Turkey is a large bird, but despite this, it has tender, lean meat. The breast is especially appreciated. It is often used for baking or frying, as well as for cooking chops.
It is better to take chilled meat on chops, because frozen meat loses a lot of juice after thawing. But since the sale of meat often comes in frozen form, you need to learn how to defrost it.
Any meat can not be thawed in water, otherwise it loses a lot of nutrients and becomes less tasty. It is enough to put the fillet in a bowl, cover with foil and leave in the fridge for a few hours so that it thaws naturally.
The subtleties of cooking turkey chops
- The turkey chops are cooked in the pan and in the oven. To make the meat juicy, they use breading or batter, thanks to which the meat is covered with a dense crust that prevents the meat juice from flowing out.
- For the same purpose, it is kept for a few hours in cold milk or kefir before breading.
- Chops can be cooked from a single meat, or with tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, cheese. Tender turkey meat goes well with pineapples.
- Of the spices and spices, pepper, garlic, onion, parsley are commonly used, but aggressive spices should be discarded.
- The cooking time depends on the thickness of the pieces, the degree of heating and the characteristics of the stove (oven). In an oven, a turkey chop is usually cooked for 25 minutes, and in a pan for 13-15 minutes.
A turkey chop with cheese and tomatoes in a frying pan
Ingredients:
- turkey fillet - 600 g;
- tomatoes - 300 g;
- cheese - 120 g;
- eggs - 2 pcs .;
- salt;
- pepper;
- seasoning for chicken - 4 g;
- vegetable oil - 40 g.
Preparation Method
- Wash fillets, blot with paper towel. Cut into portions - steaks 1, 5 cm thick. Cover cutting board with foil, put meat, which also cover with foil. Use a kitchen hammer to repel it to make it twice as thin. Make sure that the whole chop turned out to be the same thickness. Lightly salt and pepper.
- Cut the tomatoes into thin circles. Cheese rub on a fine grater.
- Prepare the batter: break eggs into the bowl, put the spices. Mix thoroughly with a whisk until a homogeneous consistency.
- Pour the oil into the pan, heat it well. Move the bowl with batter to the pan. Dip each fillet into the egg mixture and immediately put it on the pan.
- Fry on fire a little above average for three minutes. When the bottom side is fried, pry the chop with a fork, turn it over to the other side.
- Put 2-3 slices of tomatoes on each chopstick, sprinkle with cheese. Cover the pan with a lid, reduce the heat, cook the chop for another 6 minutes.
- Serve immediately.
A turkey chop in breadcrumbs
Ingredients:
- turkey fillet - 600 g;
- salt;
- pepper;
- eggs - 2 pcs .;
- flour - 50 g;
- sugar - 3 g;
- seasoning for chicken - 4 g;
- vegetable oil - 50 g.
Preparation Method
- Prepared fillet cut across the fibers into slices 1-1, 5 cm thick. Place on a chopping board, cover with film. Lightly repel culinary hammer.
- In a bowl, mix salt, pepper, sugar, chicken seasoning. Spread the fillet mixture. Fill with cold milk, leave for an hour.
- Prepare the batter: whisk the eggs and salt with a whisk. Next, put a plate with flour.
- Blot the fillet with a paper towel. Dip the meat first in flour, then dip in the egg mixture.
- Immediately place on a griddle with hot oil. Fry on both sides until golden brown. When frying the second side, turn down the heat a little and close the pan with a lid.
Turkey steak in onion marinade in a pan
Ingredients:
- turkey fillet - 600 g;
- onions - 120 g;
- eggs - 2 pcs .;
- black pepper;
- salt;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- sesame - 0, 3 tbsp .;
- flour - 0, 5 st .;
- vegetable oil - 45 g.
Preparation Method
- Cut the prepared fillet into portions of 1, 5 cm thick. Place on a chopping board, cover with foil. Slightly repelled, giving the meat a rounded shape. Fillet thickness after beating should be no more than 0, 5 cm.
- Rub onions and garlic on a fine grater or chop in a blender. Put pepper, salt, mix.
- Smear the broken off meat with onion marinade, leave for 10 minutes, put in a pile.
- Pour the flour in one plate, mixing it with sesame. In another plate, beat the eggs with a fork, adding a little salt.
- Dip each chop first into the egg mixture, then roll in flour.
- Put it on a hot frying pan. On a fire above average, fry the chop first on one side (cook for 3 minutes), then turn it over, reduce the heat, close the lid. Bring meat to full readiness. This will take you another 6-7 minutes.
A turkey chop with cheese in a pan
Ingredients:
- turkey fillet - 600 g;
- eggs - 3 pcs .;
- cheese - 130 g;
- salt;
- vegetable oil - 40 g;
- black pepper;
- flour - 90 g.
Preparation Method
- Wash turkey fillets, blot with paper napkins, cut into 1, 5 cm thick slices.
- Place on a cutting board covered with film. Cover the slices also with a film so that the splashes do not fly apart in different directions when beating. Slightly beat off with a special hammer to make the fillet twice as thin. Sprinkle with spices, leave for 10 minutes.
- In the cup, beat the eggs, mix with the grated cheese. Salt it. Next put a plate of flour.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan. Each fillet, dip it first in the egg, then in the flour, then again moisten the egg-cheese mixture. Put on the pan.
- Fry for 3 minutes over high heat. Turn over to the other side, reduce heat. Cook for another 5-6 minutes, closing the pan with a lid.
Turkey Chops with Tomatoes and Bell Peppers in the Oven
Ingredients:
- turkey fillet - 700 g;
- tomatoes - 350 g;
- Bulgarian sweet pepper - 120 g;
- cheese - 160 g;
- onions - 70 g;
- salt;
- mayonnaise - 60 g;
- seasoning for fish - 4 g;
- vegetable oil - 30 g;
- Dill green - 2 sprigs.
Preparation Method
- Wash meat, dry, cut into steaks up to 1, 5 cm thick. Beat with a hammer, making them thinner. Salt and pepper. Leave for a few minutes, but for now, get some vegetables.
- Cut tomatoes into thin circles, cut onions into rings. Pepper seeds are removed, chop straws. Chop the dill.
- Mix mayonnaise and greens.
- Grease a baking sheet with butter, lay the meat in a single layer. Cover it with mayonnaise.
- Place onions, peppers, and tomatoes on each chop. Sprinkle with cheese. Sprinkle with oil.
- Bake the chops in an oven preheated to 200 ° C for about 25 minutes until an appetizing crust forms.
Turkey turkey chops in a spicy marinade in the oven
Ingredients:
- turkey fillet - 600 g;
- curry - 3 g;
- paprika - 4 g;
- black pepper;
- vegetable oil - 20 g;
- seasoning for chicken - 4 g;
- cheese - 120 g.
Preparation Method
- Cut the prepared turkey fillet into steaks, beat with a hammer.
- Mix butter and all spices in a cup. Coat the marinade meat. Leave for 15-20 minutes.
- Shape a foil cover. Place in a single layer of fillet. Sprinkle with grated cheese.
- Put in the oven, bake 25 minutes at 200 ° C. Serve ready chops immediately.
Mistress to note
The turkey meat is very tender, so do not beat him much. It is enough to make it thinner and even the thickness of the piece. If after beating the pieces turned out too large, cut them in half.
Do not fry chops in the pan longer than required by the recipe. From this they only get tougher.
If you replace a part of vegetable oil with creamy, meat will turn out more tasty.
Replace mayonnaise with low-fat sour cream, then the dish will be less calorie.
Meat taken to cut across the fibers. So it roasts faster and becomes more juicy. It is better to marinate sliced meat.
