A Thanksgiving Turkey Cooked in Duck Fat
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Serves: 8-10 people
- 1 10 lb turkey
- 2 tablespoons of chopped time
- 6 sage leaves chopped
- ¾ cup of melted duck fat
- ½ stick of butter, melted
- 3 cups of chicken stock
- olive oil
- kosher salt
- cheesecloth, folded so it covers the entire top of the bird
- Combine fat and butter. Mix herbs into fat, refrigerate half of it until almost solid.
- Run hands underneath the skin on the breast to loosen it.
- Make sure turkey is dry as a bone. Rub olive oil all over and then salt it well. Stuff it.
- Taking the refrigerated butter and duck fat, with your hands spread it all over in between the breast and skin.
- Dampen the cheesecloth with water and then soak it in the remaining melted fat mixture, lay on over top of the turkey.
- Roast for 30 minutes.
- Add chicken stock.
- Roast an additional 2 hours, or until meat thermometer registers 165 degrees.
Recipe by Talia Bunting at https://www.taliabunting.com/thanksgiving-turkey-in-duck-fat/
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