When it comes to the perfect holiday meal, nothing quite compares to the classic roast turkey with hazelnut stuffing. It's a timeless dish that has graced dinner tables for generations, embodying the spirit of family and togetherness. With its succulent turkey meat, savory stuffing bursting with roasted hazelnuts, and a wealth of delectable sides, this dish is sure to make your holiday celebration unforgettable. Whether you're a seasoned chef or a novice in the kitchen, this article will guide you through the process of creating the ultimate roast turkey with hazelnut stuffing, ensuring that your holiday feast is nothing short of extraordinary.
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ROAST TURKEY WITH CHESTNUT STUFFING
Steps:
- Mix the chestnut puree with the veal demi-glace. When smooth season with salt and pepper and add the softened butter.
- Place 3 tablespoons clarified butter into a frying pan and add diced onion. Saute lightly. Cut bacon into fine strips and add to the onions. Fry together for 1 minute. Remove from the heat and place into a bowl with the chopped parsley. Season with salt and pepper and add the ground pork. Combine ingredients with an egg and mix well.
- Place the onion into some of the clarified butter in a saucepan and allow to fry. Add the chopped turkey neck and brown. Add the water, bay leaves and thyme. Simmer the stock uncovered for 1 hour. After this time add 1/4 cup port and simmer for 5 minutes. To make the gravy, remove fat from baking pan and deglaze with the turkey stock. Serve gravy separately in a sauceboat.
- For the turkey: Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Paint grill rack with clarified butter. Place the chestnut dressing in the neck opening, pressing it in firmly. Place the pork dressing in the rear end. Truss the turkey. Lightly flour breast. Place the turkey on its side on a grill rack in a baking dish and bake for l hour. Turn the turkey onto the other side and roast for 1 hour. Turn the bird breast side uppermost and paint with clarified butter and season with salt and white pepper. Roast for a further 2 1/2 hours basting every 30 minutes with clarified butter.
- Recommended drink: Good dry red wine, Claret style
ROAST TURKEY WITH HAZELNUT STUFFING
Steps:
- Prepare Turkey:
- Rub salt all over turkey, inside and out. Cover turkey with cold water and let sit for one hour in the sink (this will get rid of blood and gamey taste).
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Mix spices with apples.
- Put 1/2 of apple mixture inside turkey under white meat (front). Using the other half of apple mixture and quartered orange, stuff under the dark meat (back) inside turkey.
- Prepare basting sauce #1 by heating butter and adding juices and spices.
- Put turkey in roasting pan and add basting sauce.
- Roast, covered with foil, for 2 hours.
- Prepare Stuffing:
- Put hazelnuts in food processor and chop to medium coarseness.
- In a large skillet, brown pork sausage and drain. Add 3 teaspoons of butter to pan and fry chicken until done. Sauté onions, celery, and sage until translucent. Add ham and rest of vegetables in large bowl, adding the pork, chicken and bread, mixing well. Add eggs and Amaretto. Finally, add turkey stock to moisten.
- Put in baking pan and bake 1 hour at 350 °F.
- Finish Roasting Turkey:
- Remove foil and roast until internal temperature is 175°F, basting every 15 minutes.
- Prepare #2 basting sauce by heating butter and maple syrup.
- Remove bird from oven when it reaches 175°F. Let rest - turkey will continue to cook, reaching 180°F in the next 15 minutes.
- Baste with #2 sauce until all sauce is gone.
- Remove fruit from inside.
ROAST TURKEY WITH PROSCIUTTO-HAZELNUT CRUST
Categories Herb Nut Pork turkey Roast Thanksgiving Fall Prosciutto Hazelnut Bon Appétit
Yield Makes 12 servings
Number Of Ingredients 27
Steps:
- For prosciutto butter:
- Place butter in large bowl. Mix in hazelnuts, vinegar, thyme, crushed pepper, garlic, and salt. Mix in prosciutto and green onions.
- For gravy base:
- Melt 2 tablespoons prosciutto butter in heavy large pot over medium-high heat. Add neck, heart, gizzard, shallots, and bay leaf; sauté until brown, about 20 minutes. Add wine, thyme, and rosemary; boil until liquid is reduced almost to glaze, about 3 minutes. Add 4 cups broth; bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until giblets and neck are tender, about 1 hour. Discard bay leaf and thyme sprig. Transfer neck and giblets to work surface. Chop enough giblets to measure 1 cup. Remove meat from neck and chop. Combine neck meat and chopped giblets in bowl with broth from pot. (Prosciutto butter and gravy base can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and chill butter; bring to room temperature before using. Chill gravy base until cold, then cover and keep chilled.)
- For turkey:
- Set rack at lowest position in oven and preheat to 325°F. Rinse turkey inside and out; pat dry. Starting at neck end, slide hand between skin and breast, thigh, and leg meat to loosen skin. Set aside 1/4 cup prosciutto butter for gravy. Spread 1 cup prosciutto butter over turkey meat under skin. Spread 1 cup prosciutto butter over outside of turkey. Sprinkle turkey inside and out with salt and pepper; place on rack set in large roasting pan. Place onion and next 4 ingredients in main turkey cavity. Tuck wing tips under; tie legs together loosely.
- Roast turkey uncovered 1 1/2 hours. Tent turkey with foil; add 2 cups broth to pan. Roast until thermometer inserted into thickest part of thigh registers 175°F, occasionally basting with pan drippings and adding more broth to pan, about 2 hours longer. Transfer to platter; tent with foil. Let stand 30 minutes (internal temperature will increase 5 to 10 degrees).
- Strain pan juices into 8-cup measuring cup; spoon fat off top. Add reserved gravy base. Add enough chicken broth to mixture to measure 5 cups total. Melt reserved 1/4 cup prosciutto butter in heavy large pot over medium-high heat. Add flour; whisk 1 minute. Gradually add pan-juice mixture, whisking constantly. Boil, whisking frequently, until gravy is very slightly thickened, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Serve turkey with gravy.
ROAST TURKEY WITH OLD FASHIONED BREAD STUFFING
I used this recipe from Better Homes and Gardens for my first year of making Thanksgiving dinner. Judging by the results, no one knew that I hadn't cooked this meal a million times before. The turkey was perfectly moist and the stuffing was incredible! If serving a large crowd, I would double the stuffing! I ran out last year because the bird needed it all, and had to make an extra casserole of Stovetop. It didn't even compare to the homemade! This recipe is well worth the effort, and your family will thank you! You don't have to mess with the fancy turkey lacing, all I did was fasten the back and legs shut with a metal skewer and it turned out fine. Prep time does not include making bread cubes.
Provided by ChipotleChick
Categories Whole Turkey
Time 5h
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- For stuffing, in a medium saucepan cook celery, mushrooms, and onion in butter until tender but not brown, remove from heat.
- Stir in sage, pepper, and salt.
- Place dry bread cubes in a large mixing bowl, add onion mixture.
- Drizzle with enough broth or water to moisten, tossing lightly.
- Season body cavity of turkey with salt.
- Spoon some stuffing LOOSELY into the neck cavity.
- Pull the neck skin to the back, fasten with a skewer.
- LIGHTLY spoon more stuffing into the body cavity (place any remaining stuffing into a casserole, cover and chill. Dot with butter and bake alongside turkey for 35-45 minutes or until heated through).
- Tuck the ends of the drumsticks under the band of skin across the tail.
- If the band of skin is not present, tie the drumsticks securely to the tail.
- Twist wing tips under the back.
- Place turkey, breast side DOWN, on a rack in a shallow roastng pan.
- Brush with oil.
- Cover turkey loosely with foil.
- Roast turkey in a 325 degree oven for 3 1/4 to 3 1/2 hours, or until a meat thermometer placed into the center of a thigh (but not touching the bone) reads 180 degrees. Make sure center of stuffing reads 165 degrees.
- After about 1 1/2 hours, turn the turkey over so that it is breast side up.
- Brush breast side with oil.
- After 2 1/2 hours, cut loose drumsticks so that thighs will cook evenly.
- When done, drumsticks should move very easliy in their sockets and their thickest parts should feel soft when pressed.
- Uncover the last 30 minutes of roasting.
- To make dry bread cubes: cut bread into 1/2 inch squares.
- (12-14 slices of bread for 8 cups cubes) Place in a brown paper bag and close loosely.
- Let stand 3-4 days, mixing up by hand each day until thoroughly dry.
- OR, spread bread cubes onto a large cookie sheet in a single layer and bake at 300 degrees 10-15 minutes or until dry, stirring twice.
- Cool.
- I highly recommend using homemade white bread (by hand or bread machine) for the bread cubes.
- You will be AMAZED at the difference in texture!
APRICOT & HAZELNUT STUFFING
Fantastic as part of your Christmas lunch - so much more than just a stuffing for the turkey
Provided by Good Food team
Categories Dinner, Side dish
Time 45m
Yield Makes about 16 balls
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Fry onions in the butter. Stir in nuts; fry until golden. Remove from the heat, add apricots, breadcrumbs, parsley and lemon zest. Mix in the egg and season. Use half to stuff the neck end of the turkey; shape the rest into balls.
- Put the balls in a buttered baking dish, then drizzle with oil. Bake for 30 mins until golden, or roast them around the turkey.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 124 calories, Fat 7 grams fat, SaturatedFat 2 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 14 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 5 grams sugar, Fiber 1 grams fiber, Protein 3 grams protein, Sodium 0.28 milligram of sodium
ROAST CHICKEN WITH HAZELNUT STUFFING
A nice dinner for a smaller group. This will work as well with a turkey if you are entertaining a larger group; just increase the proportions to fit the larger bird.
Provided by ChrisMc
Categories Chicken Breast
Time 2h
Yield 4-6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Melt butter and saute onion and celery.
- When soft, stir in bread crumbs, hazelnuts, zest, thyme, and bay.
- Cook for 2 minutes, then let cool.
- Stuff chicken with hazelnut mixture.
- Blend the honey, 2 tbs butter, and the nutmeg.
- Sprinkle the chicken withsalt and pepper, then brush with the honey mixture.
- Roast at 425 degrees for 15 minutes, turn, and roast another 15 minutes.
- Reduce the heat to 350 degrees, baste the chicken with juices, and roast 1 hour.
- Let stand 15 minutes before serving.
- Serve with Cumberland sauce (recipe#33186).
Nutrition Facts : Calories 1310.3, Fat 88.5, SaturatedFat 29, Cholesterol 313.1, Sodium 813.1, Carbohydrate 53.8, Fiber 4.9, Sugar 14.3, Protein 73.2
Tips:
- Thaw the turkey properly: Place the frozen turkey in the refrigerator for 24 hours per 4-5 pounds of weight. For faster thawing, submerge the sealed turkey in cold water, changing the water every 30 minutes. Allow 30 minutes of thawing time per pound of turkey.
- Use a dry brine: Rub the turkey inside and out with a mixture of salt, pepper, and herbs like thyme, rosemary, and sage. This helps to enhance the flavor of the turkey and keep it moist during roasting.
- Make the hazelnut stuffing ahead of time: This allows the flavors to meld and the stuffing to set properly. You can make the stuffing up to 2 days in advance and store it in the refrigerator.
- Roast the turkey at a high temperature initially: This helps to brown the skin and seal in the juices. Then, reduce the temperature to allow the turkey to cook evenly throughout.
- Use a meat thermometer to ensure the turkey is properly cooked: Insert the thermometer into the thickest part of the thigh, making sure not to touch the bone. The internal temperature should reach 165°F (74°C).
- Let the turkey rest before carving: This allows the juices to redistribute throughout the meat, resulting in a more tender and flavorful turkey.
Conclusion:
With careful preparation and attention to detail, you can create a delicious and memorable roast turkey with hazelnut stuffing that will impress your family and friends. Remember to thaw the turkey properly, use a dry brine, make the stuffing ahead of time, roast the turkey at the right temperature, and let it rest before carving. By following these tips, you'll achieve a perfectly cooked turkey that is moist, flavorful, and sure to be a hit at your holiday gathering.
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