Whole Turkey Recipes

"For a JUICIER and TASTIER turkey, brine before cooking! If your turkey or chicken is kosher do not brine since it has already been salted. Brining isn't just for poultry but also lean cuts of meat and even fish and shrimp. But you must adjust time to their size. Example; a whole trout takes only 20 minutes and the same with shrimp, a whole chicken..."

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Ingredients: kosher salt, sea salt, sugar...

"I make this every year for our turkey! It is so potent when you've first ground it, but don't worry, since once it's cooked you're left with a wonderfully spiced turkey (but nothing unusually flavored). People will not be able to pick out the spices, but will comment how great the turkey tastes. It makes the best gravy. It is so dark and rich with a..."

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Ingredients: coriander seeds, fennel seeds...

"This is the way I have cooked my turkey for the last 40 years and my Mother and Aunt before me. It turns out just wonderful."

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Ingredients: brown paper bags, turkey...

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Ingredients: dried rosemary, garlic, lemons...

"makes perfect juicy golden brown turkey, if instructions are followed will work consistently each and every time."

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Ingredients: pepper, Lawry's Seasoned Salt...

"This is a recipe I got from my brother. I haven't tried it yet, but he absolutely raved about it. Preparation time does not include brining time. Author's notes: Leave it to Alice Waters and her crew at Chez Panisse to come up with a recipe that's so simple and so brilliant it brings out the best in chicken, pork, or turkey. They've created a brine..."

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Ingredients: dried thyme, fresh thyme...

"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"..."

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Ingredients: turkey, bacon...

"I was cooking a whole Turkey and I didn’t know what to use for the stuffing. So my workmate suggested this recipe. She found it in a Christmas book called ‘Family Circle, The tastes of Christmas, step-by-step’"

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Ingredients: dried apricots, fresh mint...

"There is nothing better than a home made stuffing, none of that rubbish from a box LOL. Do enjoy!"

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Ingredients: dried apricots, dried cranberries...

"This is the anti-saw-dust tasting, forget the pop-up thermometer bird cooker! Hence, we toss the thermometer altogether. Cooking the bird "upside-down" uses gravity and allows the juices to cook inside the breast meat, giving it a tender deliciousness that is hard to duplicate when cooking for a golden-brown-colored turkey breast skin. With..."

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Ingredients: cooking spray, whole turkey...

"This takes advantage of that extra store bought pie crust left over from making a pumpkin pie with a bottom crust only. Besides its cute. Black food coloring can be found in stores that sell cake decorating supplies."

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Ingredients: black food coloring, egg yolks...