How To Cook Turkey Overnight

Place the turkey in the bottom of the oven for 10 hours.

How to cook turkey overnight. Place the turkey in the oven at 400 and roast for 30 minutes. Ensure you cover the bird and really seal the edges. Add the turkey neck liver and gizzard to the water in the pan.

Spread seasonings of your choice all over the turkey inside and out. Don t worry about basting. I actually recommend the bigger turkey for an overnight cook especially if you re going to eat around 3 4pm because cook and rest time is perfect for eating fresh off the carving board on time.

Brush oil over the skin to ensure better browning. Set a rack in a roasting pan fill the pan with about a quart of water arrange the turkey breast side up on the rack and wrap the pan tightly in aluminum foil. That s about eight hours of cooking stress free.

Preheat oven to 250 f. Clean and peel two heads of garlic and place garlic celery parsnips onions and water under the rack add enough water to come to the top of the rack and not to touch the turkey itself. Put the onion celery and garlic cloves inside the turkey along with several bay leaves.

We did open the oven twice at about 8 hours cooktime to look at it couldn t help it and another at 10 hours to insert. You can t stuff this bird. The low temperature and moisture from the water will cook it gently.

One more caveat to overnight roasting. Prepping the turkey for bed once the turkey has cooked at a bacteria killing 450f for45 to 60 minutes it s time to prep both the oven and the turkey for overnight roasting. Rinse the turkey and pat it dry.