Best Thanksgiving Roast Turkey Recipe In A Brown Paper Bag Easy, No Basting! Melanie Cooks
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Before I made this turkey, I always considered that I don't like turkey breast meat as it's too dry… but I loved the breast meat with this turkey 🙂 The turkey breast meat have also been moist and melting within my mouth!
This will be the Thanksgiving turkey that a guests will rave about and request the recipe. And the very best thing coming from all is that this Thanksgiving turkey recipe is super-easy - you placed the turkey inside oven and end up forgetting about it until it's done. No messy basting is necessary!This Thanksgiving turkey recipe uses the brown paper shopping bag. Yes, the brown paper bag in the grocery store - the type that you get before you choose paper over plastic 🙂 Don't confuse it with all the oven bag - I have tried making the turkey inside the oven bag before, and yes it was not nearly as good as being the one made within the brown paper bag! If you are concerned with the paper bag growing fire - relax knowing it does not get burned from the oven 🙂
This turkey is produced without the stuffing inside. I make stuffing separately on the bird. I don't stuff the turkey because stuffing affects the cooking time - the stuffing helps to make the turkey cook longer resulting from the overcooked meat.
I are finding my perfect recipe with the Thanksgiving turkey - this is it! I will never result in the roast turkey any way, mainly because this is the very best Thanksgiving turkey recipe ever.
Thanksgiving Turkey In A Brown Paper Shopping Bag
Preparation time: 10 minute(s)
Number of servings: 12
1 turkey (10-20 lbs), exposed to room temperature
Salt and pepper
1 celery stick, chopped
Brown paper shopping bag (you will need 2 bags)
Directions How To Make The Thanksgiving Turkey In A Brown Bag:
The initial thing you need to do should be to make sure the turkey fully matches a bag. This step is better done even though the turkey remains to be packaged, so that you don't have to deal with all the mess of moving the raw turkey in and out in the bag 🙂 The turkey would need to go within the bag as well as the bag should be closed and stapled shut. So placed the packaged turkey in and discover if there is enough paper left to shut and seal the bag. If the bag will not be long enough, you should make it longer by attach the other bag with it.
My turkey was 13 lbs, and I needed the other bag. First, take off the handles from both bags. To attach the next bag, cut the superior half off your second bag, then attach that piece (the part devoid of the bottom) on the first bag having a stapler or perhaps saw it on which has a needle and also a thread. Basically, you need to result in the brown paper bag good enough so the end could be closed when the turkey was in.
For the turkey, I recommend buying it fresh (not frozen) the previous day making it and storing it within the refrigerator. Fresh turkey is more expensive then frozen, but you need not deal with defrosting it also it also tastes better. If you are buying frozen, ensure that the turkey is fully defrosted.
To bring the turkey to room temperature, take it out with the refrigerator two hours before cooking it. It's important to bring the turkey to room temperature therefore, the cooking time just isn't affected (cold turkey will cook longer).
Preheat the oven to 375F.
Sprinkle the turkey liberally with salt and pepper on the outside of and inside, and rub the salt and pepper upon it. Don't forget to take away the giblets, sometimes they may be packed inside turkey inside plastic bags 🙂 Put the onion, celery, carrot and lemon in the turkey, and placed the giblets and neck there too. Rub 4 tbsp of butter all around the turkey.
Butter the inside with the brown paper bag using the remaining 2 tbsp of butter. Put the turkey inside brown paper bag. Put the brown paper bag while using turkey in the roasting pan. Pour the chicken broth inside turkey cavity. Fold the paper bag closed, and staple it that has a stapler so that it stays closed.
Put the turkey from the oven. Estimate the cooking time - it's 2.5 hours for that first 10 lbs, plus 12 minutes for every single additional pound (one example is, the cooking time for 12 lb turkey is 2.5 hours + 12 minutes + 12 minutes = 120 minutes 54 minutes). Set the timer for that cooking time and begin to forget about the turkey prior to the timer beeps!
When the timer beeps, sign up for the turkey leave it in the bag for quarter-hour. Then cut the bag open and take away the super delicious, perfectly brown and moist turkey! Enjoy your Thanksgiving feast!
Here's the picture with the turkey in the shopping bag, before going inside the oven:
Enjoy this turkey recipe, and also have a great Thanksgiving!
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Very neat!
55ish years back this would be the way my mother did her T Day turkey
she would also switch it upside down 1/2 way thru cooking time therefore, the juices run back into the breast
i had totally overlooked this method -i are going to be using it next week
if it worked that many in the past im sure its ‘tried and true'
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you! 🙂 I have been using this process of cooking Turkey since Thanksgiving 1972 (learned from my Mom who used this technique since 1960). Although our kids is small, I have been requested to get ready the turkey…. it truly is the very best turkey EVER! 🙂
To stay away from the bag from catching fire, as soon as the turkey is inside the bag, I lightly rub the bag with vegetable or corn oil (essential olive oil tends to smoke, so I don't utilize it). Once the juices start self-basting the bird, the bag remains moist during the entire roasting period.
Does everyone rinse their turkey out before prepping ,
Does it taste of the same quality if you don't position the giblets, etc way back in to cook ,
Trying this by two days for Christmas !
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