How Long to Cook a Turkey Breast

The cooking duration depends on two basic things, the method and size of the turkey breast. There are a few 'minor' factors that affect the time taken for cooking turkey breast. They are the meat-bone ratio (a boneless turkey breast will take less time to cook) and marinade that is used affects the cooking time, as a heavy marination would take more time.

Ingredients:

• Celery ribs (sliced), 2
• Big onion (cut into 4 pieces), 1
• Carrot (sliced), 1
• Fresh turkey breast (with bone and partial skin), 1.5 lb.
• Turkey stock, 2 cups
• Extra virgin olive oil, 1 tbsp.
• Arrowroot starch, 4 tsp.
• Dried thyme, 1 tsp.
• Dried sage, 1 tsp.
• Pepper and salt to taste

Procedure:
▸ Rub dried thyme and dried sage all over on the turkey breast.
▸ Heat the olive oil in a skillet and brown the breast in it for about 5 minutes on each side.
▸ Place the cooked turkey in the crock pot and then add all the vegetables and strained turkey stock (you can also use chicken stock or water as well).

▸ Bring the mixture to a boil and heat it until the stock gets reduced to about one-fourth of its original quantity.
▸ Add some pepper and salt into the mixture.
▸ Take 2 tablespoons of water and mix arrowroot starch in it (avoid clots). Pour this in the mixture present in the crock pot.

▸ Stir the mixture until the starch gets combined in it.
▸ Cook until the temperature in the thickest part of the meat comes to around 165ºF.
▸ When placed on medium to high heat, it can take somewhere around 2 hours and 45 minutes, and when cooked on lower heat, it will require about 5 to 6 hours.

Ingredients:

• Garlic cloves (chopped finely), 2
• Whole turkey breast (with bone), 5 lb.
• Butter, ½ cup
• Dry white wine, ¼ cup
• Arrowroot starch, 4 tsp.
• Chopped dried thyme leaves and fresh thyme leaves, 2 tsp. each
• Bell pepper and salt, 1 tsp. each

Procedure:
▸ Preheat the oven to about 325ºF and place the turkey breast (in a baking pan) with the skin side up and roast it for an hour.
▸ Insert a meat thermometer in the thickest part of the turkey breast (just make sure that it doesn't touch the bone).
▸ Next, mix the melted butter, salt, bell pepper, dry white wine, chopped garlic and thyme.

▸ Brush half of this mixture on the roasted turkey and roast it for half an hour more.
▸ Brush in the remaining butter mixture and cook the turkey for about an hour more or until the thermometer reads 180ºF.
▸ Settle the roasted turkey breast for 15 minutes at room temperature and gather the meat dripping in a pan.

▸ Add water if necessary so that the quantity of the dripping comes to approximately 2 cups.
▸ Heat the pan and add the arrowroot and water mixture to it.
▸ Stir it for a minute and let it boil for a minute as well.
▸ Serve this soup with the roasted turkey breast and start to gobble!

Ingredients:

• Celery ribs (chopped), 2
• Onion (quartered), 2
• Whole turkey breast, 6 lb.
• All-purpose flour, 2 tsp.
• Bell pepper and salt to taste

Procedure:
▸ Preheat the oven at 320ºF and sprinkle some bell pepper and salt on the cleaned turkey breast.
▸ Sprinkle the flour on the bottom of the bag and place the turkey breast, chopped onion, and chopped celery on it.

▸ Seal the bag and make a small hole in it with help of a fork.
▸ Bake this bag in the preheated oven for about 3 to 3½ hours.
▸ You may also like to brush the turkey with butter first before putting the pepper and salt.