TURKEY DINNER for TWO
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If you are looking for a tasty TURKEY DINNER for TWO, you are in the right place.
I'm going to share with you a delicious turkey breast with skin on and stuffed with an homemade savoury based stuffing with apples, cranberries and so much more.
So sit back with a nice cup of tea and watch our short video tutorial to make your TURKEY DINNER for TWO. 🙂
If you don't want to cook a big turkey for two, thats ok because this recipe will be amazing for you and your love ones.
Watch our short video tutorial and you will see how easy it is to make a DINNER FOR TWO with a tasty turkey breast and stuffing.
This is our traditional stuffing with a twist of apples and cranberries to make it festive, if you wish you can make your own stuffing for the turkey breast if you wish but I hope you give our recipe a try.
When cutting the turkey breast don't cut all the way through only part ways, then flip it over and flatten the turkey breast to place the stuffing on. Fold over and roll with the skin side up when ready to bake.
Having fresh or frozen cranberries for the stuffing and to make cranberry sauce.
Traditional Newfoundland Cranberry Sauce
Making a turkey dinner for two is possible with only enough turkey for your meal, so if you don't believe me just watch our short video tutorial to make yours today.
Local veggies from my brother in laws garden watch our video to the end to see the garden by the sea.
Please continue on to our recipe available here and on our youtube channel, also I will share a link to our cookbooks. https://www.bonitaskitchen.com/cookbook
Ingredients
- Turkey breast - 1 or 2 pieces
- Savoury - 1 tbsp
- Onion - 1 medium, chopped
- Apple - 1 each, peeled and cubed
- Pepper - 1 tsp
- Stale Bread Crumbs - 2 cups
- Butter or margarine - 2 tbsp
- Cranberries - ¼ cup
- Sea salt - 1 tsp
- Onion powder - ½ tsp
- Cotton thread - 2 lengths
- VEGGIES
- Potatoes - 4 medium
- Carrots - 2 medium
- Turnip - 1 small
- Onion - 1 small
- Green beans, broccoli - Big bunch
- Butter or margarine - 2 tbsp
- Flour or cornstarch - 2 tbsp
- Turkey or chicken broth - 1 cup
- Turkey gravy mix - 1 or 2 tsp
- Cream - 1 tbsp
- Brown sugar - 1 tbsp
- Sea salt - ½ to 1 tsp
Instructions
Method for Turkey:
First debone turkey breast and cut through the centre to open flat on a plate, then sit aside until ready to use.
In a small bowl add stale bread crumbs, savoury, ½ tsp sea salt, ½ tsp pepper, ½ tsp onion powder and toss together.
Then peel and chop onion, add 1 tbsp to the bowl and chop cranberries in half, then peel and cut in small cubes one apple.Â
Then toss all of them in the bowl with the other ingredients, after adding 1 or 2 tbsp butter and pinch all the ingredients together by hand or with a spoon.
Then add one cup or more of the stuffing on top of flattened turkey breast and pat down.Â
Then the end closes to you roll outward until the turkey breast is rolled and put any stuffing back inside the turkey roll that falls out.Â
After that, take a piece of the cotton thread and wrap it around the turkey roll and tie it together.
You will need a roaster with lid, add stuffed turkey breast roll, continue on to the other piece of turkey if you are making two or more.
Then add small pieces of butter inside turkey skin to have a buttery taste, a pinch of pepper, salt and onion powder.Â
Add chopped onion to the bottom of the roaster and 1 cup broth.
Preheat the oven to 400ºF and bake for 60 minutes or until done, 30 minutes uncovered and 30 minutes covered. When cooked let rest and cut in slices.
In a saucepan with water, start to boil, add 1 tsp sea salt and one small onion, then peel and chop veggies, cut carrots in slices, turnip in small cubes, potatoes in half and parsnips in chucks. Let boil on a medium heat until fork tender, steam green bean or peas for a couple of minutes before ready to use.
In a another pan add 2 tbsp butter and 2 tbsp flour and mix around, add hot turkey drippings and veggie broth from your cooked veggies, add turkey gravy mix or chicken, mix together until gravy is thickened and smooth.Â
Back to veggies, add potatoes to a bowl with butter and cream then mash, or any seasonings you like. In another bowl toss carrot, parsnip and turnip together with butter, ½ tsp pepper, 1 tbsp brown sugar and mash.Â
Bonita’s Tips: Serve turkey roll, with a helping of all veggies and topped with a nice scoop of gravy. Then a side of cranberry sauce or mustard pickles, picked beets, fresh hot rolls!
Allergens
We hope you are still interested in making a TURKEY DINNER for TWO, also if you are dining alone this year no worries this recipe is good for one as well.
We believe having a big turkey dinner with family is always better, but we still need to eat. So continue on to more pictures to make yours today.
I like having a little amount of skin left on the turkey to get the juices running down the meat and I stuffed a little few pieces of butter inside the skin to have a buttery taste.
I hope you are excited to make our TURKEY DINNER for TWO
Have a lovely turkey dinner and thank you for taking the time to stop by and read our blog and enjoy our video tutorial today, please leave us a message before you go and visit any of our recipes.
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Hi Bonita, this is Gail from Ontario. Can you make turkey for two without the stuffing the same way? Neither of us eat stuffing. Suggestions?
Hi Gail: Yes for sure, just put the turkey breast in your roaster with salt and pepper, onion and 1 or two cups of broth and follow the same baking info. It will be nice to get a turkey breast with skin on so it don’t dry out on you. Enjoy to the fullest 🙂 Thank you for stopping by and have a lovely day. Bonita
So grateful you showed us this one for 2. OUr daughter and family live far away and it just isnt thanksgiving without the turkey! Just love your festive table. Can hardly wait to try your recipe. Honey Crisp apples are at their prime here in southern Ontario! Blessings to you!
Hi Nancy: Thank you for your lovely message and for stopping by, I’m so glad you enjoyed our NEW recipe this week. I have so many people saying its just me and thats to much to make. So I said to Raymond I need to make a few recipes for just one or two people because not everyone got a big family all the time. Enjoy to the fullest and message anytime, sometimes its a few days before I get to all my message so excuse me for that. Bonita
I would have to leave the carrot, turnip and carrot whole as I am not fond of parsnip and turnip; but my husband is. Growing up we would often have turnip that wasn’t so good, like you had mouth full of twigs. People would say they were cattle turnip. I just got turned from turnip. Nice way though of having turkey dinner for two.
Hi Madonna: Thank you for your message and for stopping by. I’m glad you stopped by and enjoyed our turkey dinner for two recipe and video. Some old turnips got what my dad would call it sticks inside. That is usually in the middle of the turnip and can be cut out and just keep the turnip out around. Not everyone likes parsnips and I’m sure if you had a veggie you like more thats what you will use. The reason behind our recipe is you can make a turkey dinner for two or one and not have to make a big old turkey. Enjoy Bonita
Omigosh, that looks fabulous. Do you suppose you could do the turkey breast in a slow cooker? I have watched several of your videos in one sitting and can’t wait to try some of them.
Hi Deb, I’m so glad you enjoyed our turkey dinner recipe, and thank you for watching our shows and enjoying them. I’m sure you can cook the stuffed turkey in the slow cooker because its the heat that cooks it for sure. It may not be brown but it would be tasty. Enjoy Bonita