apple-stuffed turkey

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• 1 (12 pound) whole turkey - thawed, neck and giblets removed
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil, or as needed
• 5 apples, cored and quartered
• 5 pounds whole unpeeled apples

Recipe

Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs 30 mins

Ready Time: 3 hrs


• preheat oven to 375 degrees f (190 degrees c).
• if necessary, unbind legs of turkey. rinse and dry turkey with paper towels. place turkey into a roasting pan with a lid, and rub the oil all over the turkey, inside and out. stuff the body and neck cavities of the turkey with the apple quarters; arrange whole apples around the turkey in the roasting pan. scatter any extra apple quarters into the pan. cover the roasting pan.
• roast in the preheated oven until the skin is browned and the meat is beginning to separate from the legs, 2 1/2 to 3 hours. remove lid in last 20 minutes of roasting if needed to brown skin. use pan drippings for gravy, if desired.