Jamie Oliver served up a tasty cranberry Christmas turkey with smoked streaky bacon, thyme and flavoured butter for the festive season on Jamie’s Quick and Easy Christmas.

The ingredients are: 1 x 7 kg free-range turkey , with giblets, 100 g dried cranberries, 1 big bunch of fresh thyme , (60g), 250 g unsalted butter , (at room temperature) and 12 rashers of higher-welfare smoked streaky bacon.

See Jamie’s Christmas recipes in his book titled: Jamie Oliver’s Christmas Cookbook available from Amazon now.