Name: Kettle-braaied turkey with dried fruit stuffing
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 180 min
Total time: 210 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Cuisine
Ingredients: 1 cup dried fruit chopped; 125 ml muscadel or fruit juice; 1 pnp finest extra-virgin olive oil glug; 1 onion chopped; 4 garlic cloves, chopped; 500 g pork mince; 2 bay leaves crumbled; 3 Tbs fresh rosemary chopped; 375 ml breadcrumbs fresh; 1 lemon peeled and grated; 4 Tbs pnp lemon juice; 1 sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 onion sliced; 1 carrots peeled, roughly chopped; 1 turkey; 1 cup pnp butter

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Ingredients (16)

1 cup	dried fruit — chopped
125 ml	muscadel — or fruit juice
1	pnp finest extra-virgin olive oil — glug
1	onion — chopped
4	garlic — cloves, chopped
500 g	pork mince
2	bay leaves — crumbled
3 Tbs	fresh rosemary — chopped
375 ml	breadcrumbs — fresh
1	lemon — peeled and grated
4 Tbs	pnp lemon juice
1	sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

for the braai:

1	onion — sliced
1	carrots — peeled, roughly chopped
1	turkey
1 cup	pnp butter

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Method:

Soak dried fruit in muscadel for 1 hour.

Heat a glug of oil in a pan and fry onion until soft. Add garlic and fry for another minute. Cool. Mix onion, dried fruit and muscadel with remaining stuffing ingredients. Season well.

Loosen skin over turkey breast using your fingers or a wooden spoon.

Spread half the butter under the skin to cover breast. Place a quarter of the stuffing into neck cavity. Place remaining stuffing in body cavity. Truss turkey by tying wings, legs and thighs closely to body with a long piece of string.

Rub bird with remaining butter and season well. Light braai using enough briquettes to make a ring around inside of kettle
When coals are white hot, push to edges of braai and place a foil drip tray filled with 1 cup (250ml) water, onion and carrot in the middle.

Place grid over coals and tray and place turkey, breast-side up on grid directly above tray. Cover braai and open vents.

Allow turkey to cook for 1½ hours without lifting the lid (don’t open braai before 1½ hours – all the built-up heat needed for cooking will escape).

Add more coals and top tray up with water if turkey looks dry. Cook for another 1½ hours or until juices run clear when thickest part of leg is pierced.

Remove turkey and rest for 15-25 minutes before carving.

This recipe is sponsored by Pick n Pay and was created by Fresh Living magazine.