Turkey, unlike pork or beef, refers to dietary types of meat. It contains little fat, and calorie content per 100 grams is only 115 kcal. At the same time, it is in no way inferior to other types of meat in nutritional value and in the content of useful substances. Turkey is an ideal source of easily digestible protein, necessary not only for athletes, but also for all people without exception. Such meat is fried very quickly, and in the process of cooking it is important to ensure that it is not over-exposed on fire. Recipes for turkey steaks are presented in our article. All are designed for cooking meat in a pan.
Turkey fillet steak in soy sauce
This dish is perfect not only for everyday dinner, but also for a festive table. The soy sauce and mustard marinade makes the meat soft and juicy enough. The result will surely please you and guests.
The following step-by-step instructions will help to properly cook a turkey steak in a pan with a recipe with soy sauce:
- Turkey fillet is much larger than chicken in size, which allows you to cut it into portioned slices across the fibers. The optimum steak thickness is 25 mm.
- Each piece is laid out on a cutting board, covered with cling film and beaten with a hammer. This is done so that the meat is better marinated.
- Steaks are rubbed with salt, pepper and marjoram (½ tsp).
- Additionally, in a small bowl, a marinade is prepared for meat from soy sauce (1 tbsp.) And a teaspoon of mustard. Each steak is smeared with marinade on both sides and left on a plate for 30 minutes.
- Vegetable oil (50 ml) is heated in a pan. Pickled steaks are laid out on top.
- The meat is quickly fried on each side on a fire above the average. After that, the fire is reduced, the pan is covered with a lid, and the turkey is cooked for another 7 minutes.
- You can serve meat with any side dish, including fresh vegetables and herbs.
A simple recipe for turkey steak in a pan with salt and pepper
There is nothing complicated in preparing the next dish. Turkey steak is prepared according to the classic recipe with the addition of a minimum amount of salt and spices. The meat of this bird is quite tender, easily fried, so it does not need to be beaten with a hammer first.
According to the recipe below, a turkey breast steak in a pan is prepared in the following sequence:
- Fillet (1 kg) is cut across the fibers into pieces (portions) 2.5 cm thick each.
- Prepared steaks are rubbed with salt and black pepper.
- At this time, over high heat a frying pan with vegetable oil (3 tbsp. L.). High temperature will seal the juice inside, which will make the meat unusually juicy.
- Steaks are laid out on a preheated pan and fried for 3 minutes on the first and second sides. During cooking, they must not be moved and turned over.
- Finished steaks are laid out on a flat plate and covered with foil. After a couple of minutes, the meat can be served with a side dish.
Gentle turkey steak in French mustard sauce
The next dish can be safely called diet. The turkey steak (in the photo) is fried according to the recipe in a grill pan, the surface of which is only lubricated slightly with vegetable oil. Thus, the dish is prepared almost without fat, which means it is quite suitable for diet food.
To begin with, prepared steaks are washed under running water and dried with a paper towel. Then the meat is rubbed with salt and greased on all sides with French mustard (50 ml). In this form, steaks marinate at room temperature for about 35 minutes.
The grill pan is greased with vegetable oil and heated over high heat. The steaks are laid on top and fried alternately on each side for 8 minutes. Meat is served as an independent dish with sauce or vegetables.
How to cook turkey drumstick steak in a pan
The recipe is simple, like the previous ones. The only difference is that the meat is stewed in the oven during cooking. This is done in order to be sure that the bird near the bone did not remain red after frying in a pan. The turkey steak recipe consists of the following steps:
- The drumstick (1.2 kg) should be cut across into portions.
- Season each steak with salt and pepper and leave for several minutes on the table.
- Peel and chop the onion in half rings.
- Finely chop the garlic with a knife.
- Preheat the grill pan without oil.
- Fry the steaks on both sides over a high heat until a delicious crust appears.
- Put onion and garlic in the same pan, pour 70 ml of water.
- Place the pan in a preheated oven (180 ° C) and simmer the meat for another 25 minutes.
Turkey Steak with Thyme and Rosemary
For the next dish you will need the thickest part of the fillet. Such a piece will make excellent juicy steaks. And the aroma from such a dish will be simply delicious. The recipe for a steak in a turkey pan consists of the following steps:
- Cut the fillet into portioned pieces of meat with a thickness of 2 to 4 cm. The thickest steaks can be cut again lengthwise and unfold like a book. In this case, the area of the piece will be larger.
- Steaks need to be salted and pepper.
- Fry meat in a preheated pan with vegetable oil (2 tbsp. L.) For 2 minutes on one side and the other. Then reduce the strong fire and simmer the meat under the lid for another 5 minutes on each side.
- 3 minutes before cooking, add butter (50 g), 2 crushed cloves of garlic, 4 sprigs of thyme and 2 rosemary to the pan. In the process of frying it is recommended to pour meat with aromatic oil.
- Put the finished steaks on a plate and cover with foil. After 10 minutes, you can taste the meat.
Turkey steak in batter
In the process of preparing such a dish, pieces of meat 1 cm thick before frying are breaded in cornmeal and egg batter with cheese. This method allows you to save all the juice inside the turkey. As a result, the meat is very tender and soft.
A step-by-step dish is prepared in this order:
- Turkey fillet cut into pieces. The meat is slightly beaten through the film, rubbed with salt and pepper.
- On a separate flat plate, 100 g of cornmeal is poured.
- In another bowl, 3 eggs, 40 g of grated cheese and a little sparkling water are mixed (2 tbsp. L.).
- Turkey steaks are first breaded in flour and then in an egg, after which they are laid out in a pan with butter and fried on both sides.