Organic Turkey Breast

Organic Turkey Breast is the turkey recipe for Thanksgiving. My easy perfect roast turkey is made with fresh ingredients like a high-quality turkey, butter, celery, lemons, Mandarin oranges, onion, fresh garlic, bone broth, spices, and some fresh herbs. My secret ingredient is mandarin oranges which make all the difference in keeping the turkey nice and moist throughout the cooking process.

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Organic Turkey Breast is popular at Thanksgiving and Christmas. You can make this turkey recipe all year long for easy meal ideas!

Need a complete Thanksgiving menu? Check out our popular Mandarin Orange Ginger Cranberry Sauce and our super popular Pear and Apple Cider Sangria which pairs well with our Delicious Healthy Leftover Turkey Soup Recipe and Easy Leftover Turkey Sliders which are perfect to enjoy the day after Turkey Day!

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• 🦃 Ingredients For Organic Roast Turkey Breast
• 🦃 Equipment for the easiest roast turkey:
• 🦃 Instructions For Cooking a Turkey
• 🦃 A Simply Perfect Roast Turkey
• 🦃 Homemade Herbed Butter for a perfect, moist, roast turkey.
• 🦃 Storage For Oven Roasted Turkey Breast
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🦃 Ingredients For Organic Roast Turkey Breast

🦃What you'll need for Free Range Turkey Breast:

• Whole Turkey (free-range, organic is best, but see more suggestions below)
• Chicken Stock
• Celery
• Carrots (optional)
• Lemons
• Mandarin Oranges
• White Onion
• Butter (I highly recommend Kerry Gold Grassfed Irish Butter)
• Thyme
• Parsley or Italian Parsley
• Garlic
• Salt and Pepper

🦃 Equipment for the easiest roast turkey:

• Meat Thermometer
• Roasting Pan
• Saucepan
• Turkey Baster

Organic turkey breast is super easy to make and will provide a delicious turkey on Thanksgiving.

You will need a high-quality turkey for this recipe. My top two recommendations are:
Butterball and Norbest.

These are going to give you the most bang for your buck. Norbest is they are free-range, ranch-raised organic turkeys that live on open pastures.

Butterball is a brand my family has been using for generations and you don't have to brine a Butterball turkey.

🦃 Instructions For Cooking a Turkey

Step 1: Thaw your frozen turkey in the fridge for up to 3-days before Thanksgiving.

Step 2: Remove the giblets from the turkey. Do not rinse your turkey unless it is frozen and needs more time to thaw.

Step 3: Prepare your turkey by patting it dry with paper towels and removing any excess liquid.

Step 4: Place the organic turkey breast in a large roasting pan and liberally salt and pepper the inside and outside of the turkey.

Step 5: Butter the inside and outside of the turkey with Irish butter.

Step 6: Stuff the organic turkey breast with Mandarin Orange slices, halved lemons, mandarin oranges (reserve two for adding juice to the turkey), quartered onion, celery sticks, rosemary, thyme, sage, marjoram, and parsley.

Step 7: Brush the outside of the turkey with the herbed butter mixture. (See the recipe card below for Herbed Butter recipe.) Next, add the chopped garlic, and mandarin orange juice to the top and the outside of the turkey.

Step 8: Add the remaining celery sticks, quartered onion, fresh herbs, orange, and lemon slices to the bottom of the roasting pan. Add the chicken stock to the roasting pan. This will all help keep the turkey moist during the cooking process. 

Step 9: Roast the organic roast turkey for 2-2/2 hours, depending on the weight. I'm using a 13-pound turkey for this recipe. (See more TURKEY TIPS below)

🦃 A Simply Perfect Roast Turkey

My top Turkey Tips:

• Baste or brush the turkey with the herbed butter mixture each half-hour that the turkey is cooking. You can also baste from the juices in the roasting pan. Make sure to baste your organic turkey breast during the cooking process, this keeps the meat tender and moist.
• Make sure to use a meat thermometer to gauge when the turkey is finished cooking. The meat thermometer should read 165 degrees at the meatiest part of the turkey.
•  Let the organic turkey breast rest for 20 minutes in the roasting pan under tinfoil before carving. 
• I make herbed butter using Irish butter, fresh rosemary, thyme, sage, and marjoram. I also use an entire mandarin orange. The zest and the actual orange. This gives the turkey a wonderful, rich flavor and keeps the turkey moist the entire time it’s cooking. I usually do a combo of basting and using a cooking brush to intermittently keep the turkey moist. I do this about every half hour during the cooking process. (See instructions and steps below.)

🦃 Homemade Herbed Butter for a perfect, moist, roast turkey.

Step 1: Gather your ingredients like Irish butter, fresh sprigs of thyme, marjoram, and rosemary, and a Mandarin orange.

Step 2: Add the Irish butter, rosemary, thyme, sage, marjoram, and peeled mandarin orange to a saucepan over medium heat. 

Step 3: Next, add the mandarin orange zest and combine all of the ingredients as they melt. Bring the heat down to low and simmer. Leave it on the simmer setting as the turkey cooks and use the easy herbed butter to baste the turkey throughout the cooking process. 

🦃 Storage For Oven Roasted Turkey Breast

Store cooked turkey in glass airtight container in the fridge and eat within 3-days of cooking. You can also use leftover turkey in my Easy Leftover Turkey Soup recipe or make Leftover Turkey Sliders.

Cooked Turkey doesn't freeze well. I reccomend eating and consuming what you cook within 3-days.

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