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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  North American >> Canadian >> Canadian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Defrost turkey completely. Preheat oven to 325°F. | 2. Prepare desired stuffing (about 5-7 cups for this size turkey); set aside. | 3. Remove any innards (kidney's, neck etc), and excess fat from the neck or chest cavity then rinse thoughroughly with cool water; pat dry. | 4. Combine the butter, orange juice, maple syrup, thyme, salt & pepper in a microwave safe bowl. Heat to melt (30-60 seconds). | 5. Stuff chest cavity loosely and secure skin flap by making a small hole just big enough to strech over the leg bones. If the skin flap has been removed, don't worry, the turkey will be tented with foil. | 6. Set turkey in roasting pan (i didn't use a roasting rack but you can if you like!) Pour in 1 cup broth and 1 cup water. | 7. Using a baster, inject some maple butter under the breast skin until a bubble forms. Push the bubble around a bit to spread it out. | 8. Baste the turkey with more maple butter and set aside any extra. | 9. Put on middle rack of oven, uncovered, for the first 30 minutes. At that time baste and cover tukey with a foil tent and continue to baste every 30 minutes. | 10. After 2 hours of cooking add veggies, bay leaves and garlic around the turkey. Add additional cup of brothand any extra maple butter. Again, continue basting every 30 minutes. | 11. This size turkey should take about 4 hours to cook. During last 30 minutes, remove foil to let skin crisp up. | 12. You'll know the turkey is done when the drumsticks move loosely in sockets and a temperature of 160 F is reached in the thickest part of the thigh. | 13. Set turkey on carving board and refoil, let rest for 30 minutes before carving. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
turkey	12 -14			0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
butter	1/2	cup	unsalted	684.0	31.428	21.372	57.6
orange juice	1/4	cup		27.9	6.4479999999999995	0.434	0.124
maple syrup	1/4	cup		204.75	52.794	0.0315	0.0472
thyme	1	tablespoon	minced	2.424	0.5868	0.1334	0.0403
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
black pepper	1/2	teaspoon		2.8865	0.7354	0.1195	0.0375
chicken broth	2	cups		156.24	3.78	22.2768	5.2416
water	1	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
bay leaf	4			-	-	-	-
celery rib	4		chopped	-	-	-	-
onion	1		chopped	60.0	14.01	1.65	0.15
carrot	3		chopped	88.56	20.6928	2.0088	0.5184
garlic clove	10			-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.