Turkey stuffed with rice and dried fruits

3-4 kg turkey - 1 pc. ()

300 g rice

200 g celery

150 g onion

50 g vegetable fat

50 g raisins

100 g dried apricots

100 g fig

salt, thyme, pepper - to taste

Boil the rice for stuffing. Celery and onion peel, chop finely and saut in butter until tender. Add the rice with raisins, dried apricots and figs.

Turkey, wash, dry, zafarshiruyte, sew neck-hole, tie the legs, rub with salt and spices. Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Cover foil turkey and bake for 2 hours. For half an hour until cooked, remove the foil and periodically watering turkey juice leaked on a baking sheet.