best way to roast turkey?

[AnnaNova]

this may seem like a strange question now in spring, but our local natural food store had a turkey at a very good price. i paid for 27 lbs bird as much as i usually pay for 2 chickens.

we cook turkey for thanksgiving / xmas, but we usually deep fry it, and because we make a lot for us and friends and family, it worth it in terms of oil cost. now we have just one, and it doesnt make sense to go through the hussle of deep frying it.

i tried to look up some recipes, but its so hard to tell what would be good.

share your fav recipe!

thanks

[cristeen]

www.howtocookathanksgivingturkey.com

It makes a gorgeous bird, so moist and succulent!

[Ldavis24]

I keep things really simple if I know the turkey is going to be extra tasty! 

If you aren't concerned with presentation and want the juiciest turkey you'll ever eat just simply flip it upside down so the breast is at the bottom and all the juices will flow into the breast the whole time it's cooking... You still get some crunchy yummy skin but not as much.

I generally do really simple seasoning. I make sure I dry the bird really really well after I wash it. Do salt and pepper fresh ground inside and out. I stick carrots/celery/onion in the cavity and put some more in the pan. I add water to the bottom of the pan and never baste. I only open the door once to turn the bird half way through as well..

I know it's simple but I love it this way, I am a big fan of the natural taste of good turkey. It will be the juiciest bird you've ever had if you cook it upside down though!

[Arduinna]

We have roasted our turkey on the grill for almost 20 years now. Just set it on the grate with a drip pan below it ( below the grate sitting on the floor of the grill). Best turkey I've ever eaten cooked over hardwood coals with some smoking wood.

[amnesiac]

We have a smoker & dh makes amazingly tender smoked turkey. But if I'm roasting it in the oven, I put herb butter (just sage & thyme) under the breast skin, onion & celery in the cavity, salt & pepper with more thyme & sage on the outside & roast it in an oven bag with the breast down as a pp mentioned but I turn it breast side up for the last 45 minutes or so.