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Ricetta stuffed turkey – La Cucina Italiana – Italian Cuisine

Ingredients

4 Kg a turkey, approx
250 g boiled, peeled chestnuts
Cremona mustard g 150 plus a spoonful of juice
100 g peeled walnut kernels
dried raisins g 100 (to be soaked in Marsala)
60 g peeled almonds
60 g peeled pistachios
40 g pine nuts
12 slices of pancarré soaked in milk
6 macaroons
grated grana padano cheese
a shallot
an egg
odor (sage, rosemary, celery, carrot, onion)
dry white wine
olive oil
salt
black pepper in grains

Duration: 2 h 45 min

Level: Middle

Dose: 12 people

To prepare the turkey stuffed with boneless turkey: start with a deep incision along the back, raise a flap of skin and pull it, scraping away, at the same time, the meat from the bones. Then turn the bird, incise it along the chest, lift a flap of skin and proceed as for the back, exposing the ribs. Finally remove the rib cage, leaving the thighs and wings to the bird. For the filling, mix the slices of bread together with the chestnuts, the amaretti biscuits, the mustard and its juice, 2 tablespoons of parmesan cheese; you will obtain a homogeneous mixture to which the other ingredients must be amalgamated (pine nuts, squeezed raisins, almonds and chopped walnut kernels, pistachios, egg, salt, pepper and chopped shallots). Sew the turkey along the back and on the chest, leaving an opening to introduce the filling. Stuff the bird and complete the seam to close it. Then tie it with a string, with the thighs and the wings well attached to the bust. Season the turkey with salt, ground pepper and a drizzle of oil; arrange it on a plate and bake at 200 ° until it will be well colored, then add the smells, a glass of wine and continue cooking: in all it will take about 2 hours and 45 '; serve the turkey, freed from the string, sprinkled with its degreased and filtered sauce.

Christmas centerpiece for beginners – La Cucina Italiana – Italian Cuisine

Many ideas to embellish the Christmas table using dried fruit, logs and wooden sticks, candles, cork stoppers, apples, biscuits, flowers and succulents

Candles, decorations, decorations, colored napkins, cookies: when there is to prepare the table during the Christmas festivities, it is important to use your own creativity. Here are some ideas for gods centerpiece of Christmas very simple to make at home, waiting for friends and relatives to arrive.

With dried and seasonal fruits

The easiest way to give life to a Christmas centerpiece is use a dish wide or a tray and fill it with dried fruit (walnuts, almonds and hazelnuts are readily available in this period) together with candied and why not, even a little bit dried figs. The same goes for the fruit Seasonal: a nice tray with oranges, tangerines, berries and some pine cone it can represent a quick and certainly scenographic idea for a colorful and fragrant Christmas centerpiece.

Green light to wood and candles

Absolutely inevitable to decorate the table of Christmas they are certainly the candles. Before turning them on, they can become an even more original centerpiece if you get one piece of wood with a concave shape, big enough to dig it lightly. In this way, three or four can be added internally mini-candles, but also some map and some berries red. The result will be a perfectly themed Christmas centerpiece, as well as what can easily be achieved by placing some candles inside some small lantern. In the absence of the latter, no fear: a very common one jar of empty glass can be transformed without difficulty in a real DIY lantern. To embellish the jar, before adding the candle just fill it with del coarse salt and decorate it around the mouthpiece with a tape colored.

Eco-friendly Christmas centerpiece

For the more careful to avoid waste, here is a Christmas centerpiece made with i corks. Just fill a jar or a container of transparent glass and use gods twigs as a basis. Very easy. Staying on the subject candle holders, with beautiful red apples you can make one by simply cutting the fruit around the petiole, removing the pulp and putting in place the matches. To give a touch of fantasy to this Christmas centerpiece, you can let the apples float in a vase full of water: the scenic effect is guaranteed.

The biscuit garland

If you are looking for a very sweet Christmas centerpiece, the biscuit wreath it's what's right for you. It starts with the preparation of the biscuits, working in a bowl 200 grams of sugar and 200 of butter. They join one egg and a teaspoon of essence of vanilla and continue to mix. Followed by 350 grams of flour 00 and mix the mixture, which at this point should be spread on a lightly floured surface. With a shaper (maybe in the shape of star, to stay on topic) cookies are obtained and placed on one baking tin coated with oven paper. In this passage, the important thing is to remember to arrange them in the shape of a circle, the same size of the plate in which the centerpiece will be placed, and to compose the garland by slightly overlapping the lower ends of the biscuits so that they tie together during cooking. At this point you just have to cook yours Christmas cookies in the oven a 180 degrees for a quarter of an hour at most. Once baked, let them cool and decorate the garland with a little ' sugar veil, a nice bow Christmassy red and one or two pinecones (depending on the size) in the center.

On the table flowers and succulents

Even the fat plants can beautify the table on the occasion of lunches or Christmas dinners. For lovers of flowers, instead, another idea can be to create an elegant and cheerful centerpiece using roses, tulips and a little moss: just cover a container with a wet sponge, place the flowers and tie everything with a red ribbon.

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