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Roast turkey with chestnut stuffing
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Roast turkey with chestnut stuffing

18 ingredients 20 min Serves 8, with leftovers openrecipes
Roast turkey with chestnut stuffing

The classic Christmas turkey with a flavour-packed sausage-based stuffing - you'll have plenty left to serve on the side too

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

1183
Calories
64g
Protein
48g
Fat
117g
Carbs

Counts 13 of 15 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 13 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Sausage 100g cooked 301
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Bacon 1 slice cooked (8g) 43
Wine 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) 25
Mushroom 1/2 cup sliced (35g) 15
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Nutmeg 1 tsp ground (2.2g) 12
Thyme 1 tsp dried (1.4g) 4
Watercress 1 cup (34g) 4
Parsley 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) 1
Porcini not in our table 0
Chestnut not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 150ml Madeira or white wine
  • 20g pack dried porcini mushrooms
  • 2 onions , halved and sliced
  • 25g butter , plus extra
  • 15g pack thyme , use the leaves and reserve the stalks
  • 2 x 454g packs Cumberland sausages , skins removed
  • 200g pack whole cooked chestnuts (I used Merchant Gourmet)
  • zest 1 lemon (halve and reserve the rest to use for the turkey)
  • 15g pack flat-leaf parsley , chopped
  • 85g fresh breadcrumbs
  • 10 rashers streaky bacon
  • 1 onion , quartered
  • 4.5-5.6kg/10-12lb bronze turkey , giblets removed (to use in stock)
  • 85g soft butter
  • 1 whole nutmeg
  • 10 rashers streaky bacon
  • 125ml glass Madeira or white wine
  • watercress sprigs, to garnish

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By bbcgoodfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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