What do we associate turkey with? A big harmful bird that is passionately respected and prepared by Americans for any holidays.
During Soviet times, it was not possible to purchase turkey in a retail network. Only a proven grandmother in the village, but not everyone was able to find such a supplier. Therefore, it is rare in what family cooked dishes from this bird. At the same time, the opinion was formed that turkey meat is tough and has a specific smell and taste.
This is not true! Turkey is not much different from the usual for us chicken. The taste is tender, tasty, diet, hypoallergenic meat. Perfect for any gourmet - be it a one-year-old toddler, a girl on a diet, an elderly person or a physically working man.
Turkey is friendly with any spices and additives, vegetables and side dishes. If a piece of pork and turkey meat is next to each other in taste, only a sophisticated gourmet can distinguish them.
Turkey and Vegetables: General Cooking Principles
You can buy poultry in the meat departments of supermarkets, or in a proven farm or with your grandmother in the village. In the first case - you get already cut up meat - you want fillets, wings, thighs or legs. In the second case - at best, a carcass without feathers weighing 8-12 kg. For cutting poultry housewife need a strong man with a culinary hatchet.
For cooking turkey with vegetables, you will need:
• fillet or thigh of the bird;
• whole turkey - if the plans are a baked bird in the oven;
• any seasonal or frozen vegetables - garlic, zucchini, eggplant, pumpkin, celery root, onions and carrots;
• spices, spices to taste or according to the recipe;
• pan or stewpan with a thick bottom;
• stove or oven;
• knife;
• spoon;
• cutting board.
For some recipes with meat, you will need to remove the skin and cut it into portions. For others — for example, a turkey thigh tournado — the skin is not removed and the flesh is not cut. Vegetables should be peeled and rinsed under running water.
Turkey fillet with vegetables in tomato sauce. Italian motives
The bird prepared according to this recipe will be appropriate for both homemade dinner and a festive feast. The dish is bright, harmonious and non-nutritious. Vegetables come as a light side dish.
Ingredients:
• 500 g turkey fillet;
• 400 g of tomato juice or pureed fresh tomatoes;
• 2 tsp. mixtures of “Italian” or “Provencal herbs”;
• 1 large carrot;
• 1 large onion;
• 2 tbsp. l refined sunflower oil;
• 100 g fresh or frozen peas;
• 100 g of green beans;
• salt pepper;
• pan or stewpan with a thick bottom.
Method of preparation
1. Cut the turkey fillets into portions, salt and pepper, sprinkle with herbs Italian cuisine. If the finished mixture does not suit you, then use any fragrant spices - basil, tarragon, thyme, oregano, marjoram.
2. Leave the meat for half an hour to pickle.
3. Cut carrots into cubes, onions into 5x5 mm cube.
4. In a skillet or saucepan, heat 2 tbsp. l vegetable oil and fry the turkey fillet until golden brown.
5. Add onion, carrot to the skillet with meat and fry for 5 minutes.
6. Pour the turkey with tomato juice and leave to simmer on a small fire for 15 minutes after boiling. Do not forget to stir periodically.
7. Add the peas and asparagus beans and simmer another 5 minutes.
Serve a turkey with vegetables on the table either as a separate dish or with a side dish of mashed potatoes or pasta. Garnish with parsley leaves.
String beans can be replaced by ordinary boiled beans - get a new tasty and satisfying dish.
Turkey stew with vegetables. In tomato and cheese sauce
The cheese will give the dish a creamy piquant flavor. If you want to give the dish a unique, festive flavor, then use any hard cheese with a bright taste - Poshehonsky, Gruyere, Parmesan. Cheese with mold will add French flavor. Well, if you need a democratic option, then use your favorite processed cheese. As a base, use the previous recipe "braised turkey with vegetables in tomato sauce." 10 minutes before the end of the quenching add 200 g of hard or melted cheese. Stir until the cheese is completely dissolved. Stew for 5 minutes.
Served on slices of toasted bread, with any side dish and just with pleasure.
Turkey stew with vegetables and sour cream. Ukrainian classics
The sauce with sour cream gives the dish a delicate creamy taste, and mild sourness will add spice and soften the meat.
Ingredients:
• 500 g turkey fillet;
• 4 tbsp. l sour cream - fat content at your discretion;
• 1 large onion;
• 1 large carrot;
• 1 large bell pepper;
• 2-3 large tomatoes;
• 200 g of cauliflower;
• 200 g zucchini or zucchini;
• salt pepper;
• 2 tbsp. l refined vegetable oil;
• favorite herbs.
Preparation:
1. Meat cut into arbitrary pieces, salt and pepper, add spices.
2. Cut vegetables into cubes.
3. Blanch the cauliflower inflorescences for 1-2 minutes.
4. Tomatoes, it is desirable to remove the skin.
5. Fry the meat in a skillet.
6. Fry onions, carrots, peppers separately, add zucchini and blanched cauliflower.
7. Add chopped tomatoes and simmer vegetables for 5 minutes.
8. Put meat, vegetables in tomato sauce in a saucepan, add sour cream and simmer for 15 minutes.
Serve as a separate dish or with boiled potatoes.
Turkey turkey with vegetables. Cooking in pots
In essence, this recipe is identical to the previous one. The only difference is that the turkey with vegetables is popped in the oven pots. This not only saves time for the hostess - the oven itself does its job, but also gives the dish some solemnity, festivity and national flavor.
Ingredients and technology are identical to the previous recipe. Fried fillet, vegetables in tomato juice, sour cream are put in a pot. If there is not enough liquid, then add half a glass of water to each form.
The pots are sent to a cold oven. It is important not to heat the oven, as the pots for baking can burst without warming up evenly. Stew meat for 1 hour at 200 degrees. Serve hot - at least portions in the plates, even in the same pots. Rice, wheat or buckwheat porridge, boiled potatoes - any side dish would be appropriate. Here everything depends on the desire of the hostess.
Turkey turkey in french style. Turnado with mushrooms
Turnado is a roll with filling. Any meat is appropriate for this dish - duck breast, pork, beef. The femur of the turkey is ideal for this. Some manufacturers do not remove the femur. It's not scary - it is easily separated from the meat with a knife. The meat will go to the tournado, and the bone will make an excellent broth.
Ingredients:
• 1 turkey thigh weighing 800 g - 1 kg;
• 2 large onions - you can use shallots;
• 2 large carrots;
• 1 zucchini;
• 1 heavy eggplant;
• 200 g of champignons;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• salt, pepper, favorite herbs;
• refined vegetable oil.
Method of preparation
1. Expand the turkey thigh, remove the bone, do not remove the skin.
2. Salt meat, pepper.
3. Peel vegetables, mushrooms.
4. Fry the onion, garlic, add mushrooms. Salt, pepper, sprinkle your favorite herbs. Fry champignons until tender.
5. Put the thigh on the board skin down. On the inner surface of the piece spread out fried mushrooms with onions.
6. Shape the roll of the turkey thigh, sew up the skin with a thread and a cooking needle (you can use just a gypsy needle).
7. In a skillet, fry the roll on all sides until golden brown. Put aside on a plate.
8. In the remaining oil, fry coarsely chopped onions. If you use shallots, then you should not grind it - fry whole.
9. Add coarsely chopped carrots, zucchini, eggplant. Fry the vegetables.
10. Return the roll to the skillet with vegetables. Add 1 cup of water and simmer for 1 hour.
11. When serving, remove the thread.
Serve simply with steamed vegetables, but any side dish is suitable for this dish.
Turkey turkey in french style. Turnado with plums
Turkey willingly friends with vegetables and fruits. For the roll, you can use prunes, ordinary dried plums, fresh fruit. Plum gives the meat a specific acidity and smell. If smoked prunes are used, the characteristic smoked flavor will appear. Ingredients:
• turkey thigh weighing 800 g - 1 kg;
• 10 shallots (ordinary onions can be used);
• 3 large carrots;
• 10 prunes or 2 handfuls of dried plums, or 10 large plums;
• salt, pepper, favorite herbs;
1 glass of water;
• 2 tbsp. l purified vegetable oil.
Method of preparation
1. Remove the femur, salt, pulp, pepper, sprinkle your favorite herbs. Soak in this dry marinade for 30 minutes.
2. Peel the vegetables.
3. 1 whole carrot put on the flesh along the turkey thigh. After the tournado is ready - the carrots are removed. She completed her work.
4. Fold the meat roll, sew the skin of the bird.
5. Fry the meat in a skillet. Put aside on a plate.
6. Fry shallots whole, carrots - big bars.
7. Put a tournado on vegetables, add plums. Pour water and put out stew for 1 hour.
Serve with boiled rice, mashed pumpkin or potatoes, with boiled cauliflower.
Turkey turkey with vegetables. Goulash with pumpkin and potatoes
Variation of thick Hungarian second course soup with American and Italian notes.
Ingredients:
• turkey fillet;
• 5-6 potatoes;
• 500 pumpkins;
• 1 tsp. paprika - sweet red pepper;
• thyme, basil;
• black pepper, salt;
• 1 glass of broth;
• vegetable oil.
Method of preparation
1. Cut the meat into large cubes and fry in a skillet.
2. Pumpkin, potatoes cut into cubes. The size of the vegetables should fit the turkey pieces.
3. Add vegetables, spices and broth to the meat. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 1 hour.
The dish is self-sufficient, no additional side dish is required. When serving, sprinkle with your favorite herbs.
Turkey turkey with vegetables. Meat, broccoli, green peas with cream
The dish is bright, spring and non-nutritive. Suitable for girls who live on a diet, and tops, and with some additions to men.
Ingredients:
• 500 g turkey;
• 500 g broccoli;
• 500 grams of green peas;
• 1 large onion; • 1 cup of cream - regulate fat content at the discretion - 10-20%;
• salt, pepper, favorite herbs;
• vegetable oil.
Preparation:
1. Cut the meat into slices, fry and set aside on a separate plate. Salt, pepper, add herbs.
2. On the remaining oil, fry the finely chopped onion. Add the peas and broccoli and simmer for 5 minutes.
3. Return the meat to the skillet to the vegetables. Pour the cream and simmer on low heat for 10 minutes.
Serve with boiled rice, pasta, potatoes or just with pleasure.
Turkey turkey with vegetables. Chili with beans
Fast forward to Mexico. Chili is a hot and savory dish, although the amount of hot pepper can be adjusted to your own taste.
Ingredients:
• turkey fillet or thigh - 800 g - 1 kg;
• 700 g fresh or canned tomatoes;
• 1 sweet pepper;
• 2 bulbs;
• 5 cloves of garlic;
• 500 g of boiled or canned beans;
• zira, oregano, rosemary, hot red pepper - to taste;
• salt, black pepper;
• vegetable oil.
Method of preparation
1. Peel the vegetables and cut them into small cubes.
2. Cut the turkey meat into small pieces and fry.
3. Add onions, garlic, sweet and hot peppers. Cook for 15 minutes. Do not forget to stir.
4. Add grated tomatoes, remaining spices, 1 glass of water to the skillet and simmer for 1 hour.
5. Boil the beans, fold in a colander and send in a saucepan to the turkey with vegetables. Stew for 15 minutes.
Serve hot with corn bread or tortillas.
Turkey turkey with vegetables. Use the steam bath
For fans of healthy eating. With this method of processing products, all vitamins and minerals are retained. And what is important - not a single gram of fat!
Ingredients:
• 500 g turkey meat;
• 1 onion;
• 1 carrot;
• 300 g broccoli or cauliflower;
• salt, pepper, favorite spices;
• 2 pans of different sizes;
• steam bath water.
Method of preparation
1. Slice the meat, dice the onion and carrot. Potatoes - thin circles. Broccoli or cauliflower divided into inflorescences. 2. Grease a smaller pan.
3. Lay the ingredients in layers - potatoes, onions, carrots, broccoli. The last layer is turkey meat. Each layer pepper, salt, sprinkle with your favorite herbs.
4. Place the pot with the future dish in a container with a large volume. Pour into a large pot of water. It should reach the middle of a smaller capacity.
5. Put the design on fire for 2 hours. During cooking, periodically add water to an improvised double boiler.
Turkey with Vegetables - Tricks and Tips
Turkey is tasty, democratic and unusual. She is friendly with any vegetables, mushrooms, side dishes and sauces. And what is important for a modern woman - a turkey does not require a lot of time for cooking and some specific techniques for pre-processing.
Turkey dishes do not require special tricks or culinary skills. The main thing is to buy high-quality fresh meat, vegetables and other ingredients. Store ready meals in a cold place.