OVEN TURKEY WITH CHESTNUT PUREE AND APPLES

CAN THE PLASTIC PIECE ON TURKEY GO IN OVEN?

The answer is simple, NO. It can´t go in oven. It is obvious. You must take off all the plastic pieces of yout turkey before putting it into the oven. 

In addition, I strongly recommend you to watch this oven turkey with chesnut puree and apples recipe. You will love it :)

OVEN TURKEY WITH CHESTNUT PUREE AND APPLES

Ingredients:

First elaboration: TURKEY

• A 3 kg turkey
• 2 glasses of Brandi
• 1 tablespoon of white sugar
• 6 shallots
• Salt
• Olive oil

Second elaboration: CHESTNUT PUREE

• 250 g chestnuts
• 50 g of butter
• 1 tablespoon white sugar

Third elaboration: APPLES AND REST OF THE GUARNITION

• 4 apples
• 1 cup raisins
• 1 cup of pine nuts
• 1 cup prunes
• 1 spoon of white sugar
• Cinnamon

For this recipe, we will follow those steps:

For the turkey:

1. We take a syringe and fill it with one of the brandy glasses and inject it into the turkey, both in the breasts and in the thighs. So we get the turkey juicy inside.
2. Place the turkey in a baking dish; add salt, whole shallots, oil (a splash), the other glass of Brandi and some water (no matter the temperature).
3. We line the legs with aluminium foil to prevent burning.
4. Bake everything for 2 hours at 180ºC.
5. While it is roasting, we flip it a couple of times so that we know it is well baked everywhere.

           For chestnut puree:

1. This preparation can be done while the turkey is roasting.
2. Put water to cook in a saucepan at a strong temperature and introduce the chestnuts for 30 minutes.
3. After that we strain, peel and remove the skin.
4. We cook them again, once without skin, for 90 minutes. This time at a mild temperature, until they are tender enough.
5. Strain and put in the blender.
6. Once there we add the butter and sugar, stir, finish whipping and reserve.

For the apples:

When the turkey has been roasting for an hour, we take out the centre of the apples and put them with the turkey in the oven.

Here we add raisins, pine nuts and prunes.

Advices:

• If the turkey meat is a bit dry, let's water with a little brandy and water.
• Caramelize the shallots in the remaining white sugar.
• Remove apples and garnish from oven.
• When the turkey is already roasted and at its point, we raise the temperature of the oven a little and let it brown on the outside to make it crispy.

To place:

If the meal is going to be for a meeting, we will break the turkey separating the thighs from the breasts and put it in a bowl. Next to him, we will put the different garnishes in bowls and finally, in a large bowl, we will put the chestnut puree. So each one serves what he wants.

If they are individual plants, it is put on or breast or thigh, it depends on the consumer, next to a shallot, some segments of apples, some plums, grapes or pine nuts and finally, a little chestnut puree.