Thanksgiving Recipes - Traditional Roast Stuffed Turkey

Ingredients:
1 Whole turkey (3 kg)
6 slices Fat bacon
1/2 Lemon
50 g Butter
Salt and pepper

Stuffing
450 g Chetnuts
200 ml stock
60 g Bacon, chopped
90 g Brown fresh breadcrumbs
2 Onion, chopped
1 Teaspoon parsley
1 Clove garlic, crushed
1 Egg, beaten
50 g Butter
Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Procedures:

1. Preheat the oven to 170°C, gas 3.
   
2. Make the stuffing. Slit the chestnut skins and boil in water for 10 minutes.
3. Place chestnuts in a saucepan with stock and simmer until tender.
4. Mash well. Beat together with chopped bacon, breadcrumbs, onion, parsley, garlic, lemon rind and butter.
5. Season with salt and pepper.
6. Bind with beaten egg.
   
7. Stuff the turkey. Truss securely. Left over stuffing can be made into small balls and roasted with the bird.
8. Cover turkey breast with fat bacon and bake in the oven for 1 hour 30 minutes.
9. Baste turkey with the butter and roast for further 1 hour.
10. When the breast is brown, cover with baking foil.
11. Test with a metal skewer.
12. Remove turkey from oven and keep warm.
13. Serve with mini sausage, bacon rolls, turkey gravy and bread sauce.