Turkey is considered an excellent dietary product that can be consumed by almost all people, regardless of health status. Regularly consumed turkey dishes will bring tremendous benefits to any body. Turkey is suitable even for children with food allergies. It is turkey that is the meat from which the baby's lure begins from 9 months of his life.
Turkey dishes are always associated with the advent of the Christmas holidays. In the West, there is a cult of cooking this bird. In our country, it was quite difficult to get a turkey, so it was considered traditionally a festive dish. But in our time, when turkey meat began to appear on the shelves of various stores more and more often, these dishes became almost always available.
Dietary dishes from turkey can be prepared both from parts of the bird, and from the whole carcass. If you want to cook a whole turkey, you will need a large oven or microwave, as this bird is very large and may not fit in a standard microwave oven.
The recipe for turkey below is original and piquant. To cook it you need a turkey; 0.4 kg of calf liver; 0.4 kg of unshelled walnuts; 3 eggs; pepper; 50 g butter; milk; 0.2 kg of wheat bread.
Walnuts are scalded with boiling water and peeled from rough skin. The nuts are ground until smooth. Veal liver is fried in oil. The bread is soaked in milk. Mix mashed liver, crumbled bread, eggs, butter. Prepared minced meat needs salt. Lovers of hot meat can add ground pepper to it. The bird carcass is rubbed with a mixture of pepper and salt. The turkey is stuffed with minced meat, and then baked until tender in the oven, regularly pouring meat juice and turning the carcass over. The cooking time of the turkey depends on its size. It is best to determine the degree of carcass availability using a special meat thermometer. The finished turkey is chopped into pieces and served with red sauce and red wine.
Christmas turkey:
For this festive dish you will need a turkey carcass; a glass of rice; 0.5kg of prunes; 0.4 kg of unshelled walnuts; 50 g butter; 4 apples 3 tablespoons of fat mayonnaise; 100 ml sour cream; salt; pepper.
The turkey carcass is thoroughly washed and dried. It is thoroughly rubbed with a mixture of pepper and salt, both outside and inside. Boiled until half-cooked rice is mixed with finely chopped prunes, chopped nuts and slices of peeled apples. The prepared carcass is filled with minced meat, after which it is sutured, lubricated with a mixture of sour cream, mayonnaise and butter. The bird is cooked at a temperature of 180-190 ° C in the oven. It must be periodically turned over and watered with the meat juice released during cooking.
The second dishes from turkey allow you to choose just such a recipe that you and your household will like the most. Such dishes include a recipe for turkey stew with onions. To prepare this dish you will need 1 kg of turkey; 8 medium onions; 5 tomatoes; 50 ml of tomato paste; 200 ml of red wine; chopped greens of parsley, celery and dill; a third of lemon; 50 g butter; ground paprika, salt.
To prepare the dish, the turkey meat is cut into portioned pieces, lightly beaten, sprinkled with paprika and ground black pepper, salt and fried on all sides until a crust forms. Diced onions, tomato paste and chopped tomatoes are added to the meat. Stew meat over medium heat until cooked. 15 minutes before the end of cooking, add a third of lemon juice, wine and herbs to the dish. At this time, the meat can be added to your liking.