This very easy slow-cooker recipe yields wonderfully tender and flavorful low-sodium roasted turkey.
After the turkey pieces are cooked, you can save the broth from the slow-cooker for soup, gravy, casseroles, or other recipes. See directions in the recipe below.
- Turkey breast, legs, thighs, and/or wings (The amount depends on the size of your slow cooker. You want your slow cooker to be ½ to ¾ full when you place the turkey parts on top of the vegetables.)
- Mrs Dash Garlic & Herb Seasoning
- Mrs Dash Chicken Grilling Seasoning
- 1 onion, chopped in large chunks
- 4 celery stalks, cut in thirds
- Optional: 1 can no-salt-added diced tomatoes or 1 can no-salt-added tomato sauce
- Remove turkey from packaging. Rinse and pat dry with paper towels. Pull most of the skin of the turkey pieces.
- Lightly sprinkle all sides of each turkey piece with both Mrs Dash Garlic Herb seasoning and Mrs Dash Chicken Grilling seasoning.
- Put some of the onions and celery inside the slow cooker. Place turkey pieces on top of the vegetables, with the remaining onions and celery inserted between and on top of the turkey pieces.
- Optional: Pour the tomatoes or tomato sauce on top of the turkey.
- Cover slow cooker and cook on low for 9-10 hours, until turkey is thoroughly cooked.
- Strain the vegetables, bones, meat, skin, etc from the broth and place the strained broth in a covered bowl or pan.
- After it cools a bit, put the broth in the refrigerator for a couple of hours (or overnight) to allow the fat to rise to the surface. (Don't stir the broth; just let it settle)
- After the broth is completely cooled, you can remove the fat by scraping it from the top with a spoon. Discard all of the fat.
- Divide the broth into useful portions (I like to save it in ½ cup or 1 cup portions.) Then put it into zip-lock bags and freeze it for later use in soups, gravy, casseroles, or other recipes.
- Note: this yields a very robust broth. To use the broth in a recipe, you will want to add approximately 1 part water for each 1 part broth. For example: 1 cup of this broth plus 1 cups water is appropriate for use in a recipe that calls for 2 cups of low-sodium chicken or turkey broth.
Our estimates assume the use of fresh turkey with only 3% sodium per serving (instead of turkey that has been infused with a high-sodium broth).
Note that sodium percentages depend on which daily reference you use. The estimated 70 mg of sodium per serving implies that one serving of this recipe provides:
– 3% of the U.S. FDA daily reference value for sodium for a 2,000-calorie diet that includes 2,400 mg sodium, or
– 5.0% of the American Heart Association recommendation of 1,500 mg sodium per day, or
– 7.0% of the Ménière’s diet recommendation of 1,000 mg sodium per day.
(As is the case with all of the recipes on this web site, the nutrition information provided in this recipe is only an estimate based on nutrition information provided on the packaging of each of the ingredients we used in this recipe and/or on a variety of sources on the web. This information should be regarded as an opinion only, with no guarantees that it is accurate. Obviously, the nutritional information will vary depending on the ingredients and quantities that you use.)
