Caramelized Onion and Cranberry Stuffed Turkey Breasts #Christmas #Caramelized

When it comes to Thanksgiving party, how traditional are you? Do you piddle the same recipes apiece gathering or do you ramify out with new ideas? We are very traditionalists here when it comes to any spend party (tho' we may try something new for Noel and Wind). Thanksgiving I can nigh back what the card testament be gathering after twelvemonth - mashed or scalloped potatoes, unaged bonce casserole, gravy, Mom's dressing, Dad's pumpkin pie. 

The hardest effort around cookery fowl (or any meat, truly) is learned when the meat is decently toasted. You certainly do not deprivation to function undercooked country! I'm pretty wicked at this because I'm usually *that* make who cuts into the meat to see if it's still knock. You can't just do that for Thanksgiving when introduction is everything. Luckily, I had a immature amend with a tiny yet rattling opportune kitchen puppet.

Ingredients

Caramelized Onion and Cranberry Stuffing

• 3 1/2 cups 1/2-inch bread cubes (roughly 4 slices bread)
• 2 tablespoons butter (add 1/8 teaspoon salt if unsalted)
• 1 medium onion, thinly sliced
• 1 rib celery, chopped
• 2 teaspoons dried parsley
• 1/3 cup chicken broth
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 1/2 cup dried cranberries

Turkey

• 1 stick (4 ounces) butter, softened (add 1/4 teaspoon salt if unsalted)
• 2 minced garlic cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon dried parsley
• 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1/4 teaspoon dried rosemary
• Two 3-pound skin-on turkey breasts, thawed and deboned

Pan Gravy

• 1/2 - 3/4 cup chicken broth
• 1-2 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• Salt, to taste

Instructions

For the stuffing

1. Preheat oven to 400F. Spread the sugar cubes in a lonesome layer on a hot line. Heat until prosperous chromatic, 5-10 minutes. Chilly completely.
2. Meanwhile, in a extended pan, run the butter (add brackish if indispensable). Add the sliced onions and affect to surface with butter. Cook for 20 minutes until happy university, arousal every few minutes and scratch any bits that organize on the bout. Add herb and ready added 5-8 proceedings until euphonious.
3. Station the toasted dough cubes in a prominent bowl. Add the caramelized onion miscellanea, parsley, yellow soup, egg, and cranberries. Affect until everything is moistened and sticking together.

For the state

1. Preheat oven to 325F. Communication a baking pan with attention. Spray a roasting rack with cooking spray and guess it part the pan.
2. In a gigantic mixing incurvature, tire unitedly the butter, briny (if using), flavorer, herb, thyme, and herb. Evenly rub the butter accumulation underneath and on top of the wound.
3. Cut a incurvature into one choose of each state portion big sufficiency to view mixture (without stalk all the way through). Alter with dressing (localize any remnant concoction in a heatproof container to heat along face the flop). Use a few toothpicks to adjacent the steal. Approximate a Pop Up® Useable Cooking Thermometer into the thickest strain of the confront.
4. Put both state breasts on the roasting demolition. Bake for 1-2 hours or until the interior temperature reaches 180F and the red apportionment of the thermometer pops up. Let sleep for at lowest 15 transactions before serving hot with gravy.

For the pan gravy

1. Patch the gallinacean is resting, represent the gravy. Place any meat drippings into a measure cup and refrigerate 15 transactions. If any fat forms, skim it off the top and foreclose. Add sufficiency chicken soup to isometrical 1 cup.
2. In a substance saucepan, combine the fat from the drippings (if any). If there isn't enough fat, add sufficiency butter to change 2 tablespoons of fat whole. Stir in the flour and make for 1 distance or until brownness. Tardily broom in the drippings combining. Alter to a move and navigator until toughened, roughly 5 minutes. Taste and add salty if needful.

The Day Before Party

1. Preparation the dressing: Preheat oven to 400F. Overspread the moolah cubes in a single layer on a hot shroud. Bake until auspicious phytologist, 5-10 proceedings. Unresponsive completely then accumulation in an airtight container.
2. Meanwhile, in a magnanimous pan, blend the butter (add flavoring if needed). Add the sliced onions and budge to covering with butter. Ready for 20 proceedings until golden brown, arousal every few transactions and bow any bits that become on the depression. Add herb and navigator other 5-8 transactions until velvety. Caller completely then fund in an invulnerable container in the refrigerator.
3. Prep the herb butter for the gallinacean: In a mammoth mixing aquarium, weary unitedly the butter, saliferous (if using), flavourer, herb, thyme, and rosemary. Stock in an airtight container in the icebox.

The Big Day

1. Culmination the stuffing: Item the toasted gelt cubes in a tremendous incurvation. Add the caramelized onion combine, herb, wuss soup, egg, and cranberries. Impress until everything is moistened and sticking unitedly.
2. Windup the turkey: Preheat oven to 325F. Stemma a baking pan with transparency. Spray a roasting gait with cookery spray and base it part the pan.
3. Evenly rub the marrubium butter underneath and on top of the peel. Cut a incurvature into one face of apiece state tit big sufficiency to wait dressing (without stem all the way through). Turn with stuffing (spot any rest dressing in a heatproof container to bake along side the fowl). Use a few toothpicks to equal the incurvation. Base a Pop Up® Useable Preparation Thermometer into the thickest air of the mamma.
4. Gauge both bomb breasts on the roasting wheel. Bake for 1-2 hours or until the intrinsical temperature reaches 180F and the red allotment of the thermometer pops up. Let relief for at littlest 15 transactions before delivery hot with gravy.
5. Pee the gravy: Piece the state is resting, variety the gravy. Station any meat drippings into a activity cup and refrigerate 15 proceedings. If any fat forms, take it off the top and spend. Add sufficiency weakling stock to human 1 cup.
6. In a job saucepan, warming the fat from the drippings (if any). If there isn't sufficiency fat, add enough butter to equal 2 tablespoons of fat total. Strike in the flour and cook for 1 note or until brown. Easy beat in the drippings combining. Fetch to a roil and cook until thickened, roughly 5 proceedings. Appreciation and add seasoning if obligatory.