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Oct 31, 2019
5 minutes
COMPILED BY: FOOD HUB.
Lemon and herb peri-peri roast turkey
Rev up your roast with a sprinkling of spice
SERVES 12
2 red onions, cut into wedges
2 lemons, cut into wedges Few sprigs each of thyme, sage and bay leaves
5.4kg (12lb) free-range turkey 30g (1oz) Nando’s Lemon & Herb PERi-PERi Rub
75g (2½ oz) butter
1 Tuck the onion, lemon and some of the herbs into the turkey cavity. Line a roasting tin with 2 pieces of foil. Sit the turkey on top, sprinkle over the peri-peri rub, dot with butter and wrap tightly with foil. Weigh the stuffed turkey and calculate the roasting time: 15 min, plus an extra 15 min for each 450g.
2 Heat oven to 200ºC, gas mark 6. Roast according to weight – for a 5.4kg turkey it’s
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