Turkey meat is, of course, not chicken, but it is also tender and dietary, which compares favorably with goose and ducklings. It is quickly fried, and if you hold it a little bit in the marinade, it becomes even softer. An ideal choice for children, diet, and also as the basis of dishes for the elderly. The breast of this bird is especially popular - the most delicate, non-greasy, separated from the bone. Below are several ways that you can cook turkey fillet.
The simplest recipe, which requires a minimum of effort and time, is baking in the oven. Just beat off the turkey filet a little, grate it with a mixture of vegetable oil, chopped garlic and salt, lay a thin slice of bacon on top and bake in a frying oven until tender. This dish is also very tasty cold, just with bread and good dry wine. It’s easy to make a roasted turkey: then the beaten meat should be put in the marinade for half an hour, which is prepared from mineral soda and mayonnaise. You can add herbs, garlic, various favorite spices to this mixture. After pickling, fry the slices on both sides until golden brown.
If you want to cook turkey fillet in a more sophisticated way, then here are some recipes for you. Poultry pancakes with bechamel or mushroom sauce are a very budget dish. A small piece of meat can feed a large family. Cut the fillet into small cubes and fry in fat on all sides. Catch the meat with a slotted spoon, put in a bowl. In the same pan, fry the onion, a little mashed potatoes, herbs and your favorite spices. Add meat and one hard-boiled egg. Stir and stuff the pancakes with this mixture . Serve in sauce without garnish or with vegetable salad.
And here is an exquisite holiday dish. Turkey fillet roll with dried apricots and prunes. For him, per kilogram of meat we will need 100 grams of dried fruit. The first step is to remove the seeds from dried apricots and plums, and then soak the fruit to soften. Dry and chop finely. Beat the bird to get slices no more than half a centimeter thick. Sprinkle meat with salt and various spices to your taste, lay dried fruits on top of each slice. Roll up the rolls and wrap them in foil (for fidelity, so that the structure does not turn around, you can bandage it with a thread). Send to a well preheated oven for 50 minutes or an hour. When cool, remove the foil and cut across.
For a picnic, try making a kebab of turkey fillet. Mix a glass of mayonnaise, 100 g of vegetable oil and 100 g of Dijon mustard (with whole grains). In this marinade, leave the meat cut into pieces for 3 hours. Stick on skewers. It is recommended to alternate slices of fillet with onion rings and sweet pepper. Fry like a regular barbecue.
You can also cook schnitzel from turkey fillet. Oatmeal or egg lezon and flour are suitable for breading broken bits. If you are not afraid of the somewhat complicated procedure of cutting the fillet into thin small strips, try cooking turkey brizol. To do this, beat the raw egg into a finely chopped meat (1 piece per pound of fillet), salt and add a little flour. Fry in hot vegetable oil.