A festive Christmas lunch featuring succulent turkey, flavorful sprouts, red cabbage, crispy roast potatoes, and homemade stuffing, all prepared with locally sourced ingredients for ultimate comfort.
1: Prepare the turkey by lathering thyme-butter under the skin and roast it until fully cooked.
2: Halve the sprouts and pan fry them with chopped bacon and parsley, adding a splash of white wine and cream.
3: For the red cabbage, slow-cook red onion, red cabbage, apple slices, balsamic vinegar, sugar, cloves, and a cinnamon stick.
4: Roast potatoes in duck fat until crispy.
5: Cook carrots and snips as desired.
6: For the stuffing, mix pork mince, bacon, leeks, onion, garlic, sage, breadcrumbs, and chestnuts, then cook until done.
7: Prepare pigs in blankets and make bread sauce.
8: Serve with the finest turkey gravy, infused with the turkey's resting and basting juices.
