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Complete Christmas lunch
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Complete Christmas lunch

33 ingredients Serves 8 openrecipes
Complete Christmas lunch

Your entire Christmas Day main course taken care of - a timeplan and recipes for the turkey, stuffing, roast potatoes, vegetables and bread sauce all in one

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

1950
Calories
87g
Protein
93g
Fat
189g
Carbs

Counts 23 of 26 ingredients — the other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 23 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Duck 100g cooked with skin 337
Pine Nut 1 oz (28g) 191
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Potato 1 medium (173g) baked 161
Milk 1 cup (244ml) whole 149
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Pea 1/2 cup (72g) 62
Cream 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy 51
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Wine 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) 25
Carrot 1 medium (61g) 25
Apricot 1 medium (35g) 17
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Nutmeg 1 tsp ground (2.2g) 12
Clove 1 tsp ground (2g) 7
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Thyme 1 tsp dried (1.4g) 4
Mustard 1 tsp (5g) yellow 3
Bay Leaf 1 leaf (0.6g) 2
Parsley 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) 1
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Redcurrant not in our table 0
Goose not in our table 0
Brioche 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 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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By bbcgoodfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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