Crisp-Skin High-Roast Butterflied Turkey with Sausage Dressing

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2001, America's Test Kitchen TV

Could we roast a turkey without having to call the fire department or drying out the breast meat? We set out to discover the secret of two-hour roast turkey without the smoke.

SERVES 10 to 12

TIME 4 hours, plus 8 hours brining, 8 hours chilling, and 20 minutes cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To cook a turkey in two hours without filling the kitchen with smoke and drying out the breast meat, we developed a butterflied turkey recipe, which gave us crisp skin and evenly cooked meat. For smoke prevention, we roasted our butterflied...

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