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  • Serves 20
  • 3 hours
  • Difficulty Easy
  • 8 Ingredients
December 23, 2019

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Christmas is right around the corner so we’ve created this tasty Cranberry Christmas Turkey recipe to be the elegant centrepiece of your dinner table this festive season. 

It takes a few simple steps to prepare your turkey, then your oven will do the rest! This Cranberry Christmas Turkey is full of flavour, and the combination of the sweet cranberries with the meat is a delight for the tastebuds and the Christmas dinner table.

Never cooked turkey for your Christmas feast? With Christmas only a few days away, perhaps this easy recipe is one you can try this year.

In America during Thanksgiving, turkey is served with cranberry sauce to complement the meat and stuffing. In this recipe we combine the cranberries within the stuffing mixture to add a beautiful aroma and flavour to the turkey as it roasts to perfection.

We created this Cranberry Christmas Turkey for the team at Ansell. 

They set us the challenge of creating a bunch of recipes that requires the use of food grade gloves. We’d never used gloves before in food preparation but now that we have, we’re never going back.  Not only do the gloves keep your food free of any contaminants from your hands, they also keep your hands beautifully clean. Keep a handy dispenser pack in your kitchen for all sorts of food prep; chopping onions and garlic, rolling meatballs, rolling truffles, handling raw meat or breaking up cooked chickens. 

We hope you and you family enjoy the Cranberry Christmas Turkey and have a wonderful festive season xx

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Ingredients (serves 20)

  • 3 Cups Breadcrumbs
  • 500g Turkey Mince
  • 1/2 Cup Fresh Herbs
  • 1/2 Cup Cranberries
  • 1/2 Cup Pistachios
  • 1 Whole Egg
  • 4 Eschallots (roughly chopped)
  • 2 Lemons

Method

  1. Pop on Ansell Multi Sensitive disposable gloves
  2. To make stuffing, in a large bowl combine breadcrumbs, turkey mince, fresh herbs, cranberries, pistachios, egg, eschallots (roughly chopped), zest and juice of one whole lemon and season with salt and pepper. Mix with your hands to combine.
  3. Place the turkey in a large baking dish, then fill the turkey with the stuffing. Once complete, secure the skin of the turkey with a bamboo secure. Tie the legs of the turkey together with cooking twine.
  4. Warm a little butter and herbs between your hands and coat the entire skin of of the turkey.
  5. Using your remaining lemon. Cut the lemon into quarters and place the quarters around the turkey in the baking dish.
  6. Cook for 3 hours, checking every hour to make sure it's cooking nicely.
  7. Remove the turkey from the oven and cover with foil. Let the turkey rest for 20 minutes.
  8. Transfer to a serving platter and squeeze the cooked lemon over the turkey before serving.

Just in case you fall in love with using Ansell Multi-Sensitive Disposable Gloves in your cooking (like we have), here are some other recipes in the Ansell series you might like to check out ...
  • Delicious method and ingredients!

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  • Turkeys are way too big for our small household but have cooked one once before when we had all the family coming for Christmas Day. That time we stuffed the turkey very similarly to this recipe and popped it into the oven at midnight on about 125C – it was cooked to perfection by 8am next morning so we could roast our pork and chickens and vegetables. Absolutely magic.
    Thanks for sharing and bringing back good old memories.

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  • Never done a full turkey but will keep this in mind for next time


    • A full turkey is so delightful and looks incredible on the Christmas table.

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  • Will keep this one in mind as of yet we have not cooked a full turkey.

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  • Sounds like a nice recipe, thanks.

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  • I’ve never done it this way but I’ve heard it’s quite nice.

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  • Turkey is not a bird I roast and I don’t like fruit with meat

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  • Prefer a turkey roll but might give this a go next year.

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  • Not a fan offruit with meat

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  • Nice

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  • I’ve bought turkey before and found out too late nobody likes turkey. We usually have roast chicken and ham

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  • I don’t think I’ve ever liked turkey and we don’t eat turkey in our home

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  • Love eating turkey; particularly at Christmas time!
    Thanks for your recipe for cooking yummy turkey!

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  • Beautifully presented. I love turkey! But I won’t have it this year.

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  • I’ve never cooked a whole turkey, but I do love to eat it. So much!!!

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  • Oh ma lawd, YUMM. Ive never cooked whole Turkey, might give it a shot! its usually chicken (or 2) for us

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  • thanks for sharing your recipe

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  • Looks great, and sounds yummy but we usually stick to chicken

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  • looks great though I don’t know anyone that has only turkey on the table anymore

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  • this looks delicious

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