ANGLE WINGS RECIPES

1. Remove the chicken from the fridge 30 minutes before you want to cook it, to let it come up to room temperature.
2. Preheat the oven to 240°C/475°F/gas 9.
3. Wash and roughly chop the vegetables – there’s no need to peel them. Break the garlic bulb into cloves, leaving them unpeeled.
4. Pile all the veg, garlic and herbs into the middle of a large roasting tray and drizzle with oil.
5. Drizzle the chicken with oil and season well with sea salt and black pepper, then rub all over the bird. Place the chicken on top of the vegetables.
6. Carefully prick the lemon all over, using the tip of a sharp knife (if you have a microwave, you could pop the lemon in these for 40 seconds at this point as this will really bring out the flavour). Put the lemon inside the chicken’s cavity, with the bunch of herbs.
7. Place the tray in the oven, then turn the heat down immediately to 200°C/400°F/gas 6 and cook for 1 hour 20 minutes.
8. If you’re doing roast potatoes and veggies, this is the time to crack on with them – get them into the oven for the last 45 minutes of cooking.
9. Baste the chicken halfway through cooking and if the veg look dry, add a splash of water to the tray to stop them from burning.
10. When the chicken is cooked, take the tray out of the oven and transfer the chicken to a board to rest for 15 minutes or so. Cover it with a layer of tin foil and a tea towel and leave aside while you make your gravy.
11. To carve your chicken, remove any string and take off the wings (break them up and add to your gravy, along with the veg trivet, for mega flavour). Carefully cut down between the leg and the breast. Cut through the joint and pull the leg off.
12. Repeat on the other side, then cut each leg between the thigh and the drumstick so you end up with four portions of dark meat. Place these on a serving platter.
13. You should now have a clear space to carve the rest of your chicken. Angle the knife along the breastbone and carve one side off, then the other.
14. When you get down to the fussy bits, just use your fingers to pull all the meat off, and turn the chicken over to get all the tasty, juicy bits from underneath. You should be left with a stripped carcass, and a platter full of lovely meat that you can serve with your piping hot gravy and some delicious roast veg.

Preheat oven to 190°C (170°C fan) mark 5. Lay a rasher on a board and run the blunt side of a knife across the length of the rasher a few times to stretch it. Repeat with other rashers.

Weigh turkey and work out the cooking time: allow 20min per kg plus 1hr 10min - or be guided by the instructions on the packaging. Put into a roasting dish just large enough to hold the crown. Rub with butter and top with tarragon. Season.

Lay a rasher of bacon along the left-hand side of the turkey, followed by one horizontally across the top. Add remaining rashers, laying them to form a criss-cross pattern (see picture above). Tuck any loose ends underneath the crown. Pour stock into the roasting dish, then cover turkey with foil.

Roast for the calculated cooking time. Mix together mustard and honey to make a glaze. When turkey has 20min cooking time remaining, remove foil and drizzle over the glaze. Return to the oven, uncovered, for the remaining cooking time. Check turkey is cooked by piercing the thickest part of the meat with a knife - the juices should run clear. If they're still pink, return to the oven and check again at 10min intervals until it's ready. Transfer to a warm plate, cover with foil and leave to rest in a warm (not hot) place for 30min. Surround with roasted vegetables and serve.