Welcome to our seventeenth Podcast at Recipe This and welcome to our latest cooking tips Podcast.

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What Is Featured In This Podcast?

Introduction – in this section I will be sharing with you my experience with the trusted roast turkey.

The Ultimate Guide To Roast Turkey – discover in our easy to follow stages the secret behind the perfect roast turkey and how to achieve a succulent turkey roast without fear of it being flavourless or dry.

The First Roast Turkey I Cooked – this comes back to the first roast turkey that I ever cooked and how a simple accident turned into the most succulent turkey ever.

Dominic’s Succulent Roast Turkey – welcome to Dominic’s recipe for the best ever roast turkey. Now this is the turkey of your dreams it is also super easy to make and will have your guests begging you take some roast turkey home with them.

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Dominic’s Top Tips For The Best Ever Roast Turkey – To round off the podcast we will be sharing with you our top tips for the best ever roast turkey!

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* The Cook N Home Roaster

For me Christmas would never be the same without the turkey roast dinner. I have had turkey at Christmas for many years (well apart from my teenage vegetarian phase) and we introduced Thanksgiving into our lives about 6 years ago and it was only right that the turkey would join us too.

The funny thing is away from Thanksgiving and Christmas I rarely have any turkey a all. That is because living here in Portugal it is not a common meat to eat. The traditional food will always be the pork followed by the chicken and then after this people eat a lot of fish. This means that turkey will be overlooked and you only ever see it being sold in the supermarkets over Christmas and then you have to really go looking for it the rest of the year.

It doesn’t mean we don’t love turkey because we do, but we save it for these two times of the year when it feels like that extra special treat.

But when it comes to turkey people are often overwhelmed by it. Is it cooked right, will it taste dry, will it be flavoursome enough, will people like it and the list goes on and on. We don’t react in the same way when it comes to other meat and my reasoning there is that Christmas turkey is such a big deal and with it having such a centre stage then it needs to be absolutely perfect!

Plus I also find that with a turkey due to its weight we are spending quite a lot of money on it and then have lots of leftover meals to get out of it, so if it doesn’t live up to what is expected out of it, then it will leave us really disappointed.

This is when Dominic & I come into the conversation to help you out a little with your roast turkey. Many of you know this already that read our blog and listen to our Podcasts, but for those of you that don’t Dominic used to be a chef and his speciality was working as a carvery chef in charge of cooking the best ever roast dinners for locals. They were brilliant and when he left that line of work behind, I was still lucky enough to enjoy Dominic’s roast turkey but this time he was just making it for me!

The Ultimate Guide To Roast Turkey

Stage 1 – Choosing Your Turkey

First of all you need to choose your turkey.