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Bacon Basted Turkey
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- SERVES
- 8
- COOK TIME
- 3 Hr 40 Min
Our Test Kitchen is busy creating new recipes using bacon, because its popularity has gone through the roof. Well, we've come up with a great spin on traditional turkey with our Bacon Basted Turkey, which offers a blend of traditional and new.
What You'll Need:
- 1 (12- to 14-pound) turkey, thawed, if frozen
- 1 pound bacon
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 cups hot turkey gravy
What To Do:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat a large roasting pan with cooking spray. Remove neck and giblets from turkey and reserve them for another use or discard. Rinse turkey inside and out with cold water then pat dry and place in pan.
- In a large skillet, cook bacon over medium-high heat until crisp; drain on a paper towel-lined plate. Pour bacon fat into a small bowl and add oil, paprika, onion powder, garlic powder and salt; mix well.
- Brush half the bacon-oil mixture on outside of turkey. Add enough water to roasting pan to fill it 1/4-inch deep. Cover turkey loosely with aluminum foil.
- Roast turkey 3 hours, basting occasionally with bacon-oil mixture. Remove foil and roast about 30 more minutes, or until internal temperature of the thickest part of the thigh registers 180 degrees F. on a meat thermometer.
- Meanwhile, crumble bacon coarsely and sprinkle half on turkey before serving. Stir remaining crumbled bacon into hot gravy, and serve.
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Linda 2763410
Nov 27, 2017
I made this recipe this Thanksgiving using mrgerie 2645418's method, and it was the best of any turkey I have ever eaten. It was moist and flavorful.
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ToniH
Jan 26, 2014
Do you have more recipes where you use the grease from Bacon? I don't have to fry bacon anymore, but I cook with bacon grease a lot. THANKS Hot Belly Bacon Grease! I use bacon grease to cook corn bread, grill steaks, grill shrimp, lots of vegetables (love to fry squash in it), to make a roux for gumbo, beef tips, beef stew, crawfish pies, etc. I want to try some new recipes. I love it, and was very surprised that it's only 25 calories per serving when I use it to season. I know that it's a lot more calories when I make my gumbo, but I make a huge pot at a time. The kind that I use doesn't have any trans fats, and I was shocked to see that it has NO salt. I just love the bacon hickory flavor to things. I just want to try some new recipes. Wish that I would have had this turkey recipe for the holidays, but glad that I found it! Thanks for sharing!
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mrgerie 2645418
Nov 18, 2011
All the bacon flavor is on the skin, and now days about 80% do not eat the skin. What I thought of last summer with a chicken, and I did this last Thanksgiving to my turkey, was to separate the skin from the breast and slid bacon strips under the skin all the way to the front and keep adding all the to the back of the bird. The bacon keeps the meat moist and adds a lot of flavor. I received a lot of complements on the recipe.
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