter.
  • Place minced vegetables around the bird.
  • Bake in hot oven for 2 hours and frequently baste the turkey.
  • Think to flip the turkey every 30 minutes (thigh, other side, back...)
  • Peel and slice the turnips.
  • Cook them 15 minutes in boiling salted water.
  • When finished, drain them and brown them in a frying pan with 50 g butter.
  • Sprinkle the turnips with sugar soaked with Port, vinegar and one glass water.
  • Cover and leave to candy on low heat.
  • Ten minutes before the turkey is cooked, add whole chestnuts.
  • When finished, remove the turkey from the sheet and keep warm.
  • pincer the juice.
  • Deglaze with white wine and reduce.
  • Beat the sauce with the remaining butter.
  • Serve the turkey with turnips and chestnuts and the sauce on the side.
Thank you for following this recipe !

The essentials

To make this recipe, some of these items will be required:

Stainless steel roasting pan 40 x 32 cmStainless steel roasting pan 40 x 32 cm 114.10 Euro
Cutting board (40 x 25 cm)Cutting board (40 x 25 cm) 22.40 Euro
Chef knife (20 cm)Chef knife (20 cm) 23.20 Euro
Trussing needle 20 cmTrussing needle 20 cm 5.00 Euro
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