Chile-Rubbed Roast Turkey

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By Toni Tipton-Martin

Cookbook writer Tipton-Martin got this look from 1 of the rarest achromatic cookbooks known to librarians, historians and collectors — a 1929 "The Lone Star Cook Book and Meat Special (From the Slaughter Pen to the Dining Room Table" by Ataway Fillmore, a Dallas-based cook — which she got astatine an auction. Tipton-Martin was drawn to Fillmore's usage of Creole and Southwestern flavors and bold usage of spices and herbs.

This is not the bland turkey of yore. Instead, it's brash, flavorful, unapologetically smoky and spicy. A mates of hours earlier you program to roast the turkey, region it from the refrigerator and fto it travel to country temperature.

Ingredients

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Servings: 10-14

For the chile rub

  • 2 tablespoons paprika
  • 1 tablespoonful chili powder
  • 1 tablespoonful crushed cumin
  • 1 tablespoonful airy brownish sugar
  • 1 tablespoonful kosher salt
  • 2 teaspoons freshly crushed achromatic pepper
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons chipotle chile powder
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons dried oregano
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons ail powder
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons bulb powder

For the turkey

  • One (10 -pound) turkey, astatine country temperature
  • 1 tiny apple, cored and quartered
  • 1 tiny onion, quartered
  • 4 ample cloves garlic, smashed
  • 2 ribs celery, preferably with leaves, halved
  • 2 mean carrots, halved lengthwise
  • 1/4 cupful rootlike lipid oregon melted butter
  • 2 cups no-sodium-added turkey, chickenhearted oregon rootlike broth

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 12 servings and a 10 lb turkey)

  • Calories

    580

  • Fat

    34 g

  • Saturated Fat

    9 g

  • Carbohydrates

    6 g

  • Sodium

    870 mg

  • Cholesterol

    230 mg

  • Protein

    63 g

  • Fiber

    1 g

  • Sugar

    1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African-American Cooking: A Cookbook” by Toni Tipton-Martin

Tested by Olga Massov.

Published November 17, 2019

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Updated March 16, 2026

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