Holiday Bacon Wrapped Turkey. Place turkey in a roasting pan. Place strips of bacon on turkey and weave together. Place turkey on a rack in a shallow roasting pan, breast side up.
You can cook Holiday Bacon Wrapped Turkey using 8 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Holiday Bacon Wrapped Turkey
- You need of bacon.
- You need of whole turkey.
- Prepare of salt and pepper.
- Prepare of garlic salt.
- Prepare of butter.
- Prepare of garlic powder.
- It’s of lemon juice.
- You need of warm water.
Place turkey on a roasting rack and place roasting rack in a large baking dish. Pour water into the base of the dish. Bacon-wrapped turkey is the turkey for turkey haters. Wrapping a turkey in bacon is fun, taking some of the stress off of roasting a Norman Rockwell-worthy turkey and wowing your guests at the same time.
Holiday Bacon Wrapped Turkey instructions
Preheat oven to 325*.
let thawed turkey sit at room temperature for a bit before opening.. Remove packaging, remove all the inners from turkey & place in pan.
melt stick of butter, then rub all over turkey and put the rest inside the bird, and put lemon juice inside turkey as well.
rub a generous amount of the salt, pepper, garlic salt & powder over entire turkey ( feel free to add any extra spices or herbs to turkey).
place as much bacon as you desire to the top of turkey (breast facing up).
put warm water in bottom of the pan.
place turkey in oven with tinfoil covering just the top of the turkey.
base turkey every 40 minutes or so, you may need to add some extra water to bottom of pan.
cook for about 4 hours or until turkey is no longer pink.
let sit for 15 minutes before serving.
now enjoy.
This Bacon Wrapped Turkey recipe is a delicious, crowd-pleasing centerpiece for your Thanksgiving meal. Drizzle each serving with Bacon and Onion Gravy that's accented with a pinch of fresh sage. Source: Better Homes and Gardens Place uncooked, Bacon slices all over the skin of the uncooked Turkey. They will stick onto the buttered Turkey. Insert an Oven-Safe Meat Thermometer into the inner thigh area near the breast of the Turkey but not touching the bone.
