How to cook a turkey
- For broth or soup, prepare a pot of cold water, for boiled meat for hot or an appetizer - a hot pot. There should be enough water so that the pieces are completely immersed in water.
- Wash the pieces or fillets of the turkey, remove the remaining feathers from the skin if available.
- Put the pieces of turkey in a saucepan, wait for the water to boil.
- Add salt (for every kilogram of turkey 1 tablespoon of salt), peppercorns.
- Cook the turkey fillet for 30 minutes, the turkey on the bone for 40 minutes. For cooking in a double boiler time will increase by 10 minutes, for cooking in multicooker the cooking time is the same as in the saucepan.
- After the turkey is cooked, check the doneness: when pierced with a fork, the meat should easily separate from the bone.
How to cook a whole turkey
ProductsTurkey - 1 carcass
Carrots - 1 piece
Onions - 1 piece
Large sea salt - 1 teaspoon
Black pepper - 3 peas
How to cook a turkey
1. Thoroughly wash the poultry carcass.
2. Remove excess skin and fat from it.
3. Pour water into a large saucepan, put the saucepan on fire.
4. Peel, wash the onion, do not cut it.
5. Peel, wash carrots, chop coarsely.
6. Throw vegetables into boiling water, add sea salt and pepper.
7. Dip the turkey into the saucepan, making the heat to a minimum after boiling again.
8. Cook the turkey for three hours, remember to skim off the foam.
9. A fork or knife will help to check the readiness, the meat is done with a slight piercing.
10. Turn off the heat, let the turkey brew for 15 minutes with the lid closed.
11. Transfer the finished poultry to another dish.
12. Cut the turkey into portions after cooling.
Fusofacts
- For soup or jellied meat, cook pieces of turkey for 2 hours - then the broth turns out to be fatter and richer in taste. Fatty pieces with skin are suitable for cooking broth. To make the broth more aromatic, it is recommended to add peeled onions, carrots and celery stalks to the pan 1 hour before the end of cooking.- If the bird will be used in salad, then after you boil the turkey, you can lightly fry the pieces in vegetable oil.
- To make the meat softer, you can boil the turkey in milk.
- Turkey more useful any other meat, as it contains less fat and calories, but more vitamins, minerals and protein - especially when cooked.
- Turkey is one of the few foods that is practically does not cause allergies, including children. Boiled turkey is offered to children starting from the age of one (sometimes even earlier, if the child is already eating vegetable purees). To cook a turkey baby, it is enough to cook it for 1 hour, changing the water when the water boils, and after boiling it, grind it with a meat grinder. Mix the finished puree with chopped boiled vegetables.
- Calorie content boiled turkey - 195 kcal / 100 grams, broth - 51 kcal.
- The cost poultry fillet - 300-450 rubles / 1 kilogram (on average in Moscow for June 2020), the price of drumsticks on bones - 250 rubles, thighs - 300 rubles.