GRILLED TURKEY BREAST
Components:
1 side of a wild turkey breast
Saran Wrap
Cajun Injector Marinade
Tony Chachere's Cajun spice
Honey
Thick cut bacon strips
Heavy wooden toothpicks
Take one breast from a gobbler and wrap it tightly in Saran wrap. Inject the breast thoroughly right through the Saran Wrap with your favorite marinade, mine is the Creole Garlic flavor. Place breast on a plate and set it in the refrigerator for about 1-2 hours.
Take the meat out of the refrigerator. Start your barbecue grill to bring it up to temperature or to allow the charcoal to lightly ash over. Plan on a medium high grill.
Remove the wrap from the meat, cut the breast in half and pat it dry with a paper towel. Sprinkle all surfaces of the meat very well with the Cajun Spice. Lay out the bacon strips tight against each other on a cookie sheet, placing the breast on them to judge for number of strips needed. Cover a breast with a thick coat of honey, spreading evenly over the entire breast and quickly wrap the breast/honey with the bacon, pinning the ends of the bacon with the toothpicks on the sides of the breast. Give the bacon a shake of the Cajun spice as well. Repeat the process with the other breast. Place the beasts in the refrigerator until the grill is ready.
Place the 2 bacon wrapped breasts on the grill at medium high heat with a few ears of sweet corn. Close the lid and cook approximately 11 minutes then turn the meat over on the rack. Any honey/juice that has run off of the meat into the cookie sheet can be added to the cooked surface as a baste at this time. Close the lid and make a crisp salad.
Once the meat has cooked for an additional 11 minutes, take the two pieces off of the grill, place on a serving platter and cover it with aluminum foil to allow it to rest for about 10 minutes. Place it in a warm location of the kitchen.
Serve the turkey with the grilled corn on the cob with herbed butter, green salad, cold sweet tea and homemade bread and butter pickles.
Enjoy. :z-winnersmiley: :drool:
FullChoke
Awesome recipe - I did this tonight and it was a hit!
Sounds good. Do you cook the bacon wrapped meat directly over the fire, or on a cookie sheet on the grill?
Quote from: blackmagic on April 13, 2012, 01:18:44 PM
Sounds good. Do you cook the bacon wrapped meat directly over the fire, or on a cookie sheet on the grill?
We had to reread it a couple times to figure that out, and you put them directly on the grill. The cookie sheet is where you can go to get leftover stuff to baste/brush it with while cooking.
Awesome recipe
Thanks for trying this recipe out. Everyone that has tried wild turkey breast this way has had the same opinion, they LOVE it. I do too. This has become the preferred method for cooking turkey breast in the FullChoke household.
Cheers! :happy0064:
FullChoke
I got half a breast marinating right now in Moore's marinate. I'll be grilling it this evening. I wish I would have seen this before LOL. I'll be trying the other half this way.
Thanks for posting this recipe!!
Full Choke,
I think I found your favorite. Hopefully I will have the chance to try this one and many more. Thanks.