A traditional American dish at Christmas is the whole baked turkey. The meat of this bird is very healthy. It includes many vitamins, contains a minimum of cholesterol, is well absorbed by the body. Recommended for joint problems. Helps fight anemia, contains a lot of iron. Turkey dishes are hypoallergenic, therefore ideal for small children.

Roasted turkey thigh

Tasty and easy to prepare dish will decorate your dinner or lunch.

Ingredients:

  • turkey thigh - 900 g;
  • honey - 2 tbsp. spoons;
  • garlic - 2 cloves;
  • mustard - 2 tsp;
  • pepper;
  • soy sauce;
  • carrots - 1 pc.

Cooking:

  1. Peel the carrots, grate on a coarse grater.
  2. Peel and chop the garlic.
  3. Remove the bone from the thigh (or buy a finished filet). In the vacant place place garlic, carrots. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
  4. Twist the roll. Wrap in foil.
  5. Place in the oven. Bake for at least an hour.
  6. Combine honey, mustard and soy sauce.
  7. Expand the foil. Lubricate with the resulting mixture.
  8. Bake another five minutes.

Braised turkey with vegetables

 

Turkey is a healthy and light dish, and with the addition of vegetables, nutritious and doubly healthy.

Ingredients:

  • turkey fillet - 900 g;
  • zucchini - 600 g;
  • carrots - 1 pc.;
  • ground black pepper;
  • onion - 1 head;
  • green onion - 50 g;
  • sunflower oil - 8 tbsp. spoons;
  • olive herbs;
  • water - 1 cup;
  • dill - 50 g;
  • salt;
  • basil.

Cooking:

  1. Rinse meat, dry.
  2. Cut into small pieces.
  3. Pour oil into a pan. To warm.
  4. Lay down the turkey.
  5. Mix. Cook for five minutes.
  6. Pour water.
  7. Set the burner to minimum mode.
  8. Stew for half an hour.
  9. Rinse the carrots. To peel. Cut into small strips. You can grate.
  10. Peel the onion. Cut into strips.
  11. Transfer vegetables to the turkey.
  12. Wash the zucchini. If the fruits are young, you can cut without peeling. If old - you need to cut the skin, cleanse the seeds.
  13. Cut into cubes.
  14. Transfer to turkey.
  15. At this point, add pepper, salt, spices, basil and Provence herbs.
  16. Mix. Cook under the lid for half an hour.
  17. Add the washed and chopped green mass to the pan.
  18. Mix. Stew for 5 minutes.

In creamy sauce

This delicacy can be prepared for dinner and to please guests at the holiday.

Ingredients:

  • turkey fillet - 500 g;
  • cream - 300 ml;
  • butter - 30 g;
  • flour - 3 tbsp. spoons;
  • dill - 50 g;
  • ground black pepper - 2 tsp;
  • salt - 1 teaspoon;
  • mustard - 1.5 tsp.

Cooking:

  1. Wash the flesh, blot with a paper towel, removing all moisture.
  2. Cut into small pieces.
  3. Heat the pan, add oil and wait a little while it is hot.
  4. Put the turkey.
  5. Fry the meat until golden.
  6. Put out for half an hour.
  7. To salt. Mix.
  8. Pour cream into a deep heat-resistant container, add mustard. Turn on a small fire. Stirring, boil for five minutes.
  9. Pour pepper.
  10. Add butter.
  11. While stirring with a whisk, introduce flour. To salt.
  12. Chop dill, pour into sauce.
  13. Boil for three minutes.
  14. Pour to the meat.
  15. Cook for 10 minutes.

How to cook poultry meat in foil?

 

Turkey has become more affordable and has appeared on sale in almost all major stores. Therefore, many housewives began to cook dishes from this meat more often. Being a dietary product, it is ideal for everyday nutrition and for those who adhere to a healthy lifestyle.

To make the turkey juicy, bake in foil with the addition of vegetables or fruits. Do not overdo the meat in the oven. Depending on the size of the pieces, it takes from half an hour to one hour.

Ingredients:

  • turkey breast - 900 g;
  • honey agarics - 200 g;
  • salt - 1 teaspoon;
  • rosemary;
  • garlic - 2 cloves;
  • ground white pepper;
  • dried thyme;
  • prunes - 150 g;
  • onion - 1 pc.;
  • olive oil.

Cooking:

  1. Rinse mushrooms, boil for an hour. Slice.
  2. Heat the pan, add oil, put honey mushrooms in place. Fry.
  3. Peel and chop the garlic. Add to mushrooms.
  4. Peel the onion, cut into strips.
  5. Transfer to honeymooners. Put out.
  6. Wash the prunes, cut into strips, pour to mushrooms.
  7. Rinse and dry the turkey.
  8. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and spices.
  9. Cut a piece of meat across to make a pocket.
  10. Transfer the mushroom filling into the pocket.
  11. Take toothpicks and fix so that the filling does not fall out during cooking.
  12. Take the foil, wrap the meat in it, place in the oven.
  13. In the process of cooking juice is released. Periodically, you should open the foil and water the turkey with the released liquid. Bake for half an hour.
  14. Remove foil. Bake 25 minutes until a beautiful, golden brown crust.

Oven chops of turkey fillet

If you beat off the meat, it will become softer and cook faster.

Ingredients:

  • turkey fillet - 900 g;
  • egg - 3 pcs.;
  • salt - 1.5 teaspoons;
  • fat sour cream - 130 ml;
  • cheese - 200 g;
  • corn starch - 2 tsp;
  • allspice, ground - 1.5 tsp.

Cooking:

  1. Rinse the fillet, cut along the fibers. To beat off with a culinary hammer.
  2. Mix pepper and salt.
  3. Grate the meat.
  4. Leave to marinate for half an hour.
  5. Beat eggs and starch. Add sour cream. Mix.
  6. Dip each piece of turkey into the egg mixture.
  7. Grease a baking sheet with oil. Put the meat out.
  8. Grate the cheese, preferably large.
  9. Sprinkle turkey on top.
  10. Send to the oven for half an hour.

Turkey meat pie

 

A very simple turkey meat pie recipe. Prepared from a quick test.

Ingredients:

  • turkey fillet - 400 g;
  • premium flour - 300 g;
  • ground crackers - 40 g;
  • tomato sauce - 50 ml;
  • milk - 160 ml;
  • pressed yeast - 15 g;
  • olive oil - 30 g;
  • sugar - 5 g;
  • salt - 5 g;
  • egg - 4 pcs.;
  • sunflower seeds;
  • leek - 50 g.

Cooking:

  1. Warm milk.
  2. Add yeast and sugar. Mix. Leave on for 15 minutes.
  3. Sift flour, mix with salt.
  4. Pour the milk mixture and olive oil into the flour. Knead the dough.
  5. Grease high capacity with oil. Put the dough. Cover with a bag or towel to prevent crusting.
  6. Put in a warm place. The dough should double in volume.
  7. When the dough has risen, hug. Separate the third part. Roll the rest into a round thin cake. The diameter should be about 35 cm. Take a round-sized baking dish, transfer the dough into it. The edges should hang.
  8. Roll out the dough that remains, and cut out the stars.
  9. Lubricate the base with tomato sauce. If you like spicy, take chili sauce.
  10. Cut the turkey into slices. Add eggs, salt and ground crackers.
  11. Form small cutlets. Fry on each side until rosy.
  12. Transfer the cutlets to the dough, greased with tomato paste.
  13. Chop the onion finely. Put between cutlets.
  14. The edges of the dough that hang down, pull on the patties. The top should remain open.
  15. Beat one egg yolk and grease the top layer of dough.
  16. Place the cut stars on the surface of the patties. Grease with yolk.
  17. Sprinkle with seeds.
  18. Leave warm for half an hour.
  19. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
  20. Place the pie in the oven. Bake for 45 minutes.

Turkey Hip Soup Recipe

For cooking soup, you can use any part of the bird.

If you want to get a rich broth, use a turkey thigh. Cook must be no less than one and a half hours. When preparing soup for small children, after boiling, drain the liquid, pour meat into the meat again with water and cook the dish on its basis.

Ingredients:

  • turkey thigh - 2 pcs.;
  • onion - 2 pcs.;
  • carrots - 2 pcs.;
  • potatoes - 3 pcs.;
  • water - 4.5 liters;
  • parsley - 50 g;
  • pasta vermicelli - 50 g;
  • egg - 1 pc.;
  • butter - 120 g;
  • salt.

Cooking:

  1. Rinse the meat, dry with a paper towel.
  2. Wash the carrots, peel, grate or cut into slices.
  3. Peel the onions, cut into strips.
  4. Pour the required rate of water into the pan.
  5. Place the turkey.
  6. After boiling, put half the norm of vegetables.
  7. Diced peeled potatoes.
  8. Beat the egg in the bowl.
  9. Rinse and chop the parsley.
  10. Melt butter in a pan. Place the remaining carrots and onions in oil and fry.
  11. Get the turkey from the pan.
  12. Place the frying and potatoes in the broth. Boil for eight minutes.
  13. Separate the meat from the bone and chop.
  14. Transfer to soup.
  15. Pour vermicelli.
  16. Pour in a beaten egg.
  17. Add parsley and salt.
  18. Turn off the burner. Let it brew for half an hour.

Dumplings Dumplings

Read also: fried dumplings

 

Everyone is accustomed to dumplings stuffed with pork and beef, but if replaced with minced meat from turkey meat, you get a diet dish.

Ingredients:

  • fillet turkey - 200 g;
  • premium flour - 250 g;
  • onions - 200 g;
  • allspice;
  • garlic - 3 cloves;
  • water - 60 ml;
  • dried basil;
  • chili pepper - 1 cm;
  • egg - 2 pcs.;
  • vegetable oil - 20 ml.

Cooking:

  1. Sift the flour. Pour on the table. Make a recess in the center. Drive eggs and pour water. Mix. The dough should not be sticky. Let it brew in the cold for half an hour.
  2. Peel the onion, chop finely.
  3. Finely chop the garlic.
  4. Put the onions in the pan. Fill with oil. Add garlic and chili. Fry.
  5. Wash the turkey, finely chop. Arrange to bow. Add spices.
  6. Fry until meat is cooked.
  7. Roll out the dough. It should be a thin layer.
  8. A glass cut circles.
  9. Put the filling in the center.
  10. Edges Blind. Connect the ends. Get a traditional kind of dumplings.
  11. Boil water, salt.
  12. Lower the dumplings. Cook for eight minutes.

Pan-fried steaks

Cooking a steak is quick and easy.The main thing is not to overtake the turkey in a pan so that the meat does not lose its juiciness. For steak, you need to take a thick loin.

Ingredients:

  • turkey tenderloin - 900 g;
  • sunflower oil - 3 tbsp. spoons;
  • butter - 3 tbsp. spoons;
  • salt;
  • thyme - 5 branches;
  • garlic - 3 cloves;
  • black pepper.

Cooking:

  1. Wash the meat, be sure to dry it. To do this, use a paper towel.
  2. Remove all transparencies.
  3. Cut the steaks two centimeters thick.
  4. Beat off each piece with a kitchen hammer.
  5. Mix pepper with salt. Coat the cake mix.
  6. Heat the pan. Pour in oil.
  7. Freely arrange pieces of meat. Fry for two minutes on each side.
  8. Fire switch to minimum. Fry for five minutes on each side.
  9. Squeeze the garlic in the garlic.
  10. Transfer butter, thyme and garlic into the pan. Fry the meat for another three minutes.
  11. Remove from pan, wrap in foil. Leave on for 10 minutes.

Cheese and Mushroom Recipe

 

A quick cooking option is good for meat lovers in French. Sliced ​​turkey with mushrooms and onions, covered with crispy cheese on top - ideal for dinner or lunch, which will appeal to all family members.

Ingredients:

  • champignons - 7 pcs.;
  • fillet turkey - 700 g;
  • seasoning from herbs;
  • cheese - 150 g;
  • salt;
  • pepper;
  • olives - 7 pcs.;
  • onion - 2 pcs.;
  • mayonnaise - 200 ml.

Cooking:

  1. Grease a baking dish with sunflower oil.
  2. Rinse the turkey, cut into small pieces.
  3. Transfer to prepared container.
  4. Sprinkle with salt, herbs and pepper.
  5. Peel the onion, chop finely.
  6. Sprinkle on the meat cake mix.
  7. Grate mushrooms on a coarse grater.
  8. Sprinkle mushrooms on the meat.
  9. Cut olives into small washers. Place on mushrooms.
  10. Distribute mayonnaise sauce on the surface of the meat.
  11. Grated cheese decorate the top layer.
  12. Put in the oven. Bake for half an hour.

Oven baked roll

Ingredients:

  • champignons - 100 g;
  • turkey - 900 g;
  • bacon - 70 g;
  • cream cheese - 200 g;
  • salt;
  • sunflower oil;
  • onion - 2 pcs.;
  • black pepper;
  • ground paprika;
  • thyme;
  • rosemary;
  • dried basil;
  • butter - 30 g.

Cooking:

  1. Wash the meat. To make it tender and juicy, remove the film, beat off with a kitchen hammer on each side.
  2. Sprinkle with spices and salt.
  3. Pour the surface of the pan with sunflower oil. Fry the bacon.
  4. Remove the bacon from the pan.
  5. Rinse mushrooms, cut into strips.
  6. Put in fat from bacon. Fry.
  7. Peel and chop the onion. Add to mushrooms, fry.
  8. Transfer to bacon. To salt. Mix.
  9. Grind cream cheese on the surface of the meat.
  10. Spread the fried stuffing evenly on top.
  11. Tightly roll into a roll, pull together with kitchen thread, tie.
  12. Sprinkle with spices. Grease with butter.
  13. Place on a baking sheet.
  14. Cook an hour and a half. The baking temperature is 200 degrees.

Cooking in a slow cooker

To save time, you can cook a complex dish in a slow cooker with turkey and vegetables. Products soaked in aroma and taste, create a chef's masterpiece. The turkey will turn out to be very juicy, fragrant and satisfying.

Ingredients:

  • turkey - 400 g;
  • tomato sauce - 3 tbsp. spoons;
  • onion - 3 pcs.;
  • young zucchini - 1 pc.;
  • potatoes - 7 pcs.;
  • vegetable oil - 100 ml .;
  • boiled water - 1 cup;
  • salt;
  • pepper.

Cooking:

  1. Wash the turkey, cut into slices.
  2. Grate with pepper and salt.
  3. Pour oil into the multicooker bowl. Turn on the “Baking” mode.
  4. Lay down the turkey.
  5. Cook for 20 minutes, stirring regularly.
  6. Peel the zucchini, cut into small pieces.
  7. Dice potatoes and onions.
  8. Place to meat.
  9. Pour tomato paste, water. To salt. Mix.
  10. Switch the timer for an hour. Cook in the same mode.

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