Oven Roasted BBQ Turkey Breast

Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. Turkey breast goes on sale for around $1.00/lb every couple of months, and is such a great and easy non-holiday alternative to roasting up a whole turkey — and then do you know how sometimes you get a bunch of extra BBQ sauce when you splurge on take-out BBQ from your favorite restaurant? Well, let’s not let that go to waste!

$1.00/lb is my buy price for turkey breast, so I picked one up at Mariano’s last weekend and had it thawing in the fridge. I also had all these little cups of most excellent leftover BBQ sauce sitting in the fridge from the last time we got carryout at our favorite local BBQ joint (it’s very good, but they throw in a ton of sauce).

Well, it seemed to me that these two great tastes really should taste great together, leading us inexorably to…

Oven Roasted BBQ Turkey Breast

Ingredients

7 lb bone-in turkey breast, thawed
1 lemon
Olive oil
Kosher salt to taste
Fresh ground pepper to taste
1 cup prepared BBQ sauce
1/2 Tbsp minced garlic
1/2 Tbsp Italian seasoning
1/2 Tbsp smoked paprika

Directions

Spray roasting pan with cooking spray and preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place turkey breast side up in roasting pan and brush with olive oil. Squeeze on the juice of one lemon, then place halves inside cavity (just tuck them in the end as shown above). Sprinkle generously with Kosher salt and pepper, then roast for 20 minutes at 400.

While turkey is roasting, mix together BBQ sauce, garlic, Italian seasoning, and paprika.

Remove turkey from oven after 20 minutes and reduce heat to 350 degrees. Brush turkey generously with prepared BBQ sauce and cook for another 2 hours at 350 or until internal temperature reaches 165 degrees (so a total of two hours and 20 minutes).

Brush with additional BBQ sauce every 20 minutes until you run out of sauce (I had enough for four layers).

Once cooked through, remove turkey breast from pan and tent loosely with foil for at least 15 minutes before carving. (And yes: This pan did eventually come clean, lol.)

Remove lemons, carve, and enjoy!

So juicy

The layers of BBQ sauce crisp up the outside nicely, while leaving the inside of the turkey breast perfectly juicy. Plus, your house will smell a-ma-zing while this is cooking. Everyone here was a fan — and just be sure your BBQ sauce of choice is gluten free for a naturally gluten free, dairy free main dish. This 7 lb turkey breast handily fed our family of four with plenty of leftovers, too.

I’ll definitely be making Oven Roasted BBQ Turkey Breast again. Plus, what a convenient built-in excuse to get more of the good BBQ carryout the week before — I’ll need more of the “good sauce!” 😉

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This easy oven roasted BBQ turkey breast recipe stays so juicy and tender! Caramelize on layers of BBQ sauce for a rich smokey flavor in this naturally gluten free recipe.

Course dinner

Total Time 2 hours hours 30 minutes minutes

Servings 8

Author Rachel Singer

Ingredients

• 7 lb bone-in turkey breast thawed
• 1 lemon
• Olive oil
• Kosher salt to taste
• Fresh ground pepper to taste
• 1 cup prepared BBQ sauce
• 1/2 Tbsp minced garlic
• 1/2 Tbsp Italian seasoning
• 1/2 Tbsp smoked paprika

Instructions

• Spray roasting pan with cooking spray and preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Place turkey breast side up in roasting pan and brush with olive oil.
• Squeeze on the juice of one lemon, then place halves inside cavity (just tuck them in the end as shown above).
• Sprinkle generously with Kosher salt and pepper, then roast for 20 minutes at 400.
• While turkey is roasting, mix together BBQ sauce, garlic, Italian seasoning, and paprika.
• Remove turkey from oven after 20 minutes and reduce heat to 350 degrees.
• Brush turkey generously with prepared BBQ sauce and cook for another 2 hours at 350 or until internal temperature reaches 165 degrees (so a total of two hours and 20 minutes).
• Brush with additional BBQ sauce every 20 minutes until you run out of sauce (I had enough for four layers).
• Once cooked through, remove turkey breast from pan and tent loosely with foil for at least 15 minutes before carving.
• Remove lemons, carve, and enjoy!