Slow-Roasted Turkey: An Old-School Recipe With Fall-Off-the-Bone Results

Slow-Roasted Turkey: An Old-School Recipe With Fall-Off-the-Bone Results
Make this old-school slow-roasted turkey the star of your holiday table. This method works best with small to medium birds. Jennifer McGruther
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Roast turkey, the centerpiece of most Thanksgiving dinners, can make (or break) the meal. With that much pressure placed on a single dish, it’s easy to feel intimidated. There are complex brines and dry-rubs to make, temperature and timing to keep, and the tetris-like game of fitting all the casseroles and baking dishes into the oven with the hope of it all coming out piping hot and ready at the same time.

Inheriting my husband’s family slow-roasted turkey recipe solved those riddles for me.

Jennifer McGruther
Jennifer McGruther
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Jennifer McGruther is a nutritional therapy practitioner, herbalist, and the author of three cookbooks, including “Vibrant Botanicals.” She’s also the creator of NourishedKitchen.com, a website that celebrates traditional foodways, herbal remedies, and fermentation. She teaches workshops on natural foods and herbalism, and currently lives in the Pacific Northwest.
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