Recipe of Homemade Thanksgiving Turkey

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Thanksgiving Turkey is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Thanksgiving Turkey is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have thanksgiving turkey using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Thanksgiving Turkey:

1. Prepare 1 whole thawed Turkey
2. Make ready 1 cup butter
3. Take Canola or vegetable oil
4. Get Trussing twine
5. Prepare Course salt
6. Get Pepper
7. Prepare Aromatics
8. Prepare 1 red apple, quartered
9. Prepare Red onion, halved
10. Make ready 1 cinnamon stick
11. Prepare Star anise
12. Prepare leaves Fresh sage
13. Get sprigs Fresh rosemary
14. Get 1 cup chicken stock

Instructions to make Thanksgiving Turkey:

1. Preheat oven to 500°F
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Take the steeped aromatics now that they have cooled and place into the cavity.
5. Tie the legs of the bird together with cooking twine. Tie a strand of cooking twine around the breast and wings to keep snug.
6. 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.
7. 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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