Ass Can Roasted Turkey Breast
Posted By admin on March 29, 2009
Okay..
So, this week’s Sunday meal with Sander is Turkey Breast. Not fillet, but a the whole cavity. My goal was/is to dry-roast it whole, without butterflying it.
How the heck do you cook this? You can’t lay it down on it’s side, or it will overcook the meat on that side, and become greasy.
You can’t level it, open cavity down, or it falls over.
My solutions?
Take a can of corn. Strip off the paper label. Stick it up the backside of the turkey. Set it on the roasting pan. Call it good.
I wasn’t so.. lady-like when I said that, however. To the utter amusement of Sander. What I said was “FINE! I’m sticking a can of corn up this turkey’s ass, and calling it good.” The laugh I got out of Sander was totally worth it.
Crappy pictures via cell phone needed to be taken. (I long for a real camera again!!!)
Yeah. Not gonna work on it's side.
There we go. Ass Can Turkey!!!
Turkey Breast, roasted and done
Turkey Looking at me sideways. The affect of the can up it's ass, perhaps??
There are recipes for Beer Can Chicken around. I recall my brother first told me about it a few years ago. He’s from Texas, so I excused it. ;) But, I’ve tried it on a grill, where it worked out really well. This is a variation on it, as I didn’t have any beer, and didn’t want to waste a good Dr. Pepper on a roasted turkey!.
To Roast this turkey, I..
Preheated the oven to 375F. I removed the turkey from it’s packaging, rinsed it off, and patted it dry. I spread a bit of butter over the breast, and salt and peppered it.
I then grabbed down a can of corn, removed the paper label. I used a can opener and popped a whole in the top of the can, drained off a bit of the liquid, and then pushed the can into the bottom cavity. I set it on the roasting pan, which had a layer of foil, and roasted the turkey for about 1.5 hours for a 3.75 pound turkey.
I allowed the turkey to rest for about 15 minutes, and then removed the can, and sliced the turkey. And ate the corn.
Yes We Can!
Don’t you mean.. “Ass we can?”
:P
Corn cans are lined with various plastics on the inside to keep the can from rusting. They’re harmless, but can be released when heated. So sticking a corn can in an oven might not be the best idea.
Haha… love the story, but errr how do I say this… aren’t you lucky you didn’t blow your turkey by ass-canning it?
You put a sealed can of corn into the oven? That just doesn’t seem safe. If the can is air-tight, but heat causes the water/air in the can to…. expand? Am I missing something? Or am I just thinking of an old wives tale about placing sealed airtight containers of things in the oven is not a good thing. Beer-can chicken is always with an “open/empty” can of beer.
Maybe you can experiment next time by sticking other things up your turkey’s ass? You could try a large stick and call it “Christian Turkey”? Or you use other parts of the turkey to help stabilize it for cooking… stick the turkey’s head up it’s ass and call it “The Rush Limbaugh Special”.
Have fun!
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Bah.. I didn’t mention I popped the top a bit. I amended the post to reflect that, too
This probably wasn’t the greatest idea to use a can, but it was all that was available to me at the moment.
There are racks to do similar things, but.. sometimes, you have to make do with what is on hand.
I just checked the can I used, and it was not lined with plastic. It was traditional can.