How To Cook A Turkey Breast In The Oven For Thanksgiving
Cooking turkey can be a really long and laborious process that often requires brining or seasoning for several days.
How to cook a turkey breast in the oven for thanksgiving. If you buy a frozen turkey breast make sure it s fully thawed before you cook it. Thinking ahead a good tip is to pour about a cup of water into the pan to make cleanup easier. 1 1 2 to 2 hours.
Preheat the oven to 425. Oil a roasting pan or insert a rack. Place turkey skin side up on rack in large shallow roasting pan.
Cooking times and temperatures will vary depending on the recipe you follow. Heat oven to 325 f. Turkey breast is slow cooked for hours with chicken broth lemon juice onion kalamata olives sun dried tomatoes and greek seasonings.
See post for suggested roasting times for various cuts and parts of turkey roast until a thermometer placed in the thickest part of the breast shows an interior temperature of 165. Preheat the oven to 450 f. Roast uncovered 1 hour.
Place the seasoned turkey breast in the pan and roast for 30 minutes then reduce the heat to 350 f and continue cooking for about 1 hour and 15 minutes until it is nicely browned with an internal temperature of 160 f. Be sure to serve it over something like coucous to soak up all of the delectable sauce. Rinse and dry the turkey breast.
Refer to the chart below for cooking times according to weight. Insert ovenproof meat thermometer so tip is in thickest part of breast and does not touch bone. A bone in turkey breast takes about 20 minutes per pound to cook at 350 degrees f.