Oven-baked turkey salted in lemon brine – A detailed recipe for cooking. Share with friends: 
Time: 11 hours 40 min Difficulty: easy Servings: 12-15 In the recipes volumetric containers are used in volume: 1 cup (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cups (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (Art.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp) – 15 ml. 1 teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
- 1 (5.5-6.5 kg.) Thawed and gutted turkey
For lemon brine:
- 7.5 liters water
- 1 tbsp. Sahara
- 1 tbsp. coarse salt
- 2 lemons, cut into slices
- 4 leaves of laurel
- 3 cinnamon rolls
- A small handful of cloves
Recipes with similar ingredients: turkey, lemon, bay leaf, cinnamon, clove
Recipe preparation:
- Put in a large container all the brine ingredients and to stir thoroughly. Immerse the turkey in the brine and put in cold place for 6-10 hours.
- Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Take out the turkey from the brine and put in a baking dish. Stuff the turkey pulled out of pickle lemon slices, bay leaves, and straws cinnamon.
- Put the turkey in the bottom of the oven and bake for 3.5 hours, pouring turkey juice every 40 minutes. If the turkey is burnt, cover with foil. You can check the readiness of the turkey by piercing with a knife thigh, spilled juice should be transparent. Take turkey out oven and place on a cutting board, leave on 20 minutes. Recipe “Classic turkey sauce”
