Upside Down Thanksgiving or Christmas Turkey
From cuzpat 14 years ago
- 220 minutes to make
- Serves 12
My last three thanksgiving been done this way-----and i will say it great----This turkey, with a stuffing of bread cubes, bacon, sausage, apple, raisins & dried cranberries, is roasted upside-down in an oven-cooking bag.
Ingredients
- 5 cups cubed stale bread shopping list
- 2 cups reduced-sodium chicken broth (or broth from boiling the giblets, not liver, with celery tops) shopping list
- 1 cup cooked, crumbled bacon shopping list
- 1 cup cooked maple-sage sausage shopping list
- 1 cup diced red apple (skin on) shopping list
- 1 cup diced celery shopping list
- 1/2 cup raisins shopping list
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries shopping list
- 1 teaspoon dried sage shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper shopping list
- 1 turkey--16 to 20 lbs shopping list
- 1 cooking bag for a large turkey shopping list
- 3 Tablespoons flour shopping list
- salt & pepper shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine all stuffing ingredients in a very large bowl. After removing giblets from cavities, pack as much stuffing as will fit nicely inside the turkey. Put any remaining in a pie pan or casserole dish. Cover with foil. Secure cavities closed with needle and thread or skewers. Carefully place turkey in oven bag, breast side down (additional helping hands are good at this point). Sprinkle Flour, Salt and Pepper in and around Turkey. Close oven bag and place Turkey (breast side down) in large roasting pan. Cut a few slits in top of bag. Bake at 350 degrees for 3-3 1/2 hours or until done. Place extra stuffing in oven when there is 3/4 to 1 hour cooking time remaining. Remove turkey and extra stuffing from oven. Allow to cool slightly, about 15 minutes. Carefully remove turkey from oven bag, saving juices for yummy gravy. Scoop out stuffing; carve & serve.
- now more from the orignal author
- What started out as a mistake, has become a family tradition. One year my husband volunteered to make the turkey for the annual Thanksgiving celebration at our church. Since he got up at 5:00 in the morning to put the turkey in the oven, he accidently put it in upside down. It turned out to be the moistest, juiciest, tastiest turkey that anyone had ever had! Every year since then, we now purposely put our Thanksgiving turkey in the oven upside-down (breast side down) and enjoy this delicious treat! This allows the juices from the dark meat, to constantly baste the white meat, while cooking. Makes sense, when you think about it!
- Cuzpat note:
- I have done this without cooking bag in a G.E. roaster and it still work on being very moist! without the dressing, just added later
- make sure you have a rack to pull it up, or just crave from the pan or roasted
- a Jenno-O roast turkeys is the best!! yell at your local store for Jenno-O turkey that is not a small turkey roast, but a regular turkey for thanksgiving or Christmas
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Wow! upside down delicous thanks luv the ingredients high5
momo_55grandma
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actualy have done turkey this way too! nice post and share!
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sounds like a good way to make the turkey..five forks
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