Rosemary Roast Turkey

Name: Rosemary Roast Turkey
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 13
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 59 milliliters coarsely chopped fresh rosemary leaves; 6 cloves garlic; 1 lemon, cut in half; 5 to 8 rosemary sprigs (4 to 6 in. long); 1 Tbsp olive or salad oil; 5 kilograms turkey; 13 servings Turkey Gravy; 13 servings Roasted Petite Yukon Gold Potatoes

Rosemary Roast Turkey might be a good recipe to expand your main course recipe box. This recipe covers 24% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 13. Watching your figure? This gluten free, dairy free, and whole 30 recipe has 356 calories, 54g of protein, and 14g of fat per serving. A mixture of rosemary leaves, garlic, roasted petite yukon gold potatoes, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so tasty. To use up the lemon you could follow this main course with the Lemon Shortbread Cookies with Lemon Icing It can be enjoyed any time, but it is especially good for Thanksgiving.

Instructions

Chop 3 garlic cloves.

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Whole Garlic Cloves

Mix chopped garlic with chopped rosemary.

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Rosemary

Garlic

Remove and discard the leg truss from the turkey. Pull off and discard lumps of fat.

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Whole Turkey

Remove giblets and neck. Rinse the bird inside and out; pat dry with towels.

Rub oil on skin. Squeeze juice from a lemon half into body cavity, then add the peel. Rub juice of remaining lemon half onto turkey skin.

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Whole Turkey

Juice

Lemon

Cooking Oil

Dry Seasoning Rub

Slide your fingers under turkey skin to gently loosen it (but leave in place) on breast, around outside of thighs and legs, and over back (from the neck end).

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Whole Turkey

Push the rosemary-garlic mixture under skin, distributing evenly.

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Rosemary

Garlic

Place remaining garlic cloves and the rosemary sprigs inside the bird.

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Whole Garlic Cloves

Rosemary

To roast, place turkey, breast up, on a V-shaped rack in a 12- by 17-inch roasting pan (or one that is at least 2 inches longer and wider than the bird). Roast in a 350 oven until a thermometer inserted through the thickest part of the breast to the bone reaches 160, 1 1/2 to 2 1/4 hours. Put on a platter and let stand up to 30 minutes; keep warm.

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Whole Turkey

Bone