2 Hour Turkey - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 (12 lb) turkey
    salt and pepper, to taste
    1/4 - 3/4 cup vegetable oil, to coat
    paprika
Preparation
    Cut off skin at the neck.
    Cut off wing and second joint.
    Remove giblets.
    (It's probably a good idea to cook the wings and giblets to make stock since most of the juice will stay in your turkey rather than making a lot of pan drippings).
    Clean turkey and pat dry.
    Salt and pepper inside and out.
    Coat all over with oil, rubbing in a little to make sure you have a good coating.
    Sprinkle generously with paprika.
    Place turkey on its side in a large roaster.
    Roast in a 400 degree oven for 2-3 hours.
    3/4 of the way through the cooking time, turn turkey to the other side.
    It is very important that you DO NOT PIERCE THE SKIN.
    Just a hint: To ensure you don't pierce the skin and let out all the juice you might want to use a couple old (clean) oven mitts and just pick up the bird to flip it.

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