Turkey meat is considered a dietary product. From it you can cook a variety of dishes, including burgers. These products are suitable for a family dinner or gala dinner - will depend on what you choose the recipe. Especially tasty and healthy are turkey cutlets in the oven. Cooking them is no more difficult than in a frying pan or steamed, but they come out ruddy, appetizing and juicy. It is not a shame to offer such a snack to the guests, the household will be all the more welcome to them.
Cooking Features
To make turkey cutlets really tasty, you need to know how to bake them in the oven correctly. Almost everything matters: the choice and preparation of products, the time and method of cooking.
- You can buy minced turkey meat at any supermarket, but it’s better to cook it from bird fillets yourself. In the purchased product may be skin, cartilage. You yourself will make minced meat from your shank or breast, which will give you confidence in its quality.
- From fresh and chilled meat, minced meat will be more juicy. When using frozen food, let it thaw in the refrigerator, not trying to speed up the process by immersion in warm water or heating in a microwave. A sharp temperature difference contributes to a change in the structure of the protein, because of which the properties of meat deteriorate, it becomes hard and dry.
- How much chop meat to make meatballs depends on your preferences. If you rotate it through a meat grinder, the patties will be more tender. Chopping meat manually will allow you to cook more juicy cutlets.
- To make cutlets keep their shape better, they beat the stuffing on a bowl or board. The excess liquid leaves it, it becomes denser. The viscosity of minced meat give eggs, flour, starch, oatmeal, semolina.
- It will be easier to make cutlets if you wet your hands in cold water and cool the stuffing itself a little.
- Before you put into the form and bake in the oven, turkey cutlets, you can fry them until golden brown in a pan. This will make them a little less healthy and more nutritious, but they will become much tastier and more appetizing.
- When baking turkey cutlets in the oven, it is advisable to use a sauce that will give the products juiciness.
It is recommended to serve turkey burgers with a side dish. Cooked in any way vegetables, pasta, rice, buckwheat.
Turkey cutlets with herbs
Composition:
- turkey pulp (thigh, leg) - 1 kg;
- long loaf - 100 g;
- milk - 125 ml;
- onions - 100 ml;
- green onions - 50 g;
- cilantro - 50 g;
- parsley - 50 g;
- dill - 50 g;
- butter - 50 g;
- chicken egg - 1 pc .;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Preparation Method:
- Wash and dry the turkey meat with a napkin. Cut into large chunks and roll through the meat grinder.
- In the same way, grind the peeled onions.
- Soak the loaf in the milk, squeeze it and turn it through the meat grinder.
- Combine minced meat with onions and bread, season and salted, stir.
- Break an egg into a bowl with minced meat, mix thoroughly.
- Wash, dry and finely chop the greens with a knife. Pour it into the stuffing. Knead it with hands, repel and put in the fridge for half an hour.
- Melt the butter until melted.
- Dipping your hands in cold water, make minced meat patties.
- Spread them with butter, put on a baking sheet or in a mold.
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and put a baking tray with chops in it.
- After 15 minutes, pour a little water or milk onto a baking tray with chops. Continue baking for another 15 minutes.
This recipe for turkey meatballs can be called traditional, but it has its own zest - greens, which give the products a fresh flavor and appetizing look.
Turkey cutlets in the oven with cream-cheese sauce
Composition:
- turkey breast fillet - 1 kg;
- onions - 0, 2 kg;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- stale loaf - 0, 3 kg;
- milk - 50 ml;
- processed cheese - 100 g;
- mayonnaise - 100 ml;
- sour cream - 100 ml;
- salt, pepper, fresh greens, paprika - to taste;
- vegetable oil - 80 ml.
Preparation Method:
- Dry the loaf in the oven, cut into slices. Break into pieces and chop the blender to a crumb.
- Wash the meat, blotted with napkins. Cut into small pieces and roll through the meat grinder.
- Peel the onions and garlic. Scroll through the meat grinder and add to the mince.
- Pour half of bread crumbs into mincemeat. The remaining crumbs will be useful for breading.
- Pour milk into the stuffing, add salt, chopped fresh greens, paprika and black pepper to taste. Stir, knead and beat on the bowl.
- In a separate bowl, beat the eggs.
- Form cutlets, dip them in eggs, breaded in bread crumbs and fry on both sides in heated vegetable oil. You need to fry on medium heat, but not for long. As soon as the cutlets on one side are reddened, they need to be turned over, fry for a couple of minutes on the other side and removed from the pan.
- Fry the patties in a baking dish.
- Frozen melted cheese lightly, finely grate. Add sour cream and mayonnaise to it, whisk.
- Fill the patties with the resulting sauce.
- Heat the oven to 200 degrees, put the cutlet form in it. Bake them for 25 minutes.
According to this recipe, turkey burgers are so tasty and appetizing that they can decorate even a festive table. The stage of roasting cutlets can be skipped, in this case, the form in which they will be baked, must be thickly oiled.
Turkey cutlets with vegetables
Composition:
- turkey leg - 1 kg;
- chicken egg - 1 pc .;
- toaster bread - 0, 25 kg;
- carrots - 100 g;
- onions - 100 g;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- hot peppers (optional) - 10 g;
- sweet pepper - 100 g;
- fresh parsley - 30 g;
- vegetable oil - 100 ml;
- salt, oregano, paprika - to taste.
Preparation Method:
- Wash and dry turkey drumstick. Remove the meat from the bone and scroll through the meat grinder.
- Pass three cloves of garlic through a press and add to the stuffing.
- Break and chop dried bread in a blender.
- Add to it the remaining garlic clove, hot pepper, parsley leaves, 50 ml of oil, mix with a blender.
- Put a thin layer of bread mass on a baking sheet. Put it in an oven heated to 180 degrees for 7-8 minutes.
- Remove the baking sheet, recycle the contents of it in a blender and put it to the mincemeat.
- Break an egg into a bowl of minced meat. Add seasonings and mix thoroughly.
- Peel and rub onions and carrots.
- Free the sweet pepper from the seeds, finely chop.
- Heat a spoonful of butter in a pan, put chopped vegetables in it and fry them for 5 minutes.
- Combine the vegetable mass with minced meat. Knead for half an hour in the refrigerator.
- Grease a baking sheet with butter.
- Form small cutlets, put them on a baking sheet.
- Lubricate the remaining butter patties.
- Put the patties in the oven and bake them at 200 degrees for 30 minutes.
Thanks to the inclusion of cutlets in the composition of vegetables, they turn out juicy and healthy. If the products are cut with a knife, they look appetizing: you can see bright inclusions of pepper, greens, carrots.
Turkey cutlets in the oven are fragrant, juicy, tasty. Such a dish can be served not only for a family dinner, but also for a festive table.
