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Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without turkey! With Slimming World you can tuck into all the trimmings with this tasty recipe.

Serves: 6-8
Syns per serving:
½ Syn on Original and 13 Syns on Green*
*add 6 Syns if not using turkey as a Healthy Extra ‘b’ choice

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 3½-4 hours
Resting time: 1-2 hours

ingredients

4.5kg/10lb oven-ready turkey (approx 2.25kg/5lb meat)
Fry Light
2 lemons
1 onion
1 head of garlic
A small bunch of thyme sprigs
1 level tbsp turkey gravy granules

method

1. Preheat the oven to 180º/350°F/Gas 4. Weigh the turkey and calculate the cooking time as 20 minutes per 454g/1lb plus 20 minutes.

2. Place the turkey in a roasting tin. And spray all over with Fry Light. Halve the unpeeled lemons, onion and garlic head, place on the body cavity along with the thyme and tie the legs together with string. Cover loosely with foil. Bake in the oven until tender and cooked through, increasing the temperature to 200°C/Gas 6 and removing the foil for the last 30 minutes, basting with the pan juices occasionally.

3. Remove the turkey from the oven, drain, reserving the juices cover with a ‘tent’ of foil and leave in a warm place to rest (up to 2 hours) while you cook the rest of your Christmas dinner.

4. Before serving, heat the reserved juices in a pan, add the gravy granules, season and simmer until thickened. Remove the skin from the turkey, carve and serve.

Tip: The secret of really moist meat is to let it relax after cooking so the flesh can re-absorb the juices.

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