Easy Roasted Turkey Legs

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 8 turkey legs
• 1 1/2 cups butter
• 5 tablespoons black pepper
• 7 tablespoons onion powder
• 5 tablespoons salt
• 3 (16 ounce) cartons turkey broth or 3 (16 ounce) cartons stock

Recipe

• 1 in a large bowl pour in all of the turkey broth/stock (could also be chicken stock) and marinate the uncooked turkey legs overnight, or at least 3 hours, in the refrigerator.
• 2 after 3-8 hours in the refrigerator, take a large roasting pan with a wire rack, remove the refrigerated legs from the bowl of broth---use tongs and place directly on the roasting rack/pan. sprinkle generous amount of salt, black pepper, and onion powder on each leg. spread foil across the top of the roasting pan to keep the legs covered while roasting in a pre-heated 350f oven.
• 3 meanwhile, melt a stick of butter in a saucepan---until it's liquified.
• 4 8 legs usually take about 1hour and 45 minutes to fully cook. the legs need to be turned/flipped with tongs, basted (brushed with the melted butter) and then re-seasoned with just the onion powder and black pepper--- every 20 minutes during roasting.
• 5 turkey legs are usually done after insterting a meat thermometer that registers 175f in the thickest part of the leg, however, they do keep cooking even after they're removed from the oven.
• 6 the cooked turkey pan juices and drippings are usually used to flavor gravy and stuffing.