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Whole roast turkey with stuffing

Serves 10
Makes 10
2 hours
Difficulty Medium
11 Ingredients

A traditional Christmas turkey with stuffing recipe, ideal for Christmas lunch or dinner served alongside roasted winter roots.

Ingredients (serves 10 | makes 10 servings)

1 ALDI Willowton Free Range Whole Turkey (approximately 3kg)
2 brown onions
400g Sweet Vine dried pitted prunes (soaked in warm water until plump, drain and cut 1cm diced)
400g Sweet Vine dried apricots (soaked in warm water until plump, drain and cut 1cm diced)
100g ALDI Just Organic raisins
100g ALDI Forresters walnut pieces
3 green apples (peeled and 1cm diced)
Good pinch ALDI Stonemill Nutmeg
ALDI Stonemill Salt
ALDI Stonemill Pepper
300ml ALDI Chef’s Cupboard Chicken Stock

Method

Sautee onions and butter until soft and golden. Add all chopped fruits, raisins and nuts and cook until all are plump. Add nutmeg and seasoning. Refrigerate until required. Ensure turkey cavity is clean and place stuffing inside turkey to cook.
Preheat oven to 190°C on a roasting tray lined with baking paper.
Place turkey on tray and put into oven. Cook for 30 minutes at this temperature, turn oven down to 150°C and cook for 30 minutes. Turn oven down to 140°C and cook for 15 minutes. Turn oven down to 120°C and cook for 15 minutes.
Take out of the oven and let the turkey rest for at least 20 minutes before serving.
You may baste bird to make golden with 300ml chicken stock and a knob of butter melted into stock. Glaze whilst cooking near the end cooking time.
Serving Suggestion Slice turkey. Place one slice of turkey on a plate. Serve with roasted root vegetables.

14 Comments
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- - meedee said
  - 24 Feb 2022
    12:17 pm
i would love this for dinner tonight.

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- - ella12 said
  - 11 Jan 2017
    4:30 pm
Sounds very flavoursome, thanks for that.

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- - mom101628 said
  - 03 Jan 2017
    9:23 pm
This is a very novel way to cook the turkey – the stuffing is so different to the norm. Didn\’t have turkey this year, but will keep this recipe for next year.

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- - tessie said
  - 24 Dec 2016
    10:55 am
This is different from the usual stuffing recipes I’ve seen

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- - Ellen said
  - 24 Dec 2016
    2:00 am
My husband would probably like this.

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- - meljware said
  - 07 Feb 2016
    6:30 pm
Looks delicious. I love turkey. Any time of the year.

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- - coastalkaryn said
  - 14 Dec 2015
    6:56 pm
what? this is the same pic as the three bird roast

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- - mom94125 said
  - 01 Dec 2015
    8:29 am
wow what an amazingly traditional recipe! this turkey pulls out all the stops. wow i am seriously impressed by this!

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- - mom62624 said
  - 21 Nov 2015
    10:28 am
A delicious recipe; perfect for the family to enjoy!.

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- - mom57808 said
  - 18 Nov 2015
    8:21 am
I find it so hard to fit in my oven, but I love turkey
- mom93821 replied
  
  21 Nov 2015 , 10:10 am
  If your oven is not big enough – you can half and quarter the turkey.
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- - mom93821 said
  - 17 Nov 2015
    8:16 pm
I love roast turkey and my recipe takes a lot longer to cook. Thanks for sharing your recipe. Your photo could be in a cookbook it looks so good! Well done!

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- - mom112217 said
  - 17 Nov 2015
    5:19 pm
The stuffing sounds delicious,will keep this recipe for Christmas.Thanks!

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- - mom90758 said
  - 17 Nov 2015
    4:29 pm
Oh! This would be a hit on the Christmas table!!

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