15 Thanksgiving Turkey Recipes to Show Off on the Big Day

This back-to-basics roast turkey recipe is a great place for beginners to start, and the results are pretty dang fabulous: crisp skin, juicy meat that’s evenly cooked, without butterflying, flipping, trussing, or fussing. One trick that sets this recipe apart: A baking steel or baking stone is preheated in the oven so that when the bird is added, the heat stored in the steel/stone helps kickstart the cooking of the turkey’s legs, which need to reach a higher temperature than the breast.