Roast Turkey With Oyster Stuffing
- Ready In:
- 4hrs 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
-
14-16
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 1 cup chopped celery
- 1 cup chopped leek (with tops)
- 9 cups soft bread cubes
- 1 pint shucked oyster (rinsed, drained, and chopped(reserve liquid)
- 1 cup snipped fresh parsley
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons fresh marjoram or 1/2 teaspoon dried marjoram
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon pepper
- 10 -12 lbs turkey
- butter, melted
directions
- Heat 1/2 cup butter in Dutch oven over medium heat until melted.
- Cook and stir celery and leeks in butter until tender. Remove from heat.
- Stir in remaining ingredients except turkey and melted butter.
- Stir in enough reserved oyster liquid, if necessary, to moisten stuffing.
- Heat oven to 325. Fill wishbone area of turkey lightly with stuffing.
- Fasten neck skin to back with skewers.
- Fold wings across back with tips touching.
- Fill body cavity lightly. (Do not pack--stuffing will expand while cooking.).
- Tuck drumsticks under band of skin at tail, or tie to skewer to tail.
- Spoon remaining stuffing into small greased casserole. Cover and refrigerate.
- Place in oven with turkey during last 30 minutes of roasting.
- Place turkey, breast side up, on rack in shallow roasting pan.
- Brush with melted butter.
- Insert meat thermometer so tip is in thickest part of inside thigh muscle or thickest part of breast meat and does not touch bone.
- Roast uncovered 3 1/2 to 4 hours or until thermometer registers 185.
- Brush turkey with pan drippings 2 or 3 times during roasting.
- Place a tent of aluminum foil loosely over turkey when it begins to turn golden.
- After 2 1/2 hours, cut band or remove skewer holding legs.
- Let stand about 20 minutes for easiest carving.
- As soon as possible after serving, remove every bit of stuffing from turkey.
- Cool stuffing and turkey meat promptly. Refrigerate separately.
- Use stuffing within 1 or 2 days and turkey meat within 2 or 3 days. Turkey meat can be frozen up to 3 weeks.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
AmyZoe
Nampa, Idaho
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