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THESMALL-CROWDPLEASER:EASYHERBROASTEDTURKEY
BREAST
WITHSTUFFING
Perhaps your family is small. Perhaps your friends all
bailedonyoutheweekbeforeThanksgiving.Perhapsonly
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
reasonsyoumighthavefornotwantingtoroastanentire
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
temperatureinmind,insteadofhavingtoworryaboutthe
legs and breasts cooking at different rates. As soon as
thatbreastisat150°F,youcanpullitoutoftheovenand
letitrest.
I’mthekindofguywholikesstuffingwithmyturkey,
andthismethodmakesiteasy.Justplopthebreastdown