The turkey is an excellent dietary meat, from which various delicious dishes are obtained. On the occasion of the holiday, the turkey is sometimes baked entirely in the oven. Baking is a healthy way of cooking, in addition, the dish looks great on the festive table.
Tell you about how delicious to cook a whole turkey in the oven.
When choosing a turkey, you should nevertheless correlate the sizes of the carcass and the working chamber of the particular oven in which you plan to cook. Of course, the bigger the bird, the longer the baking process will be.
Of course, it is better to buy a live bird or chilled processed carcass.
Bake turkey can be with different fillings or without them. When baking in the open, you have to water the turkey with sauce, so that the meat turns juicy, because the process is long enough. If you cook in foil or in a sleeve, watering the carcass with sauce, of course, is not necessary.
The recipe for the whole turkey baked in the oven
Ingredients:
- turkey - 1 carcass weighing about 2-3 kg;
- butter, natural - 50 g;
- olive oil - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- lemon juice - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- cognac or fruit brandy - 30 ml;
- ground spices (coriander, cloves, nutmeg, peppers of different kinds);
- salt is large;
- garlic.
Preparation
We will clean the gutted turkey carcass, if necessary, scorch it on an open fire, wipe off the napkin.
Using a knife with a sharp, thin tip, we'll stuff turkey with pieces of garlic. Slightly rub the carcass with salt from the inside and, of course, outside.
In the melted butter (on a water bath), add the spices, lemon juice and olive oil. With the help of a brush, we cover the turkey abundantly. We use not the whole sauce, we'll put cognac in its remainder (we will water the carcass during the baking process).
How to cook a whole turkey in the oven?
We put the carcass into an open form and put it in the oven, the best temperature is 200 degrees. In the baking process, we water the carcass with sauce twice. After an hour and a half turn the carcass. Bake until ready for another hour and a half. Turn off the oven and let the turkey walk for 20 minutes, so the meat will turn out to be particularly delicate.
To a ready turkey it is good to serve dishes from potatoes or corn flour (hominy, tortilla ), dishes from a pumpkin, fresh tomatoes, corn whiskey (bourbon) or fruit brandy, table wine (better pink).