Honey Smoked Turkey Breast

hey welcome back to how to barbecueright I’m Malcolm Reed today I’m goingto show you how I do honey smoked turkeybreast I’ve got a couple large bonelessskinless turkey breasts here want to getthem seasoned and in some pecans smokedwant to finish them off with the honeyand brown sugar glaze and use a littlebit of raw sugar on top to give it alittle texture and a little crunch it’sgonna be better than any of that honeybaked stuff you can buy let’s get tocooking so these turkey breasts came outof my freezer my buddy Kevin down at thebutcher shop sent them to me back when Idid that Texas smoked turkey breast Ithought it was a great time to do himhere for Easter I thought him out for acouple days in the refrigerator slowthaw and then took him out of thepackage took the skin off the outsidebecause I want on boneless and skinlessI didn’t have to do much trimming to himjust clean them up just a little bittook off any excess fat a little of thesilver skin so I’m gonna get someseasoning on the outside of these turkeybreasts and this is one of my favoritesfor poultry turkey chicken anything likethat this swine life Mississippi grindis great because it has some savorynotes a little bit of sweet but it’sreally balanced and it gets poultry avery nice flavor it should be prettycolor when it cooks up season theoutside pretty generously I’m notholding back and we’re gonna flip themand get the top side and this is theside that’s gonna cook up the entiretimeI’m gonna make sure you get the edgesthat looks good for the seasonings gotgood cover it’s kind of melted in now Iwant to get some flavors some moistureon the inside and I’m using an injectionI’ve got butchers bird booster honeymixed up it’s just one scoop of the birdbooster two cups of water and you justwant to move your injection spots outwe’re putting about a cup at each turkeybreast I’m not overly saturating it butyou can see it’s kind of blowing up someof it might leak out that’s okay and youcan also Bryan these breasts if youwanted to just a simple brown brownsugar water salt anything you want to doto get some flavor on the inside wouldbe perfect and I’m just going to letthese turkey breasts hang out here onthe cutting board while I fire up mygrill and today you’re gonna be cookingon my pellet grill I’ve got my Traegergoing I’m gonna set the temperature at300 degrees I’ve got some pecan pelletsin there for smoke I really love thatflavor that pecan gives but you coulduse whatever flavor pellets you won’twhen the grill comes up to 300 degreeswill put these turkey breast I’ll andstart cooking themTrager sitting right on 300 I’m justgonna take these breasts put them righton the rack kind of in the center youwant to set them just how you won themto cook so I just kind of tighten themup push them up a little bit we’re notgonna move them well hit with just alittle bit more grind fix any spots thatI may have had from pick them up we’remelted in I’m ready to close the lid onthe trigger let it work its magic allright after 45 minutes I’m coming backin check in on these turkey breastcolors looking good you see the rubsetting on the outside what I’m going todo now I’ve melted a couple sticks ofbutter here in a small pan I’m justgoing to braced it over the top I’m justgoing to use this butter to get somemoisture on top some of that butterflavor on the outside on that bark we’recreating it’s gonna make them brown upreal pretty I’m not really brushed I’mjust kind of letting that butter drizzleall over the top of these turkey breaststhey look really good smells fantasticalso gonna get a probe running the thickpart of this turkey breast now right nowI’ve got my thermal X dot set for ahundred and fifty that’s what I’m goingto start glaze don’t let that glaze cookon you can see it’s about a 102 rightnow so we probably got you know anotherhour total cook time we’ll check onthese in about another half hour basedon with butter again see if it’s time tostart glazing so it’s been about 30 moreminutes total cook time has been an hourand 15 those turkey breasts are lookingfantastic I’m gonna go ahead and brushthem with a little more butter thebutter is doing its magic by making themturn brown I’m ready to eat somethingnow on about y’all just gonna get itclosed come back check in about 15minuteswe’ve reached 150 on these turkeybreasts now they’re looking exactly likeI want them to I mean that crust isreally tightened up the butters made itlook fantasticI mixed up a glaze here some brown sugarsome honey a little apple juice a littleorange juice it’s going on the outsidethis is our glue for our raw sugar I’mjust going to drizzle it over the topI’m not brush it in the turkey breastjust letting it run down it’s gonna besticky it’s gonna be sweet it’s gonnamix with those spices in the seasoningonce you get it covered pretty good I’vegot some sugar in the raw in a littledredge herethis is going to give us that sugarytexture a honey-baked texture on theoutside the heat is going to melt thesugar it’s gonna kind of caramelize overit it’s gonna give it that almost prollylike crust on the outside of the turkeybreast that looks fantastic about 15more minutes we’re gonna be done I’ll beready to take them off you know I got toslice it up try oneso this turkey breasts have been glazingabout 15 minutes and you can see thatsugars melted down now it’s kind ofcreating that crunchiness on the outsideof it I’m just going to check with mythermapen 160 that’s perfect that’sexactly where I want them feel great I’mcalling them I want to get them off 5degrees before 165 they’re gonna carryover I’m gonna take them out put them onthe cutting board so let’s just slidethem out here and check that out I meanthat’s a beautiful honey smoked turkeybreast with the little raw sugar glazedover the top getting that crust that’sabsolutely beautiful all right so I justlet these turkey breasts hang out hereon the cutting board for about 15minutes let them calm down let them cooloff a little bit now I can’t wait toslice them up I mean they look beautifulthey got that beautiful texture thatcrunch on the outside I don’t know ifyou can hear it but that shirt thatsugar kind of caramelized is a littlebit it makes a sugary crust all over itnow to slice them up I’m gonna cut themthin and all I’m doing is taking myslicer knife on the thin side of theedge you want to skew the knife a littlebit so you get a little bit taller sliceas you come up the turkey breast you cankind of straighten the knife up but downhere on this end you get some beautifulslices by just angling that knife just alittle bit it’s so easy to cut up youcould make them as thick or as thin asyou want now we’re starting to get upinto the taller pieces so I can kind ofstraight my knife up a little bit andI’m just cutting them about 1/4 inchthick number two pencils slice if youwanted to shave it you want to cut itthinner for sandwiches you could forserving it for a nice dinner this isexactly how I would do it let me justkind of fan it out here so you can seethis turkey and it’s juicy it’s cookedall the way through that is absolutelygorgeous I see plenty of honey smokedturkey breast sandwiches in my futurebeautiful Easter dinner I’m gonna leaveone of them hold I’m gonna reheat itlater on in the week but I get a ton ofslicesone of these turkey breasts it’s enoughto feed a family you’ll still have someleftover now I’ve got to get a piece outI’ll take one out of the center here andlook at that turkey breast moisturethrough and through we’ve got itperfectly cooked it’s cut across thegrain there so you know it’s gonna betender I’m gonna get a bite right out ofthe center want to taste that sugaryglaze the pecans smoke oh man theejection is perfect in it’s got a ton offlavor in the meat doesn’t just tastelike plain Turkey that’s a winner Wowthat swine life rub does an awesome jobbringing some savings to it it’s gotthat beautiful color on the outside andthen the sweetness is balanced out withthe glaze we put on it so good that isincredible Turkey all I did was take twoboneless skinless turkey breast seasonedthem with the swine Life Mississippigrind shot him up with the butcher’sbird booster honey got him in that pecansmoke brushed them with a little meltedbutter to make that color on the outsidekind of golden brown then I whipped upthat simple glazed brown sugar honeylittle orange juice little apple juiceand then dusted the top with the sugarin the raw to create that sugary cruston the outsidethat’s the honey baked effect all doneon the grill so if you’re looking for aturkey recipe to try for Easter givethis one a shot it’s gonna be betterthan anything you can order thanks forchecking us out here at how to barbecueright if you like what we’re doingsubscribe to the channel you can find uson facebook instagram twitter andSchelling I’ll talk about this recipeand all the other delicious stuff we’recooking on our podcast we’ll evenrelease the video version of that laternext week thanks for hanging out with ustoday we’ll see y’all next time I lovethis recipe it’s great on that glaze isgreat on ham but it’s you Amanda onTurkey it is phenomenal look at what Isay shelwinter winter turkey dinner got megobbling