Simple Roast Turkey With Simplest Gravy

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This is simply a salted, oregon dry-brined, bird, roasted successful conscionable a fewer hours, and its accompanying gravy is guaranteed creaseless and lump-free -- due to the fact that it has nary flour.

For a twist: Mix 2 tablespoons of minced sage, rosemary oregon thyme with the brackish erstwhile you hitch the turkey; and/or effort stuffing the cavity of the turkey with a clump of immoderate of those herbs and a halved lemon; oregon adhd a tablespoonful of crushed cumin to the brackish erstwhile you hitch the turkey and worldly the cavity with a halved orange.

It’s adjuvant to person an instant-read thermometer for checking doneness.

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The vertebrate tin beryllium salted and stored successful the refrigerator for up to 2 days successful advance. It needs to remainder astatine country somesthesia for 1 hr earlier roasting.

From cookbook writer Julia Turshen.

Ingredients

2 tablespoons kosher salt, positive much arsenic needed
One 12- to 14-pound turkey (fresh/defrosted; giblets removed), patted adust with insubstantial towels
4 ribs celery
1/2 cupful water
1/2 cupful sour cream
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper