Apple Cider-Glazed Roasted Turkey with Herbed Butter
Apple Cider-Glazed Roasted Turkey with Herbed Butter is a delicious and easy turkey to make for the holiday season!
Ingredients
- 1 10lb Heirloom Diestel Turkey – neck and giblets removed
- 1½ sticks unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2 tbsp rosemary, chopped
- 2 tbsp thyme, chopped
- 2 tbsp sage, chopped
- 1 yellow onion, quartered
- 2 unpeeled heads of garlic, halved crosswise
- 2 honeycrisp apples, halved
- 3 sprigs rosemary
- 3 sprigs thyme
- 3 sprigs sage
- 4 cups hard apple cider (more if needed)
- 1 cup chicken stock
- kosher salt to taste
- coarse ground pepper to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Wash room temperature turkey inside and out. Pat the turkey dry and place in a large roasting pan. In a bowl combine butter, salt, pepper, chopped – rosemary, thyme, and sage. Using your fingers, rub the herbed butter all over the turkey and under the skin. Next, stuff the cavity with yellow onion, garlic, apples, sprigs of rosemary, thyme, and sage. Tie the legs together with twine or string and tuck the wing tips under the turkey.
- Pour 1 cup of chicken stock and apple cider into the bottom of the roasting pan. Roast the turkey for about two and half hours, basting every 20 minutes with a 1/3 cup apple cider. If need be, place foil over the turkey in the last hour of cooking as to not to burn the bird. Roast until the juices run clear or a thermometer reads 165 degrees. Remove turkey from the oven and let it sit for 20 minutes. Once rested, slice the turkey and serve.
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