Apple Cider Turkey. Brining will help flavor your turkey and brining with apple cider is one of our favorite ways. It makes the most flavorful turkey that's reminiscent of fall. Brining will also help keep your turkey. Apple Cider Turkey

You can cook Apple Cider Turkey using 23 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Apple Cider Turkey
  1. It’s of 12-14 lb. turkey.
  2. Prepare of Brine.
  3. It’s of apple cider.
  4. Prepare of kosher salt.
  5. You need of brown sugar.
  6. It’s of garlic.
  7. Prepare of sliced fresh ginger.
  8. Prepare of oranges quartered.
  9. Prepare of whole cloves.
  10. You need of crushed red pepper flakes.
  11. You need of water.
  12. Prepare of Cavity Filler.
  13. It’s of apple cut into 8 pieces.
  14. Prepare of lemon cut into 8 pieces.
  15. You need of fresh tarragon.
  16. Prepare of fresh rosemary.
  17. You need of fresh thyme.
  18. You need of fresh Italian flat leaf parsley.
  19. You need of Pan.
  20. Prepare of apples quartered.
  21. It’s of stocks of celery.
  22. It’s of large sweet onion.
  23. It’s of hard apple cider.

Apple cider glazed turkey breast is so full of flavor and it makes for great leftovers too. We use the leftovers in turkey sandwiches for lunch or turkey hash for breakfast. I really love a great sandwich made with Thanksgiving turkey leftovers. I put all of the leftovers in my sandwich, turkey, cranberry, gravy, and stuffing.

Apple Cider Turkey instructions

  1. Put 1/2 gallon of apple cider, salt and sugar into a large pan. Heat and stir until the sugar and salt are dissolved. Now mix all brine ingredients into a food safe bucket. Submerge the turkey completely and let brine for a minimum of 8 hours, 12 to 24 is best..

  2. Once brined pat dry and let rest while preparing the pan for roasting. The skin has started to take on a little color from the brine..

  3. Preheat oven to 350°.

  4. If using a disposable foil roasting pan place it onto a baking sheet for additional support. Spread out the ingredients for the pan in an even layer..

  5. Stuff and truss the turkey. Trussing not just helps the turkey cook evenly but also simply helps keep the cavity ingredients inside. Get the turkey into the pan and pour in the hard apple cider. All the pan ingredients add great flavor and create an amazing base for gravy..

  6. Roast for an hour and a half breast side down. This helps keep the breast meat moist..

  7. Now flip over and cook until the breast meat is 165°. Baste with the pan juices every half hour or so. This is my new favorite turkey, I will be making this a few times a year at least!!!.

As proof, we give you Ree Drummond's apple cider-brined turkey. Her simple recipe calls for heating a whole lot of water, apple cider, brown sugar, orange peels and few essential herbs and spices. Delicious apple cider brining liquid for turkey. Brined turkeys tend to shorten your roasting time by about half an hour. Season and roast according to any of your favorite recipes.