Oil-less Fried Turkey
Ingredients
- 18 lbs frozen turkey thaw for a night or two in the fridge
- 1/2 c unsalted butter next time I think I’m gonna use salted butter instead though
- 1 tbsp each garlic powder onion powder, vegetable rice seasoning (or Vegeta seasoning), dried crushed thyme and rosemary.
- 2 apples 5 mandarin, fresh thyme (a couple sprigs), salt, 1 onion
- Cubed of still firm unsalted butter for under skin and inside turkey cavity
Instructions
- Take out liver, heart and neck from inside of the turkey, set aside (we are gonna make gravy with them)
- Grind thyme and rosemary into powder like. I used mortal and pestle for it.
- Pat dry turkey (make sure completely dry)
- Mix butter and seasonings in a bowl, set aside
- Slice apples, mandarin and onion to halves
- Rub the inside of turkey with generous salt
- Drop a couple butter cubes into the cavity along with halved apples, mandarins, fresh thyme, and half of an onion, as many as you could stuff in.
- Push in a couple of cubed butter under turkey skin here and there.
- Now, to use this oil less fryer, the turkey will be put standing up. Learning this, my husband and I decided to shut off the turkey cavity by pulling its bottom and attach-shut skin with bottom with toothpicks.
- Now rub butter mixture all over turkey and sprinkle salt everywhere. A little messy yes, hence, next time I’d like to use salted butter instead 🤣
- Push in meat thermometer on the thickest part of the breast
- Preheat your frier and fry your turkey for 3.5 H.
Notes
Now, normally when making the gravy, I would also oven roast the neck and whatnot, but since this was all new to us, I made boiled gravy instead.
Place neck, liver, and heart in a pot. Add in the rest of apples, mandarin, and the other half of onion, plus a couple sprigs of fresh thyme. Pour in enough water to cover everything, bring to fully boil for 5 mins on high temperature. Lower temperature and continue cooking for 30 mins. Mash mandarin and apples, mix nicely in the broth. Take out onion, skins that didn’t get to mash, neck, liver and heart, strain. Bring back to boil, and thickened with 1 tbsp cornstarch. That was it
Place neck, liver, and heart in a pot. Add in the rest of apples, mandarin, and the other half of onion, plus a couple sprigs of fresh thyme. Pour in enough water to cover everything, bring to fully boil for 5 mins on high temperature. Lower temperature and continue cooking for 30 mins. Mash mandarin and apples, mix nicely in the broth. Take out onion, skins that didn’t get to mash, neck, liver and heart, strain. Bring back to boil, and thickened with 1 tbsp cornstarch. That was it