Turkey baked in the oven with potatoes

Turkey meat is considered dietary, while it is tasty. Baked turkey can be served with rice, buckwheat, fresh vegetables, baked potatoes. Especially delicious potatoes work if you cook it with poultry meat. Turkey baked in the oven with potatoes is a complete dish that is easy to prepare, even if you do not have experience creating culinary masterpieces. At the same time the dish will turn out appetizing and festive, whatever the recipe the hostess chose.

Cooking Features

Tricks in cooking a little turkey, but still they are. Knowing a few important points will insure against failure.

Turkey or whole parts of turkey can be used for cooking in the oven with potatoes - this depends on the recipe. But in any case, preference is better to give fresh meat. After all, the turkey is not too fat, and when baking can be dry. This happens more often with frozen meat. Although experienced chefs argue that the point is not that it was frozen, but that it was incorrectly thawed. They argue that if the meat is thawed on the top shelf of the refrigerator, it will remain no less juicy than fresh.
When baking a turkey, it is very important not to overdo it in the oven. You can calculate the cooking time of the whole carcass yourself, knowing that for every kilogram of meat you need 40 minutes. Sometimes this time may be a little short, as evidenced by the pink color of the liquid flowing from the carcass if pierced. Then bake should be another half an hour - this will definitely be enough. In other cases, you can navigate to the time specified in a particular recipe.
Roasting in foil and sleeve helps keep the meat juicy, as they prevent juice from flowing out. But even in these cases, and even more so when baking directly on the form or on a baking sheet, it is advisable to use butter or sour cream.
When baking a turkey in a foil or sleeve, potatoes should be laid next to it or even under it - it will taste better and more aromatic, since it will be soaked with juice and fat.

There are a lot of recipes for cooking turkey baked in the oven with potatoes, and in each case the technology of cooking a dish can be individual, but you still need to know the general rules.

Turkey Baked with Whole Potatoes

Composition:

turkey - 4 kg;
potatoes - 1, 5 kg;
fresh mushrooms (mushrooms will do) - 0, 3 kg;
sour cream - 100 g;
onions - 100 g;
vegetable oil - 50 ml;
nutmeg, coriander, curry - 2-3 g;
thyme - 10 g;
salt - to taste.

Method of preparation:

Boil the potatoes until half cooked, peel.
Wash the turkey breast, blot it with a towel, rub it with a mixture of herbs and salt from the inside and outside.
Cut the mushrooms into thin slices.
Peel the onions, cut into half rings.
In hot oil, fry the onions, after 5 minutes, add mushrooms to it, fry until excess moisture comes out, then add sour cream and simmer for 5 minutes.
Cut a couple of potatoes into round slices.
Stuff the turkey with potato slices and mushroom filling, laying them out in layers.
Place the carcass on a baking sheet, cover with foil and put in the oven.
Bake at 180 degrees for 2 hours, then remove the foil, spread out the remaining potatoes around the turkey, and cut it into large pieces. Bake another hour, already without foil.

Turkey baked in this recipe is perfect for the festive table.

Turkey fillet baked with potatoes and cheese

Composition:

turkey fillet - 0.5 kg;
potatoes - 0.5 kg;
bulb onion - 100 g;
tomato paste -50 g;
mayonnaise - 100 ml;
hard cheese - 0.5 kg;
vegetable oil - 20 ml;
salt, pepper - to taste.

Method of preparation:

Peel the potatoes and cut them into thin, round slices.
Peel the onion, cut into half rings.
Cheese rub.
Mayonnaise mix thoroughly with tomato paste.
Wash turkey fillets, beat off well with a culinary hammer, salt and pepper.
In a baking dish, make a foil smeared with vegetable oil.
Place a potato mug on the bottom.
Put the turkey fillet on the potatoes.
Sprinkle with onion, brush with a small amount of mayonnaise sauce and tomato paste.
Sprinkle with grated cheese, smear cheese with remaining sauce.
Place the form in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. Cook 50 minutes.

The dish looks very appetizing, the taste will not disappoint him either.

Turkey drumstick baked with potatoes

Composition:

turkey leg - 0, 8 kg;
potatoes - 0.5 kg;
carrots - 100 g;
Bulgarian pepper - 0, 2 kg;
soy sauce - 60 ml;
onions - 0, 2 kg;
garlic - 5 cloves;
mineral water with gas - 150 ml;
olive oil - 60 ml;
bay leaf - 2 pcs .;
Italian herbs - 10 g.

Method of preparation:

Wash the turkey drumstick and dry it with paper napkins.
Cut two cloves of garlic lengthwise (cut each clove into 3 pieces).
Make a few small cuts in the skin on the turkey leg and put garlic pieces into them.
Pass the remaining three garlic cloves through the press.
Mix garlic with olive oil and Italian herbs, add soy sauce and mineral water, mix well.
Tie a baking sleeve on one side. Put a turkey in it. Pour it with marinade. Put in a fridge for a couple of hours so that the meat is pickled. After an hour, turn the sleeve over to distribute the marinade evenly.
Take a fresh baking sleeve, tie it on one side.
Peel the seeds, cut into half rings.
Cut peeled onions in the same way.
Peel and wash the carrots, cut them into round plates.
Cut the potatoes into round slices, having washed and peeled them beforehand.
Put potatoes in a clean baking sleeve, carrots on it, carrots on it, onions and peppers on it.
Put the pickled shank on vegetables.
Tie the sleeve on the other side, put it on a baking sheet or in a baking dish. In the sleeve, make several small holes with a toothpick.
Bake for an hour and a half, then cut the sleeve and continue baking for another half an hour.

The dish has a rich taste and aroma due to the successful combination of herbs used for marinade, meat and vegetables. Turkey meat in this recipe comes out soft and juicy.

Turkey baked in the oven with potatoes is a healthy and at the same time tasty dish. In addition, it looks so appetizing that it can be served to the festive table.

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