Today I cooked a broad-breasted white turkey from R-Family Farms for an instructional video we were shooting. I brined the bird with orange zest, coriander, honey and cider vinegar. After brining, I grilled the turkey over charcoal and hickory.
The bird was about 17 pounds and cooked up in about 3 1/2 hours. The turkey browned beautifully, cooked evenly and came off the grill looking like a magazine cover-shot (if I do say so myself…). We tasted out the bird with crackers and a little chutney. It was flavorful, moist and beautifully carried the flavors of the brine and the smoke from the grill.
The white meat was juicy and tender, and the dark meat was rich and flavorful. And everyone’s favorite part, the skin, had a crisp bite and was intense with smokey flavor and orange and coriander aromatics.
Thanks to Cindee from R-Family for bringing the bird over to us. After the great experience I had yesterday, I will definately be ordering my Thanksgiving turkeys from R-Family farm!
Matthew Lennert of Moveable Feast Geneva, Inc.
www.moveablefeastgeneva.com
321 Franklin St
Geneva, IL 60134
630.845.3287
mlennert [at] sbcglobal [dot] net
Cindee of The R Family Farm
Poplar Grove, IL 61065
815.519.4341
cjrobinson0217 [at] msn [dot] com
