Roasting A Turkey In A Granite Roaster

On mine it s 450 but use 500 if your oven goes that high.

Roasting a turkey in a granite roaster.

Baste the turkey with melted butter and place without a lid in a conventional oven for the remaining cooking time. Pour water into the roasting pan so that it comes up to the top of the rack. Do not wash the turkey. Whenever the drippings evaporate add stock to moisten them about 1 to 2 cups at a time.

Pour 1 can of chicken stock into the roaster and close the lid. Pour chicken broth into the pan. The basic ingredients required to cook a turkey in a covered roasting pan are a 14 pound turkey olive oil or butter salt and pepper to taste low sodium chicken broth 1 dried bay leaf 1 2 cup of white wine and a pinch of chopped herbs such as thyme or rosemary. First apply the butter or oil to the skin of the bird.

Baste every 30 to 45 minutes with. Transfer to oven and immediately reduce oven heat to 350. Do not add water to pan. Roast uncovered according to cooking schedule or until meat thermometer in center of breast roast reaches 170 f and in center of turkey roast reaches 175 f.

1 4 cup salted butter 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon black pepper. Place the turkey breast side up on top of the roasting rack inside the roasting pan. After 1 hour turn the temperature down to 350 degrees and cook until the turkey s internal temperature reaches 170 degrees. To determine doneness use a meat thermometer.

The usda says that washing it could cause a spread of salmonella poisoning. Cook at 400 degrees for 1 hour. Place turkey breast side up on a roasting rack inside of a large pan. Pick up the rack and gently place the rack and the turkey in the turkey roaster.

Cover the roasting pan with a lid. Sprinkle salt in the cavities. Baste all over every 30 minutes with the juices on the bottom of the pan. Take the insert pan out of the roaster and pre heat the roaster to its highest setting.