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This simple turkey brine works overnight to ensure your turkey is moist, juicy, and full of delicious flavor! Use this easy brine on a fresh turkey, not on one already injected with any other brining solution. This recipe makes enough brine for a turkey in the 15- to 20-pound range.
A basic turkey brine should be simple with inexpensive kitchen staples: water, salt, sugar, garlic, and some fresh or even dried spices. You can also change it up based on what you have on hand (see variations below).
Now allow the brine to cool down to room temperature (about 30 minutes). Once the brine has cooled down to room temperature add the remaining 8 cups of water from the freezer. Stir and allow the brine to completely cool down. About another 5-10 minutes. Now carefully add the turkey breast inside the pot with the brine.
Ingredients You’ll Need. This wet brine recipe requires a few fresh ingredients, lots of cold water, and the turkey of course. Turkey: use either a raw turkey or defrost a frozen turkey. Apple Cider or Apple Juice: adds a wonderful flavor to the turkey. Fresh Herbs: fresh rosemary, fresh sage, fresh Italian parsley, fresh thyme.
Follow our step-by-step guide for how to wet brine a turkey and learn why brine turkey at all. Also, learn how to use a brine bag.
Brining involves soaking a turkey in a very salty solution for a certain length of time, long enough for the salt to infiltrate the turkey and actually alter the molecular structure of the meat. It doesn't turn it into a salty mess, either. It just results in a juicy, fantastic turkey.
After roasting countless turkeys over the past few decades, I can confidently say that giving your bird a dunk in a luxurious saltwater brine (also known as a wet brine) results in extra tender, impossibly juicy meat. Learn how to brine turkey with this simple step-by-step recipe, and you’ll never want to prep it any other way.