Grammy's Kitchen · Roast Turkey · Easy Roast Turkey Recipe (Step by Step)
One of 58 roast turkey recipes we measured
51 cooks on www.spendwithpennies.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 58.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 1% | 2% |
| salt | 0% | 0% |
| aromatics | 3% | 1% |
| liquid | 16% | 0% |
| vegetables and beans | 3% | 0% |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 5897 g | 12 to 14 pound whole turkey (*) |
| 54 g | 1/4 cup olive oil (or melted butter, slightly cooled) |
| 50 g | 1/2 cup chopped fresh herbs (parsley, rosemary, sage and/or thyme) |
| 1 recipe prepared stuffing (optional) | |
| 150 g | 1 large onion (optional) |
| 122 g | 2 medium carrots (optional) |
| 80 g | 2 ribs celery (optional) |
| 960 g | 4 cups chicken broth (or turkey broth) |
| fresh herbs (additional, if not stuffing the turkey) |
Method: 10 steps, published by www.spendwithpennies.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I made a practice turkey a week before thanksgiving using this recipe, and it came out perfect! My thanksgiving turkey, same way, perfect. Now I’m about to cook my third (early Jan - freezer turkey bought when they were .$49/lb at thanksgiving) and I only had ” — a cook, 5.0★
“Excellent recipe! Especially to put broth in pan made great gravy. Thankyou! Put the oil all over turkey and fresh herbs butter also made herb butter and put under skin and roasted convection. Amazing dinner” — a cook, 5.0★