As you know, turkey meat is healthy and very tasty. There are many different recipes: turkey salad, whole roasted turkey, turkey escalopes , boiled turkey , stuffed and many more different dishes. Food should be not only tasty, but also healthy. But combining these two qualities is not always possible.
And yet, how to cook a turkey? Yes, and with benefit? The answer to these questions is. Cook turkey dishes in a slow cooker. They turn out almost the same as those cooked in the oven, that is, stewed. And such food is more healthy than, for example, fried. So, consider a few recipes for cooking poultry in a slow cooker.
A very simple way is stewing turkey with vegetables. The bird fillet should be cut into small pieces, place them at the bottom of the multicooker, and lay any vegetables on top. Salt, pepper, add seasoning to taste and set to simmer for forty minutes.
It is better to cook turkey dishes in a slow cooker with sauce. So the meat will turn out more juicy. You can take any sauce according to your taste: tomato, soy, cranberry and others. Here is one of the recipes. The turkey must be cut into pieces, and the slow cooker put in baking mode. Next, fry the bird with onion slices. Then add soy sauce to the meat, a little sugar and cook the dish in the same mode for about forty minutes. Serving turkey is recommended with rice or mashed potatoes. Vegetables as a side dish will also be a good option.
You can cook pilaf. For it, you need to finely chop meat and vegetables, fry them for ten to fifteen minutes in baking mode. Then rinse the rice and add it to the meat and vegetables. Cooking should be about fifty minutes. It will turn out very tasty, the rice will be crumbly, and the meat of the turkey juicy.
And here’s the recipe for a baked turkey drumstick in an orange marinade.
To prepare the marinade, squeeze the juice from the orange, add
spices and salt. Place the drumstick in the aromatic mixture for about an hour. Then spread it with sour cream and put in a multicooker bowl, pouring vegetable oil into it first. Leave for an hour in baking mode, then turn the drumstick over and leave for another forty minutes. About twenty minutes before the end of cooking, pour the marinade into the meat. The dish is ready.
In order for the turkey dishes in the slow cooker to be appetizing, you need to follow some rules when choosing meat. It should be from a young bird and not contain any stains. Fresh meat cannot have any odor, it will be resilient. It is undesirable to buy a frozen bird, because due to the volume of the carcass it will defrost for a long time.
So, turkey dishes in a slow cooker are tasty, healthy, quick to cook food. Your family will receive unforgettable pleasure from eating this dietary meat, because it will turn out to be very soft and will melt in your mouth. At the same time, absolutely all useful properties (vitamins, trace elements) of meat will be preserved, which is much more important than everything else, because the health of your loved ones depends on them.