Turkey Breast

Grocery stores always have big cases full of cooked turkey breast chunks for holidays, but they disappear for the rest of the year, so with a hankering for turkey, I picked up a 3 lb frozen turkey breast and figured I'd give it the sous vide treatment.

I found this recipe online which I used to get the time and temperature. I figured since I started with frozen, I'd go with 145 degrees for 4 hours rather than 3. I used some Montreal Chicken and Mrs. Dash Garlic and Herb seasoning in the bag with the frozen turkey hunk.

It seems to have cooked fine, but getting the string net off after cooking is a bit of an adventure, lots of bits of turkey want to come with it. It now looks a little like Pinhead from the Hellraiser movies.

Hopefully that imagery won't be as obvious when it cools off and gets sliced (which is when I'll find out how it tastes).

OK, finally got around to slicing this up and it is wonderful, tastes like perfectly cooked turkey, not dried out at all. Lots of turkey wraps coming up I suspect.

In fact just did an experiment: Turkey parm wraps. Parmesan and mozzarella on the wrap, some sauce on a half slice of turkey, sauce side down on the cheese, more sauce on top of the turkey, more cheese on top of the sauce, wrap up and microwave on low power for a few minutes to get cheese melty and turkey warm. They were pretty good.

Another good use for the turkey: I had a bag of frozen stir fry veggies, chopped up some turkey and added it to the pan with the veggies. Tossed in a bit of sesame oil a couple of minutes before it was all done. It was delicious.