Thanksgiving is rolling out the red carpet for the holiday season, and I’m here to arm you with a turkey basting sauce that’s as straightforward as it gets. Ready for a 3 Ingredient Turkey Basting Sauce that’s foolproof and fabulous? It’s our little secret to the juiciest turkey ever – guess what? Not a single herb in sight
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Consider this your holiday pre-game! Today, I’m sharing our all-star 3 ingredient turkey basting sauce that’s a total game-changer. It’s been our go-to for years, sealing in that moisture for turkey meat that’s downright delectable every single time.
Let’s get your turkey to steal the spotlight, shall we?
Ah, Thanksgiving – the Super Bowl for us culinary enthusiasts, right? It’s the day you can really strut your stuff in the kitchen.
And hey, a little wine along the way only adds to the splendor of your creations. My minimalist yet mighty basting sauce is here to escort your turkey to moist and tender perfection from the first baste to the last slice!
Why You’ll Love The 3-Ingredient Turkey Basting Sauce
Simple. It’s been the MVP in our kitchen year after year, outshining any other basting blend with its simplicity and results. Minimal effort, minimal ingredients, but oh, the payoff – a turkey that’s consistently moist and scrumptious!
- The ingredients for the minimalist turkey baste recipe are easy to find
- you can pull the ingredients for the basting turkey recipe together ahead of time so they are ready to use
- You can use a low-sodium option for the one ingredient without any profound taste change.
- you don’t need to add salt or pepper to the recipe for basting sauce
- the ingredients do not require stovetop cooking to prepare
- The no-fail minimalist ingredient basting sauce for turkey is kindergarten-easy to prepare but delivers moist turkey meat.
Honestly, simple is the best. Keeping things streamlined allows for your true skill to show through. Skilled culinary perfection is not about more; it’s about preparation and technique. In other words, it’s about your end result.
In the case of prepping and cooking a turkey, your end game is about crisp golden brown skin followed by succulent, juicy meat.
Can you make a juicy, tender, moist, and delicious turkey using just a 3 ingredient turkey basting sauce? Yes, you surely can.
Kitchen Essentials: 3 Ingredient Turkey Basting Sauce
We keep things very simple in our home, so what you’ll need to prepare this simple turkey basting recipe is as follows:
- Microwaveable measuring cup (large is preferable)
- fork
- cheesecloth
- butcher’s twine for tying off the turkey legs and the cheesecloth if you are stuffing it
Pro Tip: Using A Cheesecloth With 3 Ingredient Turkey Basting Sauce
Pro Tip Time: Let’s talk about doubling down on moisture with a cheesecloth. If you’ve skipped this step, you’ve missed out big time. It’s not just for cheese – it’s a turkey’s best friend. This artisanal touch is your ticket to moistness, especially for the breast meat, which tends to dry out first.
Double down on making this turkey MOIST! Dry turkey meat sucks, so avoid it at all costs and cook like a pro, even if you are not a pro cooker!
What in the world does a cheesecloth have to do with turkey basting sauce? Everything. If you have not been using a cheesecloth, I’ll say straight out, “‘you’ve missed the craft of an artisan.”
A cheesecloth and basting sauce recipe work together, as the cheesecloth is used to slow down the cooking process on the main meat of the bird, namely the breast.
Generally speaking, most dry out their turkey breasts because these are not covered.
How does that happen?
Consider the parts of a turkey: white and dark meat. Therefore, you must cook both, I mean, they are both attached!
So, did you know that dark meat will take 2x the amount of time to cook, but the breast is the part exposed initially to the heat of the oven?
You must slow down the breast portion’s cooking process, or it will dry out. That’s where the cheesecloth makes the difference, and it will keep YOUR Turkey MOIST!
Using a cheesecloth that is soaked in my 3 ingredient turkey basting sauce is the way you will end up with a fabulously MOIST turkey and breast meat!
The alchemy of a cheesecloth with our 3 Ingredient Turkey Basting Sauce? It’s everything. This dynamic duo will ensure your turkey’s breast stays as moist as the dark meat. And since we all know that dark meat takes its sweet time to cook, this is your strategy to avoid the dreaded dryness.
3 Ingredient Turkey Basting Sauce (ingredients needed)
- Chicken Stock (homemade or boxed, but boxed is quicker!)
- Salted Butter (melted)
- Cheap White Wine
Finding the ingredients for this turkey basting sauce is a breeze. Stock up early, and choose a low-sodium chicken stock if you’re watching salt. There is no need for added seasonings – the sauce sings without them. And the best part? No stove is needed. This is convenience at its culinary best, delivering succulence without the sweat!
Good To Know Ingredient Overview
- You can use a chicken broth that is lower in sodium to decrease the amount of salt.
- The butter can be salted or not salted.
- Don’t worry about using a cheap wine; it is just fine to use it, and it cooks off anyway!
How To Get the Cheesecloth + Basting Sauce Recipe Just Right
- Your cheesecloth needs to be soaked before you place it on the turkey.
- Soaking the cheesecloth until it sinks to the bottom of the no-fail minimalist ingredient basting sauce for turkey
- Once it is saturated, cover the whole top of the turkey breast and turkey with it
- Keep the cheesecloth moist at all times using a baster
- Don’t take the cheesecloth off until the last 25 minutes of baking; otherwise, the turkey will dry out!
Here we are taking the soaked cheesecloth out of the basting sauce to place atop the turkey!
As a reminder, always toss the cheesecloth away when you are done using it; you never reuse it as it is loaded with bacteria, and it is NOT a reusable item.
Finally, you will remove the cheesecloth for 25 minutes before achieving the perfectly temped turkey.
More on this step, so keep reading or skip to the recipe below, but I do caution that if you skip and don’t read, you might miss out on some fantastic suggestions to help you baste and cook that turkey!
Don’t forget you’ll need a turkey baster for the cheesecloth
Here are three great turkey basters delivered to your door and currently in stock!
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- Glass baster with cleaning brush set!
- Stainless steel baster with injector!
Simple. Easy. Delicious. Enjoy Our 3 Ingredient Turkey Basting Sauce
Now, we are passing it on to each of you to try in your kitchens, as it is a much-needed relief to know that something works and is easy!
Enjoy the holiday and don’t forget to have a few sips of wine for me! ~ DANA XO
3 Ingredient Turkey Basting Sauce Recipe You’ll Love
3 Ingredient Turkey Basting Sauce
Equipment
- Cheesecloth
- baster
- Measuring Cup
- roasting pan
- twine for cooking
Ingredients
- 1 cup chicken broth (boxed is fine and any brand you choose)
- 1 cup salted butter melted (any brand you choose)
- 1 cup white wine (sauvignon blanc or pinot grigrio are best for this) but buy cheap brands it will be fine!
Instructions
- Melt the butter (use the microwave at 50% power for a minute, make sure to cover )or melt any other way your prefer
- Carefully, remove melted butter from the microwave and then add in chicken stock and wine. It's a 1:1:1 ratio all mixed together.
- Measure out your cheesecloth making certain it will cover the turkey from side to side. Think of it as a rectangular cut that will be layered Remember, you do not want a single layer, we generally make it three-four layers thick and we cut it into a large rectangular shape that meets close to the size of the breast of the turkey that will be exposed.
- Once cut, place the cheesecloth inside of the turkey basting sauce and allow it to saturate from the wet mixture. This will take about 5 minutes to fully saturate.
- When the cheesecloth is fully saturated, apply cheesecloth across the prepared turkey. (washed, tied, stuffed, sitting in pan, etc. )At this step, it means your turkey is ready to go into the oven!
- As cheesecloth is in place, use more of the basting sauce, poured atop the cheesecloth in the pan, across the turkey.
- Then, bake for the first 30 minutes.
- Allow the turkey to begin baking with the LID on and the cheesecloth on.
- At the FIRST 30 minute interval, you will baste for the first time.
- Carefully remove the lid of the roaster, and then generously baste the entire cheesecloth area of the turkey and all exposed parts (if any)
- Baste, then add the additional reserve of basting sauce to the cloth. Make sure to saturate the entire cheesecloth. Then return to the oven but do not put the lid on top of the turkey any more. Continuing baking with the cheesecloth in place
- Once every hour, you will baste the turkey generously.
- At the time you reach the last 30 minutes of baking (whatever your turkey time is due to pounds of your particular turkey). when you are 30 minutes away from the appropriate turkey internal temperature, REMOVE the cheesecloth.
- Now the brownging process will begin!
- Baste one more time, with basting sauce at the bottom of the pan. Return to oven.
- Allow turkey to finish the roasting cycle and the skin will turn golden brown.
- Once removed from the oven allow the turkey to stand for up to 1/2 hour before cutting and serving.
- Enjoy!
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