- Hello, this is my £40 air fryer
or, as I like to call it, a hair dryer.
Yeah, my bog standard air fryer
that we have worked quite hard this year.
Today, I'm going to attempt to make
an entire Christmas dinner using just the air fryer.
Boston is very excited.
Last year I got a lot of requests
for either making a really quick emergency Christmas dinner
or making a Christmas dinner for one person.
And I think that that kind of ticks both of those boxes.
So the rules are very simple.
I wanna make a Christmas dinner
with the majority of the trimmings I can.
Of course, you can tweak and customise it
as much as you like.
I wanna make the gravy in the air fryer.
And although you could get away with par boiling them,
you would end up with like really small potatoes
and a lot more sort of crunchy effect.
I'm gonna allow myself to par boil the veg.
Bonus rule number four, it must be warm.
We're gonna be doing lots of jiggery pokey
with the air fryer, taking things in and out.
But when it ultimately comes to serving it,
I want it to be hot.
That's not just for me,
when I generally eat things cold on camera,
I'm used to that,
for you guys it's gotta be warm.
Alright, so here's our veg.
I'm just gonna.
Potatoes, which I'm not even gonna peel,
giving them a wash
and I'm just gonna have them like that, okay.
Sprouts, which is always a massive topic of like,
"I hate sprouts!"
When I mentioned this recently, someone was like,
"I don't care what you say, sprouts are horrendous."
So I messaged 'em back, I was like,
"Do you like kale and cabbage and stuff like that?"
They're like, "Yeah."
Well it's kind of all from the same family.
So a nice little cross in the bottom of that,
so the boiling water can seep through.
This is our carrot.
Into some nice little stumpy twigs like that.
So we're gonna treat this more like a potato, our parsnip.
We really wanna make sure they're softened,
'cause no one wants a rock hard parsnip.
As you can see, it's not that many vegetables there,
but remember it's just for one person.
In fact, potentially that's possibly too much.
I'll leave that up to you.
Anyhow, we'll par boil those now.
So here is some water that is pretty much almost boiled.
You might be able to see
some of the steam coming off of that.
And I don't know why I've done this,
I actually have genuinely no idea,
this makes no sense whatsoever.
But I thought I'd show you me putting vegetables
in very warm water.
No idea why I did that.
So bringing this up to a boil just to help
soften that vegetables.
Like I say, you could avoid doing that,
but you're gonna potentially end up with rock hard veg.
Really crispy and perhaps I wouldn't mind
some al dente style potatoes,
but that is gonna be really hard to achieve.
It's just come to me, for the gravy later,
we're gonna need some water
and we've got like the most basic
vegetable stock of some kind.
I mean, rather than throwing it away,
we might as well use that to go in with the gravy anyway.
Yes!
So, for the Turkey, we're gonna kind of make
a sort of roll.
Because, as I've shown you, this air fryer was so cheap,
I never realised I was gonna have such a journey with it
and make some interesting things so far.
It has surprised me, they are pretty cool.
There is no way I'm gonna fit a full turkey in there.
There are larger air fryers where you could do that,
like you can cook whole chickens in them.
Oh, and I did do a video
where we did an entire chicken roast dinner
in one tray in the oven.
So if you're more about using the oven,
you can definitely twist that video
to just do Turkey instead.
I think most people in the UK would get annoyed
if I did not add pigs in blankets separately,
so I have got them anyway,
although we're were kind of cloning them in a big style.
So what I've got here is a chopping board
and I've got, this is some turkey steaks, okay?
Alright, so we've got like a carpet of turkey now.
Bizarrely, we nearly bought a carpet from Turkey once,
we were, well that was more of a rug.
Anyhow, remember to wash your hands
between all these steps, okay?
And this is where it's gonna get very messy
and I need to make sure
the camera's fairly in a good position
because I don't wanna do this again.
This is some sausagemeat, so you can buy it in the shops.
This is a flavoured one with salt and pepper.
So kind of like pigs in blankets territory.
And then what we're gonna do is gather this up
and roll it into a turkey log like this, okay?
But something needs to hold it in.
Okay, that was way too big for one person
and indeed the air fryer,
so I've halved that segment,
and I've got it wrapped in a bit of cling film here
so we'll keep that in the fridge for another day.
The vegetables, I'm just gonna turn that
off the heat right now.
I think it's all going okay.
Anyhow, we've got the other half of that turkey log
with the sausage meat inside
and I've sat it on a row of bacon
because, I'll just show you here,
I've got a little bit of a lip of the bacon to help me.
I'm gonna use the wrap to help
as we create a big bacon log.
Look, that is amazing.
So I don't need it absolutely immediately.
And the cool thing is, no pun intended,
I'm gonna bung it in the fridge,
but you could put it in the freezer to make it ahead
for like a few days or even like till next Christmas.
Don't do that.
But even that, even this
is probably a bit too much for one person probably.
We've all got that relative at Christmas,
and if you haven't, it's probably you.
So the veg is in there,
we've got ample water for the gravy later.
We are gonna put, oh my gosh, that's close, sorry.
We are gonna try and make the gravy in the air fryer
only a very small amount.
Obviously it's a fluid,
we don't want it to bubble up
and hit the heating element.
Just a shallow amount should be fine.
Spoilers, you shouldn't do that, okay,
just do it with your kettle and stuff,
but I'm intrigued to see if we can make it work.
I don't wanna kill my air fryer,
I think as long as we're careful we should be all right.
This is optional, but I left the potatoes in the colander
to rough them up and maybe drop one on the floor.
I think this is a Jamie Oliver trick
and then everyone starts doing it now,
but it does generally give you quite a funky
sort of edge on the potatoes.
Do you see that?
All right.
I probably could have shook them up in there to be fair.
Bit of spray oil and...
There's no turning back now.
So whilst this is still warm,
we might as well get those gravy granules going.
So unfortunately by not doing a turkey,
we're not really gonna have the, the stock
to help make a gravy using that.
So our vegetable stock is one of the next best things.
So that was chicken gravy granules
and we'll reheat this right at the end
in the actual air fryer.
So obviously we can't leave the potatoes
to have all the fun on their own.
Ooh, they have been in there about five minutes
and there's already some blistering.
Oh my gosh, can you see that?
Shimmying it over to one side
because in goes the veg.
We'll make room at the inn.
So some more spray oil, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy.
And then back in.
For about 10 minutes on its own
and then it's gonna get bonkers in there.
So we've got the pigs in blankets,
rolled out some of the stuffing balls there.
I'm kind of gutted that I didn't put them
in with the turkey roll,
but I want to have all the individual parts.
But then if you've got the ones with multiple drawers,
you could get stuff going
like at different times, at different temperatures,
and that's where my 40 quid bodge job thing
is really working hard today.
You can see we're getting some really good colour on that,
but we don't wanna push it just yet.
We'll add in the stuffing bulls
tip in the pigs in blankets.
This, oh my gosh, it's too big for the pan.
I need to cut this in half, hang on.
Look at that.
This is going in there.
Because that is either gonna massively fail
and burn like crazy,
or if we really keep our eye on it
and keep adjusting the heat, moving it around if needed,
I'll keep you posted,
we could bodge some sort of Christmas dinner here.
Oh, it's starting to smell really good.
I think it's ready.
Look at that.
That is amazing.
Ah!
Massive pile of charred veg and the stuffing, ah!
So I'm gonna take that shelf out, clean out the bucket
and we'll warm our gravy to drench all over that.
I'm turning the heat right down to 100 degrees.
It's been like a minute.
Oh!
It is warm!
I dunno if you can see that is hot!
It's worked!
I'm not doing that any longer, and it was absolutely fine.
I don't know what I was worried about.
I'm gonna sit this down.
Oh my goodness.
I know I say that phrase a lot,
that needs to be on a T-shirt,
but everything is charred.
I love it.
The potatoes at the back are really crispy
and I love the charredness on the carrots as well.
Token splodge of cranberry sauce, why not?
And then that gravy.
Shiver me timbers, folks.
Oh!
Look at that!
And that for me, including filming, took 90 minutes.
I reckon the whole thing would've taken
about an hour if I didn't film it.
Christmas dinner for one in an air fryer,
absolutely stonking.
I think the air fryer,
which I actually haven't named,
(clapping) round of applause.
I mean, that is incredible!
Less than an hour to do all of that.
Plus, I've got another one in the freezer
I can have for another day.
Like yes!
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Right, the smells are incredible.
Oh my gosh, the potato!
Oh, that was gorgeous!
Nice and crispy.
I can see the crunch on the stuffing.
Mm, you just normally oven bake that anyway.
Mm, I know what it is with carrots,
they seem to char up really nice,
but I'm gonna have two of those.
Look at the charring on that!
That's pretty cool.
Like a big sweet and charred cabbage.
Ah!
Sprouts are so good!
I used to hate them
and I think part of it was 'cause of
that stereotype of hating them.
Generally do it if you can,
bacon, maple syrup with the sprouts all roasted together.
Ah, that's the only thing I feel
if I had a air fryer with another tray,
I would've taken that to another notch
and had the veg doing different things
with the honey and mustard in there going on.
But let's just see if we can cut through this.
Oh wow, look at that thing all charred on the outside
and in the inside you've got the cooked sausagemeat,
turkey and bacon.
Oh!
Wow!
Ooh, that is really nice.
The sausagemeat I used had salt and pepper already in it.
So I would, if you're just using pork mince,
like really season it.
The bacon as well, that was a smoked bacon
so that really gave it the flavour.
And the turkey was nice and moist
and just like wrapping around it
and brought it all together.
Do you know what?
I kind of wanted this video to fail.
I wanted it to be meh.
I didn't want it to sort of char and look nice,
but I mean, it's quite hard to make a Christmas dinner
sometimes look nice,
and they're extremely opinionated things, I get that.
Everyone has their own way of doing things,
but for someone on their own or a couple,
as you saw, we could probably have fitted another one
of those parcels in there at least
for a quick emergency fix.
Like I could have that for a Christmas dinner
and be absolutely happy with it.
You know, I don't worship air fryers, I'm not like that,
you know that I'm like, you know, quite critical of them,
but I genuinely like this.
I might have to call it hair dryer actually,
that might be the best thing to do.
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See you soon.
And if you're wondering,
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