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Slow Cooker Cajun Turkey is slathered successful butter, coated successful a Cajun hitch and dilatory cooked. Turns retired wonderfully juicy and flavorful.
Make a elemental but flavorful gravy from the crock cookware liquid and you are good connected your mode to a fantastic Thanksgiving feast.
Slow Cooking Turkey
I emotion to dilatory navigator turkey. It frees up oven abstraction for each those delicious vacation casseroles, rolls, and desserts. This is the archetypal Crock Pot Turkey I ever made. It is much of a accepted turkey. This Cajun mentation is large for erstwhile you privation thing a small spiced up.
A turkey bosom is the cleanable size to acceptable successful a 6-quart oregon larger dilatory cooker. Look for a turkey bosom that is 8 to 9 pounds. Slow cooked turkey turns retired wonderfully juicy and determination are plentifulness of juices to marque a delicious gravy with.
How Long To Cook Slow Cooker Cajun Turkey Breast
An 8 to 9-pound bone-in turkey bosom should instrumentality 5 to 6 hours to dilatory navigator connected LOW. Use an instant-read thermometer to trial it aft 5 hours. Turkey is done erstwhile it reaches an interior somesthesia of 165 degrees F.
If utilizing a frozen turkey breast, marque definite to thaw it wholly oregon it volition greatly effect the cooking time.
Hands-Off Recipe
There’s nary request to baste a turkey successful the dilatory cooker. That’s 1 of my favourite things astir dilatory cooking a turkey. The crock cookware does each the enactment for you.
Butter and Cajun Rub
A food coating and Cajun hitch springiness this turkey a batch much spirit than your mean turkey. The hitch is simply a small spicy. Double the magnitude of cayenne capsicum if you privation it spicier.
Crisp Up The Skin
The 1 gully backmost to dilatory cooking a turkey is the tegument doesn’t get crispy. But that is easy rectified. Just spot the turkey bosom nether the broiler until the tegument crisps up.
What To Make With Leftover Turkey
- Turkey Corn Chowder
- Turkey Salad
- Turkey Broccoli Alfredo
- Turkey Tetrazzini
- Southwestern Turkey Rice Casserole
What To Serve With Slow Cooker Cajun Turkey
- Southern Cornbread Dressing
- Cheesy Green Bean Casserole
- The BEST Yeast Rolls
- Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes
- Loaded Broccoli Casserole
- Southern Candied Sweet Potatoes
Slow Cooker Cajun Turkey
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 medium onion, roughly chopped
- 1 carrot, peeled and chopped into 2-inch pieces
- 1 celery rib, cut into 2-inch pieces
- 1 (5 to 6-pound) turkey breast
- 6 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
- ¼ teaspoon smoked paprika
- ½ teaspoon dried thyme
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- ½ teaspoon poultry seasoning
Gravy
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
- Place onion, carrot, and celery successful the bottommost of a 6-quart oregon larger dilatory cooker.
- Pat turkey adust with insubstantial towels and past hitch food each implicit turkey.
- Combine each the spices unneurotic successful a tiny vessel and past sprinkle each implicit turkey.
- Place turkey successful dilatory cooker.Cover and navigator connected LOW for 5 to 6 hours.
- Remove turkey and strain liquid. Reserve 2 cups. If for immoderate crushed you bash not person 2 cups of liquid, usage chickenhearted broth to marque up the difference.
- Add flour and capsicum to a mean skillet. Whisk successful the 2 cups of cooking liquid. Simmer until thickened. Add brackish if needed.
Notes
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