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Roasted Turkey Legs
Author: Enriqueta Lemoine
Serves: 4
These juicy and tender roasted turkey legs are very easy to make
Ingredients
- 4 turkey legs, washed and dried with paper towels
- ½ cup butter
- 6 garlic cloves
- ½ cup parsley
- 1 tablespoon of fresh rosemary
- 1 tablespoon of fresh thyme
- 1 sage leaf
- 3 celery stalks, chopped
- 2 carrots, chopped
- ½ onion, chopped
- Salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven at 325˚F.
- In a food processor, combine butter, garlic, herbs to form a creamy herb butter.
- Peel away the turkey legs' skin and insert some of the butter mixture between the skin and the meat.
- Now apply the herbed butter with a brush all over the turkey leg.
- Put an oven bag inside a dutch oven and then add the celery, carrots and onions inside of the bag .
- Put the turkey legs inside the bag on top of the vegetables.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Tie the bag and bake the turkey for an hour and thirty minutes. Tip: put the dutch oven in the middle.
- Take out of the oven, carefully untie the bag so the vapor does not burn you and allow to cool for 10 minutes.
- Serve the turkey legs without the vegetables.
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Photo: Enriqueta Lemoine
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