Bacon Wrapped Turkey

Juiciest Thanksgiving Turkey Ever!!

 

How can you go wrong with Bacon

Doesn't this Turkey look delicious!!

 

 

To make a bacon wrapped turkey.

Prepare your turkey like normal: add stuffing, apply injections

 (whatever you like to do). Then once the turkey is ready to go

in the oven, you cover the entire top and sides with bacon.

 

Turkey ready for the oven and waiting for bacon.

 

as shown in the above 3 photo's you can see what my finished turkey looks like.

I started with the main part of the bird and criss-crossed strips of bacon over the entire body. If any of the bacon slips just add a toothpick. the tricky part is the legs. Just use shorter pieces of bacon and use more toothpicks to keep in place. The toothpicks will be easy to take out after baking and before carving (the bacon will be crispy after baking and will hold together without them)

 

Quick Note: when covering the body, make sure you don't cover up the thermometer (the red circle shown 2 photo's up)

 

If any of this is confusing, just ask me.

 

Happy November

 

Carrie

Bacon wrapped Turkey

Bacon wrapped Turkey

We'll I decided to use a new technique for cooking my turkey this year for Christmas.

All I did was put stuffing in the inside and then wrapped it with bacon. Nothing else.

I criss crossed the bacon across the top of the bird 1st (making sure that I didn't cover the thermometer up. Then covered the legs. I had to use toothpicks in a couple places to keep the bacon in place.Then I placed in the oven for the amount of hours and temp for this size bird and 4 hours later and 2 stops to quickly bast. and there you go. (I did have tinfoil over it for the first 3 hours and then took it off for the last hour).

This was not ONLY the Juiciest turkey I have ever had but it had a great mild flavor to it also because of the bacon. I am definitely going to do this again come thanksgiving. Yumm

Happy Cooking !!