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Tom Douglas' Coffee Bean Turkey

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Give your turkey a kick of caffeine.
skill level
Easy
time
Over 120min
servings
13
cost
$
Contributed by : Tom Douglas
Are you looking for a new way to prepare your turkey this year? Try this coffee-bean version.
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ingredients
  • 1 fresh whole turkey (about 15 pounds)
  • 6 tablespoon butter (at room temperature)
  • 6 tablespoon butter (melted)
  • Kosher salt
  • Freshly ground black pepper
  • 12 sage leaves
  • 1/2 cup dark-roasted coffee beans
  • 1 tablespoon rendered bacon fat (melted)
  • 1 onion (cut in half lengthwise and julienned)
  • 5 garlic cloves (peeled but left whole)
  • 7 to 8 cup chicken or turkey broth (heated)
  • 1/2 Cup instant quick-dissolving flour such as Wondra
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  • step 1
    ingredients    
    instructions FOR THE TURKEY: Preheat the oven to 350°F.
  • step 2
    ingredients 1 fresh whole turkey (about 15 pounds)
    instructions If the turkey has a metal clamp on its legs, remove it. Remove the giblets and neck from the cavity, if included, and reserve for another use or discard. Remove the cavity fat, then rinse the turkey well and pat dry with paper towels.
  • step 3
    ingredients 6 tablespoon butter (at room temperature)
    Salt and pepper
    6 sage leaves
    instructions In a small bowl, mash the 6 tablespoons room-temperature butter until smooth and season with salt and pepper. Using your fingers, and starting from the cavity end of the turkey, separate the skin from the breast meat, being careful not to tear the skin. Gently rub the softened butter evenly over the breast meat, then insert 6 of the sage leaves under the skin, placing 3 leaves on each breast half.
  • step 4
    ingredients 6 tablespoon butter (melted)
    Kosher salt
    Freshly ground black pepper
    1/2 cup dark-roasted coffee beans
    instructions Pat the skin back into place, and then brush the whole exterior of the bird with some of the melted butter. Season the turkey all over, including the cavity, with salt and pepper. Sprinkle the coffee beans inside the cavity.
  • step 5
    ingredients 1 tablespoon rendered bacon fat (melted)
    1 onion (cut in half lengthwise and julienned)
    instructions Brush the bottom of a roasting pan just large enough to accommodate the turkey with the bacon fat, then make a bed of the onion slices in the center of the pan. Place the turkey, breast side up, on top of the onion.
  • step 6
    ingredients 12 sage leaves
    5 garlic cloves (peeled but left whole)
    5 cup chicken or turkey broth (heated)
    instructions Place the turkey in the oven and roast for 1 hour. Baste the turkey with some of the melted butter and add the garlic, the remaining 6 sage leaves, and 5 cups of the broth to the pan. Continue to roast the turkey, basting with butter at regular intervals a few more times, for another 1 1/2 to 2 hours. If the turkey is browning too much, tent with aluminum foil. The turkey is done if when a thigh joint is pierced the juices run clear, or when an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of a thigh away from bone registers 155° to 165°F. 
  • step 7
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    instructions Remove the turkey from oven, transfer to a platter, and tent with aluminum foil. Let rest for about 20 minutes.
  • step 8
    ingredients 2 to 3 cup chicken or turkey broth (heated)
    1/2 Cup instant quick-dissolving flour such as Wondra
    Salt and pepper
    instructions FOR THE GRAVY: Before beginning, remove any stray coffee beans that may have escaped from the turkey cavity into the roasting pan. Set the roasting pan with the onion slices and juices on the stove top over medium-high heat. You may need to straddle the pan over two burners. Using a wooden spoon, stir up any browned bits stuck to the pan bottom and continue stirring for a few minutes. Sprinkle the flour evenly over the onion and juices and stir until well combined, 1 to 2 minutes. Add 2 cups of the broth and any juices that have collected around the turkey on the platter, then simmer gently, whisking occasionally, until thickened, 8 to 10 minutes, If the gravy seems too thick, add more broth. Season with salt and pepper.  Pour the gravy into a warmed gravy boat and keep warm.
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