Easy Roast Turkey Breast

Name: Easy Roast Turkey Breast
Yield: Serves 8 to 10
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter, softened; 3/4 teaspoon, table salt; 1/4 teaspoon, ground black pepper; 1 whole, turkey breast (6 to 7 pounds), bone-in and skin-on, trimmed of excess fat and patted dry with paper towels (see note above); 1 cup, water

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2007

Achieving crisp skin without drying out the delicate white meat is easier said than done when roasting a whole breast.

SERVES8 to 10

TIME2 hours, plus 3 hours brining and 20 minutes resting

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Our challenge in developing the best easy roast turkey breast recipe was to get moist, juicy meat and crisp skin. To do so, we had to determine the best roasting technique, with a high temperature to crisp the skin and a low temperature for...

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