Easy Thanksgiving Turkey Recipe
How to make an easy Thanksgiving turkey when you've never made one before. This Thanksgiving turkey is made with butter and is so easy to make!
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Ingredients
- 1 Turkey 12-20lb
- 1 head of garlic chopped in half
- 1 yellow onion peeled and quartered
- 1 stick butter 1/2 cup, at room temperature
- salt and pepper
- 4 carrots large carrots, chopped into large pieces
- 4 pieces celery chopped into large pieces
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- Remove any packet of giblets or gizzards and discard
- Place turkey into a roasting pan.
- Cut onion into fours and stuff pieces inside the cavity
of the turkey - Stuff head of garlic into turkey cavity
- Smear entire stick of room temperature butter all over the turkey.
- Liberally sprinkle salt and pepper over the butter (I
usually use 1-2 teaspoons salt and 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper). - Place carrots and celery around the side of the turkey, in the pan.
- Bake for 45 minutes at 400. Leave turkey in oven and baste it (use a turkey baster and use the baster to suck up the butter and juices and baste juices onto the top and sides and all around the turkey).
- Bring oven temperature down to 350 and baste turkey every 30 minutes, cooking until internal temperature is 165 degrees. (approximately six minutes per pound of meat)
Notes
The nutrition information presented on this site should be considered an estimate as the calculations will change based on the exact products you use in your own kitchen.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 178kcal | Carbohydrates: 41g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 547mg | Fiber: 10g | Sugar: 15g