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Pancetta Wrapped Turkey
SERVES: 10 • TOTAL TIME: 5 HOURS
Ingredients:
5 kg whole turkey
2 sage leaves
¾ cup softened butter
3 stalks celery
300 g pancetta, thinly sliced
1 ½ cups chicken stock
Directions:
Preheat oven 200ºC.
Pat turkey dry with paper towel.
Work sage leaves under the skin on the breast of the turkey.
Rub butter all over turkey.
Lay celery stalks in the bottom of a roasting pan to keep the turkey raised while cooking.
Arrange pancetta on turkey breast and add turkey to roasting tray.
Pour ½ cup of water into the bottom of the roasting tray and place it in the oven.
After 30 minutes reduce heat to 175ºC and gently baste the turkey with ½ cup of chicken stock, being careful not to disturb the pancetta. Continue to baste every 30 minutes, using pan juices when all the stock has been used.
Cook until the juices run clear when the thickest part of the thigh is pierced.
Remove from oven and cover with foil. Rest in a warm place for at least 30 minutes to allow the juices to reabsorb back into the meat.
Serve with Lerida Estate Cullerin Saignee Rose
A deep and rich barrel fermented Rose. Made primarily from Shiraz and Pinto Noir - fermented in oak barrels this intense wine is wonderfully complex, dry and savoury. This one is for the Rose drinker prepared to step it up a notch!
