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How to Keep Turkey Moist & Prevent Turkey Slices from Drying Out

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Use these tips for how to keep cooked turkey moist and prevent your cut turkey slices from drying out during your holiday parties.

How to keep cooked turkey moist and ways to keep cut turkey slices from drying out.

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Even if you have taken every precaution to create a moist and tender turkey, the meat can still dry out fairly fast after it has been cut. Nobody enjoys dry turkey! And it seems like such a waste to spend hours preparing the perfect Thanksgiving dinner to cut into a dry piece of meat. Use the tips below to prevent the sliced turkey from drying out and keep the uncut turkey moist.

How to Keep Turkey Moist

To prevent your sliced turkey from drying out, start by only cutting what you need. Cover the turkey slices with foil or plastic wrap to keep them warm and tender until getting ready to serve the meat.

Just before bringing the turkey to the table, drizzle the slices with a little bit of the turkey drippings or homemade turkey gravy. This will keep your sliced turkey warm and help keep the sliced meat moist.

How to Keep Turkey from Drying Out after cutting it.

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How to Keep Your Turkey from Drying Out

Instead of cutting all of the turkey into slices, cut only what you need. Leave the remaining turkey uncut and tightly covered.

Then go back and cut additional slices as you need more turkey. Then drizzle more drippings or gravy over the cut slices and recover the remaining uncut turkey.

Repeat as necessary. Your guests won’t object to you leaving for a few minutes to slice more turkey, especially if it means the turkey you bring back will still be tender and moist.

How to Keep Sliced Turkey moist and ways to prevent turkey from drying out after it is cut.

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More Thanksgiving Tips:

Don’t forget to save the turkey carcass! You can easily make turkey broth with the bones in a slow cooker.

I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family!

About Alea Milham

Alea Milham is the owner of Premeditated Leftovers and the author of Prep-Ahead Meals from Scatch. She shares her tips for saving money and time while reducing waste in her home. Her favorite hobby, gardening, is a frugal source of organic produce for her recipes. She believes it is possible to live fully and eat well while spending less.

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Welcome. I'm Alea!

On Premeditated Leftovers I share simple recipes made with whole foods, practical shopping tips, time saving techniques, and meal planning strategies. I also share tips for minimizing food waste, so more of the food that is purchased ends up on the table.

While volunteering as a budget counselor, I realized that food is the element of most people’s budgets where they have the greatest control. I set out to develop low-cost recipes from scratch to prove it’s possible to create delicious meals on a limited budget. Eating well while spending less is about more than just creating recipes using inexpensive ingredients; it’s about creatively combining ingredients so you don’t feel deprived and are inspired to stick to your budget.