WSM High Heat Turkey Breast

[Rich Dahl]

With T day coming in a few weeks I wanted to try a couple of practice runs on doing turkey on my wsm and performer as I haven’t done that before.
Today was the wsm. I was so impressed with the way the chicken came out on a high heat cook on the wsm I decided to try a turkey breast that way.
Well I wasn’t disappointed it came out perfect! Moist and the skin was crisp. 5 Lb. breast took just shy of 3 hours and pulled at 163 and rested for one hour. WSM held 330-340 perfectly. Used a few small chunks of pecan for the smoke.

The last picture shows a desert that we dreamed up after having a couple of drinks… well maybe a few more than a couple.
Involving corn bread that we made that turned into crumbs when we took it out of the oven
Barb will post this a little latter.
All I’ll say is we really can create good stuff when we’re half in the bag!

On we go Rubbed with EVOO and poultry seasoning and a little kick'n chicken

Done and headed in

Resting

Being carefully watched by one of the fury kids

Came out perfect!

Barb made up some sprouts

Ready to plate

Plated

Oh yeah!

Thanks for taking a look.

 

[Bob H.]

Looks great Rich. Whats in that dessert?

 

[Doug Selman]

I don't think any "practice" is needed Rich. I'd say you have down! Looks great!

 

[Cliff Bartlett]

Looks fantastic Rich and Barb! Turkey looks great, love the sprout dish. Your cornbread dessert looks great too!

 

[Rich Dahl]

Looks great Rich. Whats in that dessert?

Bob, Barb is going to type up the recipe in a day or so. I'll email it to you as soon as she gets it done.

 

[Bill Schultz]

Sounds like you got your WSM dialed in right my friend. Turk looks superb as does the whole plate.

 

[T MacGreggor]

The color on that breast looks awesome! Are you using a beer can chicken stand or what to prop it up?

 

[Rich Dahl]

The color on that breast looks awesome! Are you using a beer can chicken stand or what to prop it up?

Good eye, got the idea from a post by Tim Murphy. It worked really well.

 

[JimK]

Poultry perfection! I love roasting on the WSM. The results are spectacular.

 

[NeilH]

Very nice. Like everything.

 

[Tony R]

Poultry perfection! I love roasting on the WSM. The results are spectacular.

Ditto what Jim said.....
Played pic looks delicious.

 

[Dwain Pannell]

Man that high heat roasting sure does put a pretty skin on turkey doesn't it?!?!

 

[WB Zipf]

That bird is a thing of beauty!

 

[Jeff Holmes]

No you didn't! Is that jar gravy on that beautiful looking turkey? haha

 

[russ olin]

I think that you have that turkey perfected. Looks guud.
Funny, fixed a turkey breast too Monday. Got makin's for hunting sammies.

 

[John Solak]

Beautiful looking bird!!!

 

[T MacGreggor]

Good eye, got the idea from a post by Tim Murphy. It worked really well.

Thanks, Rich. For Thanksgiving I'd been toying with the idea of trying to fit a full turkey mounted on a sturdy beer can stand on the lower grate of my 14.5WSM, with the upper grate removed. Now that I've seen your results, I think I'll try that same high heat breast method and see how that goes first.

 

[Bob Correll]

Fix me up a turkey sammie (hold the sprouts) and double up on the de-zert!!

 

[Tim McCann]

Great plate! What's the Tsar Dust taste like?