Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, thanksgiving turkey. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook thanksgiving turkey using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Thanksgiving Turkey:
- Prepare 1 whole thawed Turkey
- Get 1 cup butter
- Take Canola or vegetable oil
- Make ready Trussing twine
- Make ready Course salt
- Make ready Pepper
- Get Aromatics
- Prepare 1 red apple, quartered
- Take Red onion, halved
- Take 1 cinnamon stick
- Prepare Star anise
- Take leaves Fresh sage
- Prepare sprigs Fresh rosemary
- Make ready 1 cup chicken stock
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Instructions to make Thanksgiving Turkey:
- Preheat oven to 500°F
- Combine aromatics and stock in a microwave safe dish and microwave on full power for 5 minutes. You can also perform this on a stovetop. Just place ingredients into a small sauce pan, with a lid, bring to a boil and remove from stove. Set aside to cool.
- Remove items from turkey cavity (giblets, neck, etc,). Pat dry with paper towels. Gently, starting from the cavity and working toward the neck, push your hands between the skin and meat of the bird. Work slowly to not tear the skin. Melt butter in a microwave safe dish and then pour the butter in between the skin and meat.
- Take the steeped aromatics now that they have cooled and place into the cavity.
- Tie the legs of the bird together with cooking twine. Tie a strand of cooking twine around the breast and wings to keep snug.
- Rub the bird in vegetable or canola oil and season with salt and pepper. Place breast side down, and put into oven on bottom rack. Set a timer for 30 minutes.
- At 30 minutes drop the temp to 350°F. Start basting every 45 minutes, by taking out of the oven and. 45 minutes until bird is ready, flip over. Cut center truss string and remove. Check temp by inserting thermometer into side of breast. Once it's at 165, remove bird to rest for 15 minutes.
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