Cooking Your Turkey The Day Before. The day before you plan to roast the turkey remove the plastic wrap and leave the turkey in the fridge. Keeping the turkey in the roasting pan just as it is cover with aluminum foil and reheat in a 350 f oven for 45 to 55 minutes or until the turkey is hot and steaming and registers 165 f on your meat thermometer.
The key for me is to do as much cooking as possible the day before to save time on christmas morning such as stuffing gravy pigs in blankets bread sauce. Preheat the oven to 325 f. When ready to reheat the refrigerated sliced turkey let it sit at room temperature for about 20 minutes before placing in the oven.
Empty the giblets into your roasting pan as they help make a good rich broth.
On thanksgiving day remove the turkey from the refrigerator and let sit to come to room temperature before reheating. Preheat the oven to 325 f. Thanksgiving is here which means it s time to eat turkey or at least time to talk about it if you need a little assistance in these final few hours before the ritual feasting begins if you re a. Empty the giblets into your roasting pan as they help make a good rich broth.
