Nov 25, 2014 playing cidersoaked spatchcock turkey. Spatchcocking delivers breast meat juicier than a standard roast turkey, leg meat more tender than a standard roast turkey, and skin thats so. Heres a stepbystep guide, plus roasting tips, and advice on how to carve a spatchcocked. The only party i hate in the turkey cooking process is the thaw out time. It also delivers stunningly crisp skin, and perfectly cooked breast and leg meat along with a flavorful. This moist and tender turkey cooks up with even browning and crispy skin in half the time of a whole turkey. Spatchcocking your thanksgiving turkey is the fastest, quickest, easiest route to juicy meat, and ultracrisp skin. Rub the turkey all over with kosher salt, figuring about one tablespoon per 5 pounds, or 12 teaspoon per pound exact amounts are not critical.
Turkey and smoke are a natural pairing, as anyone whos looked at a deli case can tell you, but theres a difference between coldcut smoked turkey, with its hamlike cured texture and questionable smoke flavor, and real barbecued turkey. Its the dry cure spatchcock bird from the good eats finale. Alton introduces butterflying, a technique for cooking a turkey faster. Cooking a simply turkey breast is far easier than cooking a whole turkey, since you only have a single final target temperature in mind, instead of having to worry about legs and breasts cooking at different rates. Spatchcocked turkey with anise and orange from bon appetit. Nov 25, 2016 the edges of the stuffing was raided as the bird was resting by the hungry horde. Nov 20, 2016 the spatchcock turkey guide do you have your turkey yet. Spatchcocked turkey in 80 minutes something new for dinner.
After reading the serious eats article, i knew i only had one option. How to cook a spatchcock turkey the fastest, easiest, best way to cook a thanksgiving bird the food labs definitive guide to buying, prepping, cooking, and carving your holiday turkey the serious eats guide to carving turkey. First, all of the skin is exposed to the full heat of the oven at the same time. So youve decided to spatchcock your turkey this year. For more on this simple trick and other thanksgiving tips, check out our. Kenji at serious eats recommends 450f for 80 minutes for a 1214 pound bird until an instant read thermometer inserted into the. Matthew hass, ellison bay, wisconsin spatchcocked herbroasted turkey recipe photo by taste of home.
Kenji lopezalts butterflied roast turkey with gravy recipe. With a spatchcocked turkey and its slim profile, this is not a problem. Kenji lopezalt of serious eats toted the spatchcocked turkey as the quickest easiest route to juicy meat, and ultracrisp skin. Basically, its a method for lazy folks with great taste. So how do you get your turkey to cook evenly, cook faster, and taste better all in one fell swoop. How to spatchcock, roast and carve a turkey the healthy butcher. How to cook a spatchcocked turkey cravings of a lunatic. Kitchen shears large and strong enough to cut through bones. Butterflying the turkey exposes more skin to improve browning and creates more channels for rendering fat. How to spatchcock a turkey for thanksgiving cooking turkey. Brining your turkey is the first step to juiciness. How to spatchcock, roast and carve a turkey youtube. Rub the skin with olive oil, and sprinkle liberally with salt and pepper.
Kenji graciously agreed to share his spatchcocked roast turkey recipe and video tutorial from serious eats with sporkful readers. Spicerubbed butterflied smoked turkey recipe serious eats. Heres a stepbystep guide, plus roasting tips, and advice on how to carve a spatchcocked bird. You can spatchcock a larger turkey, cut it in half down the middle and put each half on separate baking pans. Butterflied big bird spatchcock turkey nom nom paleo. You can blast it at 450f and itll cook through in about 80 minutes without. Save the backbone, neck and giblets to make a rich turkey broth below. While a spatchcock chicken can fit on any grill, a spatchcock turkey takes up a little more real estate. Roast until a thermometer inserted in thickest part of thigh reads 170175, 114 to 112 hours. Nov 05, 2017 spatchcock is a funny word, but its a seriously smart way to cook a large bird. Stepbystep guide to spatchcock a chicken the spruce. So youve seen our spatchcock turkey and youre intrigued by the promise of extracrisp skin and ultramoist meat, all in about 90 minutes. The serious eats guide to carving turkey for many folks, the hardest part of cooking a turkey is carving and serving it. The serious eats guide to thanksgiving serious eats.
Pat turkey dry with paper towels and rub on all surfaces with 1 tablespoon oil. Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 450f. One the biggest benefits of spatchcocking your turkey is that it keeps the meat moist while providing you with crispy skin. A spatchcocked turkey, on the other hand, resembles a cuboid, in which the top surface is skin and the volume is meat. Depending on the size of your bird you may need several days to let your turkey completely thaw out in the fridge. Heres the easiest way to do it, whether its roasted whole or spatchcocked. I love the info at serious eats, but i made my first spatchcocked chicken at 450 f, and got a lot of smoke and spattering grease had to clean the oven after. Serious eats how to carve a spatchcocked turkey facebook. Time to roast a paleo and whole30friendly spatchcock turkey a. Increase temperature to 400 degrees f 200 degrees c and roast until skin. For juicy, evenlycooked turkey with a crisp, golden brown skin, spatchcocking is the answer. Kenji lopezalt, serious eats managing culinary director is a passionate advocate of the spatchcocking aka, butterflying a turkey. Spatchcock roast chicken with rosemary land of noms.
Pat skin dry and rub olive oil over the entire turkey. Nov 21, 2018 serious eats and each offer mouthwateringly gorgeous ideas for how to plate the carvedup turkey to best effect. Push the sage butter under the skin of the turkey, being careful not to puncture it. Transfer turkey to a rack in a foillined rimmed baking pan. There is no skin hiding underneath, no underbelly to worry about. Ask a butcher to remove both the back and breast bones from your turkey. Oct 07, 2016 check out these amazing spatchcocked turkey recipes from around the web. Cajunspiced spatchcocked turkey recipe serious eats. Kenji lopezalt from serious eats explains how and why youd want to spatchcock a turkey in the above video, but it basically boils down. For a 22 kettle, i would use a turkey closer to 10 pounds. Over the years, ive written many articles on brining or not brining turkeys. Im lucky enough that i live in temperate california with weather thats suitable for grilling pretty much all year long, save for a few rainy days here and there. Tuck the wing tips under the turkey and place on the roasting rack. Unless drastic measure are taken, you dont stand a chance of getting it all to finish cooking at the same time.
As you can see a 14pounders legs peek over the edge of the pan. Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour 30 minutes, rotating baking sheet every 30 minutes. How to brine a turkey for thanksgiving serious eats. In a little more than an hour, you can have a perfectly roasted 12pound turkey.
Nov 06, 2012 with a regular turkey, the breast is totally exposed, while the legs are relatively protected. The reason is when you spatchcock a turkey and spread it out, the turkey. Transfer turkey to oven and roast, rotating occasionally, until an instant read thermometer. Butterflied, dry brined roasted turkey with roasted root. Altons roasted root veggie panzanella is a holiday side with a difference. Watch the video above or checkout serious eats excellent tutorial. Spatchcocked turkey with sage butter and gravy recipe. Unless you have a large oven and a very large roasting pan or baking sheet, you will want to limit the size of your spatchcocked turkey to 1214 pounds. Spatchcocked turkey with anise and orange bon appetit.
How to debone and spatchcock quail genuine recipes. Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 450f 230c. Spatchcocked herbroasted turkey recipe taste of home. As soon as that breast is at 150f, you can pull it out of the oven and let it rest. How to cook a spatchcocked turkey from serious eats. Kenji graciously agreed to share his spatchcocked roast turkey recipe and video tutorial from serious eats. As an individual who has never really done any butchering, it wasnt the best part of thanksgiving. Serious eats and each offer mouthwateringly gorgeous ideas for how to plate the carvedup turkey to best effect. The basics for butterflying a turkey couldnt be simpler. That means you remove its backbone and lay it flat, so the meat cooks more evenly. Serious eats video brining or drybrining your bird can mean the difference between dry turkey and supremely moist and plump turkey.
How to spatchcock a turkey for thanksgiving martha stewart. Butterflied, dry brined roasted turkey from food network. Definitely a keeper recipe and a nice shorter cooking time alternative. How to spatchcock your thanksgiving turkey youtube. Spatchcocking your birdthat is, cutting out the backbone and laying it flatsolve all of these problems, and some. Nov 24, 2014 serious eats offers more tips, but one i like a lot is that the bird looks pretty cool this way. I find a 1214 pound turkey is the maximum size i can fit on a bakers x 18 half sheet. When you spatchcock turkey, it evens out the cooking times. Serious eats is the source for all things delicious.
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