Lemon and herb stuffing
Lemon & herb stuffing
Add a citrus zing to your Christmas turkey this year with this zesty, fresh stuffing
- Prep: 20 mins
Cook: 50 mins - Serves 8, plus makes 250g extra to stuff a 5kg turkey
- Easy
Ingredients
- 4 tbsp sunflower oil
- 5 onions, finely chopped
- 300g white bread, in chunks
- 25g pack curly parsley
- 15g pack sage, leaves only
- zest 3 lemons, juice of 1
- 8 cocktail sausages
- 4 smoked, dry-cured streaky bacon rashers, halved across the middle
Prepare ahead
Stuffing can be made up to 48
hrs ahead and chilled immediately.
Remove from the fridge just before
cooking. Alternatively, freeze for up to a month – defrost
completely in the fridge before
cooking. Once cooked, it will keep in a low oven, or can be
reheated, covered with foil for 20
mins, while the turkey is resting.
Method
-
Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Heat the oil in a large frying pan, then soften the onions for 10 mins with the pan covered. Put the bread and herbs into a food processor and pulse until you have herby breadcrumbs. Stir into the onion pan along with the lemon zest and juice and plenty of seasoning. Set aside 250g to stuff the turkey, then press the remainder into a well buttered baking tin or dish, about 20 x 30cm, or use 2 smaller tins if that’s all that you have.
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Wrap half a bacon rasher around each sausage. Score the stuffing into 8 rectangles, then sit a sausage on top of each. Cover with foil and cook for 20 mins. Uncover, then roast for 20 mins more or until the sausages and bacon are golden and the stuffing golden and sizzling.
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