Make Your Turkey Melt in Your Mouth Turkey Brine recipe

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Ingredients

9 (14.5 ounce) cans chicken broth
1 (64 fluid ounce) bottle apple juice
4 oranges, halved
7 stalks celery, cut into large chunks
3 onions, cut into large chunks
6 sprigs fresh rosemary
6 sprigs fresh thyme
4 bay leaves
2 fresh sage leaves
½ cup kosher salt
¼ cup poultry seasoning
2 tablespoons ground black pepper

Nutrition Info

44 calories
carbohydrate: 9.3 g
cholesterol: 2.7 mg
fat: 0.4 g
fiber: 0.5 g
protein: 0.8 g
saturatedFat: : -
servingSize: -
sodium: 2050.1 mg
sugar: 7.7 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Combine chicken broth and apple juice in a food-safe container large enough to hold your turkey and the brine ingredients. Squeeze juice from orange halves and drop spent orange halves into the broth mixture, add celery, onion, rosemary, thyme, bay leaves, and sage leaves to the mixture. Stir salt, poultry seasoning, and black pepper into the liquid to dissolve.

Recipe Yield

30 servings

Recipe Note

This brine is super simple and makes your turkey so moist and delicious you'll be asked to make it again and again.

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