Roasting A Turkey In A Granite Roaster

1 4 cup salted butter 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon black pepper.

Roasting a turkey in a granite roaster.

Take the insert pan out of the roaster and pre heat the roaster to its highest setting. 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. Baste the turkey with melted butter and place without a lid in a conventional oven for the remaining cooking time. Place turkey in the oven and pour 2 cups turkey stock into the bottom of the roasting pan.

Place roast skin side up on a flat roasting rack in a 2 inch deep roasting pan. To determine doneness use a meat thermometer. After 1 hour turn the temperature down to 350 degrees and cook until the turkey s internal temperature reaches 170 degrees. On mine it s 450 but use 500 if your oven goes that high.

Baste all over every 30 minutes with the juices on the bottom of the pan. Place the turkey breast side up on top of the roasting rack inside the roasting pan. To crisp the skin of a turkey cooked in an electric roaster oven remove the turkey from the roaster approximately 45 minutes before the turkey is done. Place turkey breast side up on a roasting rack inside of a large pan.

Whenever the drippings evaporate add stock to moisten them about 1 to 2 cups at a time. Pour water into the roasting pan so that it comes up to the top of the rack. Pick up the rack and gently place the rack and the turkey in the turkey roaster. Baste every 30 to 45 minutes with.

Sprinkle salt in the cavities. Cover the roasting pan with a lid. The usda says that washing it could cause a spread of salmonella poisoning. Cook at 400 degrees for 1 hour.

Do not add water to pan. Pour chicken broth into the pan. Do not wash the turkey. Pour 1 can of chicken stock into the roaster and close the lid.