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Basic Turkey Brine
If you want the tenderest, juiciest turkey possible, then you definitely want to brine it. Brining meat in a salt solution causes the proteins to re...
After I brine my turkey for 24 hours, should I let it sit overnight in the fridge? Or only brine it for 12?
I can either brine my turkey tonight or tomorrow night (I dont have time to do it in the morning). Id prefer to brine it for a full 24 hours, but then I would leave it in the fridge post-brine overnight.
I need to start cooking the turkey on Thursday mid-morning, so ill only get 12 hours or so in the brine if i start it after work tomorrow.
Which is best?
Answer: If you Brine turkey that long make sure your brine strength is OK for that length of time or you'll have a salty bird. Std is 6-12 hrs for longer add 1/2 the salt -sugar. If you dry and store the rinsed , brined, dried turkey in the fridge uncovered overnight the skin will dry out and yield a nice crispy skin.
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Brine, wet or dry, for a juicier turkey
Home cooks have tried just about everything - from aluminum foil to brown paper bags and specially made oven cooking bags - to keep their turkeys moist during the long hours required for roasting. But one surefire method for a moist bird is ...
Thanksgiving Turkey Tactics to Tackle
Remember to never leave a cooker or fryer unattended. Brined turkey is a recent food trend thats favored among foodies because is helps to keep the bird moist during cooking. An added bonus to brining is that it provides subtle flavor notes to the bird.
Should I brine a young turkey when the package states it contains 2% or less of a sodium solution?
I would like to try brining a turkey for the first time The turkey i bought is 18.5# and states that it contains 2% or less of a sodium solution to enhance flavor and add juice. Would it be ok to brine this turkey or will it be too salty?
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How to Best Cook a Turkey: Start With a Brine
How do you cook a turkey, the central piece of the Thanksgiving holiday meal? Theres one simple preparation that regardless of how you cook the turkey that will make it turn out much better. Simply brine your turkey beforehand. Heres how. What ...
How to Brine a Turkey | Easy Turkey Brine Recipe | Savory Sweet ...
Nov 19, 2010 ... How to Brine a Turkey - If you want a moist, flavorful turkey, brining a turkey is a great way to accomplish this. This turkey brine recipe is so easy ...
Can someone tell me how to brine a turkey?
I got responses for a previous question telling me that brining turkeys makes them tender. How do I do it? And doesnt it make the turkey extra salty?
Answer: This is Alton Brown's roat turkey recipe that incorporates a brine. I've used it before and have gotten rave reviews -though i did my aromatics a bit differently, as i didn't have some of those things. Not salty at all, just good.
1 (14 to 16 pound) frozen young turkey
For the brine:
1 cup kosher salt
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 gallon vegetable stock
1 tablespoon black peppercorns
1/2 tablespoon allspice berries
1/2 tablespoon candied ginger
1 gallon iced water
For the aromatics:
1 red apple, sliced
1/2 onion, sliced
1 cinnamon stick
1 cup water
4 sprigs rosemary
6 leaves sage
Canola oil
Combine all brine ingredients, except ice water, in a stockpot, and bring to a boil. Stir to dissolve solids, then remove from heat, cool to room temperature, and refrigerate until thoroughly chilled.
Early on the day of cooking, (or late the night before) combine the brine and ice water in a clean 5-gallon bucket. Place thawed turkey breast side down in brine, cover, and refrigerate or set in cool area (like a basement) for 6 hours. Turn turkey over once, half way through brining.
A few minutes before roasting, heat oven to 500 degrees. Combine the apple, onion, cinnamon stick, and cup of water in a microwave safe dish and microwave on high for 5 minutes.
Remove bird from brine and rinse inside and out with cold water. Discard brine.
Place bird on roasting rack inside wide, low pan and pat dry with paper towels. Add steeped aromatics to cavity along with rosemary and sage. Tuck back wings and coat whole bird liberally with canola (or other neutral) oil.
Roast on lowest level of the oven at 500 degrees F. for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and cover breast with double layer of aluminum foil, insert probe thermometer into thickest part of the breast and return to oven, reducing temperature to 350 degrees F. Set thermometer alarm (if available) to 161 degrees. A 14 to 16 pound bird should require a total of 2 to 2 1/2 hours of roasting. Let turkey rest, loosely covered for 15 minutes before carving
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Everything Thanksgiving: How to Brine a Turkey - Martha Stewart
View Martha Stewart's How to Brine a Turkey collection. Also get more food and cooking how-to's, step-by-step instructions, tutorials, and videos from ...
Brining Turkeys
Essentially a brine is a seasoned aromatic liquid in which the turkey bathes before roasting. This technique is often used in preparing all kinds of poultry to maximize juiciness in the finished product. The salt in the brine breaks down the turkeys ...
How does thou brine a turkey?
I would like to know how to brine my turkey for the day happening on the morrow
Answer: http://bbq.about.com/cs/turkey/a/aa110103a.htm
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How do I brine a turkey correctly?
I want to brine a turkey for tomorrow and i want to know two things about brining:
1. Should the turkey be cleaned from the inside before i brine it or is it ok to clean it afterwards (by cleaning i mean the skin, heart, neck and all that other stuff)
2. Do i have to put the pot (in which i am brining) in a fridge or is it ok to leave it out? Also if i can leave it out, then for how long?
Answer: 1. Clean the inside.
2. Yes, you should keep the turkey cold overnight. Use a cooler with ice and water, if your fridge is full.
However, if you have a turkey that's been injected with broth (for example a Butterball, but there are other brands) then you should NOT brine. Read the label to be sure... (look for words like "enhanced", "solution added", "self-basting" or "pre-basted")
Here's a recipe from Alton Brown (Good Eats):
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/honey-brined-smoked-turkey-recipe2/index.html
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UNDER the hot lights of ABCs Studio 2 last week, a mound of hamburger meat glistened, as pink and moist as the chef Mario Batalis forehead. Dozens of assistants, makeup artists and publicists watched in rapt silence as Carla Hall, a recovering caterer who has competed twice on Bravos Top Chef, rehearsed a segment on turkey wraps. - By JULIA MOSKIN
Should I brine a turkey that already has been injected with a salt solution?
I have been to many different stores, and all of their turkeys have been injected with a salt solution already. Since a preinjected turkey is my only option, should I still brine it?
Answer: No, I would not brine an injected turkey.
I personally wouldn't brine a turkey, period.
I have never brined a turkey and do not intend to.
With all the health news about salt, why would anyone want to mess up a perfectly good flavored meat by adding more salt.
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Should I Brine My Turkey? - NYTimes.com
Kim Severson makes a case for brining; Harold McGee takes a stand against it.
Now Entering Upper Michigans Smoked Fish Zone
IN the time it takes most people to finish a cup of coffee, Tom Ryan Brown has cleaned, gutted and placed a whole whitefish in a barrel of brine, where it will rest for hours before it is stacked in a smoking shed outside. A day later, that whitefish is for sale in the refrigerator case at The Fish House, a tiny restaurant and store in this - By MICHELINE MAYNARD
Huntsville Chef James Boyce Shares Holiday Recipes
Bring to a boil, remove from heat, and stir in 6 quarts water; let cool completely. 2. Put brine and turkey into a brining bag; seal and refrigerate for 8 hours or overnight. 3. Preheat oven to 325°. Remove turkey from brine; pat dry. Lift up skin at neck ...
Turkey Brine Recipe - Allrecipes.com
This is a tasty brine for any poultry. It will make your bird very juicy, and gravy to die for!!
Brine Your Turkey This Thanksgiving | WKTB
After using Alton Brown's and Pioneer Woman's recipes for how to brine a turkey, there is a clear winner. By Lee Elkins Last year, I brined a turkey for.
How to Brine a Thanksgiving Turkey - KitchenDaily
Sep 30, 2010 ... Aimee HerringWondering whether turkey brining is a necessary preparation step when making your Thanksgiving meal? Yes, basting helps ...
Good Eats Roast Turkey Recipe : Alton Brown : Food Network
47 minutes ago ... Combine the brine, water and ice in the 5-gallon bucket. Place the thawed turkey (with innards removed) breast side down in brine. If necessary ...
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What is the best way to brine a turkey?
What is the best way to brine a turkey? I have been looking online at a variety of online cooking sites and there are way too many methods to choose from
Answer: I found some great brine recipes on allrecipes.com.
You'll need to defrost your turkey about one day ahead of people who aren't roasting theirs.
Also, pick up a five gallon bucket from the grocery store bakery - these are clean and used to hold food, so they can hold food again.
Usually, the brine with have some water, salt and sugar in one or more forms. Some people add fruit juices and/or herbs and spices. Just pick one that appeals to you.
If you have an injector, use it. I usually put about 7 or 8 injections in each side of the breast, and 2 or three in each of the legs. Lots of it will leak out, but that's okay. Push the injector in pretty far, and pull it out slowly, injecting as you go.
Then, put the turkey, and the remaining brine in the bucket . It's good if it covers the turkey, but it doesn't have to, but it should reach at least halfway, so you can turn the turkey over midway.
Do the injecting the day before, dump the turkey in the bucket, add the remaining brine, and turn the turkey over before you go to bed at night. Make sure you cover the turkey and try to find a cold place to put it. Maybe even outside at your house.
When you are ready to bake it, put the turkey in the pan upside down for the first hour of baking. This causes the juices in the turkey to fall towards the breast side of the meat. Then, turn the turkey over, and continue baking till done.
Unless you smoke it, in which case you have to brine two days ahead, smoke the day before, and reheat the day of.
Good luck! You really can't go wrong with brining, unless you use too much salt. I'm not sure where we really went wrong, but we tried to brine and smoke a few pheasants this summer, I bought brine mix from a butcher, mixed it as the butcher told me to (till it made an egg float, which was a lot), and they made your lips pucker! We had to throw them all out. Even the dogs wouldn't eat them.
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Should I Brine My Turkey? | Samsung Series
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Butterball Turkey Talk-Line Interview
Read on for more turkey talk-line questions, answered. YS: Everyone wants to know — is it worth it to brine your turkey? MVN: Brining adds some interesting flavors; my only question or concern about brining is, where would I put a large container filled ...
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How long should you brine a turkey, and how much salt should be added?
How long should a turkey brine, and how much salt should be added to the water? Are both answers proportional to the weight of the turkey in pounds, if so is there a formula used?
Answer: I'm on the same search right now! I'm also wondering whether I can also inject marinade into a bird that has been brined, and in which order. Here's what I've come up with:
Most brine recipes recommend letting the bird brine at least 10 hours, preferably overnight, and some say up to three days! If you're only going to brine the bird, I'd recommend sticking it in the brine 24 hours before you plan on cooking it.
If you plan to inject marinade into the bird (usually used when frying the turkey), as well as brine it, start 48 hours before you plan to cook. Brine the bird for 24 hours, then rinse and pat dry. Inject the bird and allow to sit for another 24 hours.
As to proportions, a good rule of thumb is 1 cup of salt for every gallon of water you use. The only rule pertaining to quantity of water is to use enough to cover the whole bird. Other ingredients are at your discretion.
A couple of other quick tips:
-Make sure that you remove the neck and giblets from inside the bird before brining!
-Rinse the bird with cold water, inside and out, before brining.
-This is a personal preference, but I live in a city where the water is heavily chlorinated. I prefer to use filtered water or spring water for brining.
Hope this has been helpful!
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How long and at what temperature should you brine a turkey?
Ok, my turkey is 16lbs. I want to brine it but I dont know how long I should brine it? And I heard somewhere that you have to keep it below 40 degrees or you might get food poisoning; is this true?
Answer: You can brine a turkey more than 24 hours, it won't get too salty because of osmosis and the movement of water from cell to cell won't allow for all of the salt to absorbed into the muscles. You want to brine for at least 8 hours though, to be sure that as much moisture can be imparted as possible. I usually put my turkey in the brine around noon the Wednesday before Thanksgiving for it to be ready by the next morning to go into the oven. You don't need to worry about putting the turkey into the refrigerator if you brine it in a insulate cooler. I put my 2 turkeys in a sports drink dispenser (like the Gatorade coolers at sports games) with plenty of iced down brine, and then put the cooler out on my back porch or in my garage to stay cool. There's usually some small ice cubes left the next morning. You do want the turkey to stay cold though. Meat prolonged to higher temperatures for long periods of time do become susceptible to bacteria that can cause food born illness.
Before you put the turkey into the oven though, make sure your turkey is well drained and patted dry to ensure browning of the skin. Hope this helps!
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How far in advance to make turkey brine?
I plan to start brining my turkey late Wednesday night. The brine is made of chicken broth, kosher salt and brown sugar. It has to be boiled together and then cooled and refrigerated prior to use. How long would it be safe/ideal to keep it in the fridge prior to use? I have some spare time today when I could make it, but I dont know if its too early.
Answer: i make brine for different proteins at work all the time. you can make the actual brine up to a week in advance and store in the refrigerator and just submerge your turkey whenever you're ready to brine it. hope that helps.
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Whole Turkey - Basic Brine - The Virtual Weber Bullet
A basic brining technique for whole turkey smoked on the Weber Smokey Mountain Cooker.
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Turkey Tasting
It was a great evening. Since most of us only cook turkey once a year, here are some of the tips we gathered in our test run: We all agreed that most kosher turkeys are not as salty as they used to be, so you can brine them. In brining this turkey ...
Do I need to/should I brine my turkey parts?
Ive heard some new things on the food channel about brining your turkey....I bought some legs and wings to supplement a ham that Im having. Should I brine the parts? Also any recipes that yall have for cooking these parts would be nice too! Happy Thanksgiving!
Answer: Here are some great links to brines, mops and sauces
http://bbq.about.com/od/saucesmarinades/
and there are 10 brines here, even a Hawaiian one for turkey
http://bbq.about.com/od/brinerecipes/
rub recipes
http://bbq.about.com/od/spicesseasonings/
and recipes for:
Turkey Legs with Vegetables
http://southernfood.about.com/od/wholeturkeyrecipes/r/blbb512.htm
Crockpot Turkey Wings
http://southernfood.about.com/od/crockpotturkeyrecipes/r/bl2c12.htm
Cranberry and Tequila Turkey Legs
http://bbq.about.com/od/turkeyrecipes/r/bl50918d.htm
Glazed Turkey Thighs
http://bbq.about.com/od/turkeyrecipes/r/bln50106a.htm
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Brine Your Turkey This Thanksgiving | Find The Best DUI ...
If you've never brined a turkey, you might want to think about it. From our It's Isabel column, here's one of her favorite recipes.
Brining Turkey - Step by Step
Brining a turkey is a simple process, but you need to start a day before you plan to cook. A whole turkey can take up to 24 hours to properly brine depending on the ...
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has anyone ever used World Market brand turkey brine or turkey seasoning?
I was in World Market/Cost Plus today and noticed they have bags of both Turkey Brine and Turkey Seasoning. I bought both as they include most of the same herbs that I would have used that are not pre-mixed. Has anyone had any good experiences with either of these seasoning?
Answer: I used the brine mixture last year and it was great! We cooked a 14 lb turkey and didn't use all of it. This year we are cooking a 20lb bird and bought more. I thought it make the turkey taste delicious. All the guests agreed!
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Turkey brine: 2 recipes to try | ksl.com
Lydia S. Martinez of Whole Foods Market in Sugar House shares two recipes for brining turkey.
Turkey Brine Recipe - Allrecipes.com
This is a tasty brine for any poultry. It will make your bird very juicy, and gravy to die for!! This is enough brine for a 10 to 18 pound turkey.
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Food Network chef gives how-to on turkey brining
Food Network Chef Sunny Anderson jokes that she brines her turkeys "because my Daddy told me so." But Anderson confesses that the real reason is that the flavor and juiciness of a brined turkey cant be beat. "Let me tell you - brining - I haven ...
Should I omit the salt to brine my turkey?
If I am going to brine my turkey and make vegetable broth out of bouillon cubes, should I omit the salt to keep it from being too salty or just reduce the amount?
Go away Bad Chicken. Not only do I eat dead animals, but my dad and brothers hunt. You want to be a vegetarian, fine with me, but leave me out of it.
Answer: You'll probably still need some salt...or you could add sugar. The best way to figure out how much is enough is to TASTE the brine. When it tastes like sea water, put the turkey in. This doesn't mean that the turkey will be too salty. Not all the salt makes it in, I promise.
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Bacon blanketed, herb-roasted turkey
I dry brine my turkey for a juicy bird. I used to wet brine, which involved removing drawers from my fridge and stuffing turkey into a large stockpot full of salted water. That is a lot of trouble. Here’s my easy solution that makes for a ...
My Favorite Turkey Brine | The Pioneer Woman Cooks | Ree ...
Oct 26, 2010 ... I brine a turkey every year because it's the right thing to do. Brining involves soaking a turkey in a very salty solution for a certain length of time, ...
Norman Rockwell, Party of 12
IF you want to talk turkey about cooking Thanksgiving dinner, get a professional chef in New York City on the phone. In matters of experience and scale, they have much advice to offer the rest of us, whether were preparing an off-a-truck Butterball for the 20th time or a $150 heritage bird for the first. They certainly cook enough turkeys. At Bar - By SAM SIFTON
How much salt should I add to a Turkey brine?
Im going to brine my first turkey this Thanksgiving, and the recipe says to steer clear of low sodium vegetable broth. I have been to five local stores trying to find regular vegetable broth, but alas, every single store seemed to sell only the low sodium type.
Is it all right if I add a little more than the 1 cup kosher salt the recipe calls for to compensate for the low sodium broth? If so, how much salt should I add?
Answer: I had the same problem not too long ago, and here’s what I figured:
The average amount of sodium in one cup (or one serving size) of regular vegetable broth is usually in the mid to high 900 mg level. I’ve seen broths go up to 980 mg of sodium per serving so we’ll work with that.
Using these facts, we should start off with the sodium content of the regular broth your recipe calls for. Most recipes call for about a gallon of broth, so we’ll use that (if your recipe calls for more or less broth, you should calculate accordingly). Since there are 16 cups to a gallon, and 980 mg of sodium to a cup, 16 x 980, the sodium contents of 1 gallon of regular broth is about 15680 mg. Remember, I’m ASSUMING your recipe calls for a gallon of broth.
Now we should figure how much sodium there will be in your low sodium broth. Low sodium broths are all over the map, usually in the low hundreds of mg of sodium. Of the store’s you said you visited, you should pick the low sodium broth with the highest sodium content. I’ll assume your low sodium broth contains about 330 mg of sodium per serving. Again, assuming your using a gallon of broth, 16 x 330, the low sodium broth would contain 5280 mg of sodium. I’m assuming a lot about your broth, so remember to calculate accordingly.
Taking the results of the two calculations above, we will find approximately how much sodium your broth will be lacking. In this case, it will be 15680 mg - 5280 mg, which is 10400 mg. Since there is about 2300 mg of sodium in 1 teaspoon of common table salt, 10400 ÷ 2300, the end result is adding about 4.5 teaspoons of salt to the gallon of broth all together.
Now I assumed a lot about what ingredients you are using and how much of it you’ll need, but if you calculate accordingly, you should be able to find how much extra salt you should add to your brine recipe.
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Cookin’ With Farmer Bob: Turkey Wine Brine and Silver Palate Stuffing
This is a continuation of my last Cookin’ With Farmer Bob installment where I featured Bob’s Apple Filled Acorn Squash Rings with Curry Butter. Last week, as part of Kitsch ‘N Bitch’s Turkey Talk at Whidbey Island Center for the Arts ...
The Yellow Table: Turkey Talk: To Brine or Not to Brine
Though you can make their own brine mixture, Jan swears by World Market's $5.99 turkey brine mixture. The stuff is amazing–you just add it to boiling water (and in her case, apple cider, maple syrup, and spiced rum) and stir ...
Should I Brine My Turkey? - NYTimes.com
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Turkey Brining 101 - Best Brine Recipes - Laura's Best Recipes
Nov 8, 2010 ... Turkey Brining 101: the best way to brine a turkey this Thanksgiving, this informative post also includes the web's best brine recipes.
What is a good way to brine a turkey, if you dont want to spend a lot of money or effort?
Ive looked over answers to questions on how to brine a turkey, and they all include tons of fancy, expensive ingredients, and I just want to brine a 10-12 pound turkey for Christmass, just to try brining one for the first time, and I dont want to put too much effort or money into it, and not use too many ingredients.
Whats a good way to go, if you want to do it simple?
Answer: We brined a turkey a few years ago and it was really very good. We saw it done on America's Test Kitchens and they recommended doing it in an ice chest. All we used was Kosher salt, water, turkey and ice -- closed the ice chest and continued to add ice every few hours to keep it cool. We put extra ice and every blue ice brick we could find in the freezer to keep it cool overnight.
Cheap and easy. A little tiresome keeping it cool, but oh well.
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Recipes Detail: How to Brine a Turkey
If you've never brined a turkey, you might want to think about it. From our It's Isabel column, here's one of her favorite recipes.
Brine Your Turkey This Thanksgiving - Perkiomen Valley, PA Patch
A few years ago we discovered the key to a delicious turkey -- a soak in a brine solution. The result is a juicy, flavorful bird.
Fruity Tutti Turkey Brine Recipe - Allrecipes.com
This whole roasted turkey gets a full three-day soak in fruity brine with lots of dried fruit and spices. Your house will smell like the holidays for sure. Best ...
Marjorie Williams strategy and recipe for brining a turkey
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Apple Cider Brined Turkey with Cider Gravy
Serves: 14 / Preparation time: 25 minutes (plus brining and drying time) / Total time: 4 to 5 hours (not all active time) If you plan on using a frozen turkey, be sure to check the label for the percentage of injected solution. Look for birds ...
Brining Turkey - Turkey Brine Recipes and Information
Fried, roasted, grilled or smoked, a brined turkey has a better flavor, is more tender, and more moist. Brining is easier than you think.
If You Want to Gobble Your Turkey
It may be one of the longer recipes Ive ever created, Double Crispy Roast Turkey in Apple Cider Brine with Do-Ahead Apple Cider-Tarragon Gravy, but the ultimate benefit may be that it requires less than 3 hours in the oven! My new technique of one-day ...
Good Eats Roast Turkey Recipe : Alton Brown : Food Network
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How to Brine a Turkey | eHow.com
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Two Turkey Days Ago, I Cooked a Delicious BRINE TURKEY w/ Red Wine and Dark Beer; Now I Cant Find the Recipe!
Any ideas? I think the Newcastle Beer® part was my own added touch; but the recipe called for brining the turkey overnight before cooking, and adding red wine to it every 1/2 hour or so in the oven. There was rosemary and whole peppercorns, maybe some sage, and a lot of other spices that made it absolutely fabulous. Does anyone have any recipe thats similar--or any idea as to where I can find this recipe again? (I found it on the Internet two years ago, and wrote it down, but alas!--during my move from Boston back to LA, the recipe got lost or thrown out.)
Answer: ROAST TURKEY WITH RED CURRANT JELLY AND CITRUS GLAZE
Begin preparing the turkey a day ahead, as it needs to soak overnight in brine, which makes the roasted bird exceptionally juicy.
Watch how to prepare and carve your bird with our streaming video demonstration.
For turkey
7 quarts water
1 cup salt
1 16- to 18-pound turkey, neck, heart and gizzard reserved for Giblet Stock
9 tablespoons butter 1/2 cup red currant jelly
4 teaspoons chopped fresh marjoram
1 tablespoon grated orange peel
1 tablespoon grated lemon peel
1 cup sliced shallots
1 cup (or more) canned low-salt chicken broth
For gravy
Giblet Stock
1/2 cup (about) canned low-salt chicken broth
1/4 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup ruby Port
2 tablespoons fresh orange juice
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon grated orange peel
Make turkey:
Combine water and salt in large stockpot; stir to dissolve salt. Rinse turkey inside and out. Add turkey to brine. Cover pot; refrigerate overnight.
Stir butter and jelly in small sauce-pan over medium heat until melted. Mix in marjoram, orange peel and lemon peel. Freeze mixture until semi-firm, whisking occasionally, about 1 hour.
Position rack in bottom third of oven and preheat to 375°F. Drain turkey; pat dry inside and out. Sprinkle shallots in roasting pan. Place turkey atop shallots. Starting at neck end, slide hand between skin and breast meat to loosen skin. Spread 1/2 cup chilled jelly mixture over breast meat under skin and over outside of turkey (reserve remaining jelly mixture for gravy and glaze). If stuffing turkey, spoon stuffing loosely into neck and main cavities. Tuck wing tips under tur-key; tie legs together to hold shape.
Roast turkey 45 minutes, adding some broth to pan if drippings threaten to burn. Reduce oven temperature to 350?F. Cover turkey loosely with foil. Roast until thermometer inserted into thigh registers 180?°F, adding more broth to pan if necessary to keep drippings from burning and basting turkey occasionally with drippings, about 3 hours longer if unstuffed or 3 1/2 hours longer if stuffed. If necessary, uncover turkey during last 20 minutes to brown skin. Transfer turkey to platter. Tent with foil; let stand 30 minutes. Re-serve mixture in pan for gravy.
Make gravy:
Strain pan juices into large measuring cup; spoon off fat. Add Giblet Stock; if necessary, add enough broth to measure 4 cups. Transfer mixture to large saucepan; bring to boil. Stir 4 tablespoons reserved jelly mixture and flour in bowl to form paste. Whisk paste into stock mixture. Add Port and citrus juices; boil until reduced enough to coat spoon thickly, about 12 minutes. Mix in orange peel. Season with salt and pepper.
Brush warm turkey with enough remaining jelly mixture to glaze.
Serves 8 to 10.
Bon Appétit
Category: Cooking & Recipes
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