PREP TIME 15 MIN

COOK TIME 2 TO 4 HOURS

Ingredients

• 1 turkey, approx. 15 lbs.*
• wash turkey in water & lemon juice
• Sea Salt and pepper
• Olive oil or melted butter
• Minced garlic
• 5th season italian seasoning
• Pam baking spray
• One large roasting pan
• preheat over to 400 or 425
• White wine
• Gibets place in pan along with turkey or just the neck, use other gibets to make stoke

To start, if the turkey has been refrigerated, bring it to room temperature before cooking. Keep it in its plastic wrapping until you are ready to cook it. While in the refrigerator, and or while you are bringing it to room temp, have the bird resting in a pan, so that if the plastic covering leaks for any reason, you are confining the juices to the pan. If you get a frozen turkey, you will need to defrost it in the refrigerator for several days first. Allow approximately 5 hours of defrosting for every pound. So, if you have a 15 pound turkey, it will take about 75 hours to defrost it in the refrigerator, or around 3 days.

Handle a raw turkey with the same amount of caution as when you handle raw chicken - use a separate cutting board and utensils to avoid contaminating other foods. Wash you hands with soap before touching anything else in the kitchen. Use paper towels to clean up.

Plastic ties on turkey

Most likely you do not need to remove those plastic ties for cooking (unless you plan to cook your turkey at a very high temperature). If you remove the plastic ties, you will need to use kitchen string to tie the legs together.

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