Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Mix all the dry ingredients together in a small bowl and set aside.

Rinse and pay dry your turkey and place in a roasting pan. (I personally stuff my turkey with stuffing but that’s optional. If you choose not to stuff your turkey reduce the cooking time to 3-3 1/2 hours)

Rub the room temperature butter all over the turkey and then sprinkle the dry seasoning evenly all over and place in oven. Roast for 3 3/4- 4 1/2 hours checking internal temperature to ensure it’s at 160 or higher.

Tips:

Every hour I turn the pan and 2 hours in I begin to baste the bird with the juices in the pan, I brush the bird softly as well to give it the even brown skin throughout!

If you’re finding that your bird is getting overly brown on top use a piece of folded tin foil to tent over the top while it continue to cook to prevent oven browning/ potentially burning.