I got two 6 pound turkey breasts for $5 each. Sweet! I know I can roast them, or slice and use them like chicken breast, I suppose, but I wondered about putting one in the crockpot and cooking it. I’ve done chicken a few times, but not all that successfully–it tends to be kind of dry/weird texture, which is fine if I go with soup.
Or…any other ideas? I’ve never done anything with turkey except to roast it at the holidays and the use the lovely leftovers…
Thanks!
I think it would behave similarly to chicken breast which, I agree, doesn’t do too well with long cooking.
How about using it in a stir fry? Or slicing it raw and pounding it to quick fry?
You can cook it in the crockpot. My aunt used,to cook a turkey breast and a stick of butter (those were the only two ingredients and I don’t know for how long, sorry). The turkey came out very moist and was very tasty. It was all in one piece but it pulled apart in sort of a stewed chicken texture, like what you might find in chicken and dumplings.
Well, adding a stick of butter is brilliant…can’t go wrong with butter! 
If it’s not the texture I like (turkey breast often isn’t) I can always toss it into turkey and noodles.
Oooooh! or Turkey Pot Pie!!! NOW I’m excited!
Turkey breast, like any other white meat, is tricky to crock-pot. If you’re handy with a sharp knife and can thinly slice the breast into cutlets, this honey-mustard curry recipeis a favorite.
Are they whole and bone-in when you bought them? If so, the bones make a great stock - even just the little bit you’d get from two breasts, cooked in a smaller pot than usual, will yield some lovely goodness.
In crockpot, half submerged in stock, mixed with two packets of taco seasoning, shredded after cooking makes good taco meat.
Oh, these are good ideas…taco turkey sounds good. And yep, they’re bone-in, and bones never go to waste around here!
I used to cook them in the crockpot when I was a working mom. Yeah, they’d get a little dry, but all the broth (with the fat skimmed, please) makes great gravy, and a box of Stove Top and a jar of cranberry sauce makes it seem like Thanksgiving.
Which is NEVER a bad thing.
And there are ONLY 99,000 ways to use leftover cooked turkey.
~VOW
We mince the turkey and make a nice turkey and vegie soup, mmmmmmmmmmmm
Curry is also really good as well.
Turkey Parmesan?
One of the first things I ever made in my brand new crockpot was a (small) roasted turkey breast. It can be done, it came out fine! But you would be better off making something WITH the turkey as mentioned here. Unless you like blah dry roasted turkey breast and want to recreate the drama and magic of Thanksgiving, there are better things.
I’m not sure if this would work along with the crockpot, (I don’t really see why not,) but I had some great results using this brine recipe with a turkey breast that I got two days after Christmas. I brined the breast overnight starting from frozen, then oven-roasted it New Year’s Day, sliced it, and refroze most of the slices for sandwiches and other quick meals. They were moist, tender, and very tasty!
Stir fry. Dice it relatively small so it cooks properly without getting too dry.
With turkey breasts I usually throw them on the rotisserie and grill, but those are boneless and lighter than 6 pounds.