Guide to Prepare Thanksgiving Turkey

Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, thanksgiving turkey. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Thanksgiving Turkey is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Thanksgiving Turkey is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

How to Make Thanksgiving Turkey

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have thanksgiving turkey using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Thanksgiving Turkey:

1. Make ready 1 (18 lbs) butterball turkey
2. Prepare 2 cups Kosher salt (brine)
3. Prepare 1/2 cup melted butter
4. Get 2 large onions (peeled & quartered)
5. Prepare 4 carrots (peeled and 1 inch diced)
6. Get 4 stalks celery (1 inch chop)
7. Get 2 sprigs fresh thyme
8. Prepare 1 Bay leaf
9. Get 1.5 cups dry white wine
10. Prepare 1 lemon
11. Take 1 head garlic
12. Take 2 teaspoons garlic powder
13. Prepare 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
14. Take 2 teaspoons salt

Instructions

Instructions to make Thanksgiving Turkey:

1. Remove neck and giblets from inside of turkey. Rub the turkey inside and out with Kosher salt.
2. Place turkey in a large stock pot and cover with COLD water. Place covered stock pot in the refrigerator and allow the turkey to soak in the brine mixture minimum 12 hours, preferably overnight
3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Remove turkey from brine and place into a clean sink. THOROUGHLY rinse turkey inside and out. Discard the brine mixture.
4. Brush the turkey inside and out with 1 cup of the melted butter. Add salt, pepper and garlic powder on top and bottom of turkey.
5. Place BREAST side DOWN on the roasting rack in a shallow roasting pan. Make sure it’s on a rack so it’s elevated. Breast side down will allow the dark meat juices to drip down onto the white meat.
6. Stuff the cavity with the quartered onion, 2 of the diced carrots, 2 of the diced stalks of celery, 1 sprig of thyme, 1 quartered lemon, 3-4 cloves of smashed (not diced) garlic and the bay leaf.
7. Scatter the remaining celery, onions, carrots and thyme around the bottom of the roasting pan. Pour the 1.5 cups of dry white wine into the bottom of the pan.
8. Roast turkey UNCOVERED for 3 hours with thigh side facing up. Baste turkey with juices on bottom every 30 minutes.
9. After 3 hours of cooking CAREFULLY turn the turkey on the rack so the BREAST side will now be facing up. Baste turkey with remaining cup of melted butter and continue to cook for another hour or until internal temperature of thighs reach 180 degrees.
10. Once finished cooking allow turkey to rest 20 minutes before carving. KEEP drippings for a delicious gravy!

As simple as that Simple Way to Make Thanksgiving Turkey

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