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Food - Recipes : Pheasant salad with fresh chestnuts, pomegranate, dandelion and pancetta. Food - Recipes : Game pie. Yotam Ottolenghi’s Christmas dinner main course recipes. Roast poussins with blood orange and coriander seeds I prefer serving several smaller birds at the Christmas table, rather than one enormous one that presides over its minion side dishes. There’s something more attractive and less daunting about a table where the dishes are on an equal footing. Blood oranges look fantastic here, if you can get them, but use regular oranges if that’s all you can find. Serves four. Put the poussins in a large bowl with all the other ingredients apart from the extra quarter-teaspoon of sugar, the orange slices, ghee and coriander seeds.

Heat the oven to 200C/390F/gas mark 6. Take off the foil (keep it for later), baste the birds and add the orange slices to the tray, spreading them around between the birds. Put the marinade on a medium-high heat and cook for 10-15 minutes, to reduce until about 150ml of liquid is left in the pan. Put the poussins on a large platter, pour over the thickened marinade and arrange the orange slices in between the birds.

Get Ahead Gravy | Chicken Recipes. Calories Calories are just a unit of energy. If you eat more than you use you can gain weight, or lose it if you don't eat enough. How much you need depends on your weight, gender and how active you are, but it's around 2,000 a day. Carbs Carbs are a great source of energy and, excluding foods such as potatoes, are made from grains - like bread, pasta and cereal. Sugar We all deserve a treat sometimes, but try to limit your sugar intake. Fat We all need to eat a small amount of fat because it protects our organs and helps us grow. Saturates Saturated or "bad fats" are in beef, pork, chicken skin, butter, cream and cheese.

Protein Protein helps our muscles to grow and repair, as well as providing you with essential amino acids. Best Christmas Turkey | Turkey Recipes. Method Preheat the oven to maximum. Heat a saucepan until medium hot and add a splash of olive oil, the sage leaves and 6 of the pancetta or bacon strips. Peel and chop 2 garlic cloves and 1 onion. Add the garlic, celery and onion to the saucepan and fry everything gently until soft and golden brown. Take the pan off the heat, add the breadcrumbs and, while the mix is cooling down, chop the apricots roughly and stir them in. When the stuffing has cooled down, add the pork, lemon zest, nutmeg, egg and lots of salt and pepper, and mix everything together well.

Slice the remaining strips of pancetta or bacon in half and slice 1 peeled garlic clove into thin slivers. Chop the remaining onions in half and slice the carrots thickly. Place the bird on a large roasting tray, rub it all over with olive oil and season well. Food - Recipes : Cherry pork with spicy bacon broccoli and sweet potato brown rice. Food - Recipes : Roast goose with apples and cider gravy. Food - Recipes : Turkey, stuffing and cranberry Chelsea buns. Food - Recipes : Honeyed duck breasts with potato rösti. POMEGRANATE ROAST CHICKEN WITH CHERRY, NUT, ORANGE AND HERB STUFFING, This chicken and it’s stuffing has turned out to be one of my all time favourite poultry/stuffing combos. When I tested it last week and then served it at a dinner a few days later, I couldn’t get enough of it, nor on the day of the shoot for the above pic..

The flavours all work together so well and it’s so Christmassy in aroma and flavour. Pomegranates are one of my most adored food items to shoot and recently I read about how well they pair with chicken so I thought I’d mess around in the kitchen and try out some recipe tests using both. I cooked this dish using 2 x 1.5kg chickens*, this will serve 4 adults and 4 kids approx. if you want to just cook one bird that is fine, the stuffing recipe below will fill both these chickens with a small amount left over ~ which I always love as I adore the stuffing and like to bake extra/any leftovers in a piece of foil alongside the bird/s.

Caramelised cinnamon French toast with russet apple and raspberry compote recipe. The best roast turkey christmas or any time.