The Best Way to Cook A Turkey (wrapped in bacon)
By ditchthecarbs.com
The best way to cook a bacon-wrapped turkey and you can say goodbye to dry roast turkey. Once and for all. This is the easy turkey recipe PLUS an easy-to-follow cooking schedule.
Servings: 10
NET Carbs: 0.6g
Protein: 67.8g
Fat: 40.3g
Ingredients
Pork and Sage Stuffing (optional - see notes)
- 1 (1 ) onion finely diced
- 1 tablespoon (1 tablespoon) dried sage
- 750 g (1.7 lb) ground pork sausage meat
- 1 (1 ) eggs - medium
- +/- (+/-) salt and pepper
Instructions
Pork and Sage Stuffing (optional - see notes)
- Place the onion, sage, pork and egg in a mixing bowl.
- Mix through with your hands, squeezing all the ingredients together.
- Half will be used to stuff the turkey breast, a quarter will be used to stuff the turkey cavity, and the remaining quarter can be rolled into balls and baked for 30 minutes.
Easy Roast Turkey
- Separate the skin from the turkey breast and push half of the stuffing gently as you can into the space.
- Rub the butter over the skin of the turkey breast and legs.
- Cover turkey as shown with slices of streaky bacon.
- Loosely wrap the large aluminium foil around the turkey and turn over the edges to make a wrapped parcel. This will keep the turkey moist.
- Place in a large roasting dish and cook according to the cooking schedule above.
Notes
Nutrition is for bacon-wrapped turkey.
The stuffing is additional as you can choose the low-carb keto bread stuffing OR the pork sausage stuffing (above).
Serving: 1serving (serves 10) | Calories: 648.4kcal | Total Carbohydrates: 0.6g | Protein: 67.8g | Fat: 40.3g | Sodium: 688.4mg | Potassium: 736.5mg | Sugar: 0.2g | Vitamin A: 315IU | Vitamin B1: 0.3mg | Vitamin B6: 1.8mg | Vitamin B12: 3.7µg | Vitamin D: 1.1µg | Vitamin E: 0.6mg | Vitamin K: 0.4µg | Calcium: 35.1mg | Folate: 20µg | Iron: 2.6mg | Magnesium: 77.1mg | Selenium: 70.6µg | Zinc: 5.6mg | NET carbs: 0.6g