If you even in difficulty what to prepare for Christmas, pay attention to a turkey. This dish is traditional in America, but surely masters holiday tables and at us. It is possible to prepare a turkey in an oven for Christmas differently, you can choose the recipe and please guests and relatives with fragrant meat.
Recipe of a Christmas turkey
It is required to you:
- 1 carcass of a turkey (3-4 kg);
- garlic head;
- 1 orange;
- 2 sour apples;
- 30 g of a desi;
- mustard to taste;
- paprika to taste;
- black sprinkling pepper to taste;
- salt to taste;
- leaves rosemary and sage;
- vegetable oil and chicken fat.
For Christmas we begin to cook a dish with the choice of a turkey. It is better to get a fresh poultry if the carcass frozen, since evening of previous day leave it in the cool room.
It is impossible to defreeze a turkey, as well as other bird, in the microwave, under hot water and near the battery. At best meat will lose taste, in the worst – will be spoiled.
We stuff a turkey
At once include an oven that she managed to get warm up to 220 wasps until you stuff a Christmas turkey. Wash completely thawed bird with cold water and surely wipe from excess moisture. Rub with mix of salt and pepper including the dry crushed paprika. Now do cuts a knife, insert into them on a garlic glove half. To prepare a turkey for Christmas is more juicy, put in cuts and a little desi or chicken fat.
Oil a surface of all carcass mustard and olive. Inside put several leaflets of a sage and rosemary for aroma and also stuff a turkey with quarters of fruit.
We bake a turkey by Christmas
Inwrap the prepared stuffed bird in the foil which is in advance missed the mark with a desi. Put a turkey a breast down on a baking tray and send to an oven approximately for 40 minutes. It at you already has to get warm up to 220 wasps. Then reduce temperature to 170 wasps and bake a turkey 3 more hours.
Then get a bird, remove a foil, pour out all juice from above on a carcass and again bake, 30-40 minutes this time. Check readiness - puncture meat if pink juice appears, cover a carcass with a new foil and take in an oven even minutes 30-40. If juice without blood, the baked turkey entirely is ready for Christmas. Shift it to a beautiful dish, it is possible to decorate with greens and boiled potatoes.
The turkey baked in a sleeve
Roasting in a sleeve is much more preferable, than usual frying and roasting of meat. First, it is useful, secondly, not so dry dishes. Therefore we will consider the recipe of a dish for Christmas – a turkey in a sleeve.
The shin of a turkey baked in a sleeve
Ingredients:
- 2 shins of a turkey;
- 500 g of potatoes;
- 1 sour apple;
- 2 garlic gloves;
- spices for roasting of a bird to taste
- vegetable oil.
Defreeze shins of a turkey, wash out and rub off napkins. Oil vegetable and well rub with mix of salt, pepper and davlenny garlic and also the spices selected according to taste. Place shins of a turkey for roasting in a package. There put pieces of the peeled potatoes and thin slices of apple. We put in an oven and we bake a turkey in a sleeve about 1.5 hours, temperature at the same time has to be 200 degrees.
Fillet of a turkey in a sleeve
Ingredients:
- 500-600 g of fillet of a turkey;
- 3 zubk of garlic;
- 2 tsps of the Caucasian adjika;
- other spices to taste.
The dish for Christmas can be prepared from fillet of a turkey, baked in a sleeve. Wash out it in cold water and get wet with napkins. Do in meat of a cut and insert into them garlic pieces. Then grate fillet of a turkey I will merge, a black sprinkling pepper and adjika, it is possible to strew with favourite spices. Place the prepared fowl in a package for roasting and send to an oven. Prepare 1 hour at a temperature of 180 wasps.
The breast of a turkey baked in a sleeve
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of a breast of a turkey;
- 1 cube of chicken broth;
- 300 ml of water;
- 3 tablespoons of olive oil;
- 1 bulb;
- 1 tablespoon of dry greens;
- fresh greens;
- pinch of the granulated garlic.
For sauce:
- chicken broth;
- 1 tablespoons of balsam vinegar;
- powder for solidification of sauce.
Wash up a breast of a turkey and wipe from water. Prepare such mix – a poshinkuyta small a bulb, pour in olive oil, salt also spices to taste, put garlic, pepper, dry greens. Mix and rub breasts, later place in a roasting sleeve and add broth from a cube (previously part it in hot boiled water). Tie, make from above a small opening for a steam-out. Send a turkey in a package to an oven and bake 50 minutes at 180 degrees. Take out ready breasts from a sleeve, put on a dish and sauce from broth, vinegar and powder for solidification. Strew with fresh greens.
The baked hip of a turkey in a sleeve
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of hips of a turkey.
For marinade:
- 3 tablespoons of a soy-bean sauce;
- 1 tablespoons of balsam vinegar;
- piece of a fresh root of ginger;
- half of a pod of hot pepper;
- 3 zubk of garlic;
- 1 red paprika;
Wash out hips of a turkey and dry. Crush the blender a ginger root, sweet and hot pepper, onions, garlic. Add a soy-bean sauce and balsam vinegar. Fill in meat of a turkey with marinade at several o'clock. Include an oven, warm up to 200 degrees. Put marinated turkey in a roasting sleeve, fasten edges with special clip-on earrings or tie, put on a baking tray, from above cut through a small opening for a steam-out. Prepare 1 hour.
Councils to recipes for preparation of a turkey for Christmas
- Choose a carcass of a turkey, but not turkey-cock, at the last meat is more rigid
- Pay attention to the size if you prepare a turkey. entirely. The big carcass is long baked thoroughly and can burn, and inside remain crude.
- For a farshirovka use a different stuffing, for example, tasty it turns out to prepare a turkey with prunes and rice.