Let's do a turkey in the oven friends steemit

Ingredients Turkey Baked

1 whole turkey (4 kg)
1 onion
1 lemon
5 garlic cloves
1 slice smoked bacon (optional)
Brine
15 cups water temp. room
6 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons sugar
6 bay leaves
10 easily crushed juniper berries
4 dried chili peppers
spices
3 tablespoons oil
2 teaspoons mustard
1 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon turmeric

Cooking turkey in the oven

1.If you leave the turkey is frozen thawed in the refrigerator. Then washed thoroughly, including the inside.

2.Preparations brine: in a small saucepan boil 1 cup of water (from 15) with bay leaves and chili peppers torn and crushed juniper berries for about 2 minutes. Allow to cool a little.

3.Until then mix the remainder of the water with sugar and salt and mix until they dissolve. Add water and mix flavors above. Put the turkey in the brine and put it in the refrigerator for two days.

• Ideal is to have a pot that include turkey and brine prepared so as to cover it completely; mine was not covered completely because I had a pot roomy enough, so every few hours I returned the turkey into the pot; if you need more brine increase the amount of water, and the salt, sugar and flavors proportional !!!

** If the turkey is larger you will have to hold more in brine; for example. 7-8 kg turkey you will keep 4 days

4.Remove the turkey from the brine, and wash it under running cold water and then absorbing it with kitchen paper. Cover the turkey with foil and let plastric refrigerator 1 days, Otherwise that brine to distribute evenly.

5.Remove the turkey from the refrigerator 2 hours before baking, to have time to reach temp. room.

6.Mix all spices until the mix is ​​uniform. Brush turkey with this paste all over. Enter the turkey quarters onion, lemon and whole cloves and peel. If necessary, tie turkey wings and legs in order to have a "positive" beautiful. I restrained myself wings with a long skewer and feet we put under the skin on the belly.

7.Preheat oven to 200C. Put the turkey in the pan with the breast side down .

8.Dam turkey in the oven for 20 minutes.
9.Back turkey breast side up . Decrease the temperature to 170C. Turkey let another 1 hour.

10.Now subtract the temperature at 150C and leave it another 1 hour. In this time do not forget to brush the turkey all at 20 minutes with juice left in the pan or with a little melted smoked bacon (if you want your skin to have a slight smoky flavor; I have anointed him with bacon).

11.* If your turkey is more or less at 150C adjust the baking time accordingly; If the turkey is extremely high and increasing baking time see that start to brown too much above or in the wings, place aluminum foil over these areas.

12.My 4 kg turkey was ready in 2 hours and 20 minutes. For safety, you can use a thermometer steak . Check in the thickest area of the chest that temp. reach 70-75C.

13.Remove the turkey from the oven and covered it with aluminum foil, leaving it to rest for at least 15 minutes. The internal temperature will increase by about 5 degrees during this time.

14.Serve turkey is hot.