Traditional for the American Christmas table, baked turkey is still gaining popularity in our country. And not every landlady knows how to prepare it properly. And you need to start by choosing a bird. Better fit fresh. Frozen need to be warmed up in advance, in a natural way, and this can take more than a day. So be patient, believe in yourself and strictly follow the directions in the recipes. All at you to turn out!
The recipe for cooking turkey in the oven entirely
Ingredients:
- turkey - 3 kg;
- olive oil - 1/2 cup;
- rosemary - 3 branches;
- salt - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- black pepper powder - 1 teaspoon.
Preparation
The carcass is well washed, after we remove the remnants of water with a paper towel. Cut off the neck and the extreme phalanx of both wings - if not, they will begin to burn when the turkey is still half-baked and the whole carcass smells of burning. From a mixture of oil, rosemary, salt and pepper, we prepare marinade, which everywhere (both outside and inside) is coated with a bird. We send the turkey for several hours in the refrigerator. Ready meat is not only tender, but also fragrant.
Baked in the oven for this recipe, the turkey is good and without a filling, but you can stuff it with vegetables, mushrooms, cooked half buckwheat or rice, apples and even grapes. It depends on your preferences. But do not overdo it - you can not stuff a carcass too tightly.
We wrap the turkey with foil and put it on the oiled baking sheet with the backside down. We send the baked in the oven at a temperature of 200 degrees. On the question of how to prepare a turkey in the oven, we answered. But how much to cook a turkey in the oven? Total time is determined from the calculation of 45 minutes per kilogram of meat. Thus, our 3 kg poultry will bake for about 2 and a half hours.
Approximately 30 minutes before the foil is ready to open, so that the turkey browned. And that the meat turned out juicier, it is periodically watered with a stuck fat from the baking tray. The temperature can be increased to 220 degrees.
On a garnish to a turkey it is good to bake in an oven a potato. Tubers (you can not clean, especially young, just a good wash) cut into 4 parts, salt and put in a buttered form. It's very tasty to get from top to top with sour cream, mixed with green onions. We send potatoes into the oven - until ready.
Turkey with prunes in the oven
Ingredients:
- turkey (whole) - 2 kg;
- prunes (without pits) - 1 glass;
- butter - 200 g;
- salt - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- black pepper powder - 1 teaspoon.
Preparation
Prunes are soaked in hot water for about 20 minutes. It should become soft, but not soften. Then drain the water, spread the dried fruits on a towel.
We wash the turkey with water and we soak it with a paper towel. With a sharp knife, we make deep incisions in the flesh of the bird according to the number of prunes. Fill the cut with a piece of frozen butter. We also put prunes, which were previously dipped in a mixture of salt and pepper. Evenly we will pour all the carcass of a turkey.
We put the bird in the sleeve for baking, we tie it on both sides with coarse threads. We make several punctures in the sleeve with the needle. We put the turkey on a baking tray and send it for an hour and a half to the oven, heated to 200 degrees.
After cutting the top of the sleeve - crosswise. Caution! Inside, hot steam - you can get burned. We unfold the turkey, pour the juice from the baking tray on top and send the bird back to the oven - brown. The total cooking time of the turkey in the oven will take about 2 hours
.Turkey with mushrooms in the oven
And yet, to cook the whole turkey in the oven is very troublesome and long. It is much easier to bake this large bird in parts.
Ingredients:
- turkey fillet - 800 g;
- Fresh mushrooms - 500 g;
- onion - 1 piece;
- baked oil - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- cream - 1 st .;
- paprika (ground) - 1/2 tsp;
- lemon juice - 1 st. a spoon
- salt, black pepper - to taste.
Preparation
We cut the meat as chops - across the fibers, salt, pepper. Fry from two sides on melted butter. We put it in a glass heat resistant form.
We cut the onion - half rings, and mushrooms, if large. Fry it with melted butter and spread it over the turkey. Fill with cream, cover with foil and send for half an hour in the oven, heated to 200 degrees. Before serving, season with paprika and lemon juice.
For the same recipe, you can bake a turkey with vegetables and potatoes in the oven.