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    Organic Turkey Breast

    Published: Nov 4, 2022 · Modified: Jan 3, 2025 by Genevieve · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

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    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 perfect for Thanksgiving dinner!

    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
    • 🦃 Pin This Recipe For Later 🦃
    • 🦃More Delicious Fall Recipes
    • 📖 Recipe
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    🦃 Ingredients For Organic Roast Turkey Breast

    organic turkey aw turkey, parsley, celery, butter, Mandarin oranges, lemons, chicken stock, white onion, rosemary, thyme, garlic salt pepper
    You only need a few healthy ingredients for an easy roast turkey recipe.

    🦃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
    slices of organic turkey breast
    A beautiful turkey display for Thanksgiving!

    🦃 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.

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    🦃 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.

    pat down turkey with paper towels parsley, butter, lemons, garlic, celery oranges
    The first step is to pat your turkey dry with paper towels.

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

    buttered turkey in a roasting pan
    whole organic turkey breast

    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.

    Stuff the turkey with the orange sliced, halved lemons, mandarin oranges (reserve two for adding juice to the turkey), quartered onion, some of the celery sticks, and the rosemary, thyme, sage, marjoram, and parsley.
    boned turkey

    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.

    prepared organic turkey with sage, thyme, garlic, Mandarin oranges, butter
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    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)

    roasted turkey
    Look at this gorgeous Thanksgiving turkey!

    🦃 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.

    Irish butter, thyme, rosemary, Mandarin oranges in a pan
    Herbed butter for organic turkey breast

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

    Irish butter, fresh herbs, Mandarin orange, in a saucepan
    Oven Roasted Turkey Breast

    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. 

    herbed butter cooking in saucepan  for organic turkey breast
    The easiest herbed butter

    🦃 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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    Organic Turkey Breast

    Genevieve Jerome
    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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    Prep Time 20 minutes mins
    Cook Time 2 hours hrs 30 minutes mins
    Course Thanksgiving, Holiday, Recipes
    Cuisine American
    Servings 6 people
    Calories 25 kcal

    Ingredients
      

    • 1 11-14 pounds Whole Turkey
    • 2 sticks Irish butter
    • 3 lemons Sliced one lemon, juice the second lemon, zest the third lemon
    • 2 orages sliced one orange and zest the other orange
    • 4 Madarain Oranges reserve two for zest
    • 1 tablespoon Himalayan sea salt 
    • 1 tbsp Black Pepper
    • 1 yellow onion, quarted
    • 3 cloves chopped garlic
    • 1 bunch celery, trimmed and halved
    • 3 sprigs fresh rosemary
    • 4 sprigs fresh thyme
    • 2 sprigs fresh sage
    • 3 sprigs fresh marjoram
    • 1 bunch fresh parsley
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    Instructions
     

    • Make sure your turkey to completely thawed
    • Preheat oven to 350-degrees farenheit
    • Remove the giblets from the turkey. Do not rinse your turkey unless it is frozen and needs more time to thaw.
    • Prepare your turkey by patting it dry with paper towels and removing any excess liquid.
    • Place the turkey in a large roasting pan.
    • Liberally salt and pepper the turkey and inside the turkey cavity.
    • Stuff the turkey with the orange sliced, halved lemons, mandarin oranges (reserve two for adding juice to the turkey), quartered onion, some of the celery sticks, and the rosemary, thyme, sage, marjoram, and parsley.
    • Brush the outside of the turkey with the herbed butter mixture.
    • Next, add the chopped garlic, and mandarin orange juice to the top and the outside of the turkey.
    • 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. 
    • Roast the turkey for 2-2/2 hours, depending on the weight. I'm using a 13-pound turkey for this recipe
    • 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 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 turkey rest for 20 minutes in the roasting pan under tinfoil before carving. 
    • Slice the turkey and serve. 

    Notes

    Herbed Butter Recipe 

    INGREDIENTS

    Easy Herbed Butter
    • 1-stick Irish Butter 
    • 4-sprigs fresh rosemary 
    • 4-sprigs fresh thyme 
    • 1-sprig fresh sage
    • 1-sprig fresh marjoram 
    • 1-mandarin orange plus the zest from the mandarin orange 

    INSTRUCTIONS

    Easy Herbed Butter
    1. Add the Irish butter, rosemary, thyme, sage, marjoram, and peeled mandarin orange to a saucepan over medium heat. 
    2. Next, add the mandarin orange zest and combine all of the ingredients as they melt. 
    3. Bring the heat down to low and simmer. 
    4. Leave it on the simmer setting as the turkey cooks and use the easy herbed butter to baste the turkey throughout the cooking process. 
    All images and text © Genevieve Jerome / Fitty Foodlicious 2022 

    Nutrition

    Serving: 1sliceCalories: 25kcalCarbohydrates: 7gProtein: 1gFat: 0.3gSaturated Fat: 0.1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.1gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.05gCholesterol: 0.1mgSodium: 1170mgPotassium: 154mgFiber: 2gSugar: 1gVitamin A: 883IUVitamin C: 43mgCalcium: 39mgIron: 1mg
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