Best Turkey Brine Recipe Ever
I have looked every where online for the "Best Turkey Brine Recipe Ever." I found one and then adapted it in a very Alana Lynn way. I'm hoping this is amazingly delicious and I will have to let you know how it goes. This is my very first year brining a turkey so I wanted to do it up right. I found a recipe on the Traeger website and then kind of adapted it to my liking. Here's the original recipe. Below are the changes I made to it.
First start with a bottle of wine. Not for the turkey, for you. You deserve it, it's the holidays. Enjoy!
1 turkey
4 bottles of booze (2 Odell Mountain Standard and 2 Crispin Hard Cider)
4 qt. of Cold Water (4c = 1q - totally had to look that up. Sorry Mrs. Robertson for not retaining that piece of info from high school math class).
1 c. of canning salt (it's all I had since I only use the Himalayan Pink Salt. Thankfully my mom visited over Labor Day and canned a bunch of stuff and we had canning salt leftover).
1 c. of Stevia (because brown sugar is a little too sweet for me)
5 cloves of crushed garlic (because I'm Italian and LOVE garlic)
1 TBSP of Black Peppercorns (give or take 1TBSP)
1 and 1/2 sweet onions quartered
Now my turkey is chilling in the fridge waiting to be smoked for tomorrow. I'm excited to share the results! Happy Turkey Making!