Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, dad's turkey brine. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Ok, so we bought a turkey for Thanksgiving that wasn't brined, and decided it was necessary. We read a few recipes on ye olde interwebs and came up with this one. Recording it here in case we want to do it again. :-P During the brining period, the salt from the brine causes some of the proteins in the turkey to unwind.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have dad's turkey brine using 11 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Dad's Turkey Brine:

1. Get 1 cup Kosher Salt
2. Make ready 4 quarts water
3. Make ready 1 sprig fresh Rosemary (8 inch stalk)
4. Make ready 1 sprig fresh Oregano (8 inch stalk)
5. Prepare 1 tablespoon Everyday seasoning
6. Get 1 tablespoon Peppercorns
7. Take 1 tablespoon Cloves
8. Prepare 1 tablespoon Thyme
9. Get 6 Bay leaves
10. Prepare Peel of 1 lemon
11. Take Peel of 1 orange

I will never cook a turkey any other way.' - Katrina Taylor. Give your turkey flavor from the inside. Here is how you achieve that. Gently work your fingers between the skin and the breast, then rub some of the brine directly onto the breast meat.

Steps to make Dad's Turkey Brine:

1. Prepare a large pot or food-safe storage bin that will fit your turkey and completely submerge it in the brine. We had to use a 22 quart storage container for ours, which was too big. Something between 14 and 20 quarts would probably be fine, depending on the size of your turkey. You can also use a large food-safe storage bag, but be careful to get a bag that won't leak.
2. Clear out enough room in your fridge to fit the pot, storage bin or bag.
3. Put 2 quarts of water in a big pot and bring to a boil. Add the salt and stir in until it is completely dissolved.
4. Lower heat to medium high, add in the other ingredients and stir periodically for 10 minutes.
5. Use a potato peeler to remove the outer skin of the orange and the lemon. Add the peels to the brine mixture. (Don't use the whole peel, because the white part of the peel is bitter.)
6. Lower heat to simmering for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
7. Take the brine mixture off the heat and add the other 2 quarts of water and stir in.
8. Allow the brine mixture to cool to room temperature. (Don't put hot or warm brine on the turkey, because you will start to cook it prematurely.)
9. Remove the turkey from the bag it came in, rinse it off, remove the giblets, put the turkey in your brine-ing container and place it in the refrigerator.
10. Once cooled, pour the brine over the turkey. Make sure the turkey is completely submerged. If needed, add more brine mixture at 1 quart of water to a 1/4 cup of Kosher salt.
11. Cover the the container (or close the bag) and let sit in the refrigerator for 12 to 24 hours.
12. Rinse off the turkey with cool water, pat dry and cook as usual. Brined turkeys tend to cook a bit faster (20 to 30 minutes), so check your bird early.

Sprinkle and rub the rest of the dry brine evenly over the turkey. Injection brine the turkey: Stir the brine ingredients in a measuring cup until the salt and sugar dissolve. Inject the brine into the turkey, pushing the needle all the way in, then slowly pulling the needle out while depressing the plunger to inject the brine. Try to inject brine into the meat about every inch to inch and a half. The brine is made the same way regardless of the size of your turkey.

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