raw turkey, whats the best way to cook it?

Answer 1

G'day Johnny D,

Thanks for your question.

Roast turkey always works for me.

This is a recipe for apricot-glazed turkey with roasted onion and shallot gravy.

Ingredients:

Glaze
1 cup apricot nectar
1 cup apricot preserves
2 tbsp. minced peeled fresh ginger
1 tbsp. honey

Herb Butter
3/4 cup unsalted butter; room temperature (1-1/2 sticks)
3 tbsp. chopped fresh thyme or 1 tablespoon; dried
3 tbsp. chopped fresh sage or 1 tablespoon; dried rubbed sage
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. ground black pepper

Onion and Shallot mixture
2 tbsp. unsalted butter; (1/4 stick)
3 lg. onions; (about 2 pounds), thinly sliced
6 oz shallots; (about 6 large), thinly sliced
1 turkey (21- to 22-pound)
1 can low-salt chicken broth; (14 -1/2-ounce) or more
1 tsp. chopped fresh thyme or 1/2 teaspoon; dried
1/2 tsp. chopped fresh sage or 1/4 teaspoon; dried
1 can low-salt chicken broth; (14 -1/2-ounce)

Instructions:

For the Glaze:
Combine all ingredients in a heavy small saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until thickened and reduced to 1-1/4 cups, about 15-20 minutes.

For Herb Butter:
Blend all ingredients in small bowl. Set aside.

For Onion Mixture:
Melt butter in heavy large skillet over medium heat. Add onions and shallots and saute until very soft and light brown, about 20 minutes.

NOTE: Glaze, herb butter and onion mixture can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover separately and chill. Bring herb butter to room
temperature before continuing.

For Turkey:
Position rack in lowest third of oven and preheat the oven to 400 F. Pat the turkey dry with paper towels. Season turkey cavity with salt and pepper.

Place turkey on rack set in large roasting pan. Slide hand under the skin of the turkey breast to loosen. Spread half of herb butter over breasts under the skin.

If stuffing turkey, spoon your stuffing into the main cavity. Place
remaining herb butter in small saucepan. Stir over low heat until
melted. Brush butter over outside of turkey. Tie legs together loosely
to hold shape of turkey.

Roast turkey 30 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 325 F. Roast turkey 1 hour 30 minutes, basting occasionally with pan drippings.

Tent turkey with heavy-duty foil; roast 45 minutes longer. Add onion mixture, 1 can broth, thyme and sage to the roasting pan. Roast 15 minutes.

Bring the glaze to a simmer. Remove foil. Brush a 1/2 cup of the glaze over the turkey. Continue to roast turkey uncovered, until a meat thermometer inserted into thickest part of thigh registers 170 F., or until juices run clear when thickest part of thigh is pierced with skewer.

Brush occasionally with glaze and add more broth to pan if liquid
evaporates.

About 40 minutes longer for an un-stuffed turkey or about 1 hour 10 minutes longer for stuffed turkey. Place turkey on platter, tent with foil. Let stand 30 minutes to rest. Reserve mixture in pan for gravy.

For Gravy: Pour contents of roasting pan into strainer set over large bowl. Spoon fat from pan juices in bowl. Transfer onion mixture in strainer to blender.

Add 1 cup pan juices to blender and purée until smooth, adding more pan juices and chicken broth if necessary to thin sauce to desired consistency.

Transfer the sauce to heavy large saucepan and bring to boil. Cook until color deepens, skimming off any foam, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.

Serve turkey with gravy.

Serves 16.

I enclose sources for your reference.

Regards

Answer 2

The best way to cook a Turkey is in the oven, because it is dry meat and by keeping it whole the meat stays moist.

The only other way is to cut it into slices and cook it in the oven in oil or a sauce.

Answer 3

it really is safer to bake the turkey unstuffed. yet, you could lose the turkey style contained in the stuffing once you bake the stuffing in a pan. one thanks to remedy this example is to diminish the wing assistance and the turkey tail off, use the turkey neck and pull the further fat from the turkey hollow area section. position this stuff on correct of the stuffing and it is going to style the stuffing. I also insert onion, garlic, celery, parsley, sage and a small carrot or 2 into the hollow area. (also, a lemon decrease in 1/2 and/or an apple is sweet!) really than tie the chicken closed, I decrease holes contained in the further epidermis through the hollow area and inset the turkey legs into the decrease opposite the leg. i wish this helps.

Answer 4

BUD’S ROASTED TURKEY WITH LEMON
This is my husband's recipe, & it makes a moist turkey, even the breast, & with a fresh twist on the flavor.

turkey (size, your choice)
1 fresh lemon, cut in half
salt & pepper, to taste
1 stick of butter
turkey bake-in bag

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Wash turkey under cold running water, inside & out, drain & pat dry. Season turkey with salt & pepper & rub outside with a 1/2 a lemon, squeezing the lemon while rubbing it on the turkey. Rub outside of turkey with about 3/4 stick of butter. Place the rest of the stick of butter & the rest of the lemon, as well as the squeezed half inside the turkey. Follow directions on box for preparation of the bake-in turkey bag. Place turkey in bag & place in baking pan or roaster with breast side down. Bake for 1 1/2 hours. Turn turkey onto its back & bake at 350 degrees F. until it is done---check bake-in bag box for timetable for size of turkey you are baking. When the turkey is done be sure to throw the lemon away.

Answer 5

I like to deep fry turkey in peanut oil.

Three minutes per pound at 350 degrees.
Takes about 1/2 an hour for a 10-12lb. bird.
Delicious!

Answer 6

If its turkey breast cutlets, I
1. dip in flour and maybe some whatever spice in the mood for.
2. heat a little olive oil in the frying pan till its hot
3. fry them on each side on high for about 30 seconds
4. continue frying on low until they arent red/pink inside.

If they're large (like an inch thick from the healthy food store), i'll cover the frying pan

Answer 7

What is your obsession? 3 questions about raw turkey? Are you advertising a perfume or something?

Answer 8

Baked? Mainly wanted tell u of this strange way of cooking turkey in tenneesee...couldnt believe it when they told me they deep fried their turkeys!!!! Ewwwwwwwwww .lol

Answer 9

Dude, what is your obsession over raw turkey? Bake it!

Answer 10

if your talking about a whole turkey, stick an onion and 2 sticks of butter in there.
Then slather the turkey in butter and lemon pepper.

Answer 11

Eat it raw then sit in the microwave for twenty minutes