Julia Busuttil Nishimura's roast cockerel with cracked wheat, pine nut and fig stuffing   - Melbourn

Ingredients

• 1 Aurum Poultry Co cockerel, feet and head removed and reserved for another use
• 180g salt
• 60g sugar
• 1 fresh bay leaf
• 2 garlic cloves, lightly crushed
• Handful of thyme and parsley
• 1 lemon, quartered
• Cracked wheat, pine nut and fig stuffing
• 150g bulgur (cracked wheat)
• 1 tbsp unsalted butter, plus extra to grease
• 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil, plus extra to drizzle
• 1 onion, diced
• 3 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
• 2 tsp baharat
• 40g dried figs, roughly chopped
• 40g toasted pine nuts
• Large handful of parsley, roughly chopped, plus extra to serve
• Juice and zest of a lemon
• Zest of an orange
• Salt and pepper, to taste
• Full-fat plain yoghurt, to serve