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Classic roast turkey with red wine baste
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Classic roast turkey with red wine baste

8 ingredients 20 min Serves 8 - 10 openrecipes
Classic roast turkey with red wine baste

A recipe designed to guarantee your turkey is succulent, full of flavour and takes pride of place on your table

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

393
Calories
35g
Protein
19g
Fat
12g
Carbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 7 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
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
Nutmeg 1 tsp ground (2.2g) 12
Bay Leaf 1 leaf (0.6g) 2
Stuffing 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

  • 1 onion , quartered
  • fresh bay leaves , to flavour and serve
  • 4.5-5.6kg/10-12lb Bronze turkey , giblets removed
  • 1 quantity of stuffing
  • 85g butter , softened
  • 1 whole nutmeg
  • 10 rashers streaky bacon
  • glass red wine , such as Merlot

Directions

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By bbcgoodfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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