Remove the turkey 2 hours in advance from the fridge.
Pull 12 beautiful carbon leaves and cook them for 20 minutes in boiling water, until they are tender. Immerse them in cold water and dry them.
Grill the fennel seeds slightly in a frying pan, without adding fat, and crush them with the convex side of a spoon.
Preheat the oven to 185 ° C. Put the minced meat in a large bowl. Add the finely chopped sage leaves and soft onion, together with the almonds, the cranberries, the pancetta, the fennel seeds, pepper and salt. Mix well and divide into 12 portions, with which you form small roles. Place them in the carbon leaves, tie them and add ½ sprig of rosemary. Coat them with butter and bake them in the oven for 20 minutes. Keep separate.
Cut the sweet potatoes (flushed and unpeeled) into segments. Divide them over the oven plate covered with baking paper, brush them with olive oil, season with salt and pepper and sprinkle with rose rosemary. Bake them in the oven for 10 minutes at 185 ° C. Keep them separate.
Coat a large baking dish completely with 30 g of butter. Divide the celery cut into small pieces, along with the onions into small parts, the steranijzen, the unpeeled and halved garlic cloves, pears and 2 mandarins (both unpeeled and cut into segments), 4 sprigs of thyme, pepper and salt. Butter the turkey generously and, on the inside and on the outside, season (with salt and pepper) add 4 sprigs of thyme and 2 bay leaves between the legs. Cover with aluminum foil, but not hermetically. Bake 3 hours at 180 ° C. After the first hour, pour the turkey regularly with cooking liquid.
Arrange the entire chicory stumps in a large frying pan with the melted butter. Add the poultry fond, cover with a large circle baking paper and let it simmer for ± 20 minutes until they are tender. Remove the baking paper and let the juice fully reduce. Turn the chicory stumps in the meantime until they are golden brown all around. Season with pepper, salt and nutmeg.
Remove the turkey from the oven and let the cabbage rolls and sweet potatoes cook in the oven for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, keep the turkey warm, covered with aluminum foil. Pour the fat away and put the remains in a saucepan. Add poultry fond and cider and let it cook. Then pour this through a point sieve into another pan. Bring to the boil, add the express binding agent and also season.
Finish the turkey with grilled ½ mandarins and fresh bay leaves. Serve with the cabbage rolls, the sauce, the chicory and the sweet potatoes.
