Cooking a delicious Thanksgiving turkey can be challenging… These easy instructions will solve that problem and help create a tender, juicy, turkey… It’s a breeze to prepare and turns out delicious every time.

What you need to roast a turkey, in a bag;

• Turkey size oven bag
• Large roasting pan
• Instant read thermometer
  

Ingredients

• 12 – 24 pound turkey
• Flour
• Salt

To add extra flavor

• 1 large onions cut into chunks
• 2 carrots peeled and chopped into 2” pieces
• 4 celery ribs cut into 2” pieces
• Pepper
• 1 tsp dried Thyme
• 3 cloves of garlic minced minced (can be omitted)
• ¼ cup butter
  

Cooking the Turkey

• Move rack to one below the middle and preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Prepare turkey by removing neck and giblets, tuck wings under turkey and season turkey cavity with salt and pepper
• Make the butter mixture – combine butter, thyme, salt, and pepper
• Separate the turkey breast skin from breast with the back of a wooden spoon. Rub butter under skin and spread.
• Season turkey with a fair amount of salt and pepper
• Add 1 Tbsp of flour to the oven bag and shake
• Add vegetables to bag and place turkey on top of vegetables
• Close oven bag with tie and cut 6 slits in the bag to let the steam out
• Bake turkey according to size (chart below) until temperature reaches 165 degrees at the thickest part of the breast.
• Let turkey rest at least 20 minutes after removing from the oven