Roasted Turkey Breast With Pineapple-Orange Sauce

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Peggy Trowbridge Filippone
Peggy Trowbridge Filippone
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Updated on 07/13/21
Roasted turkey breast pineapple orange sauce

The Spruce Eats / Julia Hartbeck

Prep: 10 mins
Cook: 90 mins
Total: 100 mins
Servings: 5 to 8 servings
Yield: 1 turkey breast

This pineapple-orange turkey breast recipe is all about flavor and convenience. Using frozen, bone-in turkey breasts you get the convenience of frozen poultry with the moist flavor that boneless, skinless turkey breast options lack. The turkey breast is roasted in a foil pouch for seriously easy clean up.

The sweet citrus sauce is also a breeze to make. Using orange juice and canned mandarin oranges, you can get a thick flavorful sauce to glaze the turkey immediately before serving or at the table. This will be a turkey breast recipe to keep on hand.

Ingredients

  • 1 (4- to 6- pound) frozen bone-in turkey breast, thawed

  • 1 2/3 cups pineapple-orange juice or orange juice

  • 3 tablespoons lemon juice

  • 2 tablespoons cornstarch

  • 1 tablespoon brown sugar, packed

  • 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

  • 1 (11-ounce) can orange sections, drained

  • Salt, to taste

  • Freshly ground black pepper, to taste

Steps to Make It

  1. Gather the ingredients and preheat oven to 450 F.

    Gather ingredients
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  2. Sprinkle turkey breast lightly with salt and pepper.

    Season turkey
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  3. Place turkey breast lengthwise in center of sheet of heavy-duty aluminum foil. Close foil loosely by overlapping ends, turning up short sides to hold in juices. Do not seal airtight.

    Place in foil
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  4. Place foil-wrapped turkey in roasting pan at least 2-inches deep. Insert meat thermometer through foil into thickest portion of breast, being sure not to touch the bone (doing so would throw off the temperature reading).

    Place in pan
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  5. Roast turkey breast in oven for 45 minutes.

  6. After first 45 minutes, open and turn back foil. Continue roasting 30 to 45 minutes or until meat thermometer registers 170 F and turkey is nicely browned.

    Bake
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  7. Remove from oven and let turkey breast stand, loosely covered with foil for 10 minutes before carving.

    Foil
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  8. Meanwhile, begin the sauce by stirring together the pineapple-orange juice, lemon juice, cornstarch, brown sugar, and ginger in a 4-cup microwave-safe measuring cup or medium microwave-safe bowl.

    Pineapple orange juice
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  9. Microwave mixture, uncovered, on high power for 3 to 5 minutes until thickened and bubbly, stirring after every minute.

    Mix
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  10. Remove sauce from microwave (using an oven mitt as the bowl may be extremely hot). Stir in the orange sections and allow sauce to stand for 1 minute.

    Remove from microwave
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  11. Serve the turkey breast with the sauce.

    Cut turkey
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Tip

  • If you prefer not to use the microwave, you can easily pull together the pineapple orange sauce on the stove. Simply stir together the pineapple-orange juice, lemon juice, cornstarch, brown sugar, and ginger in a medium saucepan over medium-low to medium heat. Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly being sure not to burn the sauce. Cook and stir 2 minutes more. Stir in orange sections; heat through.
Nutrition Facts (per serving)
560 Calories
7g Fat
15g Carbs
103g Protein
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Nutrition Facts
Servings: 5 to 8
Amount per serving
Calories 560
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 7g 9%
Saturated Fat 2g 10%
Cholesterol 272mg 91%
Sodium 414mg 18%
Total Carbohydrate 15g 5%
Dietary Fiber 1g 4%
Total Sugars 10g
Protein 103g
Vitamin C 45mg 224%
Calcium 54mg 4%
Iron 3mg 14%
Potassium 999mg 21%
*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
(Nutrition information is calculated using an ingredient database and should be considered an estimate.)

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