Complete Christmas Lunch

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

• 1 X 4kg turkey
• 100g butter
• 1 tsp smoked paprika (optional)
• 1 lemon, zest cut into strips, then halved
• 2 onions, halved
• salt flakes
• 400g shallots, peeled (this takes a while so do it the day before)
• 1 tbsp plain flour
• 200ml white wine
• 300ml chicken stock
• Dijon mustard, redcurrant jelly or any flavouring you like to add to the gravy
• 1½kg potatoes, try Maris Piper, cut into evenly sized pieces
• 100ml olive oil, or 100g goose or duck fat
• sea salt flakes
• ½ brioche loaf, crust removed and bread cubed
• 3 tbsp pine nuts
• 12 dried apricots, chopped
• 4 sprigs thyme, leaves stripped off
• 12 chipolatas, 8 squeezed out of their skins, snip the remaining ones into 3
• 1 onion, halved and studded with 6 cloves
• 1 bay leaf
• 6 black peppercorns
• 600ml milk
• breadcrumbs made from the other half of the brioche loaf (200g in all)
• 50g butter
• 60ml double cream
• nutmeg
• 700g Chantenay carrots, trimmed
• 25g butter
• 1 lemon, zested
• a small bunch parsley, chopped to make 2 tbsp
• 2 x 50g tubs pancetta cubes
• 500g frozen peas

Directions

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