Always cook your turkey by internal temperature, never by time or color.

Roasted turkey recipe in roaster. This helps make the turkey skin brown and crispy. Place turkey in the roaster on the rack breast side up. Web in a small bowl, combine poultry seasoning, seasoning salt, and pepper.

Cooking a turkey in a roaster. At least 30 minutes before roasting turkey, adjust oven rack. Roast it for the remainder of the cooking time.

Cover and preheat roaster to 325°f Roast at 400°f for 20 minutes to brown the skin, then turn the temperature down to 325°f and roast until done. Reduce the heat to 400°f and roast for another 1 hour, or until the thickest part of the thigh meat registers at 165°f on a meat thermometer.

Add the zest and juice of the lemon and 1 teaspoon of thyme leaves to the butter mixture. Never cook a frozen turkey. A fully cooked turkey will be 165 degrees f.

Next, pour chicken broth and champagne over the turkey. Season inside the cavity with instant bouillon cube, salt, and pepper, then place 1 onion, lemon, and several rosemary sprigs in the cavity. Remove the rack or insert pan from your roaster.

Rub turkey with oil or butter and liberally sprinkle seasoning over the outside of the bird and pour some inside the cavity and rub around. Remove the rack from the roaster oven. And here's the great news: