I use a cooking bag and always put the breast meat side down in the pan, so all the juice stays in the meat
By cleanupmom55 from Franklin, PA
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Do you have any tips for cooking the perfect (and NOT dry) turkey breast? My son complains every year that my turkey is always so dry. Because it is just the three of us, I usually only cook a small turkey breast. HELP me cook that perfect Thanksgiving turkey this year! :) Thanks in advance!
The key is to brine your turkey first. Here is a recipe I have used in the past. It makes the turkey very moist and tasty:
Turkey Brine
2 gallons water
1 1/2 cups canning salt
3 tablespoons minced garlic
1 tablespoon ground black pepper
1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
1/3 cup brown sugar
In a large bucket or container large enough to hold your turkey, mix together the water, salt, garlic, pepper, Worcestershire sauce and brown sugar. Store in a refrigerator, and soak turkey for 1 day before smoking or roasting.
I have been making this turkey for 3 years know and my family is not to big on turkey because it is so dry but behold the first time I made it they thought it was chicken.
Can you cook a 10 lb turkey breast (bone out) in a turkey bag in an Oster turkey roaster or do you have to take it out of the bag it came in?
By Joe T from West hester
You can not cook a turkey in the bag it comes in. Some roasters will work for a baking bag, but not all. You would need to read your roaster instructions.
You need to take the turkey out of the packaging. I have used Reynolds turkey bags in my regular oven
Is it OK cook to cook them at the same time? What is the best way to cook a 7lb. turkey breast and sweet potatoes at the same time?
I would not cook them in the same pan together. They would pick up the taste off of each other. Also depending on the size, the potatoes would probably be done cooking before the turkey.
The sweet potatoes can be cooked in the same pan, if you like the flavor of the turkey gravy. They also will be much softer and easy to mash than if you had roasted them separately. I like the Reynold's oven cooking bags or my oval crockpot to cook the turkey. In the oven it takes about 2 1/2 hours and 5-6 hours in the crockpot. Sliced sweet potatoes would only take 25 minutes or so, so add the sweet potatoes later on if you do decide to cook them together.
Actually, a lot of food tastes very good when cooked with sweet potatoes and they are one of the healthiest foods around (even for our animals). Even pot roast with sweet potatoes is usually a raved about dish at our house.
Turkey breast (7-9 pounds) (cut in half if large) can be rubbed with your favorite spices and cooked in a Dutch oven on stove top or oven or even in your crock pot. I like to add cut up apples, cubed onions and sliced or just cut up (1-2) sweet potatoes; add 2-3 T oil and make sure turkey temperature reaches 165 degrees F about 2 -3 hours (more in crock pot).
I cook all of my ingredients together (just baste but not stir - optional).
definitely the time differential between when the turkey v/ the sweet potatoes would be done would be the biggest consideration here, for you do not want dried-out turkey or undercooked potatoes! I have at times made stews, though, where I let all the ingredients cook for a very long time, to the point the sweet potatoes would turn to mush and everything overall would thicken.
How long does it take too cook a turkey breast?
By Kathy127 from Clifton Park, NY
Find out how much the turkey breast weighs, then look in a cookbook for the times for different weight turkeys. Also if you have any of those oven roasting bags, it usually tells in the package.
30 minutes for every a pound of turkey. Example if your turkey is weighing 6 pounds you have to cook the turkey for 3 hours.
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