FIG SWEET ONION + ROSEMARY ROASTED TURKEY

By cherwest

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup olive oil
• 3 TBS minced fresh garlic
• 2 TBS chopped fresh rosemary
• 1 TBS chopped fresh sage
• 1 TBS meat rub of your choice (I used Willie’s Hog Dust)
• 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
• Salt to taste
• 1 large apple
• 1 large pear
• 1 large onion
• 1 12 pound whole turkey
• 1 jar Sallie’s Greatest Fig Sweet Onion + Rosemary Jam
• 8 tablespoons butter

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Mix olive oil, garlic, rosemary, sage, rub, black pepper and salt in a bowl. Set aside.

Wash turkey inside and out, pat dry. Loosen skin from breast carefully with working your fingers between the breast and the skin to the end of the drumstick. Spread generous amount of the rosemary mixture under the skin. Rub the remainder of this mixture over the outside of the breast. Use toothpicks to seal skin over exposed breast meat.

Quarter the apple, pear and onion and place in the turkey cavity.

Place turkey on a rack in a roasting pan, add ¼ inch of water to the pan. Roast for 3 to 4 hours until the internal temperature reaches 180 degrees. Heat the SG Fig Sweet Onion + Rosemary Jam with the butter, salt and pepper to taste. Let turkey rest 10 minutes and then brush the jam glaze mixture over all exposed skin, coating thoroughly.