Foolproof Thanksgiving Turkey Recipe
Over 10 years ago Paula Deen saved my family’s Thanksgiving! My mom was recovering from surgery and asked me to cook Thanksgiving dinner for our family. I remember searching online for a recipe and coming across Paula’s Maple Glazed Turkey recipe which was perfect because the cranberry glaze resulted in a cranberry sauce.
Thank goodness I had no idea what a big deal it is to cook a turkey. I followed Paula’s recipe to a T and my mom put me in charge of the turkey ever since!
Paula’s recipe uses about 1 tablespoon of butter per every 2 pounds of turkey, I do a mix of butter and olive oil. Additionally, I stuff the turkey’s cavity with shallots and opt for a Butterball Turkey.
I use Paula's house seasoning mix, in this recipe year round on all my poultry dishes!
Paula Deen’s Turkey Recipe
Tips
Defrost Turkey 1 Day Ahead.
Prep spices and butter mixture one day ahead.
Preheat oven to 375 F
Cook 18 minutes per pound of turkey
*Notes my changes to Paula’s original recipe
Ingredients:
- 1 -15 pound turkey
- 4 Tbs butter
- 4 Tbs olive oil*
- 2 Tbs fresh parsley, chopped
- 2 Tbs shallots, minced
- 2 Tbs garlic, minced
- 1 Tbs Paula’s house seasoning:
Paula’s House Seasoning
Mix together:
- 1/2 cup sea salt*
- 1/4 cup black pepper
- 1/4 cup garlic powder
- 1/4 cup onion powder
Cranberry Maple Glaze
3 Tbs salted* butter
12 oz cranberries
1/2 cup maple syrup
1 1/2 cup apple cider*
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 Tbs* apple cider vinegar
1 tsp ground black pepper
Make It
Make Cranberry Maple Glaze 1 day ahead and refrigerate in a Mason jar.
Cranberry Maple Glaze
- Boil cranberries with the rest of the glaze ingredients in pot until the berries burst;
- Run glaze through a food mill* or sieve;
- Separate the liquid glaze and cranberry pulp into espérate jars;
- Serve pulp as cranberry sauce;
- Spoon glaze over the turkey.
Turkey
- Preheat oven to 375 F
- Mix butter, olive oil, parsley, shallots, and house seasoning together in a bowl. Set aside;
- Rinse turkey and pat dry, set in roasting pan.
- Rip the skin of the turkey breast and rub the butter mixture under the skin and any remaining mixture over the skin.
- Stuff turkey cavity with any extra shallots and parsley* this is my personal twist which has rendered me a juicy turkey every year!
- Use kitchen twine to tie turkeys legs together and tuck in the wings.
- Place turkey in oven and bake for 18 minutes per pound. So 18 minutes x pounds = total cook time in minutes. I like to time my turkey to be ready 30 minutes before dinner guests arrive.
- 15 minutes before cook time is over add a few spoonfuls of the glaze over the turkey.
Example: dinner is at 5pm. 15 pound turkey, 270 minutes cook time = 4 hours 30 minutes cook time. Place turkey in oven at 12 pm to be ready by 4:30 pm.
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