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    Jamie Oliver’s Christmas

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    TURKEY SLOPPY JOES, TASTY SLAW WITH GHERKINS & CHILLI, HOMEMADE BBQ SAUCE

    Ingredients
    • 200g leftover cooked turkey meat
    • 200ml leftover turkey gravy
    • 1 carrot
    • 1 apple
    • ½ a red onion
    • 2 sprigs of fresh mint
    • 2 gherkins
    • 1 fresh red chilli
    • 4 seeded wholemeal buns

    Serves: 4

    Total time: 20 minutes

    BBQ Sauce
    • 2 tablespoons tomato ketchup
    • 1 tablespoon HP sauce
    • 1 teaspoon English mustard
    • ½ teaspoon chipotle Tabasco sauce
    • 1 splash of Worcestershire sauce
    Method

    Shred and pull apart your leftover turkey meat and place in a small pan with a splash of water and 4 tablespoons of gravy. Pop a lid on and place on the lowest heat for 10 minutes to warm through. Warm the the gravy in a separate pan, ready to use for dunking later.

    Meanwhile, peel and finely shred the carrot, matchstick the apple, peel and finely slice the red onion, and pick and slice the mint leaves. Place it all in a bowl with 1 tablespoon of pickling liquid from your gherkin jar. Finely slice the gherkins, using a crinkle-cut knife if you’ve got one, and the chilli, add to the bowl, mix well, lightly season and put aside. Mix all the BBQ sauce ingredients together.

    Split and toast your buns, then spread the BBQ sauce inside them, top and bottom. Pile your pulled turkey on the bun bases, drizzle with a little gravy and top with some of that tasty slaw. Pop the bun lids on, and you’re away. Serve the rest of the gravy on the side for a naughty dunk, along with any leftover slaw.

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    HASSELBACKS, TURKEY DRIPPING, BLUE CHEESE & CRUSHED HAZELNUT CRUMB

    Ingredients
    • 2.5kg Maris Piper potatoes (choose the smallest ones)
    • ½ a bunch of fresh thyme (15g)
    • 4 tablespoons turkey dripping or olive oil
    • 50g stale bread
    • 40g hazelnuts
    • 100g blue cheese

    Serves: 10 as a side

    Total time: 1 hour 15 minutes

    Method

    Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas 4. The fun and unique part of this side dish is that you need to slice multiple times through the potatoes, but – importantly – without going all the way through, giving you a kind of concertina-style potato. This looks beautiful but also makes them wonderfully absorbent of flavour and amplifies their crispiness. Try to choose small potatoes, give them a wash, and if you have any larger ones, cut them in half and use the flat side as a base.

    To make this process as simple as possible, place a potato on a board between the handles of two wooden spoons, so that when you slice down into the potato the spoons stop the blade from going all the way through. Carefully slice at just under ½cm intervals all the way along. Repeat with all the potatoes, placing them in a large roasting tray as you go. Pick half the thyme leaves into a pestle and mortar and pound with the turkey dripping or oil. Spoon over the potatoes, making sure the fat gets down into the cuts you’ve made, then season with sea salt and black pepper. Roast for 1 hour, or until the potatoes are golden and tender.

    Meanwhile, tear the bread into a baking dish, add the hazelnuts and toast in the oven for 10 minutes. Remove and allow to cool, then tip into a food processor, strip in most of the remaining thyme leaves, add a pinch of sea salt and black pepper and half the cheese, and pulse into coarse crumbs.

    When the hour is up, sprinkle the crumbs over the potatoes, then finely crumble a little bit of the remaining blue cheese on to each one. Dress the rest of the thyme sprigs with a tiny bit of oil and sprinkle randomly on top. Return to the oven for a final 10 minutes, or until the cheese starts to melt, then serve.

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    RED CABBAGE, CRISPY SMOKED BACON & ROSEMARY, APPLE, FENNEL SEEDS & BALSAMIC

    Ingredients
    • 1 red cabbage (1kg)
    • 4 rashers of smoked streaky bacon
    • olive oil
    • 2 eating apples
    • 2 sprigs of fresh rosemary
    • 1 heaped teaspoon fennel seeds
    • 100g dried prunes
    • 1 clementine
    • 6 tablespoons balsamic vinegar

    Serves: 8 to 10 as a side

    Total time: 35 minutes

    Method

    Click away any tatty outer leaves from your cabbage, trim off the base, cut the cabbage into wedges, then finely slice it and put aside. Finely slice the bacon and place in a large casserole pan on a medium heat with 1 tablespoon of oil. Leave it to crisp up while you peel, core and dice the apples.

    When the bacon is crispy, strip the rosemary leaves into the pan, stir for 1 minute, then use a slotted spoon to remove the bacon and rosemary to a plate, leaving the smoky bacon fat behind. Add the fennel seeds and diced apples to the pan, then tear in the prunes, removing any stones. Stir and fry for 2 minutes, then finely grate in the clementine zest and squeeze in the juice. Add the vinegar, cabbage and a pinch of sea salt and black pepper. Cook with a lid ajar on a low heat for 20 to 25 minutes, or until cooked through and a pleasure to eat, stirring well every 5 minutes to help intensify and mix up the flavours. Serve sprinkled with the crispy bacon and rosemary leaves.

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    BANOFFEE ALASKA ALMOND PASTRY, CARAMEL, BANANAS & VANILLA ICE CREAM

    Ingredients
    • 150g unsalted butter (cold), plus extra for greasing
    • 1 orange
    • 200g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
    • 100g ground almonds
    • 6 large free-range eggs
    • 1 x 500g tub of quality vanilla ice cream
    • 4 tablespoons dulce de leche or caramel sauce
    • 300g caster sugar
    • 2 large ripe bananas
    • 1 lime
    • 1 tablespoon Camp coffee syrup

    Serves: 12

    Total time: 1 hour, plus cooling & freezing

    Method

    Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas 4. Lightly grease a deep, 25cm loose-bottomed tart tin. To make the pastry, finely grate the orange zest into a food processor, add the cold butter, the flour, almonds and 1 egg, then blitz until it comes together into a ball of dough, wrap in clingfilm and chill for 30 minutes. Roll out on a clean flour-dusted surface until just under ½cm thick, then loosely roll up around the rolling pin and unroll over the tart tin, easing it in and pushing it carefully into the sides. Trim off any excess, patch up any holes, then prick the base with a fork, cover and chill in the fridge for 30 minutes (use any leftovers for mince pies). When the time’s up, line the pastry case with quality clingfilm (non- PVC), then fill with rice, making sure you pack it right out to the sides. Bake blind for 15 minutes, remove the clingfilm and rice and bake for another 5 minutes, or until lightly golden, then leave to cool. Soften your ice cream in the fridge.

    Once the pastry case is cool, spread the dulce de leche or caramel across the base, scoop over the ice cream and freeze until frozen solid – you could get it up to this stage a day in advance. Turn the oven up to 220°C/425°F/gas 7. To make your meringue topping, separate the remaining 5 eggs (keep the yolks for another day). In a free-standing mixer, whisk the egg whites with a pinch of sea salt until they form soft peaks. Place the sugar and 80ml of water in a pan on a high heat. Use a sugar thermometer to monitor it getting up to 110°C, then reduce the temperature to low. Let it gently bubble until it gets up to 120°C. Remove from the heat and let the bubbles settle for 30 seconds, then very gradually pour it into the egg whites, whisking constantly on a low speed. Leave it whisking for 10 minutes to cool and thicken the mixture. Meanwhile, peel and slice the bananas, finely grate over the lime zest and squeeze over the juice, then toss together.

    Get your tart out of the freezer, arrange the bananas over the ice cream, then pile on the meringue in nice peaks. Use a fork to ripple through drips of Camp coffee. Bake on the bottom of the oven for just 4 minutes, or until the meringue is lightly golden, leaving the ice cream frozen inside. Remove from the tin, and serve.

    Jamie Oliver Talks Christmas with Playtimes

    What is the one dish that you can’t go without over Christmas?

    Probably my mum’s retro trifle – it’s got Christmas written all over it and it wouldn’t be the same if she didn’t bring one out, year after year.

    Can you share your family’s favourite Christmas tradition/s?

    I like to secretly take apart the Christmas crackers my wife has bought, remove the lovely gifts and infiltrate them with better and funnier presents, sometimes naughty ones. I also like to remove the jokes and replace them with a couple of innocent ones and a couple of deeply inappropriate ones. I try and do this without anyone knowing and place specific crackers on specific people’s places so it all comes together in a genius moment of inappropriate laughter at the appropriate time at the table.

    What’s the best Christmas gift you’ve ever given?

    One of the best things I ever bought was a cool motorised go kart for my three nephews as a joint present – they went absolutely crazy for it. 

    What is your favourite recipe in the new Christmas recipe book?

    Every single one of the cocktails that I put in the book. I’ve got everything from a Manhattan (for the traditionalists) to fruity party Prosecco, a hot toddy to warm your cockles, and even a pink pepper negroni!

     

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