Slow Cooker Bacon-Ranch Beer-Can Turkey

This is a delicious and tender turkey breast. The recipe fuses the traditional flavors of bacon, turkey, and ranch seasoning with the moistness of my beer-can chicken.

• Preparation Time: 15 mins
• Cooking Time: 7 hr
• Total Time: 7 hr 15 mins
• Calories: 194 Calories

Ingredients

• ¼ cup butter, softened
• cooking spray
• 6 slices thick-cut bacon
• 1 (1 ounce) packet ranch dressing mix, divided
• 1 whole bone-in turkey breast, rinsed and patted dry
• 1 cup light-colored beer

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Spray the inside of a large slow cooker with cooking spray.

Step 2

Stir butter and 1/2 the ranch dressing mix together in a bowl until completely combined.

Step 3

Carefully loosen each side of the skin of the turkey breast and spread the butter-ranch mixture under the skin. Transfer turkey, skin-side up, to the slow cooker.

Step 4

Sprinkle remaining 1/2 ranch dressing mix over turkey breast. Lay bacon strips evenly across turkey. Pour beer around turkey breast.

Step 5

Cook in the slow cooker set to High for 1 hour. Reduce heat to Low and cook until turkey is tender, 6 to 8 hours.