Roast turkey with bacon

AUTHOR
Billie Wagner
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
5 2
COOK TIME
90 mins
TOTAL TIME
90 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 1 kg Turkey Breast
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 7-10 Tbsp Pepper
  • 50 g Breakfast bacon in thin slices
  • 3/8 l Chicken broth (instant)
  • 2 Onions
  • 750 g Broccoli
  • 500 g Mushrooms
  • 1/2 bunch Parsley
  • 1 small twig rosemary
  • 2-3 stem(s) Thyme
  • 4-5 Tbsp Whipped cream
  • 2 TABLESPOONS sauce thickener
  • 25 g Butter or margarine
  • 7-10 Tbsp Kitchen yarn

Directions

  1. 1

    Wash the turkey breast, dab dry and season with salt and pepper. Cover meat tightly with bacon and tie up with kitchen string. Put the turkey breast with a little broth in a roaster and

  2. 2

    Peel the onions, cut them into slices and distribute around the roast. Little by little add a little broth. Meanwhile clean and wash the broccoli and cut into florets. Steam for eight to ten minutes in little boiling salted water.

  3. 3

    Pour onto a sieve and drain. Clean and halve the mushrooms. Wash the parsley, rosemary and thyme, dab dry and chop, except for something to garnish. Lift the turkey breast out of the roaster, loosen the kitchen string, wrap the roast in aluminium foil and leave to rest for ten minutes.

  4. 4

    In the meantime, add the cream and herbs, except for a tablespoon, to the stock, bring to the boil and add the sauce thickener while stirring. Bring to the boil again briefly and season to taste with salt and pepper. Heat the fat in a frying pan and fry the mushrooms, turning them, add broccoli and warm them up while tossing.

  5. 5

    Cut the meat into slices and arrange on a plate with vegetables and sauce. Serve garnished with herbs and, if desired, with a tomato rose. Serve the rest of the sauce separately.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
550 kcal
CARBS
11 g
FATS
20 g
PROTEINS
70 g

Categories & Tags

Main DishesheartyMeatPoultry