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Cajun Turkey Breast Recipe

Ditch the mess of scrubbing the oven pan with this Oven bag Cajun Turkey Breast recipe. Your turkey breast will be tender and moist and packed with flavor, sealing it off with a delicious cajun turkey gravy.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 50 minutes
Servings: 4
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: American
Calories: 80
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 6-7 pound Bone in , skin on Turkey breast
  • ½ tsp Lawrys Seasoned Salt (25% less sodium version )
  • ½ tsp Badia Complete seasoning
  • 1 ½ tbsp Old bay
  • ¼ tsp Ground black pepper
  • 2 tbsp Extra virgin olive oil
  • 3 Sprigs rosemary
  • 3 Sprigs thyme
  • 1 Cup Unsalted or low sodium chicken broth
  • 1 Turkey size oven bag
Cajun Turkey Gravy
  • 2 tbsp Unsalted butter
  • 2 tbsp Flour
  • 1 cup Turkey drippings
  • 1 cup unsalted or low sodium chicken broth
  • Old bay seasoning + black pepper to taste

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. Rub Turkey breast with 1 tablespoon of olive oil
  3. Season both sides of Turkey breast with seasoned salt , complete seasoning , old bay, and ground black pepper
  4. In a large deep oven safe pan , lay out oven bag
  5. Add rosemary and thyme sprigs to the oven bag
  6. Add seasoned Turkey to the oven bag
  7. Pour chicken stock around Turkey breast
  8. Tie bag and bake Turkey breast for 1 hour and 40 minutes to 2 hours (reduce or increase time based on the size of your Turkey breast )
  9. Remove from oven and open bag, baste Turkey in pan juices
  10. Use a meat thermometer to check temp of Turkey it should be 165 to be considered fully cooked
  11. Let Turkey breast rest for 5-10 minutes and reserve 1 cup of the turkey pan juices
  12. Carve, serve , and enjoy !
Turkey Gravy
  1. Melt unsalted butter in a saucepan
  2. Add flour and stir until thickened (make sure your heat is on medium low, you don’t want to do this on high heat )
  3. Slowly pour in the reserved Turkey drippings and stir well until a sauce forms
  4. Slowly stir in chicken broth
  5. Slowly stir for about 5 minutes on medium low and season to taste with old bay and pepper (do not over season it , the Turkey is already seasoned )
  6. Remove from heat and serve over the Turkey breast.