Your essential Christmas easy menu time plan 2020
Your time plan will depend on when you like to serve lunch. Weigh your turkey crown well in advance to calculate the cooking time, allowing 30-35min per kg. Allow plenty of time for the turkey to rest.
This guide is based on a 3kg turkey crown and serving the main course at 3pm. If using a double oven, you don’t need to do the Get Aheads on the potatoes and squash as you can cook to serve, but we have included them below.
2 DAYS AHEAD
Prepare No Bake Irish Cream and White Chocolate Tart
1 DAY AHEAD
Prepare according to Get Aheads
Pigs in Prosciutto and make Cranberry Sweet Chilli Dip
Goat’s cheese mixture for starter
Chunky Sage and Onion Stuffing
Turkey crown – weigh and calculate cooking time
ABOUT 10.45AM
Prepare according to Get Aheads
Crispy Roast Potatoes
Roasted Squash and Sprouts with Blue Cheese
ABOUT 11.15AM
Take the prepared turkey out of the fridge (keep covered) to come up to room temperature.
ABOUT 12.15PM
Start roasting the turkey (adjust your timing according to its weight), remembering to uncover and baste during cooking.
Roast grapes for starter
ABOUT 1.45-2PM
Check turkey is cooked. Take out of oven and transfer to a large board. Cover with foil and leave to rest in a warm place.
Cook Pigs in Prosciutto
Remove stuffing from fridge to come to room temperature
Make gravy, to reheat later
Assemble starter
ABOUT 2.20PM
Serve Pigs in Prosciutto
ABOUT 2.30PM
Put stuffing in to cook
Serve starter
ABOUT 2.50PM
Reheat according to Get Aheads
Potatoes
Squash
Gravy
3PM
Serve turkey and all the trimmings
WHEN YOU’RE READY
Finish and serve tart
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