Fantastuc Thanksgiving Recipes: Some Easy Innovative Ideas

The month November has reached and it's time for celebrating the Thanksgiving Day. Thanksgiving is synonymous with festive foods, parades, football, family and friends, and, of course, turkey. So, its moment to search the internet or cookbook to get various mouth-watering recipes for the occasion of Thanksgiving day. In this article I have experimented a new recipe which I am sure will enjoyed by everybody in your family.

Thanksgiving Day, which is also recognized as Turkey Day, is actually a harvest festival celebrated in United States, Canada and other countries.

Eating turkey on Thanksgiving Day is an integeral part of tradition and custom. Of course, there could be reasons for having turkey on the festive day of Thanksgiving. Whatever may be the reason, it's a fact that wild turkey is definitely a fantastic delicacy that we can enjoy on the auspicious Thanksgiving Day.

Well, you must be very curious to know some delicious turkey recipes. You can try the given recipe for this year Thanksgiving Day.

In the given recipe, that is known as as cranberry orange stuffed turkey, you can add little spice to the Thanksgiving recipe and serve the dish with flavorsome sauce. To start with, you will need 18-22 pound fresh turkey. For stuffing, you will need; 3 cups cranberries, 1-1/2 cup orange juice, ? cup sugar, 1 cup butter (melted), 1 package herb seasoned cubed stuffing, 3 cups celery, 2 medium onions (chopped), ? tsp pepper, ? tsp all spice and 2 tsp salt.

For making sauce, you will require 2 packages of frozen cranberry-orange sauce along with ? cup orange juice.

First, you can mix up cranberries, sugar as well as orange juice in 3 quart saucepan and start cooking them on medium-high heat. Stir them continuously until cranberries pop and sugar dissolves. Meanwhile you can mix up the remaining ingredients of stuffing in a mixing bowl and also start preheating your oven to 325degrees. Mix the cranberries mixture with the stuffing mixtures and mix them well. Now take the turkey and stuff it with this prepared mixture. Once the stuffing is properly done, you can put the stuffed turkey in a roasting pan and start baking it as directed on the packet of the turkey. On the whole it requires 4-5 hours for turkey to be properly baked. You can also insert the meat thermometer inside the turkey and check whether it is cooked or not. If the thermometer is reading 180 degrees in thigh, then you can remove the turkey from the oven.

On the other side, do not forget to make sauce which is going to be served with the stuffed turkey. You are required to get all the sauce ingredients and mix them in a saucepan and cook on medium heat, say for 5-6 minutes.

Now you can serve the cranberry-orange stuffed turkey with the sauce and enjoy your wonderful dinner!

Go ahead with this straightforward recipe and have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day.

Take a look at the free Thanksgiving Cookbook. You can also take a look at some yummy apple pie recipes