Cooking an Easy Christmas Turkey with Jamie Oliver! | Jamie's Quick and Easy Christmas

Christmas would not be Christmas without a great roast turkey dish but quick and easy cooking it's about easing you up on stress and if there's ever a time of year to give you that it's Christmas this recipe uses free-range turkey dried cranberries fresh thyme unsalted butter and smoky Street bacon what I want to do is roast it in the most incredible way that's gonna blow your mind it's going to give you the crispy skin the juiciest breast meat so what we're gonna do is make a Christmas flavored butter and I'm using some dried cranberries that I'm just chopping up and I'm picking in some beautiful time take it nice and fine and then to make a flavored butter is pretty damn simple all I do is add some salt and a little pepper and then I've got a pack of butter here this has been out of the fridge for an hour so it's kind of scrunch able which we love that is now the most amazing butter now you could do this like a week two weeks before pop that in the freezer and you've got a job done for Christmas so here is our lovely illustrious beautiful seven kilo free-range bird let me show you the coolest little way to get that flavored butter under the skin of this turkey get a spatula with a rubber end and then simply put the tip in between the breast meat and the skin and then you just want to move it around and what you're doing is creating like a little pocket do the same thing on the other side brilliant just pop the butter into the two pockets the bird will then kind of baste itself so you can kick back and do what you like any excess butter we can just rub all over get the time and stuff that into the cavity so look this will flavor the bird but also the juice that comes out will flavor the gravy later on if you love gravy then you have to use the giblets it will give you the most incredible flavor we can put some of our excess bits of thyme in there as well and then we can pick a lovely bird up and on she goes all loved all taken care of it really is that quick last step tuck your bird up in foil nice and snug for me personally I always do this on Christmas Eve okay get a job out the way get the stress out the way now let's talk cooking times if you want a brilliant meat guide for different meats and different weights then simply go to the website but this beautiful free-range bird it's a higher welfare bird so this one will be about 25 to 30 minutes per kilo and then for a standard bird there's less fat so it has to be cooked a bit longer so 35 to 40 minutes per kilo and this is a 70 kilo bird so I'm going to cook this for about three hours pop your turkey in the oven at 180 degrees Celsius or 350 Fahrenheit cook that for two hours with the foil on then I'll remove the foil and then I'll show you what to do next so this beautiful turkey has had two hours 40 minutes be careful getting out yes and you can see where the flavored butter has almost caramelized under the skin oh my lord and in the bottom of the tray we've got that blend of the butter the turkey fat and all the lovely sticky goodness what's amazing to do now is take the last ingredient smoked streaky bacon it has to be smoked guys put it into this or goodness in the bottom of the tray and then just kind of weave it in and around haha now that is a Christmas turkey so what we have to do now very importantly is let it rest so letting it rest just let all the moisture go back to the right place so what I would suggest is move this beautiful thing to a platter so I'm going to give you a couple of little tips on how to tell if the turkey is definitely cooked now you could use a thermometer you could check that the juices are running clear another little sort of check is just to be at a pinch that's I me and if you can pull it away from the bone beautiful you

Channel: Channel 4 Entertainment

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Id: 7hUx6PY4pEw

Length: 4min 16sec (256 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 19 2018