{"id":1910,"date":"2022-11-04T15:51:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T15:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dawnsrecipes.com\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2022-11-04T15:53:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T15:53:02","slug":"alton-s-roast-turkey-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnsrecipes.com\/turkey-recipes\/alton-s-roast-turkey-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipe for Alton&#8217;s Roast Turkey by Dawn&#8217;s Recipes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve outlined all the ingredients and directions for you to make the perfect Alton&#8217;s Roast Turkey. This dish qualifies as a Intermediate level recipe. It should take you about 12 hr to make this recipe. The Alton&#8217;s Roast Turkey recipe should make enough food for 10 to 12 servings. <\/p>\n<p>You can add your own personal twist to this Alton&#8217;s Roast Turkey recipe, depending on your culture or family tradition. Don&#8217;t be scared to add other ingredients once you&#8217;ve gotten comfortable with the recipe! Please see below for a list of potential cookware items that might be necessary for this Alton&#8217;s Roast Turkey recipe.<\/p>\n<h2>Ingredients for Alton&#8217;s Roast Turkey<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>1 (14 to 16-pound) frozen young turkey<\/li>\n<li>1 gallon vegetable stock<\/li>\n<li>1 cup kosher salt<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup light brown sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 tablespoon black peppercorns<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 teaspoons allspice berries<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 teaspoons chopped candied ginger<\/li>\n<li>1 gallon heavily iced water<\/li>\n<li>1 red apple, quartered<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 onion, quartered<\/li>\n<li>1 cinnamon stick<\/li>\n<li>1 cup water<\/li>\n<li>4 sprigs rosemary<\/li>\n<li>6 leaves sage<\/li>\n<li>Canola oil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Directions for Alton&#8217;s Roast Turkey<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>2-3 days before roasting:<\/li>\n<li>Begin thawing the turkey in the refrigerator or in a cooler kept at 38 degrees F.<\/li>\n<li>Combine the vegetable stock, salt, brown sugar, peppercorns, allspice berries, and candied ginger in a large stockpot over medium-high heat. Stir occasionally to dissolve solids and bring to a boil. Then remove the brine from the heat, cool to room temperature, and refrigerate.<\/li>\n<li>Early on the day or the night before you&#8217;d like to eat:<\/li>\n<li>Combine the brine, water and ice in the 5-gallon bucket. Place the thawed turkey (with innards removed) breast side down in brine. If necessary, weigh down the bird to ensure it is fully immersed, cover, and refrigerate or set in cool area for 8 to 16 hours, turning the bird once half way through brining.<\/li>\n<li>Preheat the oven to 500 degrees F. Remove the bird from brine and rinse inside and out with cold water. Discard the brine.<\/li>\n<li>Place the bird on roasting rack inside a half sheet pan and pat dry with paper towels.<\/li>\n<li>Combine the apple, onion, cinnamon stick, and 1 cup of water in a microwave safe dish and microwave on high for 5 minutes. Add steeped aromatics to the turkey&#8217;s cavity along with the rosemary and sage. Tuck the wings underneath the bird and coat the skin liberally with canola oil.<\/li>\n<li>Roast the turkey on lowest level of the oven at 500 degrees F for 30 minutes. Insert a probe thermometer into thickest part of the breast and reduce the oven temperature to 350 degrees F. Set the thermometer alarm (if available) to 151 degrees F. A 14 to 16 pound bird should require a total of 2 to 2 1\/2 hours of roasting. Let the turkey rest, loosely covered with foil or a large mixing bowl for 15 minutes before carving.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Cookware for your recipe<\/h2>\n<p>You will find below are cookware items that could be needed for this Alton&#8217;s Roast Turkey recipe or similar recipes. Feel free to skip to the next item if it doesn&#8217;t apply.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cooking pots<\/li>\n<li>Frying pan<\/li>\n<li>Steamers<\/li>\n<li>Colander<\/li>\n<li>Skillet<\/li>\n<li>Knives<\/li>\n<li>Cutting board<\/li>\n<li>Grater<\/li>\n<li>Saucepan<\/li>\n<li>Stockpot<\/li>\n<li>Spatula<\/li>\n<li>Tongs<\/li>\n<li>Measuring cups<\/li>\n<li>Wooden Spoon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Categories in this Recipe<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Thanksgiving Turkey &#8211; The centerpiece of contemporary Thanksgiving in the United States and in Canada is Thanksgiving dinner (informally called turkey dinner), a large meal generally centered on a large roasted turkey. Thanksgiving may be the largest eating event in the United States as measured by retail sales of food and beverages and by estimates of individual food intake. People often consume as much as three or four thousand calories during the course of the dinner.In a 2015 Harris Poll, Thanksgiving was the second most popular holiday in the United States (second to Christmas), and turkey was the most popular holiday food, regardless of region, generation, gender or race. Turkey was chosen by 32% of respondents. At Thanksgiving dinner, turkey is served with a variety of side dishes which vary from traditional dishes such as mashed potatoes, stuffing, and cranberry sauce, to ones that reflect regional or cultural heritage.Many of the dishes in a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner are made from ingredients native to the Americas, including turkey, potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkin and cranberries. Immigrants such as the Plymouth Pilgrims may have learned about some of these foods from the Native Americans, but other foods were not available to the early settlers. The tradition of eating them at Thanksgiving likely reflects their affordability for later Americans. Early North American settlers did eat turkey, but the lavish feasts that are frequently ascribed to Thanksgiving in the 17th century were a creation of nineteenth-century writers who sought to popularize a unifying holiday in which all Americans could share. <\/li>\n<li>Poultry &#8211; Poultry (\/\u02c8po\u028altri\/) are domesticated birds kept by humans for their eggs, their meat or their feathers. These birds are most typically members of the superorder Galloanserae (fowl), especially the order Galliformes (which includes chickens, quails, and turkeys). The term also includes birds that are killed for their meat, such as the young of pigeons (known as squabs) but does not include similar wild birds hunted for sport or food and known as game. The word &#8220;poultry&#8221; comes from the French\/Norman word poule, itself derived from the Latin word pullus, which means small animal.The domestication of poultry took place around 5,400 years ago in Southeast Asia. This may have originally been as a result of people hatching and rearing young birds from eggs collected from the wild, but later involved keeping the birds permanently in captivity. Domesticated chickens may have been used for cockfighting at first and quail kept for their songs, but soon it was realised how useful it was having a captive-bred source of food. Selective breeding for fast growth, egg-laying ability, conformation, plumage and docility took place over the centuries, and modern breeds often look very different from their wild ancestors. Although some birds are still kept in small flocks in extensive systems, most birds available in the market today are reared in intensive commercial enterprises.Together with pig meat, poultry is one of the two most widely eaten types of meat globally, with over 70% of the meat supply in 2012 between them; poultry provides nutritionally beneficial food containing high-quality protein accompanied by a low proportion of fat. All poultry meat should be properly handled and sufficiently cooked in order to reduce the risk of food poisoning. Semi-vegetarians who consume poultry as the only source of meat are said to adhere to pollotarianism.The word &#8220;poultry&#8221; comes from the West &#038; English &#8220;pultrie&#8221;, from Old French pouletrie, from pouletier, poultry dealer, from poulet, pullet. The word &#8220;pullet&#8221; itself comes from Middle English pulet, from Old French polet, both from Latin pullus, a young fowl, young animal or chicken. The word &#8220;fowl&#8221; is of Germanic origin (cf. Old English Fugol, German Vogel, Danish Fugl). <\/li>\n<li>Thanksgiving &#8211; Sub-national entitiesNovember 4, 2021 (Liberia);November 24, 2021 (Norfolk Island);November 3, 2022 (Liberia);November 30, 2022 (Norfolk Island);Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States, Canada, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Liberia. It began as a day of giving thanks and sacrifice for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. Similarly named festival holidays occur in Germany and Japan. Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and around the same part of the year in other places. Although Thanksgiving has historical roots in religious and cultural traditions, it has long been celebrated as a secular holiday as well. <\/li>\n<li>Turkey Recipes <\/li>\n<li>Roasted Turkey <\/li>\n<li>Roasting &#8211; Roasting is a cooking method that uses dry heat where hot air covers the food, cooking it evenly on all sides with temperatures of at least 150\u00a0\u00b0C (300\u00a0\u00b0F) from an open flame, oven, or other heat source. Roasting can enhance the flavor through caramelization and Maillard browning on the surface of the food. Roasting uses indirect, diffused heat (as in an oven), and is suitable for slower cooking of meat in a larger, whole piece. Meats and most root and bulb vegetables can be roasted. Any piece of meat, especially red meat, that has been cooked in this fashion is called a roast. Meats and vegetables prepared in this way are described as &#8220;roasted&#8221;, e.g., roasted chicken or roasted squash. <\/li>\n<li>American &#8211; American(s) may refer to: <\/li>\n<li>Onion Recipes <\/li>\n<li>Apple Recipes <\/li>\n<li>Fruit &#8211; In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering.Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in particular have long propagated using the movements of humans and animals in a symbiotic relationship that is the means for seed dispersal for the one group and nutrition for the other; in fact, humans and many animals have become dependent on fruits as a source of food. Consequently, fruits account for a substantial fraction of the world&#8217;s agricultural output, and some (such as the apple and the pomegranate) have acquired extensive cultural and symbolic meanings.In common language usage, &#8220;fruit&#8221; normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures (or produce) of plants that typically are sweet or sour and edible in the raw state, such as apples, bananas, grapes, lemons, oranges, and strawberries. In botanical usage, the term &#8220;fruit&#8221; also includes many structures that are not commonly called &#8220;fruits&#8221;, such as nuts, bean pods, corn kernels, tomatoes, and wheat grains. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve outlined all the ingredients and directions for you to make the perfect Alton&#8217;s Roast Turkey. This dish qualifies as a Intermediate level recipe. It should take you about 12 hr to make this recipe. The Alton&#8217;s Roast Turkey recipe should make enough food for 10 to 12 servings. 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