How to Cook Turkey in Slices to Keep It Tender and Juicy

Cooking tips to make the breast juicy and soft

The process of baking a turkey breast is not complicated, but in order for it to turn out juicy and soft, the cook needs to know and take into account several important points.

Preference should be given to fresh or chilled poultry meat. When defrosting, the product loses some of its moisture, which negatively affects the organoleptic qualities of the finished dish. To ensure that the turkey breast loses as little juice as possible, it is recommended to defrost it in the refrigerator without exposing it to sudden temperature changes. Trying to speed up the process using a microwave or warm water will not lead to anything good.
You can bake the breast whole or cut into medallions. Cut the meat across the grain. When baking a whole breast, it is still recommended to separate the fillet from the bones.
To prevent the whole breast from drying out when baking, place it in a baking sleeve or wrap it in foil. 15 minutes before the end of cooking, tear the foil or film so that the breast is browned.
The breast will turn out juicy and soft even without foil, if you cover it with batter or rich sauce and sprinkle with cheese.
To make the turkey breast juicy and to soften it, they resort to marinating. For breasts, formulations containing sour cream or other fermented milk products, mayonnaise, butter or vegetable oil are most suitable. Keep the breasts in the marinade for at least 2 hours. To better soak the meat in the sauce, pierce the breast in several places with a knife and remove the thick skin.

Baked breast is served as a separate dish or with a side dish. The best addition to it will be vegetables: fresh, baked or stewed. Sometimes oven-cooked turkey breast is served as a cold appetizer.

How long and at what temperature to bake

The baking time for turkey breast depends on the size of the pieces and the temperature in the oven.

A whole turkey breast is baked at 200-220 degrees for an hour. Sometimes it is cooked for the first 10 minutes at 220-230 degrees, the next 10 minutes at 200 degrees, then brought to readiness at 180 degrees for 40 minutes. The total is still an hour.
Turkey breast medallions or roast fillets cut into pieces are cooked for 25-35 minutes at a temperature of 180-200 degrees.

Some recipes require different cooking times. To avoid mistakes, you should pay attention to the accompanying instructions.

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Ingredients:
1.5 kg. - turkey breast fillet
2 liters - water for marinade
1 teaspoon - ground coriander
1 tablespoon - coriander beans
1 tablespoon - oregano
1 tablespoon – dried basil
1 tablespoon - sweet red paprika
1 teaspoon - hot red pepper
1 tablespoon - mustard
5 cloves - garlic
3 tablespoons - vegetable oil
3-4 tablespoons - salt

COOKING TIME 3 hours, 30 minutes

Recipe No. 1. Turkey breast pastrami in the oven

This recipe comes with step-by-step photographs. Be sure to try this recipe, you won't regret it. I saw a recipe for such turkey breast pastrami in many sources, including Yulia Vysotskaya (she prepared it in exactly the same way, with garlic and soaking in salt water, but the ingredients for coating were slightly different: sweet paprika, salt, a mixture of different peppers: white, black, red and vegetable oil). I strongly recommend it because this is a recipe that I personally prepare again and again - everyone at home asks for it, and I myself want it. You know, there are such dishes that sink into the soul and are remembered. This is one of them. Even now, when I look at photos of this turkey pastrami, I really want a piece.

Ingredients:

1.5 kg. turkey breast fillet, 2 liters of water for marinade, ground coriander - 1 teaspoon, coriander beans - 1 tablespoon, mustard - 1 tablespoon, red hot pepper - 1 teaspoon, oregano - 1 tablespoon, dried basil - 1 tablespoon spoon, red paprika - 1 tablespoon, garlic - 5 cloves, vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons, salt - 4 tablespoons.

Cooking method:

Pour water into a saucepan, dilute salt in water, and place a washed, skinless turkey breast in the water. Let it marinate in this brine for 2 hours.
After 2 hours of marinating, remove the turkey fillet from the water, pat lightly with napkins, and stuff with chopped garlic cloves. You can use more garlic.
Prepare a homogeneous mixture of all seasonings and vegetable oil. Brush the meat thoroughly on all sides with this mixture.
Preheat the oven to 250 degrees. Please note - it is very important to preheat the oven.
Place the meat on a baking sheet in a preheated oven and cook for exactly 15 minutes.
After 15 minutes, turn off the oven and, without ever opening the oven door, leave the turkey breast fillet in the cooling oven for 2 hours.

So, within 2 hours, the turkey will be fully cooked in the turned off oven. It will have a baked crust and will be very juicy inside. Perhaps the meat will be pink inside, but this should not scare you - this is how it should be - just try it, it is amazingly tasty.

Recipe No. 2. Spicy turkey breast fillet baked in the oven in foil

This recipe is even simpler than the previous one, but it is suitable only for those who like it spicy, because it involves adjika, red pepper and garlic (just a nuclear mixture!). If you don’t really like spicy dishes, then instead of red pepper, take black pepper, and smaller ones, and instead of adjika, you can use regular, non-spicy ketchup or tomato paste. Do not skimp on the garlic; stuff the turkey with it “lengthwise and crosswise”, making deep cuts with a sharp knife and pushing the pieces of garlic deeper inside.

Ingredients:

1.5 kg. turkey breast fillet, adjika - 2 tablespoons, garlic - 5 cloves, vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons, red hot pepper - 0.5 teaspoons, salt - 2 teaspoons (flat), water for soaking the turkey.

Cooking method:

Pour water into a saucepan, dilute salt in water, and place a washed, skinless turkey breast in the water. Let it marinate in this brine for 2 hours.
After 2 hours of marinating, remove the turkey fillet from the water, pat dry with a paper towel, and stuff with garlic.
Prepare a mixture of adjika, vegetable oil, hot red pepper, and coat the meat thoroughly with this mixture.
Wrap the meat in foil and place in the oven for 30 minutes. The oven should be preheated to 200 degrees.
After 30 minutes, turn off the oven, leaving the meat inside, without opening the oven door, and let the meat stand for another hour and a half.

Recipe No. 3. Turkey fillet in the oven with potatoes

Great recipe, very simple and very tasty. There are a minimum of ingredients (to simplify the recipe, I am giving here a very ascetic version - basically just turkey and potatoes, but in the next recipe I will show what other vegetables can be added to this recipe, besides potatoes). This dish is best prepared in a sealed baking bag.

Ingredients:

1 kg. turkey breast fillet, potatoes – 6 pcs., onions – 1 pc., carrots – 1 pc., salt, ground black pepper, 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Optional: 300 grams of whole mushrooms.

Cooking method:

Wash the turkey fillet and cut into cubes (2-3 cm on a side).
Peel the potatoes, wash them and cut them into fairly large pieces.
Chop the onion and grate the carrots.
If there are mushrooms, just wash them; there is no need to cut them, even if they are large champignons.
In a saucepan, combine turkey fillet, carrots, onions, potatoes, vegetable oil, salt and pepper the mixture.
Place the mixture in a baking bag or a thick cauldron, add a couple of tablespoons of water, and place in the oven for 50 minutes at 200 degrees. The form in which the dish is baked must be hermetically closed (if it is a cauldron, then the lid must cover it tightly). The dish will turn out very juicy and soft. The water should not evaporate, the dish should not be fried, it should be stewed in its own juice.

Mushrooms – champignons, whole – will look very good in this recipe. Just wash them and add them to the mixture. The finished dish will contain whole mushrooms. Cabbage will also look good in this dish. Ideally, a mixture of regular (fresh white cabbage) and sauerkraut.

Recipe No. 4. Turkey fillet in the oven with vegetables

There are a lot of ingredients in this recipe. I love recipes that have a lot of ingredients, because they give a very, very rich taste, just an explosion of emotions, true pleasure. It is clear that almost any vegetables in this dish can be neglected and cooked without their participation. The taste will just be a little different, but nevertheless, it will still turn out very tasty.

Ingredients:

1 kg. turkey breast fillet, potatoes – 4 pcs., onions – 1 pc., carrots – 1 pc., shredded white cabbage – 200 grams, sauerkraut – 150 grams (handful), small zucchini – 1 pc., small eggplant – 1 pc., handful green beans, sweet pepper (preferably colored - red, yellow) - 1 pc., adjika or delicious Georgian tomato sauce - 3 tablespoons, salt, ground black pepper, 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, herbs: dill and parsley.

Cooking method:

Wash the turkey fillet and cut into cubes (2-3 cm on a side).
Peel the potatoes, wash them and cut them into fairly large pieces.
Chop the cabbage, grate the carrots, chop the onion, cut the zucchini and eggplant into cubes (you can remove the skin), and chop the red bell pepper into strips. Green beans do not require chopping.
Mix all the vegetables and meat in a large saucepan, add salt and pepper to taste, add tomato sauce, vegetable oil, and mix.
Transfer the mixture into a baking bag or large cauldron, cover it with a lid, and bake in the oven for 2 hours at 180 degrees. Let it simmer and simmer until fully cooked. Vegetables will release all their juices and flavors.

Recipe No. 5. Turkey breast fillet in the accordion oven with soy sauce, cheese and tomatoes

This method of roasting meat is well known to experienced cooks. The meat is cut into slices along the entire length, without cutting to the end, that is, the piece remains intact, but is cut repeatedly along the length. A slice of tomato and cheese is inserted into each cut (pocket). As a result, we get a very beautiful accordion of meat, in each fold of which you can see the red color of the tomato and browned cheese.

Ingredients:

1 kg. turkey breast fillet, 2 medium tomatoes, 150 grams of cheese, soy sauce - 3 tablespoons, salt, ground black pepper, other seasonings to taste (for example, suneli hops, coriander, red sweet paprika or basil.)

Cooking method:

Wash the turkey fillet, remove the skin, put it in a saline solution for an hour (4 tablespoons of salt per 2 liters of water). You can keep the marinating turkey water in the refrigerator.
Blot the meat with a napkin to remove excess water, sprinkle the meat with soy sauce, and treat with spices.
Cut the meat repeatedly without cutting all the way through.
Place tomato and cheese slices into the cuts.
Wrap the accordion meat in foil and bake in the oven for 30 minutes at 200 degrees.

All recipe photos

This meat flies away from us instantly

It may be a little pink on the inside, but it's soaked in juice and ready to go! It is so delicious that it seems impossible to tear yourself away from it.

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Turkey breast baked in foil

Compound:

turkey breast fillet – 1 kg;
kefir – 0.25 l;
lemon – 0.5 pcs.;
ketchup – 50 ml;
salt, poultry spices - to taste.

Cooking method:

Rinse the turkey breast fillets under the tap and pat dry with a paper towel. Cover with film and beat a little on all sides. Remove the film. Using a sharp knife, pierce the breast in several places. Place it in a bowl.
Pour kefir into a separate container and squeeze the juice from half a lemon into it. Add salt, spices and ketchup.
Whisk the kefir to combine the ingredients.
Pour kefir sauce over the breast and place in the refrigerator for 2 hours. After an hour of marinating, turn the breast over so that it is evenly soaked in the sauce.
Fold a large sheet of foil several times. It is necessary that the sauce does not spill out during baking.
Place the breast on the foil and pour the sauce in which it was marinated. Lift the edges of the foil and seal them at the top.
Place the package of turkey breast in a baking dish.
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Place the form in it. Roast the turkey for 60 minutes. 10-15 minutes before the dish is ready, unwrap the foil so that the breast can brown.

An appetizer made according to this recipe will be delicious both hot and cold.

Tender turkey in sour cream with champignons

You will need:

500-600 g turkey loin,
vegetable fat,
onions, 2 pcs.
allspice and salt,
mushrooms – 200 g,
sour cream – 1 cup.

How to cook quickly and easily?

1. Remove skin from turkey breast. Rinse and dry the meat. Cut the sirloin into small pieces. In a preheated saucepan, brown the fillet pieces in oil without salt and spices. When it is slightly fried, you can already add salt and pepper and fry it for a few more minutes over moderate heat.

2. Chop the peeled onion into thin strips. Add chopped onion to the turkey and simmer, stirring occasionally.

3. Process and dry any fresh mushrooms or champignons. Cut the mushroom caps and stems into thin slices. It's time to add them to the meat and onions. Now this whole mixture of mushrooms, onions and turkey fillet should simmer for 10-15 minutes.

4. After a quarter of an hour, pour sour cream into the container with the fillet and mushrooms, stir and simmer for another 30 minutes, covering with a lid. 5. Check the readiness of the dish and serve it with your favorite side dish.

Turkey breast fillet with vegetables in the oven

Compound:

turkey breast fillet – 0.45 kg;
pumpkin – 0.25 kg;
potatoes – 0.3 kg;
green beans – 150 g;
carrots – 100 g;
onions – 100 g;
garlic – 5 cloves;
olive oil – 60 ml;
soy sauce – 40 ml;
salt, pepper, dried herbs - to taste.

Cooking method:

Wash the turkey breast fillet, pat dry with a kitchen towel, and cut into walnut-sized pieces.
Place the breast fillet in a container, sprinkle with salt, pepper, dried herbs, two tablespoons of vegetable oil and soy sauce. Stir until sauce coats each piece. Close the container and put it in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
Peel the pumpkin, remove the pulp and seeds. Cut the vegetable into cubes about 1.5 cm in size.
Peel and cut the potatoes into approximately the same pieces as the pumpkin.
Scrub, wash the carrots, cut into circles or semicircles.
Peel the onion and cut it into thin half rings.
Cut the green beans into 2 cm pieces.
Cut the garlic into thin slices.
Mix vegetables with turkey breast.
Grease the pan with the remaining oil, place the vegetable and turkey mixture in it, and pour over the turkey breast marinade.
Cover the pan with foil and place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 45 minutes. Remove the foil 15 minutes before the dish is ready.

Fried turkey thigh fillet in a frying pan

You can cook 3-4 servings from turkey fillet.

Composition of ingredients

turkey thigh fillet	400 g
olive oil	50 g
salt	taste
ground black pepper	taste

Step-by-step cooking process

Turkey thigh fillet must be washed and dried, then cut into small pieces.
Place turkey fillet in a preheated frying pan with olive oil and fry over high heat for 2-3 minutes, uncovered.
After 2-3 minutes. After the turkey fillet has formed a golden brown crust, the pieces should be turned over, mixed and added salt and ground black pepper to taste.
Turkey thigh fillet should be fried until done, about 4-6 minutes. until golden brown on all sides.

Fried turkey thigh fillet can be served hot with any side dish and vegetable salads.

What can I add?

When preparing turkey breast, thigh or shoulder fillets, you can add the following ingredients to the recipe, which will make the taste of the finished dish aromatic, spicy and rich:

spices for poultry meat;
oriental spices;
soy sauce;
poultry sauce;
chopped garlic;
grated carrots;
chopped tomatoes;
chopped white or red onion.

How to serve a dish

Ready turkey fillet is served hot as an independent dish with vegetable salads or decorated with chopped fresh herbs, as well as hot side dishes of pasta, cereals and vegetables.

In addition, the following additives are combined with turkey fillet:

mustard;
ketchup;
sour cream;
sauces for white meat.

Turkey thigh fillet (recipe for cooking in the oven) does not lose its beneficial properties during heat treatment, therefore it retains all the vitamins and microelements it contains.

Turkey breast fillet with cheese

Compound:

Turkey breast medallions – 0.5 kg;
tomato – 100 g;
hard cheese – 50 g;
mayonnaise – 100 ml;
garlic – 3 cloves;
salt, seasonings for poultry - to taste.

Cooking method:

Lightly beat the medallions, rub with salt and spices, coat on all sides with mayonnaise mixed with chopped garlic.
Leave the medallions to marinate for 2 hours, then place them in the pan.
Cut the tomato into circles and place on medallions.
Grind the cheese and sprinkle the cheese shavings over the meat.
Place the pan in an oven preheated to 180 degrees and bake the turkey for 35 minutes.

A dish made according to this recipe can become a decoration for a holiday table.