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Oven Smoked Turkey Breast

Ingredients

  • 1 turkey breast
  • Zestuous Rub
  • 2 cups hickory or mesquite wood chips

Instructions

  • Soak about 2 cups of wood chips in a bowl of water for about an hour.
  • Line the bottom of a pan with foil. Be sure to allow extra foil to hang over the edges. This will help later in the recipe.
  • Remove the wood chips from the water and spread them along the bottom of the pan. Pour in about ½ cup of the water that the wood was smoking in. Here’s where you could add smoke flavor, too. Place a baker’s rack in the pan on top of the chips.
  • Rinse the turkey breast and pat it dry with paper towels.
  • Rub thoroughly with Zestuous Rub.
  • Place on the rack.
  • Cover the pan with foil. Pinch the top foil with the overhang from the bottom layer to enclose the entire baker’s rack, turkey and wood chips.
  • Place in a 300-degree oven and bake for 2-2 ½ hours, or until the meat reaches 180 degrees, at the thickest point.
  • Use caution when opening the foil because steam will escape.
  • Remove the turkey to a cutting board, and be sure to pick off any wood chip pieces that might have stuck to the meat. Allow the meat to rest for about 5-10 minutes and slice.
  • Serve with rice, pasta or on a fresh plate of lettuce greens.