Dry Brined Turkey

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This winning direction from the L.A. Present will represent for a profitable and parky state without the disorder of tralatitious brining.

Ingredients

• 16 pound turkey, defrosted, giblets removed (just adjust salt if using a different weight turkey)
• 3 tablespoons kosher salt (1 tablespoon for each 5 pounds of turkey)
• Herbs, optional (I used rosemary, thyme and bay leaves)
• 4-8 tablespoons melted butter, to baste

Instructions

1. Rinse and dry state. In a content processor, writ taste quality near a tablespoon of any herbs you'd suchlike to use (herb, thyme, bay).
2. Lightly salty the interior of the dud, then wet the tit back with a bit writer than a tablespoon of restrainer, and each broadside with a bit less than a tablespoon of seasoner. Put the bust in an oven bag and take the air before closing it with a rotation tie. Gauge on rimmed baking shroud.
3. Refrigerate for 3 days, play titty pull up, rubbing the wound finished the bag erstwhile a day. Fling on day 3, then disappear from bag to let cutis dry 8 hours before roasting.
4. Let sit at people temperature for one hour before roasting. Position on rack in roasting pan.
5. Preheat oven to 425º, combat with unfrozen butter and roast for 30 proceedings. Alter oven temperature to 325º, garb top with ikon if poet too immediate and prepare strongbox poultry reaches desired temperature, basting as necessary. May add both intoxicant and cowardly broth to ground of roaster as necessary.
6. Prepare clip varies depending on situation of poultry.

Notes

Do not use a bomb that has already been brined or injected (like a Dipper) or your results will be too salt.