good eats roast turkey

🥘 Ingredients

• • turkey
• • kosher salt
• • light brown sugar
• • vegetable stock
• • black peppercorns
• • allspice berry
• • candied ginger
• • ice water
• • red apple
• • onion
• • cinnamon stick
• • water
• • rosemary
• • sage
• • canola oil

📝 Instructions

1. 1 combine all brine ingredients , except ice water , in a stock pot and bring to a boil
2. 2 stir to dissolve solids , then remove from heat , cool to room temperature refrigerate until thoroughly chilled
3. 3 early on the day of cooking , combine the brine and ice water in a clean 5 gallon bucket
4. 4 place thawed turkey breast side down in brine , cover , and refrigerate or set in cool area for 6 hours
5. 5 turn turkey over once , half way through brining
6. 6 a few minutes before roasting , heat oven to 500 degrees
7. 7 combine the apple , onion , cinnamon stick and cup of water in a microwave safe dish and microwave on high for 5 minutes
8. 8 remove bird from brine and rinse inside and out with cold water
9. 9 discard brine
10. 10 place bird on roasting rack inside wide , low pan and pat dry with paper towels
11. 11 add steeped aromatics to cavity along with rosemary and sage
12. 12 tuck back wings and coat whole bird liberally with canola oil
13. 13 roast on lowest level of the oven at 500f for 30 minutes
14. 14 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 350f
15. 15 set thermometer alarm to 161f
16. 16 a 14-16 pound bird should require a total of 2-2 1 / 2 hours of roasting
17. 17 let turkey rest , loosely covered for 15 minutes before carving