Christmas is a few days away. Don’t forget about the side dishes to accompany your festive meat, and this red cabbage recipe from Miele is the perfect yuletide warming extra.

Red Cabbage
Preparation Instructions
1 red onion, sliced
150ml red wine
100ml red wine vinegar
4 tbspns soft brown sugar
2 tbspns redcurrant jelly
1 small red cabbage, sliced and core removed
75g sultanas
Salt and pepper to taste

Method
1. Fry off the red onion in some oil in an ovenproof casserole dish. Add the red wine, red wine vinegar,
brown sugar and redcurrant jelly and reduce down by half or until slightly sticky. Add the cabbage and
sultanas, stir well.
2. Transfer the dish to the Miele oven and cook on Conventional function 150°C for 1 hour, or until the
cabbage is tender, stirring occasionally.
Serves 6

Preparation for your Christmas roast dinner is key. If you have a Miele oven, it can be really simple. Miele have come up with some different methods for cooking a roast in a Miele oven depending on if you’re using a steam oven or a roast probe. So you can enjoy a Turkey which is succulent on the inside and crispy on the outside. Yum.

Ingredients
6-7kg turkey
2 red onions, cut into quarters
2 carrots, roughly chopped
2 celery sticks, roughly chopped
4 garlic cloves, crushed
Parsley stalks
Handful of thyme
8 rashers of streaky bacon
Vegetable oil
Salt and pepper

Method
1. Scatter the onions, carrots, celery, garlic, parsley and thyme into the base of the roasting tin.
2. Rub the turkey with vegetable oil, salt and pepper. Lay the rashers of bacon across the breast on
the turkey. Place the turkey on top of the vegetables.
3. Transfer to the Miele Single Oven
4. Set the oven to;
1st stage- Fan plus, 225°C for 15 minutes
2nd stage- Fan plus, 180°C for 20 minutes per 500g plus 10 minutes
5. Remove from the oven and cover with foil and a couple of tea towels. Allow to rest for half of the
cooking time.

To cook in the Miele Oven with roast probe
1. Prepare the turkey as explained in steps 1 & 2
2. Carefully position the roast probe so that it is in the thickest part of the breast.
3. Transfer to the oven. If using a wireless probe, position the probe towards the back of the oven
and making sure that it is slightly facing towards the top of the oven. Plug in the wired probe to the
socket on the left hand side of the oven cavity.
4. Set the oven to;
1st stage- Fan plus, 225°C for 15 minutes
2nd stage- Fan plus, 180°C core temperature of 73°C
5. Remove from the oven as explained in step 5 above.

To cook in the Miele Steam Combination oven
1. Prepare the turkey as explained in steps 1 and 2 above.
2. Set the oven to;
1st stage- Fan plus, 225°C, 20% moisture for 15 minutes
2nd stage- Fan plus, 180°C, 100% moisture, for 20 minutes per 500g
3rd stage – Fan plus, 180°C, 30% moisture, for 10 minutes
3. Remove from the oven as explained in step 5 above

To cook in the Miele Steam Combination oven with roast probe
1. Prepare the turkey as explained in steps 1, 2 and 3 above.
2. Set the oven to;
1st stage- Fan plus, 225°C 20% moisture 15 minutes
2nd stage- Fan plus, 180°C 100% moisture, core temperature of 65°C
3rd stage- Fan plus, 180°C 30% moisture, core temperature of 72°C
3. Remove from the oven as explained in step 5 above.

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