Bacon Wrapped Roasted Turkey

Total Time: 3 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 13
• 1 (13 lb) whole turkey (uncooked)
• kitchen twine (to tie turkey)
• aluminum foil
• 2 cups butter (softened)
• 1 1/2 ounces fresh sage
• 1 lb bacon (uncooked)
• 1 onion
• 1 garlic clove
• salt (to taste)
• pepper (to taste)

Recipe

• 1 pre-heat oven to 325°f
• 2 remove giblets and neck from turkey. rinse turkey with cold running water and drain well. blot dry with paper towels.
• 3 chop onion and garlic and mix together. once chopped and mixed, stuff the onion and garlic mixture into turkey.
• 4 tie up the turkey's wings, legs, and drumsticks with kitchen twine as desired.
• 5 chop sage and mix in with softened butter.
• 6 rub sage/butter mixture under the skin and over the skin of the turkey.
• 7 salt and pepper turkey to taste.
• 8 place uncooked, bacon slices all over the skin of the uncooked turkey. they will stick onto the buttered turkey.
• 9 insert an oven-safe meat thermometer into the inner thigh area near the breast of the turkey but not touching the bone.
• 10 place turkey in a roasting pan and use foil to tent the uncooked turkey.
• 11 remove foil tent for last hour of cooking turkey.
• 12 continue to let bacon cook on turkey for an additional 15 minutes, then remove. (optional - bacon can then be chopped and placed in a separate dish of your choice).
• 13 remove turkey from oven once 160 degrees is reached internally in the turkey.
• 14 allow turkey to rest for 20-30 minutes, then carve (during the rest period, turkey will continue to cook to 165 degrees).