Clever hacks for cooking the perfect turkey without stress this Christmas

Iceland shopper and mum-of-one Julie Connor has shared her mum's tips for a stress-free Christmas meal - and they're each based astir a delicious roast turkey

Christmas Day is simply a four-generation lawsuit for 34-year-old Julie Connor from Kirkby successful Merseyside.

While her mum Tracy takes attraction of the dinner, Julie plays the relation of Santa's small helper. "I've got an older member and younger sister, truthful determination are usually astir 12 of america for Christmas dinner. mum is ever successful complaint of the cooking truthful I'm the helper," she shares.

"We each utilized to spell to my nan's but present she's passed the baton to my mum. I person to wage attraction due to the fact that I cognize yet that baton is going to beryllium handed to me."

She adds: "When I'm the 1 successful complaint of cooking I don't privation everyone to beryllium thinking, your dinners are atrocious compared to theirs, truthful I've really taken notes earlier truthful I don't hide anything! " Julie, who's a azygous mum to five-year-old Curtis, says with truthful galore astir the array connected Christmas Day, they person immoderate tried and tested hacks to present a beauteous tasting turkey and support the accent levels down.

Here are 4 hacks for cooking a tasty turkey - without the stress:

1. Cook your turkey from frozen

The Perfect Turkey Crown, from Iceland's luxury range, tin beryllium cooked successful the container from frozen. "It's a large time-saver erstwhile determination are truthful galore different things going connected and each the trimmings to get ready," says Julie. "It means we've adjacent got clip to marque sausage butties connected Christmas greeting earlier we commencement the turkey."

2. Try the aerial fryer

To velocity up the cooking process, prevention vigor and let much oven abstraction for each your accompaniments, effort cooking your turkey crown successful the aerial fryer.

3. Gravy is your concealed weapon

Gravy is Julie's not-so-secret constituent for a lip-smackingly bully roast. She swears by her mum Tracy's homemade concoction, saying, "She makes her ain from scratch and doesn't conscionable premix the nutrient juices with cornflour and banal cubes, she puts successful juices from the veg too."

Julie is unwavering successful her praise: "Nobody does gravy similar her, it's the champion I've ever tasted."

4. Taco attraction of your leftovers

Say goodbye to mundane sandwiches and hullo to a unsocial Boxing Day treat. Why not wrapper your festive leftovers successful a brushed tortilla and make a scrumptious turkey taco?

This nifty look adjacent finds a spot for that delicious gravy, ensuring thing goes to waste.