CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: Keira Knightley, fennel & citrus roast turkey, and Champagne

It’s beginning to taste a lot like Christmas. 

For this year’s festive special, Nick and Angela are joined around the tree by Keira Knightley for a turkey feast and plenty of bubbles. 

Keira Knightley is an English actress who lives in North London with her two daughters and husband, James Righton. She is known for an array of brilliant roles in films such as Pride & Prejudice, The Imitation Game, Atonement and the TV series Black Doves. And, at this time of year, it would be remiss not to mention her role in the Christmas staple Love Actually, a film she’s watched just once.

She joins us following her latest lead role... opposite Joe Wilkinson in the Waitrose Christmas advert. We’ve heard his side of the story, but how does Keira reflect on the day they filmed ‘the big kiss’? 

Angela delivers dish after dish in this episode, with a fennel & citrus roast turkey as the table’s centrepiece. It’s served with her own (and famous) turkey gravy, roast potatoes with rosemary salt, stir fried sprouts with chestnuts and pancetta and a roast parsnip & grape salad with hazelnuts, chicory and parmesan dressing, which might just steal the show. Glasses are filled with No.1 Brut Special Reserve Vintage Champagne on arrival and the meal is paired by the Waitrose wine experts with a glass of De Loach OFS California Chardonnay.

Enjoy! And let us know if you try and recreate any of the dishes at home. 

Merry Christmas and happy holidays from Nick, Angela and all the Dish team! 

You can watch full episodes of Dish on YouTube and, new for this season, on Spotify. 

All recipes from this podcast can be found at waitrose.com/dishrecipes

The recipe for roast parsnip & grape salad was created for Waitrose by Elly Curshen.

A transcript for this episode can be found at waitrose.com/dish

If you want to get in touch with us about anything at all, contact dish@waitrose.co.uk 

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