This is what I do. I hate basting and don't like dry turkey, so it works great for me. Lots of flavor too.
I don't cook my stuffing in the turkey.
I get an oven bag for a turkey. Wash the bird inside and out. Pat it dry. Take some salt and rub the inside of the turkey with it.
Cut an orange and a lemon in half put inside the bird. Cut an onion in quarters and a couple pieces of celery in half. Put those inside the bird as well. Take some softened butter and mix with thyme and sage. Rub it on the top of the breast. I prefer to put it under the skin on the breast meat.
Put about 1 tablespoon of flour in your oven bag and shake to coat the bag.
put your bird in the bag cut small slit in the top of bag, and place in a baking dish. Bake at 350 until done. No mess, no fuss and never a dry bird.
I used to cook mine in an oiled brown paper bag before the new oven bags came out. The new bags are much less messy and who knows now what they use to make brown paper bags. Opps my age is showing......... |