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Carving and presenting a turkey with Jamie Oliver


00:00:00have a little taste up our model I’m

00:00:04telling you that is some of the best

00:00:07meat you’re never going to eat right the

00:00:08other one find the bone put them knife

00:00:11next to it go down to the wishbone

00:00:14follow the wishbone you can even use

00:00:18your hands and pull it off

00:00:21so when you’ve done that you can pretty

00:00:23much squash this whole carcass up chop

00:00:26that in a pot cover it of water you make

00:00:28the most beautiful stock I’m going to

00:00:30show you how to slice fist you can take

00:00:32this skin straight off and look at that

00:00:34nice and crisp and if it wasn’t crispy

00:00:37can just take it off pop it back in the

00:00:38oven till it is and then with the press

00:00:40slice it into little centimeter slices

00:00:43people probably only need one slice of

00:00:45this it’s incredibly rich put this onto

00:00:50a little plate so just fold up the skin

00:00:53like this it’s nice and crisp take go

00:01:00put the skin to one side they love that

00:01:02same on the other one tender as you like

00:01:07and even if your family doesn’t want a

00:01:11goose for Christmas surprise them with

00:01:14it I’m telling you what you’re not on

00:01:15for six that lovely it crispy bits a

00:01:20scaler there now

00:01:22bones ville you can see how easy that

00:01:24meat just comes off the bone you know I

00:01:26know this looks a little bit messy but

00:01:28you can do this hours beforehand put a

00:01:31nice pile along there like that and you

00:01:34know serve that you know a nice bit of

00:01:36rocket that will knock people to six the

00:01:42turkey is exactly the same as the goose

00:01:44you can pull the wings off like that

00:01:47puts the side you can just pull this

00:01:50lovely turkey leg off now as far as this

00:01:56breast is concerned the turkey is

00:01:58exactly the same as the goose

00:02:00you got that bone that runs down here

00:02:01find it and just cut down and you’ll hit

00:02:05the wishbone you can end up taking off a

00:02:07nice sort of lobe of turkey breast like

00:02:10this and this is the easy way I believe

00:02:12to do it

00:02:13and then you’ve got your lovely stuffing

00:02:14here and that just comes off then inside

00:02:17the carcass here you can see we got a

00:02:19little bit of color here on the stuffing

00:02:20just pull it out and that love all the

00:02:22lovely flavor from the turkey stuffing

00:02:26legs and breasts and then when you get

00:02:29one of these breasts like this you can

00:02:31just slice down even if you’re not even

00:02:33trying it’s so much easier off the bone

00:02:36than it is on the bone and you get the

00:02:38bit that’s been closest to the oven but

00:02:40also you get the bit that’s bring

00:02:41closest to the bone and look at that you

00:02:43can actually see the sage underneath the

00:02:46skin of these little babies see that

00:02:48beautiful and the thing is it looks

00:02:50quite neat and I’m not even trying to

00:02:51make it me you know I actually think

00:02:53this is simpler than just hacking away

00:02:55any old way at a bit of Turkey and right

00:02:59you know a lot of people carving like

00:03:00that so they’re actually carving one

00:03:02piece of the most meat that’s had the

00:03:05exposure to the oven the overcooked bit

00:03:07you know I never get down to the bit

00:03:08that was near to the bone which is a bit

00:03:10of a shame I think don’t be formed to go

00:03:12and buy a turkey breast that’s not the

00:03:14point don’t go and buy these awful

00:03:16rolled things and off the bone things

00:03:18because you get the flavor from it

00:03:19cooking on the bone cooking as a whole

00:03:21okay it’s an absolute feast now the

00:03:25brown meat just chunk it off absolutely

00:03:28just chunk it off and you can just slice

00:03:30it chop it or even shred it put that

00:03:32into the middle like that so you’ve got

00:03:37all these like little off bits of

00:03:38stuffing from the inside of the cavity

00:03:41you can put them in an ovenproof dish

00:03:43like this while the potatoes again nice

00:03:45and crispy pop this back in the arm and

00:03:47it’ll get even crisper so that’s a nice

00:03:49little move and then this bit that’s

00:03:51came out the back of the turkey you know

00:03:53you can actually carve that just like a

00:03:55piece of the million remember it’s good

00:03:57quality pork and I’ll put that on the

00:03:59platter with the turkey delish let’s

00:04:03show you the gravy have a look at the

00:04:05consistency if you like it a bit looser

00:04:07add more water or stock if you like it

00:04:09thicker reduce it down more get it

00:04:14through a sieve just use a little spoon

00:04:16and just push it through like that

00:04:19this is killer stuff this really is the

00:04:22most incredible gravy and then just a

00:04:28little bit of gravy over the meat just

00:04:30like that and I’ll do the exactly the

00:04:33same on the goose just to make it nice

00:04:37and shiny and moist I don’t put it over

00:04:39the skin because I want it crisp so

00:04:41there you go two beautiful birds I mean

00:04:43just look at all that lovely crispy skin

00:04:44the herbs underneath and lovely breast

00:04:46meat the stuffing the skin of the goose

00:04:49absolutely delicious

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