Quite often, it looks delicious on Christmas photos, in fact, a turkey is not as good in taste. The meat of this bird is used by cooks as widely as chicken, but nevertheless it is far from always possible to cook it the way you want. To make the turkey juicy and soft, it is not enough just to brush it with spices and mayonnaise and put in the oven. The meat must be carefully marinated. Yes, and it takes quite a long time to prepare. To save a turkey from many shortcomings will help the slow cooker. This miracle oven allows, firstly, to very well stew or fry the meat, secondly, after cooking it remains juicy in it, and thirdly, the hostess does not need to continuously monitor the process. It is quite possible to do either your own business or the preparation of other dishes. And so we want to tell you in our article how to cook a turkey in a slow cooker. At the same time, we will try to give as many different recipes as possible so that you can choose the most suitable option for yourself. But first, consider a few general questions.
Bird Selection Rules
The success of the undertaking is largely dependent on this stage. If you buy a bird that has been pumping muscle for more than a year on a farmyard, no marinades and slow cookers will help. It’s easier to put its meat on minced meat and make not even meatballs, but cabbage rolls. You need to buy only a young turkey. You can determine its age by the color of the meat. In young individuals it is lighter, in older ones it is darker. Dents and damages should not be present on meat. It is worth paying attention to the smell. It should not be. In addition, it is advisable to purchase fresh poultry rather than frozen. The thawing process is not good for the meat.
What can be cooked in a slow cooker from turkey
First of all, it can be put out with various additions. Stewed turkey in a slow cooker with potatoes, vegetables, sour cream. Since this bird has an impressive size, it is not possible to fry it entirely. You can cut the carcass into components. There are a huge number of ways to cook turkey fillets in a slow cooker. The recipes are quite diverse, so you can always choose something suitable. As for the legs and wings, just you can try to fry them, pre-marinated, or you can cook for a couple. As an option - make stuffing. It can become a component of any dishes that are prepared using this ingredient. We, in turn, will now share with you some of the best recipes, and start by telling you how to put out a turkey with potatoes in a slow cooker. Perhaps this is one of the most popular ways to cook it.
What is needed
Legs, wings, and even fillet are suitable for this dish. It will take about a kilogram of meat. You need to take the same amount of potatoes. You will also need carrots (a few pieces) and a couple of small onions. Add salt and your favorite spices to your taste.
How to cook
Some remove skin from the bird, since it is in it that most of the fat. When preparing a turkey in a slow cooker with potatoes, it is not recommended to do this, so that the dish does not turn out dry. So, chop the meat into small pieces, rinse, dry and put in the bowl. We cut the onion randomly, process the carrots on a grater. The vegetable mixture is also sent to the bowl. Potatoes, already peeled, cut quite large. Add to the slow cooker. Salt pepper, add water, but so that it reaches only the potato layer. Close the slow cooker, cook in the "Extinguishing" mode for an hour and a half. If not, choose frying. After the specified time has passed, open the miracle stove, mix everything, add salt and seasonings, if necessary, simmer for another half hour. Everything. Delicious and juicy turkey in a slow cooker with potatoes is ready! Can be served.
If you want to diversify the dish, you can replace potatoes with vegetable stew. It will turn out no less tasty dish.
Turkey with vegetables: ingredients
With regard to such a component as meat, you can use in this case also any of its parts.
We take half a kilogram of meat, but more is possible. We also stock up on eggplant (take two or three things), a small zucchini, a small head of cabbage, three grams per cabbage, cabbage, sweet pepper (a couple will be enough), tomatoes (five to six), onions and carrots (one each).
Cooking
We cut the meat in small pieces, wash, dry, salt and send into the crock-pot. Zucchini peeled, cut into cubes. Chop cabbage, carrots, peppers and onions cut into strips. Eggplant should be cut half an hour before cooking with rings and held in cold water, which will get rid of their inherent bitterness. You can, of course, cut the skin and not mess with soaking, but its beautiful color will make the dish outwardly much more attractive. Then we mix all the vegetables in one dish, salt and add to the meat. From above we cover everything with slices of tomatoes, from which you must first remove the skin. As for water, you don’t need to add it, it will be enough for that juice, which will let the vegetables. With vegetables, a turkey in a slow cooker cooks for about two hours. The optimal mode is “Quenching”.
Turkey in sour cream
In this case, only meat is cooked, without any additives. Turkey, in a slow cooker, cooked in sour cream, turns out to be unusually soft and juicy. An excellent side dish for it will be pasta, buckwheat, vegetable salad. I must say that sour cream generally makes an excellent stew sauce, you just have to try to take it rather fat, at least twenty percent, and not very sour. As for meat, you can also use legs, but fillet is best suited for this.
How to cook this dish
We cut the meat in large enough pieces, practically portioned, salt-pepper, and send to the bowl. We cut one onion into rings, add to the meat. We also send there finely chopped several cloves of garlic. Fill everything with the contents of a 200-gram package of sour cream, mix, close. We set the "Extinguishing" mode, in its absence - "Frying". Cook for an hour.
If you do not know how to cook a juicy turkey, take this particular recipe. The meat will literally melt in the mouth, and light sourness from the sour cream sauce will give it a special piquancy.
Improved Sour Cream Turkey Recipe
The meat of this bird is amazingly combined with mushrooms. And you can take both champignons and any forest specimens. Great, for example, chanterelles, porcini mushrooms. This dish is prepared in the same way as in the previous case, the only difference is that before you lay all the products, you must first fry the mushrooms in the multicooker bowl. To do this, they must be washed, cut into pieces of arbitrary size and sent to the bottom of the crock-pot, in which several tablespoons of vegetable oil are already poured. Also, add one onion, chopped into rings, to the mushrooms, and then cook in the "Frying" mode for about twenty minutes. After that, put the meat on the mushrooms, sprinkle with finely chopped garlic and pour sour cream. Cooking an hour and a half. Mode - "Extinguishing".
Roast
We said above how a turkey is cooked in a slow cooker with potatoes. And then they brought a recipe for a dish with vegetables. If both of these options are combined and slightly corrected, then you can end up with amazingly delicious roast. To cook it, we need about a kilogram of turkey meat, one little thing of Bulgarian pepper and onion, as well as two carrots and the same amount of tomatoes. In principle, the vegetable composition can be varied at your discretion, the main ones are tomatoes, potatoes and carrots. And also it is necessary that in the refrigerator there is sour cream and any tomato sauce or ketchup.
How to cook roast
Peel the potato, cut into thick enough circles and lay on the bottom of the multicooker. Place pieces of meat on top of it. Add salt and pepper, lay out all the available vegetables. From above, close everything with potato slices, salt again, grease with tomato paste or ketchup. Cooking is already in a slightly different mode - you will need "Baking". Two hours later, open the slow cooker, pour on top of one hundred grams of sour cream, close, leave in the disconnected unit for another half hour.
Turkey fillet with sour cream and potatoes
As you have probably already seen, all the recipes we offer are perfectly combined and interchanged. This makes it possible to significantly diversify the dishes served to the table, having in the refrigerator almost the same set of products. We want to offer you one more “hybrid” as evidence. Now let's try to cook turkey in a slow cooker with potatoes and sour cream. The recipes for preparing such a dish vary quite often, however, regardless of this, it always turns out to be surprisingly tasty and extremely satisfying.
A kilogram of fillet should be cut into not very large cubes, put it on the bottom of a bowl greased with vegetable oil. Cover tightly with onion rings. Then mix a bag of fat sour cream with a few finely chopped cloves of garlic and pour half the mixture into the multicooker products. Put sliced potatoes on top. Then repeat all layers, not forgetting to pour sour cream with garlic on the meat a second time. Set the “Baking” mode and cook for one and a half hours. Then the slow cooker must be opened, generously sprinkled with grated cheese. If desired, you can take fused instead of solid. Close and cook for another twenty minutes.
A side dish is not needed for such a dish, since there is potato in it, but simply chopped cucumber-tomatoes or a light vegetable salad as an additive are ideal.
Baked fillet
Cut the meat into large portions, rinse and do not forget to dry it with napkins. Mix three tablespoons of sugar with one hundred grams of soy sauce. Then add a little vegetable oil to the bottom of the bowl and fry the rings of one chopped onion in it. As soon as the vegetable is browned, add the sauce with sugar to it and mix thoroughly. Then add slices of pre-salted (not very strong) fillet, carefully mix all the ingredients. Close the slow cooker, set the "Baking" mode. After half an hour, the dish can be served at the table. Before serving, be sure to sprinkle it with green onions, as for the side dish, then baked vegetables are perfect for such meat .
Enjoy your meal!