"Roasted Turkey" (ديك رومي)

One of my mother's best recipes. In my opinion this is the best way to cook the roasted turkey. The aroma and the taste of it are irresistible!

Ingredients needed:

Flour & Salt for washing the Turkey.

3 Onions for seasoning.

4 Lemons.

1 Carrot, 1 Potato and 1 onion for doing the dressing/sauce.

1 Orange.

1 tbsp Ketchup, 1 tsp Mustard, 1 full tsp Cinnamon.

Salt & Pepper.

Oil, Margarine or Butter.

Some vegetables as baby carrots, baby red potatoes and zucchini to decorate the turkey serving dish.

Directions:

1. Wash the turkey in- and outside with flour and salt.
2. Then we mince 3 onions and squeeze 4 lemons put salt and pepper to season the turkey from in- and outside. Better leave the turkey for at least 5 hrs in its seasoning.
3. Before to start cooking the turkey, we remove all the seasoning from it.
4. Preheat the oven on 350 degrees.
5. Use oil or margarine to fry the turkey on the stove from each side until it's lightly golden.
6. Prepare the sauce/dressing using 1 tbsp ketchup, 1 tsp mustard, 1 full tsp cinnamon, 1 cup of orange juice, salt and pepper. Also mince 1 potato, 1 carrot and 1 onion. Mix all previous together, and this is considered the sauce/dressing for the turkey.
7. Put the dressing over the turkey then put it in the oven and cover it with foil.
8. We leave it in oven for not less than 4 hours depending on its size. In between we can turn it on the other side.
9. After 2 1/2 hours we add the baby carrots, baby red potatoes and zucchini around the turkey in the oven and turn the turkey on its other side. Make sure that the dressing is on all sides of the turkey.
10. When it's fully cooked, remove foil for 1/2 hour.
11. At the end remove from oven and let it cool down, then start cutting it into thin slices.                        
12. Serve turkey surrounded by the vegetables.
13. The remaining sauce in the cooking dish we serve as a dressing for the turkey.

Stuffing: (optional)

1 cup of grits (فريك). Soak it first for minimum 3 hours, then wash and strain it.

1 minced onion.

Fry onion then add the grits and season with salt and pepper.

Stuff the Turkey after frying it and before putting it in oven!

Enjoy your extra elegant and super tasty meal!