What delicious dish can be prepared from the meat of this amazing bird, which, according to legend, Christopher Columbus once called a peacock (tuka)? Fine food is obtained from any part of this excellent dietary product. However, the turkey thigh in the oven will be an ideal option for a hearty dinner or a festive feast.

Oven baked turkey thigh fillet

The preparation of the presented dish does not require complicated culinary manipulations, especially if we bake turkey thigh fillet in foil.

Ingredients Composition:

  • vegetable oil - up to 50 ml;
  • balsamic vinegar / soy sauce - 10 ml;
  • cloves of garlic - 5 pcs.;
  • tomato;
  • cheese (any hard variety) - 100 g;
  • paprika, rosemary, salt, pepper - use by preference;
  • turkey thigh fillet - 3 pcs.

To obtain delicious turkey meat by the presented method, fillet from another part of the bird (breast) is also suitable, so take a recipe!

Cooking method:

  1. So, we clean the meat from single feathers, thoroughly wash the product, and also get it wet well with paper napkins.
  2. We mix in the bowl the remaining components designed to produce the marinade. Garlic cloves pass through a press. When replacing vinegar with Chinese sauce, we reduce the amount of salt, since it is quite in soybean composition.
  3. We rub the turkey with an aromatic mixture, put each piece in a double layer of foil. Raise the ends of the paper up and collapse, like a candy wrapper. We keep the product in the refrigerator for up to 12 hours (you can reduce the pickling time to 3 hours).
  4. Next, put the packed meat on a baking sheet, bake for 45 minutes in the oven at t 220 ° C. The temperature can be reduced if we prefer to cook the meat product by the method of languishing. In this case, increase the time spent in the oven.
  5. After half an hour, open the paper, place on each serving two slices of chopped tomato, sprinkle with cheese chips.

We finish the preparation when each part of the fillet is covered with an appetizingly melted crispy crust.

How to bake thighs in a sleeve

A turkey is a large bird, so you can get enough of it with one thigh prepared in a baking sleeve. All meat juices will be preserved in such packaging, and the dish will have a magnificent appearance.

Grocery list:

  • olive oil (20 ml) and cream (50 g);
  • lemon;
  • a bunch of asparagus;
  • turkey hips - 3 pcs.;
  • salt, spices.

Order of preparation:

  1. We spread the pre-softened butter in a spacious bowl, attach the desired amount of salt, paprika and other spices to it. We grind allspice, mix the composition with a whisk, then squeeze the juice from half of the lemon into it. Mix everything well.
  2. We process and wash the hips of a turkey, get wet with napkins. The resulting oil sauce is placed under the skin of the bird, pushing the mixture with your fingers as far as possible throughout the phalanx. Sprinkle the meat with salt and pepper on top. In this way, we arrange the remaining legs.
  3. We place the hips in the baking sleeve, pour out the remnants of the fragrant marinade, fix the open ends of the packaging. Do not forget to make a few punctures on the top of the film so that it does not tear apart from the steam formed during the preparation process.
  4. We send the baking sheet with the workpiece for 45 minutes to the oven (220 ° C). At the end of baking, cut the sleeve, dry the meat until golden brown.

We prepare a spicy side dish for turkey thighs, for which we fry chopped and peeled asparagus in oil, pouring it with juice from half a lemon and sprinkling with grated zest.

Hearty Potato Dish

It is difficult to say what will turn out to be more appetizing if you cook a thigh of turkey with friable root vegetables — meat or potatoes — deliciously?

A set of components:

  • lean oil;
  • soy sauce - to taste;
  • cloves of garlic - 3 pcs.;
  • turkey thigh - from 1 kg;
  • mustard - 20 g;
  • cumin, paprika, ginger, salt, pepper;
  • potato tubers - 10 pcs.;
  • breadcrumbs - 30 g.

Cooking process:

  1. We place the processed turkey drumstick in a bowl with drinking water, in which 50 g of cooking salt are dissolved in advance. We leave the product for half an hour in this condition.
  2. At this time, we clean the root crops, rinse, dry with towels, cut into not very large slices. Flavor the slices with vegetable oil, season with breadcrumbs, spices, herbs. We mix everything well, put the product in a refractory form and put in the oven (200 ° C) for 40 minutes.
  3. We fill the syringe with soy sauce, chop the turkey in several places, rub it with salt and mustard, spices and spices. We pack the drumstick in foil, do not forget to add the cloves of garlic for flavor.

Bake meat for about an hour. At the end of the process, open the paper and fry the thigh until golden. We serve a hearty dish with golden slices of baked potatoes.

Turkey thigh roll with spinach and nuts

And now we are preparing a festive dish of turkey thigh fillet with a fragrant and very pleasant filling.

The list of components:

  • sunflower oil - up to 40 g;
  • sweet pepper - ½ fruit;
  • walnuts - 120 g;
  • mustard seeds - 20 g;
  • turkey fillet - 600 g;
  • salt, olive herbs, rosemary.

Step-by-step preparation:

  1. We lay out the poultry meat on the board, cut the product so that a rectangular layer is obtained.
  2. Lightly beat off the product with a culinary hammer. On top we place washed and dried spinach, as well as nuts chopped by a blender.
  3. Cut the pepper fruit into strips (remove the seeds) and spread from one meat edge.
  4. We combine salt, spices and spices in the bowl, fill the composition with oil and mix everything thoroughly.
  5. We turn the meat sheet with the filling in the form of a roll, tie it with twine and place it in the baking dish, overlying the sides of the product with rosemary.
  6. Once again we process the turkey with mustard, cover the dishes with foil and send for an hour to the oven, heated to t 220 ° C.
  7. Brown the roll in the open form, leave it to cool for a while, and then remove the fixing thread.

Serve the dish in whole or portionwise sliced ​​form.

Bake with prunes and dried apricots

Turkey meat goes well with a variety of products, spices and spices. Adding dried fruits will emphasize the bright taste of the resulting dish.

Ingredients Used:

  • lean oil;
  • homemade sour cream - 50 g;
  • prunes, dried apricots - 50 g each;
  • turkey fillet - 800 g;
  • spices, spices.

Cooking process:

  1. We process the thigh of a turkey in the usual way. Carefully separate the fillet, spread it on the board. We beat off the product, giving it the shape of a rectangle. Rub the meat with salt, pepper, your favorite spices and spices, and then thickly process sour cream.
  2. We transfer the layer to a baking sheet covered with food foil. Scald dried apricots and prunes with boiling water, washed, dried with napkins, chopped into small pieces.
  3. We place prepared dried fruits on the meat sheet, wrap it with a tight roll, fasten the edges of the paper.
  4. Bake the turkey for 50 minutes at t 190 ° C. At the end of the process, fry the meat until golden brown in the open.

Here's how easy it is to cook and serve on the festive table an unusually tasty, exquisitely decorated turkey thigh filet.

With honey mustard marinade

An interesting feature of the dish will be a wonderful composition, which we will prepare especially for delicious baking of poultry meat. The thigh of turkey in foil with honey mustard marinade is something unique, extraordinarily delicious!

Grocery list:

  • turkey thigh - up to 700 g;
  • cloves of garlic - 3 pcs.;
  • Bavarian mustard - 30 g;
  • liquid honey - 30 g;
  • ground coriander - 10 g;
  • soy sauce - 50 ml.

Cooking:

  1. To obtain a fragrant marinade, combine in a bowl crushed garlic, liquid honey, soy sauce and fresh mustard. We add salt and pepper according to personal preference.
  2. Thoroughly mix the composition, grease the pre-treated drumstick with it (remove the skin if desired), place it in a closed container and leave it in the refrigerator overnight.
  3. We line the heat-resistant dishes with two sheets of foil (we arrange the paper crosswise). We spread the pickled thigh with the bone up and pour over the remaining sauce. We connect the edges of the package, making sure that the aromatic composition does not leak out.

Bake the dish for 2 hours at 200 ° C, then serve.

The thigh of turkey in the oven can be prepared as varied as our imagination and skill are enough. The reward for the shown ingenuity will be the sincere admiration of the invited guests. Everything will be delicious, pleasant, truly magical!

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