Hosting your holiday fun this year? This crowd-pleasing turkey is sure to delight your guests!
By: Dr. Libby Darnell
| Prep Time | 10 Minutes |
| Cook Time | 4 Hours |
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Ingredients
- 1 10-16 pound Organic Prairie turkey
- 8 tbsp grass fed butter or coconut oil
- 2 tbsp fresh parsley chopped
- 1/2 tbsp dried rosemary
- 1/2 tbsp rubbed sage
- 1/2 tbsp dried thyme
- sea salt and pepper to taste
- 6 cups organic free range chicken stock or homemade broth
- 3 large carrots cut into 1-inch pieces
- 3 stalks celery cut into 1-inch pieces
- 2 large onions quartered
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Instructions
- Remove the turkey from the refrigerator 1 hour before roasting.
- Combine the butter or coconut oil, parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme in a food processor and process until smooth. Season with salt and pepper.
- Preheat the oven to 450°F.
- Put 4 cups of the chicken stock in a medium saucepan and keep warm over low heat.
- Season the cavity of the turkey with salt and pepper and fill the cavity with half of the carrots, celery, and onions.
- Rub the entire turkey with the herb butter and season liberally with salt and pepper.
- Scatter the remaining vegetables on the bottom of a large roasting pan. Fit a rack over the vegetables and put the turkey on top of the rack, if you don’t have a rack just place the turkey on top of the vegetables.
- Pour the remaining 2 cups stock into the bottom of the roasting pan and carefully put the pan in the oven.
- Roast until the turkey is light golden brown, about 45 minutes.
- Reduce the oven temperature to 350°F and continue roasting, basting with the warm chicken stock every 15 minutes, until an instant-read thermometer inserted in the thigh registers 160°F, about 2 1/2 hours longer.
- Remove the turkey from the oven, transfer to a large cutting board, and tent loosely with parchment paper.
- Let rest for 30 minutes before carving.
- Strain the stock in the bottom of the roasting pan through a strainer lined with cheesecloth or paper towels into a medium saucepan, and use to make homemade turkey gravy.
Recipe Notes
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