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White Cranberry Brined Turkey

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  • White Cranberry Brined Turkey

Ingredients:

2 64-ounce bottles Ocean Spray® White Cranberry Juice Drink
1 gallon water
2 cups Kosher salt
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons whole black peppercorns
8 cloves garlic, crushed
8 bay leaves
1 8 to 12-pound whole turkey, neck and giblets reserved for another use

Directions:

Mix all ingredients, except turkey, in a 13 1/2-quart stockpot until salt and sugar are mostly dissolved. Submerge turkey in brine. Refrigerate turkey in covered stockpot for 12 to 18 hours.

Discard brine. Dry turkey with paper towels.

Preheat oven to 325ºF. Roast unstuffed turkey for 2 3/4 to 3 hours or until internal temperature of the thigh reaches 180ºF.

OR

Grill turkey over medium indirect heat with a drip pan under the grill. Grill an 8 to 12 pound turkey for 2 to 3 hours or until internal temperature of thigh reaches 180ºF.


VARIATION: To brine one turkey breast, up to 5 pounds:

Ingredients:
4 cups Ocean Spray® White Cranberry Juice Drink
1/4 cup Kosher salt
2 tablespoons sugar
2 bay leaves
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 teaspoon whole peppercorns

Directions:
Place Turkey breast in 2-gallon resealable food storage bag with brine ingredients. Marinate for 4 hours in refrigerator.

Grill over medium indirect heat for about 1 hour or until internal temperature reaches 180ºF. Or roast turkey breast in an open foil-lined roasting pan at 325ºF for 1 1/2 to 2 hours or until internal temperature reaches 180ºF.

White Cranberry Juice Drink

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Tanglela from Houston, Texas
11/14/2011 at 12:11 PM

The receipe came out great. My only problem was that i could not find white cranberry drink anywhere and had to substiute it for white cranberry peach. It gave the turkey a whole differnt taste! It was even better in turkey soup the next day.

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06/16/2011 at 09:25 AM

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Stars Wonderful recipe!

Stephanie from Commerce, GA
11/25/2008 at 12:57 PM

We use this recipe every year to brine our turkey. It makes for a wonderfully flavored and moist turkey. And we've found a brined turkey cooks more quickly than a non-brined turkey as well. We highly recommend this recipe.

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Anonymous from ,
11/28/2007 at 01:15 PM

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Stars Fantastic!

Anonymous from State College, PA
11/10/2007 at 08:56 AM

I started to brine my turkey a couple of years ago and I used this recipe. It's easy and the turkey comes out so juicy. People are shocked when I tell them it was brined in cranberry juice!

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