Cooking Turkey Breast in Crock Pot

Turkey breast is the best choice for the people who prefer to eat food that is high in the nutritional value. Turkey breast recipes can be a real feast for those who don't intend to use the whole turkey at once and who hate red meat for several obvious reasons. There are many delicacies that can be made out of the turkey and the turkey breast, to serve on the occasion of thanksgiving and on any other day for that matter! Turkey breast can be cooked using several cooking methods, like cooking it in an oven, or in a bag, in a crock pot, or even a slow cooker. A crock pot gives the turkey breast a moist and juicy texture and really scrumptious taste. Learning how to cook turkey breast in crock pot requires nothing, but several basic skills that are very easy to acquire. Let's find out cooking breast turkey in crock pot.

Tips for Cooking Turkey Breast in a Crock Pot

• Cooking turkey breast in slow cooker or crock pot or by following any other method requires a bit of common sense every now and then. The first basic thing to learn here is to find the perfect turkey breast to cook in crock pot.
• Always look for the medium and or small-sized turkey breast that are thin and sort of long in size rather than heavy.
• Also remember that a frozen turkey breast takes at least 4 days to get thawed so never buy frozen turkey breast just before the day of cooking as it can ruin all your plans of cooking turkey in crock pot.
• Many companies that sell turkey breast tend to place gravy packages inside the turkey breast hence check out for those packages and remove them, if any.

How to Cook Turkey breast in a Crock Pot
Ingredients

• 5 lbs of turkey breast
• 2 cans of turkey or chicken broth
• 1/2 cup of butter
• 2 to 3 roughly chopped celery stocks
• 1 package of onion soup
• 1 cup of milk
• 1/4 cup of flour
• Pepper and salt to taste
• 4 tablespoons of additional butter
• 1 jar with lid

Procedure
Rub the turkey breast with some generous amount of butter and place it in the crock pot. Put some of the butter under the skin as well. Place the chopped celery around the turkey breast and pour dry onion soup mix over the turkey breast in crock pot. Pour the turkey broth over the turkey breast and, make sure all the dry stuff is wet enough already. You can also use chicken broth if turkey broth is hard to find or unavailable. Cover up the crock pot with the lid. Cooking time for turkey breast in crock pot is at least 8 to 10 hours when cooked over the maximum heat of 180⁰C. Prepare a casserole dish and remove the cooked turkey breast into it. Strain the remaining turkey broth from the crock pot, this will remove any present bones. Take the jar and add milk, flour, pepper and salt into it and shake it well with the lid on. Whisk this mixture over the turkey breast stock and cook till the time of serving it. While cooking it, don't forget to keep on mixing it from time to time. You can serve this crock pot turkey breast with any stuffing as well as with rice and also with crusty bread (if you are not serving it on the occasion of thanksgiving).

There are many recipes like smoked turkey and ground turkey that you might like to try on this thanksgiving occasion. As far as cooking turkey breast in crock pot is concerned, I hope you liked the above information I am sharing with you. You can also read about several of these easy crock pot recipes. Buen provecho!