# Turkey & Gravy

Learn how to make turkey and gravy the Michelin way with chef Wolfgang Puck.

- Total time: 210 min
- Cuisine: American
- Category: Drink
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- vegetables
- peppercorn
- salt
- spices
- rosemary
- butter
- oil
- 1 cinnamon stick
- ginger
- cranberries
- white wine
- brown sugar
- orange juice
- orange peel
- sage
- flour
- chicken stock

## Instructions

1. Brine the turkey in a mixture of vegetables, peppercorn, salt, and spices for six hours.
2. Take the turkey out of the brine and pat it dry.
3. Make rosemary butter by mixing butter with chopped rosemary.
4. Slide the rosemary butter underneath the turkey skin to make it more moist.
5. Tie the turkey together with kitchen twine.
6. Place a little rosemary inside the turkey.
7. Drizzle oil on the turkey.
8. Place the turkey in a roasting pan with chopped vegetables.
9. Roast the turkey in the oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 2 hours.
10. For the cranberry chutney, add cinnamon stick, ginger, and cranberries to a hot pan.
11. Add white wine, brown sugar, orange juice, salt, and orange peel to the pan.
12. Let the cranberry chutney cook.
13. Take the turkey out of the oven after 2 hours.
14. Remove the turkey from the roasting pan.
15. To make the gravy, pour oil into the roasting pan with the vegetables.
16. Add wine to the hot pan and deglaze it.
17. Transfer the contents of the roasting pan to a pot.
18. Add sage and flour to the pot to thicken the gravy.
19. Pour chicken stock into the pot and simmer for half an hour.
20. Strain the gravy to remove solids.
21. Add butter to the gravy for richness and stir.
22. Add cranberry chutney to the gravy.
23. Roast apples in a pan with oil, brown sugar, and butter in the oven.
24. Carve the turkey by removing the string.
25. Cut off the wing of the turkey.
26. Cut off the leg of the turkey.
27. Break off the leg.
28. Slice the turkey breast.
29. Plate the turkey slices with roasted apples filled with cranberry chutney.
30. Add dark meat to the plate.
31. Pour gravy over the turkey.

## Equipment

- oven
- pan
- kitchen twine
- roasting pan
- pot
- sieve
- ladle
- spoon
- knife
- cutting board
- plate
- fork

## Tips

- The best way to make a really good turkey is to brine them for a few hours with vegetables, peppercorn, salt, and spices.
- Rosemary gives you a really delicious piney flavor.
- When the turkey is tied together, it makes the breast look nicer.
- Butter makes everything taste better.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UBDV6n/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/c0b2303f-8d76-4f03-8975-1f75235bfa1b
- Extracted: 2025-11-26

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