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Cider-Glazed Turkey

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Cider-Glazed Turkey

Cider-Glazed Turkey

Cider-Glazed Turkey might be just the main course you are searching for. This recipe covers 38% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains about 105g of protein, 37g of fat, and a total of 879 calories. This recipe serves 8. If you have turkey 1 hour, unfiltered apple cider, thyme, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the sugar you could follow this main course with the Whole Wheat Refined Sugar Free Sugar Cookies as a dessert.

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Preheat oven to 425°F with rack in lower third.
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Rinse turkey inside and out and pat dry. Put turkey on rack in roasting pan and season inside and out with 2 teaspoons salt and 1 teaspoon pepper. Put apple, onion, and thyme in large cavity. Fold neck skin under body, then tuck wing tips under breast and tie drumsticks together with string.
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Add water to pan and roast, without basting, 1 hour.
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Meanwhile, boil cider and sugar in a small heavy saucepan, stirring until sugar has dissolved, until reduced to about 1/4 cup, 8 to 10 minutes.
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Remove from heat and whisk in butter 1 tablespoon at a time, whisking until emulsified.
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Let glaze stand until ready to use.
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After turkey has roasted 1 hour, rotate pan 180 degrees. Roast, without basting, 40 minutes more.
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Brush turkey all over with all of glaze and continue to roast until an instant-read thermometer inserted into fleshy part of each thigh (test both; do not touch bone) registers 165 to 170°F, 5 to 15 minutes more (total roasting time: 1 3/4 to 2 hours).
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Carefully tilt turkey so juices from inside large cavity run into pan.
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Transfer turkey so juices from inside large cavity run into pan.
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Transfer turkey to a platter (reserve juices in roasting pan) and let rest, uncovered, 30 minutes (temperature of thigh meat will rise to 170 to 175&Deg;F). Discard string.
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Strain pan juices through a fine-mesh sieve into 2-quart measure and skim off fat (or use a fat separator), reserving fat.
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Straddle roasting pan across 2 burners, then add wine and deglaze pan by boiling over high heat, stirring and scraping up brown bits, 2 minutes. Strain through sieve into measuring cup containing pan juices.
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Put 1/2 cup reserved fat (if there is less, add melted butter) in a 4-quart heavy saucepan and whisk in flour.
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Cook roux over medium heat, whisking, 3 minutes.
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Add pan juices and stock in a fast stream, whisking constantly, then bring to a boil, whisking occasionally. Briskly simmer, whisking occasionally, until gravy is thickened, 10 to 15 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
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Serve turkey with gravy.
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Gewürztraminer '05
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DifficultyExpert
Ready In4 hrs
Servings8
Health Score32
Dish TypesLunchMain CourseMain DishDinner
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