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Quick Thanksgiving Turkey With Lemon-Garlic Butter

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Turkey legs and sliced turkey breasts with lemon slices and herbs on a serving platter.
Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Anna Billingskog

What's the fastest way possible to roast a turkey for Thanksgiving? Skip the whole turkey: instead, roast bone-in breasts and legs. (If you don't want to butcher a turkey yourself, you can buy them in individual pieces or have your butcher break a whole bird down for you.) Once you put the pieces in the oven, they cook in about 1 hour and 15 minutes, and are so much faster and easier to carve and serve.

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