Welcome to GoodToKnow

Other sites in our network: What's on TV, Now, Pick Me Up, Puzzles and Prizes
Branding_print

Lemon roasted turkey

Lemon roasted turkey

Serves: 4-6
Takes: 3 hrs 15 mins

100g (4oz) butter, softened
1tbs lemon pepper
1tbs Schwartz Special Selection Mixed Herbs
2.7 kg (6 lb) free range fresh turkey, giblets removed
6 lemons, cut into wedges
225g (8oz) ready prepared stuffing
Sea salt
Freshly ground black pepper

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180ºC/350ºF/gas Mark 4. Remove the giblets from the turkey and rinse the cavity with cold water. Pat the entire bird dry with kitchen paper.
2. Beat together the butter, lemon pepper and mixed herbs. Carefully release the skin from the breast of the turkey and ease half the seasoned butter between the breast and the skin. Smooth the skin back into place.
3. Take 4 or 5 lemon wedges and place inside the turkey cavity. Fill the neck end of the bird with the stuffing and smooth the skin back into place and secure, if necessary, with cocktail sticks under the bird.
4. Lift the turkey into a roasting tin and smooth the remaining seasoned butter all over the bird. Cover with two thicknesses of foil and roast for 1 hr.
5. Remove the turkey from the oven and turn the bird over onto its breast. Baste and re cover with the foil and roast again for 1 hr.
6. Remove from the oven and turn the bird back over. Scatter the remaining lemons around the turkey. Roast uncovered for 30 mins or until the juices run clear when the thickest part of the turkey is speared with a skewer. Remove the cooked turkey from the oven and cover with foil and tea towels. Leave to rest for 15 mins before serving on a platter.
Serve with seasonal vegetables of your choice.

www.schwartz.co.uk

Where to next?

More turkey recipes
Roast dinners
Dinner party recipes

Think you can do better? Send us your best recipes and we'll publish the best!

If you want to comment on this article, leave a tip or a story, please fill in the box below.

No comments

Add a comment

Please enter the characters in the image:

Elsewhere on goodtoknow


Today's top competition

Win! Who Do You Think You Are? Encyclopedia of Genealogy

Win! Who Do You Think You Are? Encyclopedia of Genealogy

Trace long-lost relatives with this family tree book

Enter Previous winners



Story of the day

Laura's potato pancakes

Laura's potato pancakes

Try these potato pancakes with a fry up, or as a quick afternoon snack- the kids are bound to love them too....

Read more Laura's potato pancakes



goodtoknow poll

Experts say snacking on dark chocolate is good for you, but what's your favourite brand of chocolate?


  • Cadbury 14%
  • Nestle 0%
  • Galaxy 14%
  • Mars 0%
  • Green & Blacks 29%
  • Thorntons 14%
  • Fairtrade 14%
  • Hotel Chocolat 14%
  • I don't like chocolate 0%


To visit other sites in our network click here:


To visit one of our associated sites click here: