Description
Homemade Turkey Brine Recipe
Ingredients
Scale
- 5 quarts of filtered water
- 1 cup of coconut sugar
- 4 bay leaves
- 4 carrots, roughly chopped
- 2 stalks of celery, roughly chopped
- 2 medium yellow onions, peeled and quartered
- 12 peppercorns
- 1 lemon quartered
- 1 cup of Himalayan salt ( sea salt works well too)
- 3 sprigs of fresh rosemary
- 4 cloves of peeled garlic
- 1 teaspoon of ground allspice
- 4 sprigs of fresh sage leaves
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to a large stockpot and bring to a boil.
- Reduce to lowest setting on heat, cover and simmer for 1 hour.
- Turn off heat, allow stock to cool to room temperature.
- Strain out vegetables and herbs and add brine back to large stockpot.
- Add turkey into stockpot. If turkey is not submerged under the brine, add more water. Cover with lid.
- Place stockpot in refrigerator and allow turkey to soak in brine for 12-24 hours.
- Drain brine and rinse turkey well inside and out. Pat turkey dry and its time to roast your turkey!