astray recipes: Italian roasted turkey

Categories: Turkey; Thanksgivin
Yield: 10 Servings

Measure	Ingredient
1 tablespoon	Italian seasoning
2 teaspoons	Season-all season salt
2 teaspoons	Dry ground mustard
1 teaspoon	Garlic powder
½ teaspoon	Black pepper
1	Turkey; (about 12 lbs.) fresh or frozen, thawed
2	Bay leaves
2	Stalks celery
1	Onion; quartered
1 small	Orange; quartered
1 tablespoon	Olive oil; (1 to 2)

Preheat oven to 325ø F. Combine first 5 ingredients; set aside, WASH turkey and remove giblets, Place turkey on rack in shallow baking pan. Sprinkle 2 tsp of seasoning mixture inside the turkey, Stuff Bay Leaves, celery stalks, onion and orange inside turkey. Rub oil and remaining seasoning mixture over entire surface of turkey. Loosely tent with foil. bake 3½ - 4 hours or until meat thermometer reads 180 F in thigh. Baste several times with pan juices. Remove foil during the last 30 minutes of cooking.

Formatted by RecipeLu, Orginal post by mhembree@... (mary key) on 2 Nov 1997 22:06:06 -0700, converted by MC_Buster.

Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 314 by RecipeLu <recipelu@...> on Nov 27, 1997

italian roasted turkey