THE SMALL-CROWD-
PLEASER: EASY HERB-
ROASTED TURKEY
BREAST
WITH STUFFING
Perhaps your family is small. Perhaps your friends all
bailed on you the week before Thanksgiving. Perhaps only
half your family eats meat. Perhaps you simply don’t
enjoy leftovers. (Weirdo.) Or perhaps you just had a
craving for turkey in February and have no reason to
cook a whole bird. Point is, there are any number of
reasons you might have for not wanting to roast an entire
turkey, but that doesn’t mean you should be deprived of
juicy meat, crispy skin, and turkey-saturated stuffing,
right?
Cooking a turkey breast is far easier than cooking a
whole turkey, since you only have a single final target
temperature in mind, instead of having to worry about the
legs and breasts cooking at different rates. As soon as
that breast is at 150°F, you can pull it out of the oven and
let it rest.
I’m the kind of guy who likes stuffing with my turkey,
and this method makes it easy. Just plop the breast down