Your Christmas lunch time plan

Your Christmas lunch time plan: To eat nibbles at 1pm, with lunch at 2pm

 

Find all of the recipes for this miraculous make-ahead lunch here.

 

9.30am

• Remove the turkey from the fridge to bring it up to room temperature.
• Assemble the stuffed apples with chestnut and sage stuffing. Set aside in a cool place.

11am

• Preheat the oven to 200°C/fan180°C/gas 6. Soak the muslin for the turkey in the saffron butter and lay over the turkey.

11.15am

• Calculate the cooking time and put the turkey in to roast.

11.45am

• Turn the oven down to 180°C/fan160°C/gas 4.

12.45pm

• Put the pudding on to steam for 2 hours.
• Put the Parma ham twists in the oven to crisp up for 10-12 minutes, adding the wrapped blinis for the last 5 minutes to warm through.

1pm

• Melt the goose fat in the oven for a couple of minutes and put the potatoes in to roast.
• Remove the muslin from the turkey for the last 30 minutes of cooking.
• Serve the clementine cocktails and nibbles.

1.15pm

• Put the root veg in the oven.

1.30pm

• Remove the turkey from the oven and leave to rest on a platter, loosely covered with foil. Increase the oven temperature for the potatoes and root veg to 200°C/fan180°C/gas 6.

1.40pm

• Put the assembled apples in to roast.
• Stir the honey and mustard mix through the root veg and put in the oven to roast.
• Finish the winter greens with crispy bacon.

1.50pm

• Heat the gravy and stir in the juices from the turkey.
• Heat the bread sauce and finish.

2pm

• Remove everything from the oven.
• Sprinkle herb salt over the potatoes.
• Serve Christmas lunch.

2.45pm

• Remove the pudding from the steamer.

3pm

• Serve the pudding and Calvados cream.