Kikkoman: Making Your Thanksgiving Even Better!

I have a confession to make. I am 31 years old, been married for almost 9 years and have given birth to two children. Don't you think that somewhere along the line I would have made a turkey for my family {hanging head in shame}? Well, I haven't. I guess that I haven't really had to. We have Thanksgiving at my Mother-in-law's house every year. And, I never really gave much thought to making a turkey outside of Thanksgiving time. That is until....I was contacted by the wonderful people at Kikkoman. They wanted to send me their turkey kit to try. I agreed and informed them that this should be really interesting...given it's my first time!

Kikkoman supplied me with a gift card to purchase a turkey, 2 different bottles of soy sauce, a jug of soy sauce, box of soy milk, a box of bread crumbs, and a cute little apron. They also supplied exact instructions on how to cook your turkey the Kikkoman way as well as recipes to use with your left over turkey.

I was  pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to prepare my turkey. I put it in the fridge a few days prior to the "big day" so that it had time to thaw out completely. When it was time to prepare it, I removed it from it's wrapper,  and took out the neck and giblets. I then prepared the brine mixture in a 5 gallon bucket and immersed my turkey in the mixture. You let it sit in the brine (2 gallons of water, 10oz of Kikkoman soy sauce, 1/2 C salt, 1/2 C. sugar, 2T dried Sage, 2T Dried Celery Seed, 1T Dried Thympe) overnight in your fridge. To accomplish this task we had to remove a shelf from our fridge. This preparation method may not work for those of you with a side by side fridge.

When you're ready to cook it the next day, you remove it from the brine, rinse well, release it's legs from the clamp and place in your pan breast side up with some brine in the pan and inside your turkey.
I baked it in the oven while we were at church. When we came home....

had the most juicy suculent turkey ready to carve. I can't begin to tell you how good it smelled and tender it was. Using soy sauce you would think that it would be really salty. It wasn't at all. It was perfect! As you can see from the picture, we even shared some of the juice by putting it on our dog's food....it was only fair.....she had to smell it cooking the entire time we were at church.

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Kikkoman products are available nationwide at your local grocery store.

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Now you have a chance to win some Kikkoman products of your own. One lucky winner will recieve:

- Kikkoman recipe book

-  2 full size bottles of Kikkoman special sauces

* All you have to do to get entered is head on over to the Kikkoman website, take a look around and then come back here and tell me something that you learned.


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