Turkey in the oven with oranges and garlic

16 servings
1 days 17 hours 40 min

To make the turkey juicy when baking, soak it in brine. We will cook it like this: dissolve salt and sugar in boiling water, my carrots, clean and cut into circles, peeled onions in rings. Put onions and carrots in brine. We also add broken cinnamon stick, coriander, sweet peas and bay leaf. We lower a well-washed turkey into brine and add cold water so that the bird is completely covered with liquid. Leave the turkey to infuse in brine for
1. 5 days at room temperature. Turn the bird over from time to time. When the necessary time passes, take the turkey out of the brine, rinse well and dry it with paper towels. Mix the softened butter with your favorite spices. We rub turkey with this mixture - inside, outside and under the skin (do it carefully so that the skin does not tear). In a small saucepan, boil water and lower an orange into it for a couple of minutes. Then we take it out, stick cloves into its peel. Cut the garlic head into two halves across. Put inside the turkey - half of the garlic, then orange, then - the other half of the garlic. Sew the turkey with threads. We also bind turkey legs with threads. Turkey can be baked in a large sleeve. If this is not at hand, it can be replaced with foil. The main thing is that both the sleeve and foil do not come into contact with the skin of the turkey. To achieve this, you can stick toothpicks into the bird. Turkey can be baked down or up with the breast. In the first case, the breast will turn out to be much juicier and softer, but will lose in beauty. Preheat the oven to 220 degrees and bake the bird for 40 minutes. Then lower the temperature to 180 degrees and bake the bird for another 3 hours (until tender). Readiness can be checked using a toothpick - if clear juice flows out, then the turkey is ready. Half an hour before the end of baking, open the foil so that the turkey browns beautifully. Turn off the oven and let the bird stand there for another 20-30 minutes. Decorate the finished dish at will, for example, with pickled or fried vegetables, herbs, etc. And you can serve it to the festive table.