whats best way to cook turkey?

Question

been told to cook it unside down to keep it moist and whats best to stuff it plz

Answer 1

How to plan the big day



Part-roasting potatoes and parsnips the day before means they take just a short time to finish off on Christmas morning.
So, roast them with the tin on the floor of the roasting oven, turning until tender and a light golden colour. Drain off excess fat, allow them to cool, then cover and store in a cool place.

Also, get ahead and refrigerate giblet stock, braised red cabbage or vegetable purée, stuffings, bacon rolls, chipolatas and cranberry sauce. Brussels sprouts can also be trimmed then stored in a plastic bag in the refrigerator.

The big day itself
(Note: the timings here are for a 14lb (6.3kg) turkey, with lunch to be served at 2pm.

8am
Remove turkey and stuffing from the fridge to allow them to come to room temperature before roasting. Also remove 6oz (175g) of butter to soften. Place the red cabbage or vegetable purée in a shallow-based Aga pan and leave out at room temperature.

9am
Assemble the plates and vegetable dishes in as compact a pile as possible, then place towards the back of the warming or simmering oven. Leave lids and sauce jugs to gently warm through on an cork mat (or folded cloth) towards the back of the top plate, where the handles will not become too hot. Use the warming plate .

9.15am
Place the Christmas pudding in its China, glass or plastic basin, double-wrapped in foil, at the back of the simmering oven to slowly reheat throughout the morning.

9.30am
For the bread sauce, bring the milk to scalding point in a milk pan, then allow to infuse with the aromatic ingredients at the back of the top plate on a piece of kitchen paper.

9.45am
Loosely stuff the neck end of the turkey only. Draw the skin flap down to cover the stuffing and secure with a skewer. Place a halved onion and lemon in the cavity. Smear the breast and legs with the butter, and place strips of streaky bacon over the breast. Season the whole of the bird. Place in a full-size roasting tin, lined with Bake-O-Glide.

10am
Hang the turkey from the lowest set of runners in the roasting oven for an hour until nicely browned, turning the tin once if necessary. You now have an hour off to enjoy morning coffee with the family or friends or perhaps to open presents.

11am
Baste the turkey, then tent very loosely with foil and return to the same position to continue to roast.

11.15am
While the turkey is roasting, prepare the garnishes. Toss chipolata sausages in a little oil and maple syrup. De-rind streaky bacon and stretch each rasher slightly with the back of a knife, cut into two and roll up. Place in roasting tins or Aga baking trays – line with pre-cut pieces of Bake-O-Glide to make washing up easy – and use a grill rack for the bacon.

11.30am
Finish making the bread sauce. Remove the onion and add the remaining ingredients, then transfer the cooked sauce to a serving dish, cover with cling film and keep hot low down in the warming or simmering oven.

11.50am
Check to see if the turkey is nearly cooked, and turn back the foil. Remove the bacon from the breast to allow the skin to become crisp. The juices that run out of the thigh when pierced with a skewer should run clear with no hint of pink. If necessary, return to finish cooking and test again. If using a meat and poultry thermometer, it should read 70-72°C (158-160°F). Transfer the cooked bird to a second, clean Aga roasting tin to rest. Cover it with a double layer of turkey foil and several clean towels and place on the warming plate, or hob on a 4-Oven Aga. On other models, place it in the warm near the Aga on a thick pad of folded newspaper. The large mass of hot turkey needs to rest and insulating it in this way will ensure it remains piping hot for up to two hours.

12.15pm
Once the turkey is resting, place the part-roasted potatoes and parsnips on baking trays to finish cooking direct on the floor of the roasting oven. If you’re using more than one tray, alternate these during cooking so that they all enjoy a good spell on the floor of the oven to become crisp. Once they are evenly done, slide a cold plain shelf above to prevent them over-browning. If necessary, a tray can be kept hot on an Aga toaster on the floor of the oven, which will cut off the bottom heat.

12.30pm
Cook the chipolatas in the centre of the roasting oven and the bacon rolls as high in the oven as possible, alternating these positions after 30 minutes or so. Alternatively, finish browning the chipolatas on the floor of the oven once the roast potatoes and parsnips have become crisp and golden.

12.40pm
Cover carrots or other root vegetables with cold salted water and bring them to the boil on the boiling plate. Partially offset the pan and boil slowly for 3-4 minutes, then drain, cover and transfer them to the simmering oven to steam.

1pm
Place the turkey stock in a pan on the boiling plate and bring almost to the boil. Make a roux for the gravy base in another pan, using some turkey fat skimmed from the roasting tin, adding an equal quantity of flour – a tablespoon of each will thicken each pint of medium to thin gravy. When the roux has cooked for a few minutes, partially offset the pan and whisk in half the hot stock, a ladleful at a time. Simmer for a few minutes until thickened, then remove from the heat.

1.10pm
Carefully skim or pour off the remaining fat from the turkey roasting tin and save for cooking later. Add the remaining cooking juices to the gravy base. Place the tin on the simmering plate and add the remaining stock in three separate batches, using a flat wooden spatula to scrape the bottom to release every scrap of flavour, adding these to the gravy. Adjust the amount of stock to produce gravy of your preferred consistency, adding a small slug of dry sherry before tasting and adjusting the seasoning. Simmer for a minute, then cover and keep hot in the simmering oven.

1.20pm
Bring a kettle to the boil and take off the heat ready for cooking the Brussels sprouts. Place the red cabbage or vegetable purée to heat through on the simmering plate until piping hot, stirring occasionally. Transfer with the steamed carrots to two warmed serving dishes, cover with clingfilm and keep hot in the simmering oven.

1.45pm
Bring the kettle back to the boil, pour into a broad-based pan and, when boiling fast, add salt and drop in the Brussels sprouts and cook uncovered for 6-8 minutes until tender, depending on size. Drain and place in a warmed serving dish and dot with a little butter. Keep hot on a chef’s pad or folded cloth on a closed lid.

1.55pm
Transfer the rested bird to a warmed platter and garnish with the bacon and sausages. Whisk into the gravy any turkey juices that have collected. If you want to speed up serving at the table, consider carving one side of the turkey breast and one of the legs in the kitchen before everyone sits down. Then present the uncarved side in view at the head of the dining table.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Never stuff the turkeys innards. Basically score the breast with a knife and push some butter into the slits. Place on a rack in a dish and add 2 cups of water. On a heat of gas mark 5 cook uncovered in the oven until golden brown. This should take approx 50 mns. Remove from oven and drain the juice from the dish and keep. Smear some more butter on the breast, cover loosely with foil, add more water and cook for 25 mns per lb, about 1 hr per k.g. Half an hour before the bird is cooked, remove from oven and drain juice into a container. Flip the turkey on to its breast and cook uncovered for the remaining time.
For stuffing, use mashed potato with parsley and thyme, a few well chopped scallions if available and mix with some of the juice you have retained. Place in oven and cook at the same time as the turkey(remaining half an hour. When the turkey is cooked, check that the stuffing has a crust on top, if not give it another 10 mns. Out of the remaining juice, make your gravy.

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Answer 5

I cant cook to save my life, lol!!but i remember some tips from scratch as i was writing this,my mom made a turkey with this recipe and it was beautiful,

First off, wash out the turkey with a couple of lemons to give it a clean, use a few sprigs of rosemary, and a dash of white wine vinegar.

After that add olive oil, and add pork sage and onion stuffing, give it a good rub in all around the cavities, add some butter if you want to baste the skin and make it more crispy!! simply brush over, season to your tasting and stick it in the oven at 220 degress, gas mark 7.

To make the perfect gravy, use the juices from turkey work some cornflour into the mixture over a low heat, then using a balloon whisk, stir it to your desired consistency, season with salt and pepper, you can also use the juices to make potatoes soft on inside and crispy on outside.

Enjoy!!!
Merry Xmas

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Answer 7

Cooking it upside down is supposed to help all the juices run to the breast part so stopping it becoming dry, If you cover the breast with rashers of steaky bacon this does the same job.
Personally I wouldn;t stuff the turkey but cook the stuffing separately as you cant guarantee that the stuffing will be cooked without the bird drying out.

You can use any packet of stuffing mix or make your own with sausage meat, herbs, cranberries etc;

Answer 8

What's 'unside down'?
Just bung it in the oven and cook it for a few hours at gas mark 5.

Answer 9

cook it in the oven, layer it with streaky bacon as that will keep it moist because of the fat from the rashers!

i would use sage and onion stuffing but cook it separately as the turkey takes longer to cook with stuffing in it, because the raw juices from the turkey drip in to the stuffing so that has to be cooked thou roughly as well!

Answer 10

Look at Nigella Lawson's tips for cooking a turkey on the BBC website.

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