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I'm Kelly Senyei with http://www.epicurious.com,
and this is how to put butter under turkey skin.
The first thing you want to do
is loosen the skin away from the body.
So very gently and carefully,
I'm going to separate the skin from on top of the breast.
Just really carefully work your hand under there,
you don't wanna poke through the skin.
Otherwise, once the turkey is roasting,
all that moisture is going to escape.
And what you're doing here
is you're creating little pockets
so that once you put the butter in there,
it can spread all over.
After you've loosened up the skin on both breasts,
you can do the same thing over both legs.
Careful not to tear the skin.
And once we have that loosened up,
we're gonna use our softened room temperature butter,
and we're gonna spread it underneath the skin.
The key here is it has to be soft,
otherwise it won't spread very easily.
And you can figure about one stick of butter
for a 14 to 16 pound turkey.
And adding all this butter underneath the skin
is gonna make it really rich and moist.
Don't forget about the legs.
And if you see any large pats of butter,
you can use your hands to spread them
on the outside of the skin.
And that's putting butter under the turkey skin.
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