a melting-in-your-mouth turkey breast that has been cooked slowly!
Prep Time: | 10 mins |
Cook Time: | 4 hrs |
Total Time: | 4 hrs 10 mins |
Servings: | 6 |
Yield: | 6 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 (3 pound) bone-in turkey breast half
- 2 tablespoons butter, softened
- ¼ cup whipped cream cheese spread with garden vegetables
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh parsley
- ½ teaspoon dried basil
- ½ teaspoon dried sage
- ½ teaspoon dried thyme
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
Instructions
- Place turkey breast into a slow cooker. Combine butter, whipped cream cheese spread, soy sauce, parsley, basil, sage, thyme, black pepper, and garlic powder in a small bowl until smooth. Brush herb mixture over the turkey breast. Cover slow cooker.
- Cook until turkey is tender, 4 to 6 hours on High or 8 to 10 hours on Low.
Nutrition Facts
Calories | 325 kcal |
Carbohydrate | 1 g |
Cholesterol | 181 mg |
Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
Protein | 60 g |
Saturated Fat | 4 g |
Sodium | 312 mg |
Sugars | 0 g |
Fat | 7 g |
Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
OH MY GOD! The absolute best turkey I’ve ever had. So easy to make and the smell, wow!
I have made this recipe for years now at Thanksgiving and it NEVER fails! Always compliments!
Delicious and so easy.
Thought I would try it because of the positive reviews-even though I was pretty sure I wouldn’t like it & I didn’t. One of the worse meals I’ve ever made & that cream cheese with garden vegetables is nasty tasting. Sorry, just telling the truth…it’s my opinion.
I made this as instructed, except my store didn’t have the whipped cream cheese so I used the regular, which made it a little thick. The flavor was wonderful, but I had to cook it on high due to time constraints and it dried out a bit. Toward the end I scraped the sauce off the top so the skin would brown some. I added some flour to the sauce to make gravy for mashed potatoes.
Certainly easy! My turkey breast was about 5.5 pounds, so I just doubled the ingredients. Cooked on high for about 4+ hours, and meat was falling away from the bone. (That tells me the cook times given are far too long.) Since no mention was made of what to do with the skin, I just slathered the cream cheese mixture over it. Unfortunately, this made the skin almost disintegrate in an unpleasant way, so next time (if there is one) I will put mixture under the skin — or just pull it off altogether. Results are very moist and flavorful, but the actual turkey flavor kinda got lost. Not sure why; perhaps too much cheese.
Used a 7 lb bone in breast and doubled the rub, took probably 6 to 7 hrs to reach temp. Very moist, cooking juices are a must to keep it flavorful, and I think it could have used some more salt and pepper
made without whipped cream cheese. this was excellent!
I used a 3 pound boneless turkey breast and added in all the ingredients. Great dinner for the 2 of us. The gravy was excellent over mashed potatoes, quinoa or pasta when I used the remaining turkey as leftovers for lunches.
Excellent! Great mixture of flavors, spot on Girl Friend! Had turkey,mashed,stuffing corn! Cooking & gardening are great to when things are a bit stressed! Anyway I cooked turkey to long but that will come with practice. It was a culinary first today using the slow cooker!! HB looooovvvvved it. I’m going to try a Perdue oven roaster next week. FTomorrow is dessert day brownie (box) with homemade fudge frosting! I heard you all moan, come on over eat them with me! Nothing else to do unless you want to play “TRY & FIND TOILET PAPER “, a treasure hunt kinda g……????. Thanks again so much
I used wild turkey. I used the recipe in the instant pot. 45 minute cook time.
Great recipe, although the conflicting reviews on cooking time was not helpful, so I will add my two cents. I cooked a fully-thawed 3 lb Butterball boneless turkey breast in the crock pot on high….4 hours is the best approximate time. Don’t raise the lid before 3.5 hours to check the temp, it will only extend the cook time. If you get caught and everything else you’re cooking is about ready, xfer the turkey to a dish and put in the oven to finish off, until you get a 165 temp reading. Excellent recipe, except for the confusing cook times per pound. And, if the turkey reaches temp before your other dishes are done, I think if would be fine in the crockpot on Warm for 60 min or so. Good luck!!!
I rarely review anything. I’ve made this several times and it always turns out great. I double the sauce for mashed potatoes. I’ve used chicken breasts (bone-in with skin) when I can’t find turkey breast.
I made this for Christmas dinner because they had turkey breasts on sale super cheap. It turned out so good I may not roast a whole turkey again.
I left out the Soy sauce and Cream cheese spread. Added I large Granny Smith Apple, fresh parsley and two cut up celery stalks and stuffed in the Turkey cavity. Added baby carrots, sliced onion and cut up celery in the bottom.
Very easy and wonderful! Moist and flavorful !
Really good. Turkey is so moist. I used a much bigger turkey breast (9 lbs) and it turned out great!
I could only find a boneless3 pound turkey breast. It just fit in my small crockpot. Not only was it very easy to prepare, it was delicious. i will be making it again.
So tender and juicy
This was the most tender I have had for turkey! We weren’t able to do a full Thanksgiving, so I tried this as a back up later in the month. I prepared the turkey breast by the recipe and cooked on high for 2 hours; I drained the juices and set aside for gravy. Next I put stuffing around the edges of the turkey in the slow cooker and cooked on low for 3 more hours. Perfect amount left over form sandwiches the next day!
Slow cooked a 7.25lb for 9 hours and then put the whole pot in the oven on broil for 4 minutes to brown the skin. So good!!