Recently, the hostess began to make nutritious dishes easier and healthier, using dietary products as the main ingredient. For example, a turkey in a slow cooker turns out to be very tender, and the finished dish is fragrant and very tasty.

Pilaf with turkey in a slow cooker

In recent times, pilaf is cooked not only from lamb, but from pork or beef. And today it has become popular to cook it from diet turkey meat, which gives the finished dish a slightly different taste and aroma. You can cook turkey pilaf in the traditional way - in a cauldron, or use the slow cooker, in which the dish is cooked in one go.

Ingredients:

  • 600 g of turkey;
  • two cups of rice grains;
  • two carrots and onions;
  • four garlic cloves;
  • salt, seasonings for pilaf;
  • cooking oil.

Cooking method:

  1. On the kitchen appliance, set the “Frying” mode, pour a little oil into its bowl and fry the turkey slices on it until golden.
  2. Cut the carrots into small pieces, chop the onion finely. We send the vegetables to the meat, pour some water and change the "Frying" mode to "Stew".
  3. After 10 minutes, add all the spices along with the cloves of garlic, pour the rice and pour the water in a ratio of 1: 2. We change the mode again, now to Pilaf, and wait for the dishes to be ready.

Baked Bird Fillet

If you think that in a slow cooker you can only cook stewed dishes, then you don’t know your kitchen appliance. So the “Baking” mode allows you to bake tasty and flavorful meat. For example, turkey fillet in a slow cooker with sweet and sour sauce.

Ingredients:

  • 550 g turkey fillet;
  • 120 ml of soy sauce;
  • 60 g of sugar;
  • salt, oil, green onions.

Cooking method:

  1. Pour oil into the bowl of the device and fry pieces of poultry in it until browning, turning on the “Baking” mode.
  2. Then pour the sauce of soy seasoning, sugar, chopped onions and water (enough half a cup). We cook the dish for 30 minutes.

How to stew deliciously with vegetables

For cooking turkey stews in a slow cooker, any parts of the bird carcass are suitable. If you want to cook a meal fatter, then the skin with feathers can not be removed, since it contains the bulk of the fat.

From meat and vegetables you can cook a delicious stew. The meat in it is soaked in vegetable juice and it turns out a very soft and aromatic stewed turkey.

Ingredients:

  • 600 g of bird fillet;
  • two eggplants and sweet peppers;
  • five tomatoes;
  • zucchini;
  • onion and carrot;
  • 250 g of cabbage;
  • salt.

Cooking method:

  1. Pieces of turkey put in the bowl of the device.
  2. Shred the cabbage, cut the carrots into strips. Peel the tomatoes and grind the flesh. The remaining vegetables are cut into cubes.
  3. We send prepared products to meat, add salt and other seasonings to your taste. Stir, set the "Extinguishing" mode and prepare the dish for 1.5 hours.

Steamed turkey cutlets

To make steamed turkey cutlets not only useful, but also tender, beautiful, fragrant, mince the meat through a meat grinder twice.

 

Then add zucchini, pumpkin or bread soaked in milk for juiciness. For brightness, enter greens or carrots, and for flavor, spicy herbs (thyme, oregano or basil).

Ingredients:

  • 550 g turkey fillet;
  • bulb;
  • five tablespoons of oatmeal;
  • three cloves of garlic;
  • salt, spices.

Cooking method:

  1. We twist the meat in a meat grinder along with garlic and onions.
  2. Grind oatmeal with a coffee grinder and mix with minced meat.
  3. Add salt, spices. We form cutlets from minced meat and put them in a special sieve.
  4. We pour water into the bowl, put a sieve with the contents on top and in the “Steaming” mode we cook the patties for about an hour.

Fried potatoes

Roast turkey can be prepared not only in a casserole or in the oven, but also in a slow cooker. To make the dish really tasty, use fresh meat and pre-marinate it in any sauce or in herbs.

Ingredients:

  • 800 g of turkey;
  • six potato tubers;
  • two onions and carrots;
  • five cloves of garlic;
  • frying oil.

Cooking method:

  1. We turn on the “Baking” mode on the device and for 15 minutes we fry the pieces of meat along with chopped onions and carrots.
  2. Then we send potato cubes and chopped garlic cloves to them. Pour 300 ml of water, go to the "Extinguishing" mode and set the timer for 50 minutes.

Cooking delicious basics

Azu is a dish of Tatar cuisine, which is prepared with an advantage of lamb. But today we are talking about a healthy diet, so we will replace fatty mutton with diet turkey, and we will prepare the dish in a slow cooker with tomato and vegetable sauce. It turns out very tasty.

Cooking method:

  • 650 g of turkey;
  • onions and carrots;
  • pickle;
  • two canned tomatoes;
  • salt, pepper, frying oil.

Cooking method:

  1. In the "Frying" mode, first of all we fry the pieces of meat until golden brown.
  2. Then pour the chopped onions and carrots to it, which we fry for five minutes.
  3. Grind tomatoes without skin on a coarse grater, and cut the pickles in small cubes. We send vegetables to the rest of the ingredients. It remains to add spices, pour a glass of water and choose the “Stew” program for 1 hour.

After the beep, do not rush to get the dish, but leave the basics in the "Heating" mode for 10 minutes.

Turkey goulash in a slow cooker

Turkey goulash is just as tasty and satisfying as any other meat. For the sauce, you can take tomato paste or ketchup, as well as sour cream with any percentage of fat content.

Ingredients:

  • 450 g of poultry meat;
  • carrots and onions;
  • two to three tablespoons of flour;
  • 50 ml sour cream;
  • two tablespoons of ketchup;
  • spices, seasonings;
  • cooking oil.

Cooking method:

  1. We cut the meat with cubes and fry for 20 minutes in the "Frying" ("Baking") mode.
  2. Pour the onion and grated carrots to the golden turkey. Cooking products in the same mode for another 10 minutes.
  3. Now sprinkle the ingredients with flour and pour the sauce from ketchup, sour cream and a glass of water. For piquancy, you can take in equal proportions a bit of sweet and sharp ketchup.
  4. We put bay leaf and other spices of your choice. Salt to taste, set the "Stew" option for 35 minutes.

By the way, there is a recipe for an unusual pilaf from turkey, which your children will definitely enjoy. Take a glass of boiled rice, 300 g of fried pieces of meat, as well as a glass of canned apricots and pineapples. Combine the ingredients, add a little butter, pepper, salt and a pinch of curry.

Here it is, a diverse and unique turkey, cooked in a slow cooker. Her meat is healthy and has a neutral taste, due to which it goes well with a variety of spices and vegetables. And this means that such meat provides truly vast expanses for culinary experiments.

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