Pressure-Cooked Whole Turkey vs. Recipe Tutorial
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THIS METHOD IS ONLY RECOMMENDED FOR PRESSURE COOKERS 10 QUARTS OR LARGER. If you have a smaller version or brand, please consult your manufacturer's manual for more information.
As many of you know, last year I purchased the Elite 10 quart electronic pressure cooker from HSN. I replaced my old Wolfgang Puck model because it was finished and gave up the ghost. When I saw the presentation for this version I was in awe at all the things they shared that could be cooked in this machine. I have done many recipes using this pressure cooker, but had always wanted to give a whole turkey a try. Today we are going to venture down that road.
There are a couple tricks to getting a turkey just right in a pressure cooker. Sure, you can just plop it in there with some liquid and hit the button, but what you are going to get is not going to make you happy and may or may not resemble a turkey. I have flash roasted this bird for about 30 to 45 minutes in a very hot oven prior to placing it in the pressure cooker. I also fashioned a couple long aluminum foil slings to help me get the turkey out when it is finished. These two tips are crucial in making a great pressure cooker turkey.
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WATCH HOW TO MAKE Pressure Cooked Whole Turkey ~ Noreen's Kitchen
In the end, this turkey was fall apart delicious and we have made a turkey in an hour and a half which is considerably less time than traditional roasting. That not only saves time, but energy and in the end money as well. This time of year is a great opportunity to pick up turkeys on clearance since stores are wanting to get rid of the holiday birds to make room for other stock. Take advantage of this fact and if you have room in your freezer consider picking up one or two for later in the year.
We were fortunate enough to have gotten turkey for 48 cents a pound after Thanksgiving and we bought two that were about 12 pounds just for the purpose of trying them out in the pressure cooker. These results have made me very happy and I am sure they will make you happy as well!
Ingredients:
12 pound whole turkey
4 tablespoons butter, melted
1 tablespoon poultry seasoning
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cracked black pepper
1 cup chicken stock
1 cup water
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Directions:
Thaw turkey completely and allow to sit out of the fridge for 1 hour before preparing.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Wash and rinse turkey thoroughly, removing any of the extra goodies such as the neck and giblet packet. Also remove the pop up timer if your turkey came with one.
Dry turkey with paper towels and place on a rack that is set into a baking sheet that is lined with either foil, parchment or both.
Brush turkey with melted butter and sprinkle with the poultry seasoning, salt and pepper.
Bake turkey for 30 to 45 minutes or until the skin has browned. The turkey will not be completely cooked at this point, we are just trying to brown the skin.
Fashion two strips of thick aluminium foil by folding 2 three foot pieces of foil into long bands by folding the foil into itself until it is approximately 2 inches wide. Place these bands into the pressure cooker vessel forming an "X" in the bottom. These will become slings which will aid you in removing the whole turkey from the pressure cooker when it is done cooking.
Remove the turkey from the oven and transfer it carefully to the pressure cooker vessel. I found that using heat resistant silicone gloves was very helpful in this process.
Fold any extra length of the foil bands down over the turkey.
Place the lid on the pressure cooker and cook according to manufacturers instructions for your model. I cooked mine for 1 hour on the poultry setting. Allow pressure to release naturally and do not use the quick release method for this application.
When pressure has released and turkey is done cooking, remove lid and gather the foil bands together and gently lift the turkey out of the vessel to a baking sheet. Cut up and allow to cool for 10 minutes before serving.
The turkey should separate from the bones very easily.
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THIS METHOD IS ONLY RECOMMENDED FOR PRESSURE COOKERS 10 QUARTS OR LARGER. If you have a smaller version or brand, please consult your manufacturer's manual for more information.
As many of you know, last year I purchased the Elite 10 quart electronic pressure cooker from HSN. I replaced my old Wolfgang Puck model because it was finished and gave up the ghost. When I saw the presentation for this version I was in awe at all the things they shared that could be cooked in this machine. I have done many recipes using this pressure cooker, but had always wanted to give a whole turkey a try. Today we are going to venture down that road.
There are a couple tricks to getting a turkey just right in a pressure cooker. Sure, you can just plop it in there with some liquid and hit the button, but what you are going to get is not going to make you happy and may or may not resemble a turkey. I have flash roasted this bird for about 30 to 45 minutes in a very hot oven prior to placing it in the pressure cooker. I also fashioned a couple long aluminum foil slings to help me get the turkey out when it is finished. These two tips are crucial in making a great pressure cooker turkey.
We were fortunate enough to have gotten turkey for 48 cents a pound after Thanksgiving and we bought two that were about 12 pounds just for the purpose of trying them out in the pressure cooker. These results have made me very happy and I am sure they will make you happy as well!
Ingredients:
12 pound whole turkey
4 tablespoons butter, melted
1 tablespoon poultry seasoning
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cracked black pepper
1 cup chicken stock
1 cup water
Thaw turkey completely and allow to sit out of the fridge for 1 hour before preparing.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Wash and rinse turkey thoroughly, removing any of the extra goodies such as the neck and giblet packet. Also remove the pop up timer if your turkey came with one.
Dry turkey with paper towels and place on a rack that is set into a baking sheet that is lined with either foil, parchment or both.
Brush turkey with melted butter and sprinkle with the poultry seasoning, salt and pepper.
Bake turkey for 30 to 45 minutes or until the skin has browned. The turkey will not be completely cooked at this point, we are just trying to brown the skin.
Fashion two strips of thick aluminium foil by folding 2 three foot pieces of foil into long bands by folding the foil into itself until it is approximately 2 inches wide. Place these bands into the pressure cooker vessel forming an "X" in the bottom. These will become slings which will aid you in removing the whole turkey from the pressure cooker when it is done cooking.
Remove the turkey from the oven and transfer it carefully to the pressure cooker vessel. I found that using heat resistant silicone gloves was very helpful in this process.
Fold any extra length of the foil bands down over the turkey.
Place the lid on the pressure cooker and cook according to manufacturers instructions for your model. I cooked mine for 1 hour on the poultry setting. Allow pressure to release naturally and do not use the quick release method for this application.
When pressure has released and turkey is done cooking, remove lid and gather the foil bands together and gently lift the turkey out of the vessel to a baking sheet. Cut up and allow to cool for 10 minutes before serving.
The turkey should separate from the bones very easily.
0:03
her what are you reading welcome to my kitchen and today we're gonna do
0:06
something that I've wanted to do for a long time
0:09
where to cook a turkey in my 10 court elite pressure-cooker
0:13
let's go see how we make this happen
0:33
okay we're gonna get started
0:34
this is a lot easier than you think there are couple tips and tricks that
0:38
we're gonna cover
0:39
so that this can be done the first thing I want to say is that this is a 12 a
0:43
half pound turkey
0:44
and I dry fit and the vessel my pressure cooker
0:48
before I attempted this okay so the turkey is thawed out
0:52
and went ahead and I put it in the vessel before I even started the camera
0:56
because if you do that if you to go
0:59
don't do that rather and then you've come to the point we need to put it in a
1:03
pressure cooker and find out that it doesn't fit
1:05
near just gonna be disappointed so make sure your turkey fits
1:09
so I have obviously
1:12
I'm wraps my turkey I washed it incited out
1:17
I removed the little pop up tight heard that is
1:20
you see the whole thats left behind I remove the pop up timer because they're
1:24
useless
1:25
and of thank you all
1:29
butter right there you go okay make that and this is going to be a very simply
1:34
season
1:34
turkey on doing now is i'm brushing some melted butter all over the bird
1:39
if you want a nice brown turkey you're gonna start this the evidence or gonna
1:43
do today
1:44
so I have my oven preheated to Ford 100 degrees
1:47
and we're going to put it in there and we're gonna flash
1:51
roasted for about 30 to 45 minutes
1:55
just until the outside trance nice and brown crest
1:58
and not don't get don't fool yourself this is not going to be Crispin
2:03
beautiful like a roasted turkey fresh from the oven done
2:07
because you're going to put this in the pressure cooker it's gonna be subjected
2:11
to such extreme heat
2:12
and sixty cell anyone who has seen me naked your
2:16
before knows that I enjoy cleaning
2:20
some poultry seasoning all over the outside
2:24
make sure key my oven is preheated at 400 degrees
2:28
we are just gonna go ahead and pop this right
2:38
by just like that
2:40
we're gonna flash roast it for about a half an hour welcome back
2:43
ever gonna pop this puppy into fresh right before we take turkey out of the
2:48
oven I wanted to show you were gonna have to make a bit
2:51
an aluminum foil slate I have my first band
2:55
in there already this is going to help us remove the turkey safely after its
3:00
cooked from the pressure cooker
3:01
okay so you gonna take carefully yeah
3:05
in one piece because once this gets pressure cooker it's going to be very
3:07
soft and
3:09
you're more than welcome to fish it out of there with your tongs
3:12
its gonna come out pieces so we want to remove it
3:15
not in peace or is a few pieces
3:19
possible so I'm just going to take a leap I thought probably mean
3:24
three-feet aluminum foil here and I'm just for the whole birthrate first
3:34
falls in fact stir fry
3:37
by
3:55
pretty easy just one-fifth
3:58
have some stability you don't want it to be flimsy if you have a large
4:03
heavy-duty aluminum foil even better I jolt so
4:07
what we're doing is for a stick 15 in here
4:12
and you might not need to have it three-feet of
4:17
slight fence and now
4:21
we're gonna go get a turkey a family event here
4:25
and it was at 400 degrees I'm just gonna rabbit skill
4:29
home next lol like it hot so
4:34
the next thing I'm gonna do it I'm gonna transfer
4:37
this turkey its my pressure cooker we'll be right back
4:40
okay so now what I want to do is I wanna move this turkey told my pressure cooker
4:44
vessel
4:45
and I'm going to use these gloves to do it are using these clubs in our
4:49
up upcoming weekly review and share so I'm just gonna
4:54
take this I kind of let the turkey trip and really quick
4:57
I'm gonna just pushed way over here like this
5:00
I'm gonna put my turkey and I'm just gonna press it down a little
5:04
just like that P only thing I'm gonna do is an add some chicken stock to the
5:08
bottom of this
5:09
hi and because it's a pressure cooker you don't ever wanna one in July
5:13
slide Cup 0 free concentrated chicken stock
5:17
the bottom spend the night just a little bit more
5:21
you don't want this to put rice just make sure
5:24
you know where your turkey 40 in water though neither and this turkey smells
5:28
fantastic
5:29
it's not like Thanksgiving in my kitchen okay so
5:33
now what you wanna do is you gonna wanna just talk these cases aluminum foil
5:39
inside okay no worries
5:43
this is no big deal you this is really gonna be helpful
5:47
getting this turkey out later so we're gonna put this vessel
5:51
into the cooker
5:58
the lid on it
5:59
make sure that your fellow
6:03
is set to pressure and
6:08
on my motto I can hit the chicken button
6:11
and then going to increase the time to 60 minutes
6:15
well let this cook for 1 hour and they were gonna let release naturally
6:19
we're not going to quick release this what see and
6:23
we're going to come back when it's ready
6:27
to remove pressure-cooker so for one hour alright
6:33
our turkey is done it cook for an hour and then it came naturally
6:36
back down to pressure are from pressure and that took about a half an hour
6:41
alright so in that time I made by and
6:45
I have released the lid and Ariel
6:51
I'm just gonna lift the bezel out up here and put it in my sake
6:56
well have let you have a look at this
6:59
see
7:03
that Turkey if giant I am very
7:06
excite okay now I'm gonna switch places with Rick
7:11
so that I can lift this out and aunt can't this point you just wanna take
7:14
your
7:15
here for oil slain and bring all of this
7:18
and together gently
7:22
raise it out during a little
7:33
not 10 like is just falling apart
7:39
look at that yea
7:44
I'm very very happy with that look at that she's falling apart yeah
7:48
super tender and infuse just leave her
7:51
and this brought down here is what we're gonna go ahead and make our treaty from
7:55
skate
7:56
I just Rick says I should be short-lived look at can drop them like it
8:00
look at looking market even unimpressed
8:05
look at my gosh if you don't have one of these light right pressure cookers
8:13
if this should be enough to convince you
8:16
you need what I mean this turkey is fully cooked
8:20
it's just falling off the ball but there's nothing left on these phones it
8:24
absolutely fantastic it's gorgeous
8:28
just forget to it does taste and I must say
8:32
its beautiful its tender all
8:36
posh infused with waiver
8:39
so but okay
8:44
back shortly there you have it
8:47
one pressure coach twelve and a half pound turkey ready for dinner
8:50
and since I had a pressure cooker all fired up
8:53
and the turkey was taken out I just returned the bezel sleeve right back to
8:57
it
8:58
and I made my craving in the pressure cooker I say
9:01
on this soup setting I didn't pressurized that I just mixed up my
9:05
green tea and the pie I had a little
9:07
I chicken right some
9:10
kitchen okay and I think and do it with one for flower
9:15
and I also added some chicken bouillon powder to act right got to the point
9:19
where that I liked
9:20
on this was a fresh turkey that was
9:24
frozen act right I bought it frozen
9:28
but it was sold at Thanksgiving as a fresh turkey
9:31
but on wal-mart was cleared up out for
9:34
I hit 48 cents a pound it was a ridiculous price because
9:39
turkeys were like six dollars so I bought two cuts winter users pick
9:43
dollars
9:43
you buy them and you put them in your freezer
9:47
because the rest of the year churches are ridiculously expensive
9:50
when tasteless know you already have it's really good
9:54
it it's so delicious
9:59
it literally fell off the ball in every way shape and form like you saw
10:04
I I just discard the bonds because frankly I'm not gonna use it for
10:07
anything else all of this plea or has been
10:09
it back you waited from the bones from the skin from the meat if
10:14
its it's been trapped incite their
10:17
its succulent and delicious and the trip based
10:21
I made all this gravy this isn't 8 pop measuring cup
10:24
and there's easily six cups grady care I'm
10:28
yeah there's nothing wrong with that this if a six dollar investment
10:32
in the turkey and we're gonna get at least three meals at this
10:38
maybe more on think all food our
10:41
with the oven roasting it took an hour and a half to make
10:45
that a bad for Turkey on a Tuesday night
10:48
cell I hope that you give pressure cooking a turkey a try
10:53
just remember keep your turkey on the small side make sure it's completely
10:56
thawed
10:57
and give lol up in sack before you put it in the pressure cooker
11:01
and let go for an hour and you're going to be on your way to one of these
11:04
delicious and succulent fall off the bone
11:07
every federal cents turkey okie try it I hope you love it
11:12
and until next time I'll thea returning refugees
11:19
today got it right credit
11:23
on I'm just happy circuit
11:26
a cousin and also
11:29
they should
11:33
homicide
11:34
her
11:36
me I hope that you enjoyed it I'm really glad you're here
11:39
thank you for stopping by don't forget to come by tomorrow
11:42
website at game
Via: Noreen's Kitchen
her what are you reading welcome to my kitchen and today we're gonna do
0:06
something that I've wanted to do for a long time
0:09
where to cook a turkey in my 10 court elite pressure-cooker
0:13
let's go see how we make this happen
0:33
okay we're gonna get started
0:34
this is a lot easier than you think there are couple tips and tricks that
0:38
we're gonna cover
0:39
so that this can be done the first thing I want to say is that this is a 12 a
0:43
half pound turkey
0:44
and I dry fit and the vessel my pressure cooker
0:48
before I attempted this okay so the turkey is thawed out
0:52
and went ahead and I put it in the vessel before I even started the camera
0:56
because if you do that if you to go
0:59
don't do that rather and then you've come to the point we need to put it in a
1:03
pressure cooker and find out that it doesn't fit
1:05
near just gonna be disappointed so make sure your turkey fits
1:09
so I have obviously
1:12
I'm wraps my turkey I washed it incited out
1:17
I removed the little pop up tight heard that is
1:20
you see the whole thats left behind I remove the pop up timer because they're
1:24
useless
1:25
and of thank you all
1:29
butter right there you go okay make that and this is going to be a very simply
1:34
season
1:34
turkey on doing now is i'm brushing some melted butter all over the bird
1:39
if you want a nice brown turkey you're gonna start this the evidence or gonna
1:43
do today
1:44
so I have my oven preheated to Ford 100 degrees
1:47
and we're going to put it in there and we're gonna flash
1:51
roasted for about 30 to 45 minutes
1:55
just until the outside trance nice and brown crest
1:58
and not don't get don't fool yourself this is not going to be Crispin
2:03
beautiful like a roasted turkey fresh from the oven done
2:07
because you're going to put this in the pressure cooker it's gonna be subjected
2:11
to such extreme heat
2:12
and sixty cell anyone who has seen me naked your
2:16
before knows that I enjoy cleaning
2:20
some poultry seasoning all over the outside
2:24
make sure key my oven is preheated at 400 degrees
2:28
we are just gonna go ahead and pop this right
2:38
by just like that
2:40
we're gonna flash roast it for about a half an hour welcome back
2:43
ever gonna pop this puppy into fresh right before we take turkey out of the
2:48
oven I wanted to show you were gonna have to make a bit
2:51
an aluminum foil slate I have my first band
2:55
in there already this is going to help us remove the turkey safely after its
3:00
cooked from the pressure cooker
3:01
okay so you gonna take carefully yeah
3:05
in one piece because once this gets pressure cooker it's going to be very
3:07
soft and
3:09
you're more than welcome to fish it out of there with your tongs
3:12
its gonna come out pieces so we want to remove it
3:15
not in peace or is a few pieces
3:19
possible so I'm just going to take a leap I thought probably mean
3:24
three-feet aluminum foil here and I'm just for the whole birthrate first
3:34
falls in fact stir fry
3:37
by
3:55
pretty easy just one-fifth
3:58
have some stability you don't want it to be flimsy if you have a large
4:03
heavy-duty aluminum foil even better I jolt so
4:07
what we're doing is for a stick 15 in here
4:12
and you might not need to have it three-feet of
4:17
slight fence and now
4:21
we're gonna go get a turkey a family event here
4:25
and it was at 400 degrees I'm just gonna rabbit skill
4:29
home next lol like it hot so
4:34
the next thing I'm gonna do it I'm gonna transfer
4:37
this turkey its my pressure cooker we'll be right back
4:40
okay so now what I want to do is I wanna move this turkey told my pressure cooker
4:44
vessel
4:45
and I'm going to use these gloves to do it are using these clubs in our
4:49
up upcoming weekly review and share so I'm just gonna
4:54
take this I kind of let the turkey trip and really quick
4:57
I'm gonna just pushed way over here like this
5:00
I'm gonna put my turkey and I'm just gonna press it down a little
5:04
just like that P only thing I'm gonna do is an add some chicken stock to the
5:08
bottom of this
5:09
hi and because it's a pressure cooker you don't ever wanna one in July
5:13
slide Cup 0 free concentrated chicken stock
5:17
the bottom spend the night just a little bit more
5:21
you don't want this to put rice just make sure
5:24
you know where your turkey 40 in water though neither and this turkey smells
5:28
fantastic
5:29
it's not like Thanksgiving in my kitchen okay so
5:33
now what you wanna do is you gonna wanna just talk these cases aluminum foil
5:39
inside okay no worries
5:43
this is no big deal you this is really gonna be helpful
5:47
getting this turkey out later so we're gonna put this vessel
5:51
into the cooker
5:58
the lid on it
5:59
make sure that your fellow
6:03
is set to pressure and
6:08
on my motto I can hit the chicken button
6:11
and then going to increase the time to 60 minutes
6:15
well let this cook for 1 hour and they were gonna let release naturally
6:19
we're not going to quick release this what see and
6:23
we're going to come back when it's ready
6:27
to remove pressure-cooker so for one hour alright
6:33
our turkey is done it cook for an hour and then it came naturally
6:36
back down to pressure are from pressure and that took about a half an hour
6:41
alright so in that time I made by and
6:45
I have released the lid and Ariel
6:51
I'm just gonna lift the bezel out up here and put it in my sake
6:56
well have let you have a look at this
6:59
see
7:03
that Turkey if giant I am very
7:06
excite okay now I'm gonna switch places with Rick
7:11
so that I can lift this out and aunt can't this point you just wanna take
7:14
your
7:15
here for oil slain and bring all of this
7:18
and together gently
7:22
raise it out during a little
7:33
not 10 like is just falling apart
7:39
look at that yea
7:44
I'm very very happy with that look at that she's falling apart yeah
7:48
super tender and infuse just leave her
7:51
and this brought down here is what we're gonna go ahead and make our treaty from
7:55
skate
7:56
I just Rick says I should be short-lived look at can drop them like it
8:00
look at looking market even unimpressed
8:05
look at my gosh if you don't have one of these light right pressure cookers
8:13
if this should be enough to convince you
8:16
you need what I mean this turkey is fully cooked
8:20
it's just falling off the ball but there's nothing left on these phones it
8:24
absolutely fantastic it's gorgeous
8:28
just forget to it does taste and I must say
8:32
its beautiful its tender all
8:36
posh infused with waiver
8:39
so but okay
8:44
back shortly there you have it
8:47
one pressure coach twelve and a half pound turkey ready for dinner
8:50
and since I had a pressure cooker all fired up
8:53
and the turkey was taken out I just returned the bezel sleeve right back to
8:57
it
8:58
and I made my craving in the pressure cooker I say
9:01
on this soup setting I didn't pressurized that I just mixed up my
9:05
green tea and the pie I had a little
9:07
I chicken right some
9:10
kitchen okay and I think and do it with one for flower
9:15
and I also added some chicken bouillon powder to act right got to the point
9:19
where that I liked
9:20
on this was a fresh turkey that was
9:24
frozen act right I bought it frozen
9:28
but it was sold at Thanksgiving as a fresh turkey
9:31
but on wal-mart was cleared up out for
9:34
I hit 48 cents a pound it was a ridiculous price because
9:39
turkeys were like six dollars so I bought two cuts winter users pick
9:43
dollars
9:43
you buy them and you put them in your freezer
9:47
because the rest of the year churches are ridiculously expensive
9:50
when tasteless know you already have it's really good
9:54
it it's so delicious
9:59
it literally fell off the ball in every way shape and form like you saw
10:04
I I just discard the bonds because frankly I'm not gonna use it for
10:07
anything else all of this plea or has been
10:09
it back you waited from the bones from the skin from the meat if
10:14
its it's been trapped incite their
10:17
its succulent and delicious and the trip based
10:21
I made all this gravy this isn't 8 pop measuring cup
10:24
and there's easily six cups grady care I'm
10:28
yeah there's nothing wrong with that this if a six dollar investment
10:32
in the turkey and we're gonna get at least three meals at this
10:38
maybe more on think all food our
10:41
with the oven roasting it took an hour and a half to make
10:45
that a bad for Turkey on a Tuesday night
10:48
cell I hope that you give pressure cooking a turkey a try
10:53
just remember keep your turkey on the small side make sure it's completely
10:56
thawed
10:57
and give lol up in sack before you put it in the pressure cooker
11:01
and let go for an hour and you're going to be on your way to one of these
11:04
delicious and succulent fall off the bone
11:07
every federal cents turkey okie try it I hope you love it
11:12
and until next time I'll thea returning refugees
11:19
today got it right credit
11:23
on I'm just happy circuit
11:26
a cousin and also
11:29
they should
11:33
homicide
11:34
her
11:36
me I hope that you enjoyed it I'm really glad you're here
11:39
thank you for stopping by don't forget to come by tomorrow
11:42
website at game