Ten Secrets Of Cooking a Juicy Turkey from Slavic Wives
11/21/2017
While the US is preparing to celebrate Thanksgiving, Slavic Women famous for their cooking skills are ready to provide you with useful tips on how to prepare a juicy turkey. Use these 10 tips so that your turkey always turns out incomparable!

1. Do not buy frozen turkey. The meat of fresh chilled poultry after cooking will be much more tender and juicy.

2. Prepare the turkey at a temperature of not less than 180 degrees. Only this way some of the fatty juices will stay in her skin which will not allow the bird to dry up during cooking.

3. For a turkey weighing from 4 to 6 kilograms, the optimal cooking time is 2.5 hours. After you pull it out of the oven, give it another 20-40 minutes to "rest", redistribute the juices and only then cut.

4. After pickling the juicy turkey, rinse it. Otherwise, the particles of salt, sugar, and herbs left on the skin, when baked, will burn and spoil the dish.

5. Not to burn the ends of the legs and wings, wrap them with foil before baking.

6. Make cuts on the skin of the turkey and force it with butter, duck fat, etc., only if you are sure that it will decorate your dish and give the flavour the desired shade.

7. It is not necessary to fill the turkey in advance, not to provoke the reproduction of bacteria and not to get poisoned. The pre-cooked stuffing should be stored in a separate container and filled with juicy turkey just before baking.

8. Cut off the white meat from a cooked bird in the last place, otherwise, the meat will dry quickly. Start to cut the bird from the legs.

9. A sauce prepared from finely chopped pieces of carrots, turnips and other winter vegetables baked under a turkey and soaked in juices is ideal for juicy turkey. Grind these vegetables in a blender. If desired, you can pour a couple of tablespoons of truffle oil, which will add luxury to your dish. Do not add flour to turkey sauce.

10. Be sure to try the sauce before serving it. Suddenly, its taste will require a little correcting
Bon Appetit!


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