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Bone Marrow Butter Roast Turkey & Gravy

If you’ve been following me on Instagram for a while, you probably know that I’ve been celebrating Thanksgiving with my friend Melinda and her family for the past 7 years, it’s tradition! Sadly, Melinda didn’t host this year, so I decided to host a Friendsgiving potluck with my friends and make my first turkey!

I was so excited but also nervous to make the perfect juicy bird, so I did research on techniques and I literally could not sleep coming up with ideas on how to keep my bird moist. Most recipes recommended slathering the turkey breast with butter – but that’s a no-no in the kosher kitchen, so I needed an alternative. Of course I could go the margarine route, but anyone who knows me knows that I don’t do margarine. Like ever! (Trauma from kosher culinary school and my mom’s kitchen growing up!).

Alas, as I twisted and turned at night, I came up with the most amazing non-vegan-butter alternative – MARROW BONE BUTTER! I roasted marrow bones with garlic to make a buttery confit, and I blitzed it in the food processor to make the most umami, lip-smacking butter that I literally took my bird OVER THE TOP! My guests could not get enough (even the turkey haters!) and it was an absolute success.

I may have to bring it to Melinda’s Thanksgiving next year!

If you’re wondering, here’s what all my friends brought to the potluck!

I made turkey and gravy, red wine cranberry sauce, chestnut hummus and stuffing and my daughter made her amazing sourdough bread.

My friends brought:

Orzo with mushrooms
Meat stuffed peppers
Roasted potatoes
Strawberry apple crisp
Sweet potato Pie
Roasted brussels sprouts
Nish Nosh salad
Arugula salad with oranges, dates, mint

For dessert we had:

Pecan Pie
Lotus Babka
Streusel cookies
Cinnamon cake with maple frosting

I’m thinking this Friendsgiving thing has to happen every year! So grateful for good friends and reasons to celebrate!

Bone Marrow Butter Roast Turkey & Gravy

6 marrow bones
6 oz. peeled garlic
3 sprigs thyme
salt and pepper, to taste
1 cup extra virgin olive oil, or enough to almost cover
13 lb. turkey
1 onion, roughly chopped
2 carrots, roughly chopped
2 celery, roughly chopped
7 lady apples (mini baby apples)
1 apple, sliced in half
1/2 orange
1 small head garlic
bundle of mixed herbs (I used tarragon, rosemary and thyme)

Gravy:
1/4 cup oil from the drippings
6 tbsp flour
2 cups turkey stock (may sub chicken)
salt and pepper, to taste

Method:

First make the bone marrow butter. In a non-reactive dish, combine the marrow bones, garlic, thyme, salt, pepper and olive oil to almost cover. Bake at 375 until the garlic is soft and starting to brown and caramelize, about 30 minutes.

Scoop the marrow from the bones into a food processor with the S-blade attached. Add the garlic and a bit of the oil (1/4 cup) and blend until creamy. Transfer to a container and put in the freezer to solidify while you work on the turkey.

Place the chopped onions, carrots, celery and lady apples in the bottom of a roasting dish. Season with salt, pepper and toss with a bit of olive oil. Place the turkey rack on top.

Thoroughly dry the turkey on all sides, taking special care to dry out the cavity. Stuff the cavity with apple halves, orange, garlic, and herb bundle. Tie the legs with oven-safe string. Remove the marrow butter from the freezer (if it’s too frozen, allow it to soften for a few minutes) and generously slather it under the chicken skin, spreading it out over the breast (be careful not to rip the skin).

Pour some of the remaining confit oil over the turkey and rub it all over the skin. Season with salt and pepper.

Roast the turkey, breast-side-up at 350 degrees for 13 minutes per lb. or until it reaches 160 degrees (I recommend the thermometer method), basting every hour with the pan juices. If the skin starts to get too brown, you can tent it with foil.

Remove the turkey rack from the roasting dish and set aside. Using a slotted spoon, remove the roasted vegetables and apples and set them aside. Pour all the pan juices into a measuring cup, allow them to settle and use a spoon to separate most of the fat from the pan drippings.

Place the roasting dish on the fire and and add 1/4 cup oil from the roasting pan. Add flour and whisk until a paste forms, stirring the mixture over the entire pan to incorporate all the bits of flavor from the pan. Stir the paste until it takes on a deep tan color, about 6 minutes.  Add the turkey stock and whisk until creamy. Pour in the pan drippings and whisk to incorporate. Pour the gravy through a fine-mesh sieve to strain.

Serve the turkey with gravy and roasted apples from the pan. Gobble Gobble!

More Thanksgiving Recipes:

Thanksgiving grazing board
chestnut hummus
cranberry oat bars
stuffed dates with chestnut cream
baklava pumpkin pie
acorn squash with wild rice stuffing
cookie butter pumpkin pie
Mexican hot chocolate pecan pie
cranberry sriracha green beans
shaved brussels sprouts salad

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Thankgiving Turkey Roulade with 5-Minute Stuffing

When the “Kosher Connection” Team decided to feature stuffing for the November LinkUp, I was so excited to post this recipe! I also happen to be doing a Thanksgiving demo tonight, so the timing was perfect to develop this dish to perfection. I prefer to make individual turkey roulades using turkey cutlets, but you can also make one larger one using a turkey london broil (essentially a skinless, boneless turkey breast half) that’s been butterflied and pounded. The visual impact is enough to make everyone at the table ooh and ahh. And that’s before they’ve even tasted it.

Now I love a beautiful plate of food as much of the other person, but I don’t like to spend hours in the kitchen. To simplify this recipe, I decided not to sear the turkey breasts (this gives it a nice brown color all around) because that would require me to tie each one up with kitchen twine. Instead, I just rubbed them down with some paprika, garlic powder and olive oil, baked seam-side down in the pan. My 5-Minute (no-joke!) stuffing also keeps things simple, but you can easily stuff the roulades with any store-bought filling (even cold cuts, like in this recipe).

So, if you’re making thanksgiving for a small group, and a whole turkey seems too large for your crowd (or like me, you’re daunted by the thought of cooking the huge bird), give this beautiful and delicious recipe a try!

Gobble, gobble!

For more delicious Thanksgiving stuffing recipes, visit the Kosher Connection Linkup below. Happy Thanksgiving!

Turkey Roulade

1 pkg turkey cutlets
salt and pepper
5 minute stuffing (recipe below)
paprika
garlic powder
extra virgin olive oil
1/4 cup chicken stock

Method:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place turkey cutlets between two sheets of plastic wrap and pound with a mallet or rolling pin to even thickness. Remove plastic wrap and season with salt and pepper. Place a spoonful of stuffing on the turkey breast and spread out over cutlet, leaving a 1″ border all around. Starting from the shortest side, roll the turkey breast tightly and place seam-side down in a baking dish. Repeat with remaining cutlets (use a second baking dish, if needed). Sprinkle the roulades with paprika and garlic powder and drizzle with olive oil. Lightly rub in the spices. Pour 1/4 cup chicken stock into the bottom of the pan (repeat with 2nd pan, if you are using). Cover, and bake for 15-20 minutes (more for thicker cutlets). Uncover and bake for an additional 5 minutes.

Slice each roulade and serve over cranberry sauce. My mulled wine version works wonderfully with this recipe!

VARIATION: Instead of cutlets, you can make a larger roulade using a butterflied turkey breast (or turkey london broil). Pound out the breast to even thickness and continue as above. Bake for approximately 1 hour, until thermometer reaches 160 degrees.

One taste of this fantastic stuffing and you’d never imagine it took only 5 minutes to make! There are few tricks here! Firstly, instead of sauteing up onion and garlic, I just use onion and garlic flavored croutons! Nifty, right? Then, I add just a touch of poultry seasoning (a little goes a long way!) to give it that been-stuffed-into-a-bird-for-hours quality! Using frozen spinach not only eliminates work, it also adds a beautiful touch of green – so festive and autumnesque!

5-Minute Stuffing

1 10oz. box frozen chopped spinach, thawed
2 tbsp olive oil
salt and pepper, to taste
2 cups chicken stock
1 5.25oz. bag onion & garlic flavored croutons
1/4 tsp poultry seasoning

Method:

Using gloves, squeeze out spinach to remove water. Heat up olive oil in a skillet and add spinach. Season with salt and pepper, and stir until heated through. Add chicken stock, stirring to incorporate, and heat through. Add the croutons and poultry seasoning and stir until croutons soften and soak up the chicken stock.

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