Turkey: a versatile Christmas classic! Try this recipe, super easy to make and delicious!
Ingredients
- 1 (7lb) whole fresh turkey breast
- 1/2 apple chopped into two pieces
- 1/2 lemon
- 1/2 onion
- 1 stalk celery halved
- 1 spring fresh rosemary
- 1 spring fresh thyme
- salt
- 115g butter
- 1/2 cup Maple Syrup
- 1 cup water
Directions
- Preheat oven to 180 C.
- Rinse the turkey breast and pat dry.
- Stuff turkey cavity with apple, lemon, onion, celery, rosemary and thyme.
- Sprinkle salt in the cavity.
- Place turkey in a roasting pan lined with foil.
- In a saucepan, melt butter with maple syrup over low heat.
- Pour the glaze over turkey to coat.
- Add 1 cup water to bottom of pan.
- Roast turkey breast for 2 – 2 1/2 hours (20 minutes per pound at 180 C).
- Baste with pan juice every 30 minutes.
- Remove from the oven, tent the turkey with foil and allow it to rest for 20 minutes before carving.