Your First Turkey! Easy Roast Turkey for Beginners for the Holidays!

I've been cooking my turkey this way for at least 9 years and it ALWAYS turns out perfect! My first time cooking it I was nervous it won't be as good as the one in the video but I was so wrong! This recipe never fails and what's more important - besides the amazing look, the meat is always tender and juicy. I don't even want to try any other recipes - this one is a perfection.

Remove innards, Baste, 325°, 15 minutes per lb, uncovered.❤

look great but I always see that other recipes say you should turn up the heat for 40 mins at the beginning to and then turn down?

So my question is if you only have basil and rosemary FLAKES how much should you use ? Also does Turkey go in at room temperature .? Thx.

Happy Xmas. 🎄 🎅 🤶

A couple tablespoons of butter called for= 1 stick for me lol

You could have taught us gravy.

That turkey looks dry and
No flavor but looks good though.. I only follow my sister turkey recipe since she's a chef in the big city and owned a pretty huge restaurant I will never go back to do any turkey any other way happy holidays not bad for beginners

IM GOING TO DO THIS BUT USE A TURKEY BAG..THANKS!

Literally cooking turkey for the very first time and saw this video. Just aout to set it in.. Do you use the top or bottom coil? Don't even know how my electric oven works as were in a very old apt, 52yrs old, and I'm 40.. Can somebody help me?

Great job!! Looks delicious!😋

Another year, another simply delicious baked turkey.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

Excellent! Thanks

This video is an excellent introduction. I feel like there could be a whole series based off of it adding on extra steps. Like if you did it once and it worked out fine what should you try next? Basting? Stuffing?

you sir are a life saver and this video is much appreciated and needed!!

Watching in 2023 bc your channel is that good.

Thanks Chef John love your videos especially the prime rib recipe.

Thank you

Coming back for turkey number two in same 2023 season

165 is when you take it out ,you over cooked your turkey is not JUICY

This is absolutely perfect! Last year I had a much smaller turkey that fit inside the crock pot, so I didn’t bake it in the oven. But this year my Fiancé got a bigger bird from work and we had to go buy a pan for it. I hope this goes well, wish us luck 🍀

I need to say the following and I just can't help myself in doing so:

After decades of watching Grandmas, Moms, Sisters roast a Thanksgiving turkey that is always over cooked and dry, despite the oven being open half the cooking time for the basting ritual, I decided I was going to do the bird one year with this recipe. (don't even ask about the time my sister decided that cooking it in a plastic bag was the answer). I do a lot of roast chickens throughout the year. It dawned on me that a turkey is a big chicken. Why the fuss?

This was my fourth year being in charge of the bird. Still a lot of hemming, hawing, raised eyebrows and disappointment that you don't have to fiddle with basting, tenting, stress watching from various generations of, in honesty, wannbe chefs lost in the latest fad that Good Morning America can dream up.

This recipe is dead easy, stress free, perfection. The bird (17#) again, came out perfectly brown and crispy, perfectly moist and tender, and the pan juice made the best gravy my brother-in-law says he's ever had. And my brother-in-law doesn't even like me.

Follow the recipe! Dry the bird. Place on the Veg liner, Coat with the butter and herb. Truss with dental floss (nk it's what we had). COOK TO TEMPRATURE, not the plastic thing someone shoved into it. You will be the star of the day. Promise.

Thank you Chef for teaching us that simple is often AWSOME.
You're AWSOME.
The Turkey was AWSOME!

PS, I make Chef's easy pumpkin pie every year for the past 10 years. It always gets raves and that too is fast easy recipe.

Thank you for sharing. I will try this method soon 🤞🤞🤞

I love the narrator too😂 I’m gonna give it a try

Link to make the gravy? Please and thank you. Yes, we all working night shift people, so tonight the turkey is in the oven and we will be eating at 6am…. Lol.

It’s funny how year after year I seem to forget the basics of roasting a turkey… lol. I always love your video… straight to the point. Great for beginners and those of us with a short memory. I always tweak the herbs and spices to whatever I have at the time. ( now I know why you tied the legs BEFORE the butter…. Hahaha. I tried to use floss and my fingers and hands got so slippery and the floss….. hahaha. Luckily for me I had a pic of instructions from the turkey and it did say I could use the plastic clamp to hold legs during roasting! :)….)

Brining is pointless as poultry nowadays is injected with water to make it heavier

My first 2 times my Turkey was well done ,but not brown rubbery skin.. ....I was leaving the cover on the roasting pan..oops. now i cover for half the time then open half time perfectly golden and not dry.
Easy peasy you cs. Do it!❤

THANK YOU!

First thanksgiving all alone

As a single mom. I can do this

Made it today did put a tent on it came out very moist.

Out of the park! Everyone raved about flavor and been so moist! Thank you Chef!

Dude your awesome it was my first turkey I made it came out perfect like you said I appreciate you pal

Although I've oven roasted turkeys before, this is my first time using this technique free recipe. I prepared it according to the steps, but deviated a bit. To line the bottom of the roasting pan I used a bit more carrots, onions, celery, and added 4 each different kinds of apples. I also used a different blend of herbs and then after they were sauteed and in the cavity, added 2 more tablespoons of butter to the pan as I felt it wasn't enough melted butter to coat my 20# bird. Then, I changed the seasonings a bit and added garlic powder, sage powder, and onion powder to the salt and pepper. I did tuck the wings as instructed. Thank you for this easy way to roast a turkey! Happy Thanksgiving!!

P.S. I used dental floss to tie the legs :)

Im just looking at people turkey while i made mine...I did mines different though for me and my 1 year old son...I put butter and goya season together and put it all on my bird...than i put sea salt and black pepper all around my bird..Put cooking olive oil all around it too...than I just put aluminum foil on it and placed it in the oven on 300F ...🎉

I’ve been coming back to this video for 5 years straight. Just got the bird in and looking forward to another masterpiece. Thanks as always for the great video.

Is that time again

Another year, another perfect turkey,,Thanks!

I’ve been using this video for the past 5 years lol
Always a great turnout and the turkey is always moist and tender! Thank you!
SEE YOU AGAIN NEXT YEAR!

Thank you,ima single dad and wanna make a great meal for me and my son but ive never done a turkey

For anyone struggling to find the recipe seasoning ratio on the Blog. Ingredients:
1 tbsp black pepper
2 tbsp kosher salt
1 tbsp poultry seasoning (fresh, not from 1997)
2 onions
3 ribs celery
2 carrots
3 rosemary sprigs
1/2 bunch sage
1 bay leaf
1 stick butter, or a flavored butter recipe

Here Thanksgiving 2023 🦃 Come back every year for the last 5 years the best turkey recipe!

As single dad and have used Chef John’s turkey recipes for a dozen years. My kids are now off to collie end still can’t wait to get home for turkey. Although I do a cranberry maple sausage stuffing inside. Thanks Chef John

Thanks 2 years in a row!! Kids are grown and moms gone, saved my bacon twice!! Even I feel good about myself. And yes it was easy, she did an awesome job that I always appreciated though.

Perfect recipe for Thanksgiving can't wait to try this out for the first time

Every year I turn on the tv and see the Parade happening live and I have a Turkey Panic Attack. Then I watch this and it calms me down. Thank you.

Around the outside NEVER gets old.

You don’t say it so much anymore…

3rd year with this AMAZING recipe!

I've only had two good turkeys in my life. 1 was at a cousin's ex boyfriends house, when they were together, then this 1 when I made it. None of the turkeys any of my relatives have made came out this juicy. I'm going to my families today to eat their dried up turkey. If I lived more local to them I'd volunteer to cook it using this video.

I am back again this year 😊