Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, apple cider turkey. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Apple Cider Turkey is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Apple Cider Turkey is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
An overnight soak in apple cider brine plus a rub of gently seasoned olive oil yields a roasted turkey with browned skin and flavorful, juicy meat. Brush the turkey breast with spiced apple cider glaze. If the skin is over-browning, tent with aluminum foil.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook apple cider turkey using 23 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Apple Cider Turkey:
- Get 1 12-14 lb. turkey
- Prepare Brine
- Prepare 2 gallons apple cider
- Get 2 cups kosher salt
- Prepare 1 cup brown sugar
- Take 10 cloves garlic
- Prepare 1 handful sliced fresh ginger
- Prepare 4 oranges quartered
- Take 4 whole cloves
- Make ready 2 tbsp crushed red pepper flakes
- Make ready 1-2 gallons water
- Make ready Cavity Filler
- Make ready 1 apple cut into 8 pieces
- Make ready 1 lemon cut into 8 pieces
- Make ready 4 sprigs fresh tarragon
- Prepare 4 sprigs fresh rosemary
- Get 5 sprigs fresh thyme
- Get 5 sprigs fresh Italian flat leaf parsley
- Take Pan
- Take 4 apples quartered
- Prepare 4 stocks of celery
- Get 1/4 large sweet onion
- Take 12 oz hard apple cider
Brining is an overnight process, so if you're using a frozen turkey, be sure to thaw it well in advance. Choose turkey-sized plastic oven bags for brining the turkey. This Apple Cider-Brined Turkey is moist and delicious as-is, but it tastes even better when drizzled with a rich apple cider sauce. Try this elegant brined turkey recipe for your next Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner.
Steps 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!!!
Remove neck and giblets from body and neck cavities of turkey. Brining a turkey with this apple cider sage turkey brine in these situations would result in an incredibly salty turkey, which is not ideal. In a saucepan, combine apple cider, salt, and sugar. Into the turkey cavity put fresh rosemary, thyme and sage. Drop the turkey inside the bucket with brine.
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