and rosemary.
Rinse the turkey inside and out under cold
Line a big picnic cooler with a food grade plastic bag.
Boil water and salt together until all salt is dissolved and cool in fridge several hours.
Wash turkey inside and out and place into cooler. Add your optional add-ins to the cooled brine and cover turkey with ice and pour brine over all. Let turkey brine overnight making sure the cooler stays closed and adding ice if needed.
Rinse bird and continue with your recipe . Your turkey will be moist, flavorful and tender!
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Thaw your turkey completely, if frozen.
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fresh turke in the chilled brine solution, and then refrigerate for
o hold the brine and the turkey. Pour the brine over the ice
stirring occasionally.
Remove the brine from heat, add the ice
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Place turkey into brine, filling cavity with brine. Add enough
alt and sugar.
Remove brine from heat and let cool
Rinse the turkey, inside and out, and set
Reynolds or the generic turkey roasting bags. Do not use
b>turkey inside and out with cold water, then place in the brine
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Place turkey in bag, add 1 cup
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place turkey in bags, pour brine and remaining
One day before roasting turkey, bring 1 quart water, the
oom temperature.
Wash the turkey inside and out with cold
ou will need 2 gallon turkey size oven roasting bags.
Add bay leaves, garlic, onion, salt, sugar and water to a large stock pot.
Cut lemons in half and squeeze the juice into the rest of the brine ingredients; add the squeezed lemons.
Bring to a boil and boil 10 minutes.
Remove from heat and cool too room temp; stir in wine.
Add turkey; brine for 12 to 24 hours.
Remove the turkey and rinse very well in cold water.
Butter or oil the skin and roast as usual.
urkeys are roasting.
Wrap turkey wings in foil. Put turkeys
In a large stock pot over medium heat, pour in the vegetable broth, apple cider, apple juice, and water; stir in kosher salt, poultry seasoning, onion powder, black pepper, rosemary, sage, and thyme. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring until all salt has dissolved, and boil for 30 minutes to extract flavors from herbs. Remove from heat, and allow to cool to room temperature before using as a turkey brine; allow brined turkey to marinate overnight.
Cover a large pot or bucket with a plastic bag and add water, kosher salt, cracked black pepper and bay leaves sage and thyme.
Stir mixture completely to dissolve salt.
Place fresh turkey in pot and completely submerge it. Wrap plastic bag around the top of turkey.
Place in the fridge or a cool area such as your cellar or garage.
The brining process takes approximately 10-12 hours and is best done the night before the turkey is roasted.