Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, apple cider turkey. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Apple Cider Turkey is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Apple Cider Turkey is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook apple cider turkey using 23 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Apple Cider Turkey:

1. Take 1 12-14 lb. turkey
2. Get Brine
3. Get 2 gallons apple cider
4. Make ready 2 cups kosher salt
5. Prepare 1 cup brown sugar
6. Make ready 10 cloves garlic
7. Prepare 1 handful sliced fresh ginger
8. Prepare 4 oranges quartered
9. Take 4 whole cloves
10. Prepare 2 tbsp crushed red pepper flakes
11. Get 1-2 gallons water
12. Make ready Cavity Filler
13. Make ready 1 apple cut into 8 pieces
14. Take 1 lemon cut into 8 pieces
15. Get 4 sprigs fresh tarragon
16. Take 4 sprigs fresh rosemary
17. Get 5 sprigs fresh thyme
18. Take 5 sprigs fresh Italian flat leaf parsley
19. Make ready Pan
20. Prepare 4 apples quartered
21. Get 4 stocks of celery
22. Take 1/4 large sweet onion
23. Prepare 12 oz hard apple cider

Steps to make Apple Cider Turkey:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Preheat oven to 350°
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Roast for an hour and a half breast side down. This helps keep the breast meat moist.
7. 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!!!

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