Herb Roasted Turkey

Herb Roasted Turkey

16 lbs turkey
1/2 cup of olive oil with garlic or plain
1 juice from 1 lemon
1/2 cup minced fresh parsley
1/4 cup minced rosemary
1/4 cup minced thyme
10 fresh sage leaves
1 Tbls salt
1 Tbls pepper
2 medium onions quartered
Chicken stock

Mix all above into a paste, rub all over thawed turkey, under the skin and on top and bottom the night before you are to cook the turkey. Stuff the cavity with the onions.
Day to cook turkey, take the turkey out at room temperature for 1 hour.
pour some chicken stock in the bottom of the pan
preheat oven to 425 degrees
Put turkey in the oven uncovered for 1 hour.
Decrease temperature to 300 degrees and cover turkey.
Baste the turkey every hour.
Cook until internal temperature is 165.


This 16 lbs turkey: i took out of refrigerator at 8am to get room temperature,
I put in oven at 9am at 425 uncovered
at 10am i turned temp to 300 and covered.
by 12 noon it was done.
I turned oven to warm until 1:30, kept covered temp 170
I then took the turkey out of the oven and sat on top of the stove covered for 1 hour until 2:30.
Carved the turkey at 2:30. Yum.

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Thanksgiving 2020

8.5 LBS turkey breast: We put the Turkey breast in the Traeger covered with foil at 350 degrees until internal temperature was 150. then we uncovered the turkey and increased the temperature to 375 degrees until internal temperature was 165. We took it out to rest before cutting into it. It was really good and juicy. 

We used the rub above ( cut it in half)  except left the lemon out. we ADDED in 1/4 c butter with the herbs and some olive oil to loosen it up. We put salt and pepper all over the bird. mix butter, olive oil, sage, rosemary, thyme and parsley. We rubbed it all over the turkey in under the skin. Stuff the turkey with onions and apple and a rosemary stem. put the turkey on onions and carrots.