Moist Roast Turkey
"I use bacon to cover my turkey while cooking to form a seal on the bird and keep it moist inside. The bacon drippings soak into the stuffing as it cooks giving it a fabulous flavor! BUT...the true trick is to cook the bird breast side down...yes you heard right...BREAST SIDE DOWN! Who made up the silly rule that the breast should be up anyways? I "accidently" cooked it this way 3 years ago and it was the juiciest turkey we had ever had, because the breast cooked in the juices all day it didn't dry out at all! Try it...I guarantee you'll love it!"
- Ready In:
- 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 2
- Yields:
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1 turkey
ingredients
directions
- Clean and season the turkey with your favorite seasonings inside and out.
- Place turkey breast side down in the roasting pan.
- Stuff turkey with your favorite stuffing.
- Completely cover the turkey with bacon overlaping the edges so that as it cooks and shrinks it will still cover the turkey.
- Cook the turkey following the temp and time guides on your turkey packaging.
- I baste occasionally, not for the turkey so much as the stuffing.
- Tent the turkey with foil at the end of the cooking time if it should start to burn.
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Reviews
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I didn't use the bacon, I used olive oil but the breast-down roasting method worked very well. I combined it with #46282, scalding the turkey. I don't serve the skin or the whole bird so I didn't worry about trying to flip a 23lb. bird. -
I give 4 stars because it was moist from backing it upside down. I would give it three stars for flavor, as the turkey took on a bacon, smoke flavor which is didn't care for particularly. Next time I will just back it upside down without the bacon. Also I didn't want to make gravy with the drippings as there was so much bacon grease. I also tipped it the turkey over and browned the breast the last hour of baking. -
I've never used the bacon but can confirm that cooking the turkey breast-side-down results in a wonderfully moist turkey. All the juices run to the breast rather than the back. I usually flip my turkey over (DH helps) the last hour of baking so that the skin crisp up.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Carrie September
Bristol, CT
I live in Bristol, CT. I am a stay at home MOM with 4 children. Hubby works hard and the kids play hard and the best time of day for us is dinner. I love to cook so this is my chance to do something I enjoy everyday and because I am doing it for the ones I love it makes it even better. My family is very patient and will try anything...I love them for that because I love to come up with new recipe creations and as you all know they don't always come out so good...lololol!
