Portuguese Turkey With Bread Stuffing
Updated Oct. 12, 2023
- Total Time
- 3 hours 20 minutes
- Prep Time
- 20 minutes
- Cook Time
- 3 hours
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Ingredients
- 212-pound turkeys
- Salt to taste
- 2bottles dry white wine
- 8large cloves garlic
- 2tablespoons sweet Hungarian paprika
- 4bay leaves
- 2tablespoons hot pepper sauce
- 2teaspoons fresh oregano leaves
- Turkey stuffing (see recipe)
- Bread crusts to cover cavity opening
- 1pound sliced bacon, cut into 1-inch pieces
Preparation
- Step 1
Soak turkeys in salted water under refrigeration for 24 hours.
- Step 2
Combine wine, garlic, paprika, bay leaves, salt, hot pepper sauce and oregano. Marinate turkeys in this mixture for 24 hours under refrigeration. Turn occasionally.
- Step 3
When ready to cook, preheat oven to 450 degrees. Remove turkeys from marinade, reserving marinade. Pack turkeys loosely with stuffing and cover openings of cavities with bread crusts; sew cavities closed. Bake remaining stuffing separately during the last half-hour turkeys are roasting.
- Step 4
Wrap turkey wings in foil. Put turkeys into roasting pans and top with pieces of bacon, putting some beneath turkeys as well. Pour reserved marinade over turkeys.
- Step 5
Roast turkeys for 30 minutes; reduce heat to 350 degrees and roast turkeys about 2½ hours more. If turkeys get too brown before they are cooked, put aluminum foil over the top. If turkeys are roasted in a single oven, they may need 30 minutes or more of extra roasting time.
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You can use water instead of wine