Roast Turkey with Stuffing
- 2 packages croutons
- 1/2 cup butter melted
- 2 cups stock from giblets
- 1 pound breakfast sausage crumbled, fried
- 1 medium onions diced
- 4 large celery stalks diced
- 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 x turkey thawed, 20 pounds
- Preheat oven to 325F (160C).
- Thaw turkey (20 pound turkey will thaw in approximately 7 days in refrigerator).
- Remove wrap.
- Unhook turkey legs from retainer down by tail, then remove neck from body cavity.
- Remove giblet packet from neck cavity.
- Put these in saucepan, cover with 2 to 3 cups water and simmer for 1 hour or more.
- Rinse turkey well and drain, returning to refrigerator until needed.
- After 1/2 hour of giblets cooking, dice celery and onion.
- Fry sausage, crumbling, until completely done.
- Add celery and onion and 1/2 cup water to fry pan and let simmer 10 minutes.
- Using your roasting pan, empty 2 boxes of croutons into it.
- Add sausage/celery/onion mix.
- Melt 1/2 cup butter and add.
- Add teaspoon of poultry seasoning.
- Add 2 cups of giblet broth.
- Stir well until croutons are evenly moistened.
- Rinse turkey again, shake out excess water.
- Stuff body cavity with stuffing loosely (do not pack in or turkey will explode) and put legs back into retainer to hold together.
- Stuff neck cavity.
- Fold wing tips behind bird's back, use to hold neck skin down so stuffing won't fall out from neck.
- Rinse out roasting pan and line with foil.
- Coat foil with vegetable oil.
- Coat turkey, all over, with vegetable oil.
- Place in roasting pan.
- Add any excess stuffing that will fit on top of turkey legs at body cavity opening, laying on top.
- Put in oven and roast for approximately 6 1/2 to 7 hours, depending on oven.
- Roast to 180 to 185 degrees internal temperature at thickest part of thigh without touching thermometer to bone, and same at thickest part of the breast.
- Baste turkey with baster last 2 hours, about every 15 minutes.
- If skin is getting too dark, tent with foil.
croutons, butter, giblets, sausage, onions, celery stalks, poultry seasoning, water, turkey
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/roast-turkey-stuffing-34156 (may not work)