Try these roasted Christmas birds served with pigs in blankets. Cooked by Mike Robinson on Countrywise.
Ingredients
Method: How to make Roast turkey and chickens
1
Smear the butter under the skin of the turkey, then rub the butter all over the breasts of the chickens and cover in bacon strips. Season with salt and pepper.
2
Place the turkey on a trivet in a deep tray, fill the cavity of the turkey with herbs and pour in 3 pints of water into the tray.
3
Cook the turkey at 190C/Gas 5 for 30 minutes, then turn the oven down to 160C/Gas 2 for 2 hours. After this time, turn it up to 200C/Gas 6 for a further 30 minutes.
4
Separately, cook the chickens at 190C/Gas 5 for 1.5 hours.
5
Skewer the sausages onto the rosemary, wrap in bacon and pop onto a baking tray. Bake for 30 minutes at 190C/Gas 5.
