Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, apple cider turkey. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Apple Cider Turkey is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Apple Cider Turkey is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have apple cider turkey using 23 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Apple Cider Turkey:
- Prepare 1 12-14 lb. turkey
- Take Brine
- Make ready 2 gallons apple cider
- Prepare 2 cups kosher salt
- Take 1 cup brown sugar
- Take 10 cloves garlic
- Take 1 handful sliced fresh ginger
- Prepare 4 oranges quartered
- Prepare 4 whole cloves
- Take 2 tbsp crushed red pepper flakes
- Take 1-2 gallons water
- Prepare Cavity Filler
- Get 1 apple cut into 8 pieces
- Get 1 lemon cut into 8 pieces
- Prepare 4 sprigs fresh tarragon
- Prepare 4 sprigs fresh rosemary
- Make ready 5 sprigs fresh thyme
- Make ready 5 sprigs fresh Italian flat leaf parsley
- Make ready Pan
- Get 4 apples quartered
- Prepare 4 stocks of celery
- Take 1/4 large sweet onion
- Prepare 12 oz hard apple cider
Instructions to make Apple Cider Turkey:
- Put 1/2 gallon of apple cider, salt and sugar into a large pan. Heat and stir until the sugar and salt are dissolved. Now mix all brine ingredients into a food safe bucket. Submerge the turkey completely and let brine for a minimum of 8 hours, 12 to 24 is best.
- Once brined pat dry and let rest while preparing the pan for roasting. The skin has started to take on a little color from the brine.
- Preheat oven to 350°
- If using a disposable foil roasting pan place it onto a baking sheet for additional support. Spread out the ingredients for the pan in an even layer.
- Stuff and truss the turkey. Trussing not just helps the turkey cook evenly but also simply helps keep the cavity ingredients inside. Get the turkey into the pan and pour in the hard apple cider. All the pan ingredients add great flavor and create an amazing base for gravy.
- Roast for an hour and a half breast side down. This helps keep the breast meat moist.
- Now flip over and cook until the breast meat is 165°. Baste with the pan juices every half hour or so. This is my new favorite turkey, I will be making this a few times a year at least!!!
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