Best Turkey Smoked Recipe

This Turkey Smoked Recipe is full of Smokey flavor, juicy meat, and tender; this way is the best way to Smoked Turkey. You can change this simple recipe as you wish. Full of flavored with Turkey smoked rub or herbs, Garlic, lemon and bit cinnamon.

Hope you will proud of this delicious Smoked Turkey. Keep reading step by step this whole cooking process.

What is Smoked Turkey?

This is the process of slow cooking whole turkey with the right smoke such as hardwood smoke like cherry, apple wood or mesquite. Those woods will add unique flavor to your Turkey Smoked Recipe. Soft wood not good for this because some time those chemical treated, it can contain resign and toxins that could affect your health.

Follow these steps for a delicious, perfect bird. First make sure it is completely thawed. Most of the time you need to give that turkey two, three, four days, depending on the size, to thaw inside the refrigerator.

Select the correct SizeTurkey for Turkey Smoke Recipe…

One person need 1-1.5pound turkey with full of meat plate. For the best dish 10 or 12 pound range turkey full enough. Especially for slow cooking process. This is very important of the meat reach the internal temperature.

Lot of people asking about: Should smoke Fresh or Frozen Turkey. Answer is it is totally depend on your taste, if you use frozen turkey, you need to give enough time for thaw completely for this Turkey Smoked Recipe.

When you chose turkey, make sure you use a lot less salt, like maybe half of the normal brine process.

Prep the Turkey….

Nothing worse than a dried out bland turkey is one that’s halfway cooked, deep down where the thighs are, which is the last part of the turkey that actually gets done. You want to dry this turkey up really well. Put a little bit of olive oil to help that rub stick. It also enhances the color. Couple of things to recommend that you check is the cavity.

Most important thing is you want to make sure you have nice, steady and consistent temperatures throughout the entire cooking process.

There’s nothing in here inside, but you want to make sure you check the neck cavity as well. Because this is where they usually have the giblets.

Reach your fingers in there; make sure there’s nothing else in there. So we have our turkey, very nice and dry. We’re going to take us a little bit of olive oil and just kind of drizzle it all over the turkey.

Spread it out with your other hand; make sure you get it on the wings, right up here under the thighs, all over that beautiful breast.

I’m just going to use my, Wow!

Best way to Seasoning Smoked Turkey

You can use any kind of simple rub for seasoning. Combining garlic with the other fresh herbs and add salt, pepper and mixed all together with olive oil. Use really nice flavor enhancing ingredients.

When seasoning first do up side, make sure you get the fat of the wing and you can be fairly generous because we’re only going to do a one rub coat.

Twist it around and make sure we get some up under. Make sure you get it under the wing. Just a smudge, get it all over that breast. Do all the side and let that wing come.

You can be pretty generous on a turkey because it’s a big piece of meat. It’s going to cook in this case for about four hours. It’s going to sweat during the cooking process.

Next thing is tuck these wings under the breast just like that. Tie the drumsticks.

Next step is filling up this cavity with some aromatics and some vegetables I’ve got a poultry herb bundle. Some lemon quartered, onion, some celery and adds a whole stick of butter. This is going to be a butter basted turkey. I want to get some of that butter flavor on the inside of the meat too.

If you can throw some whole cloves of garlic in there. Also you can put whatever you want it’s going to fill up that void that space. That’s going to help it cook even it’ll hold everything inside. Cross the legs and tie them up just get you some butcher twine well.

That couple of ingredients in there are going to really steam. It will add some great flavor to the turkey. It is now ready to hit with the smoke for Turkey Smoke.

How long does it take to Smoke a Turkey

Pellet grill is set it for 300 degrees. It is better to smoke a turkey around 300degrees and it should be done in about four hours.

We’re going to go ahead and insert a meat probe. One right down here, part of the thigh that takes the longest to cook. Make sure you get past the bone, get down there a little bit deeper.

That’s going to help us monitor our internal temperatures. Get a little bit of smoke and want that heat to travel into the turkey slow. Don’t push out any moisture. We want to try and keep as much moisture inside the turkey as we possibly can.

Check and bit rotate it. Give plenty of time to cook properly.

Let’s do little Bastey-baste. Take out the neck and drizzle a little bit of butter on there. Don’t want to put too much because don’t want to wipe off the rub.

After two and a half hours rotated the Turkey, also basted our Turkey the second time. Look at all that juice running out of there.

Keep smoking until the breast hits at 177 °F and our thigh at the deepest part. let that Turkey finish cooking nice and slow.

Look at this- Doesn’t that look good? Oh, yeah

It turned out beautiful, it looks gorgeous. Total cook time of about four hours almost to the dot.

Serving Turkey Smoked

We’re going to let it rest 15, 20 minutes. It’s time to start carving up this turkey. There are lots of different ways to carving a Turkey.

Remove this drumstick first and follow the line. Cut along the bottom here. Then remove the breasts before slicing Turkey.

Follow these Tips for a delicious Turkey smoked Dish.

Make sure it is completely thawed- you need to give that turkey two, three, four days, depending on the size, to thaw inside the refrigerator.

You want to make sure you have nice, steady and consistent temperatures throughout the entire cooking process.

Use some kind of a meat thermometer- Get something that’s good and accurate.

Brine your turkey for maximum moisture and flavor.

Make sure you cook it to where the thermometer reads somewhere around 155 to 165 in the deepest part of the thigh.

Baste it with some delicious butter- you can use a compound butter.

Make sure you rest that turkey at least 15 minutes or so to try and let the moisture stay inside the turkey.

Ingredients – Turkey Smoked Recipe

12-15 pound Turkey – Thaw completely before cooking

Herbs

1Tbsp salt
3 Garlic cloves
½ lemon
1 Tsp Pepper
2Tbsp Olive Oil
1 Butter Stick

Smoking

1 Onion
1 lemon
1 Butter Stick

Instructions

Prep The Turkey

Dry this turkey up really well. Put a little bit of olive oil to help that rub stick.
Remove neck and giblet.

Seasoning

Combining garlic with the other fresh herbs and add salt, pepper and mixed all together with olive oil.
Filling up this cavity with some aromatics and some vegetables, some lemon quartered, onion, some celery and adds a whole stick of butter.
Tie legs together over cavity use butcher twine.

Smoke the Turkey