Sorry
I didn't write on the blog for a while I was deployed with the Navy. On another
note let's get BBQing! Well I decided to BBQ and smoke my turkey this year on
my BBQ. I started by buying a good quality Butter Ball Turkey at my local
grocery store. I then left it unthaw in the refrigerator for two days. I then
decided to brine my turkey overnight for 12 hours. I used the following recipe
for my brine:
Ingredients
·
3 cups salt
·
3 cups brown sugar
·
3 gallon cold water
Direction
In
a large clean cooler poor in the water and stir in the ingredients till they
are well dissolved. No place a couple large bags of ice in the brine to keep it
cool and submerge your turkey in the brine for twelve hours and place the
cooler in cool place.
Now
comes the fun part. Take your turkey out of the brine and give it a quick rinse
under a cold tap. Then you want to pat your turkey dry with some paper towel.
I
placed my turkey in a foil pan inside a v-rack. Its now time to inject the
turkey. I used the following recipe for my injection:
Ingredients
1
1/2 cup melted butter
1/2
cup chicken broth
2
tsp of garlic powder
1
tsp of Bone Sukin' Sauce Seasoning & Rub
1/2
tsp Dizzy Pig Jamaican Firewalk
Direction
Stir
the melted butter and chicken broth mixing in the spices till they are well dissolved
on low heat in a small pot. Now let it cool just a little bit.
You
now want to inject your turkey with this injection solution with a injection
every square inch or so of the bird! Now let your bird sit for about 20
minutes.
Picture from www.fredsmusicandbbq.com/
Its
now time to season the turkey with spices. I covered my turkey with a generous
amount of Tasty Licks Savory Poultry seasoning and herbs. I also added some
parsley to my turkey and a dash of Bone Sukin' Sauce Seasoning & Rub.
Ensure that the inside cavity is coated with rub as well.
I
also stuffed my turkey with some onions for added moisture and flavor I also
filled my pan with chicken broth to create some flavor moisture while my
turkey smoke and cook.
Its
finally time to start cooking. I pre-warmed my Big Green Egg to 230 degrees Fahrenheit
and added a few pieces of Cherry wood chunk to the hot coals.
I
then placed my plate setter with legs up with my grill sitting on top to smoke
and cook this bird indirect.
Now
place the bird and pan on top of grill and let it smoke for about 1.5 hour at
230 degrees Fahrenheit.
Now
you want to increase the heat of the BBQ to 425 degrees Fahrenheit and cook the
Turkey till the internal temperature reaches 165 degrees Fahrenheit. Also don't forget to baste the bird every 20 minutes with the juices in the pan. It took my
turkey approximately 2 hours at this temp to be ready. If you turkey is
starting to brown to much you can tent it with foil to protect it from burning.
When done tent the turkey in foil for 30 minutes to let the juices settle in the meat!
Enjoy
and Bon Appétit! and Happy Easter!
