Turkey in sour cream: more tender, juicy juicy! The best recipes of turkey in sour cream with vegetables, mushrooms, bacon
Do you like turkey the way I love it? It is tasty, nutritious and healthy.
Stewed, fried, baked - the main thing is to have more!
General principles for the preparation of turkey in sour cream
In order for you to get a delicious turkey in sour cream, you need fillet from the legs or breast of the bird. It needs to be washed, dried and cut into pieces. Here, as you like, you can cut into large cubes, you can cut into slices, if you really want to, you can cut circles. The last is a joke, of course.
The next stage is the preparation of meat for cooking. Although in some recipes this stage is skipped. What is this preparation? The turkey fillet must be marinated for a couple of hours, after which the meat can be put on fire, in the sense of stewing, boiling or frying, and not at all be given to the Inquisition. There is still an alternative version of this stage - to prepare sour cream, and then pour meat on it and immediately begin to stew.
Sour cream of approximately 20% fat can serve as a substitute for any turkey sauce, however, you can also make a good sauce with sour cream, you can read more about this directly in your favorite recipe.
To make the sauce more complicated, that is, in which there will be more than one ingredient, you may need:
• tomato paste;
• soy sauce;
• cream;
• mayonnaise;
• garlic.
Great gravy for roasted or baked turkey can come from mushrooms and vegetables. To do this, these products need to be washed, cleaned, eliminated, if it threatens with a bitter taste, and then crushed. You can also grind it in different ways, for example, carrots are usually cut into small cubes, and onions - into rings, but it is not necessary to follow the standards, if you like, you can even cut triangles out of pepper.
The next stage is the choice of oil to create our little culinary masterpiece. Turkey in this sense is completely unpretentious, so you can safely take sunflower, olive, creamy, even regular fat will do, meat is dietetic.
Stewed turkey with mushrooms in sour cream
To recreate this recipe, a turkey fillet cut from the bird’s thighs is suitable. If you take the meat from the breast, then the cooking time should be reduced by about a quarter. You can take almost any mushrooms, even fragrant chanterelles, if you wish, although champignons remain classics, as they give the most delicate taste.
Ingredients:
• turkey fillet - 800 g;
• oil - 3 tbsp. l;
• bag of sour cream;
• onion;
• a few cloves of garlic;
• a glass of boiled water;
• mushrooms - 400 g;
• salt, pepper - as much as you like.
Cooking method
1. Cut the fillet into small cubes.
2. Grind onions, cut mushrooms (if mushrooms, then cut one mushroom into 4 parts).
3. Heat the oil in a skillet and fry the mushrooms with onions until soft.
4. Now you need to take another skillet and fry the turkey fillet in it until a beautiful golden crust forms.
5. Mix the contents of both pans, add chopped garlic, a glass of boiled water and sour cream, as well as pepper and salt.
6. Simmer it all under the lid for 20-25 minutes.
Stewed turkey with vegetables in sour cream
This dish is good because you can use any vegetables for cooking. Someone wants to replace the eggplant with zucchini, and someone may want to add the usual cabbage besides cauliflower.
Ingredients:
• Turkey meat - 500 g;
• some oil;
• mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. l;
• vegetables (tomatoes, peppers, eggplants) - 150-200 g each;
• tablespoon flour;
• salt, pepper - to taste.
Cooking method
1. Cut poultry fillets into sufficiently large portions. Add mayonnaise, mix well and leave for half an hour.
2. Blanch the tomatoes - that is, first pour boiling water over them, and then quickly dip them into cold water. Thus, it will be easier to peel them. After getting rid of the peel, you need to cut the tomatoes into small slices.
3. Boil cauliflower for 1-2 minutes. Then divide into florets and add flour to it, mix.
4. Peel the eggplants and cut them into strips.
5. Peel and chop the Bulgarian pepper.
6. Heat the pan. Put chopped onion on it. Fry until soft.
7. Add turkey fillet to the onions and fry it until slightly golden.
8. Pour eggplant and cauliflower into the same pan, and send pepper and tomatoes a little later.
9. 5-7 minutes after adding pepper and tomato, pour sour cream in a pan, salt and pepper, add a little fire. You can also add spices.
10. When the sauce boils, you need to reduce the heat to a minimum and cover the frying pan, leaving all the ingredients to stew. If you see that there is not enough liquid in this mixture, you can add a little more sour cream or even just boiled water.
11. Stew until tender - 25-30 minutes.
Baked turkey in sour cream
Preparing the fillet of this bird according to this recipe is a pleasure, as it requires a minimum of ingredients, and the dish turns out delicious.
Ingredients:
• turkey fillet - 2 kg;
• lemon - 2 pcs;
• a pair of garlic cloves;
• onions - 1 pc;
• some oil;
• sour cream - 100 g;
• salt;
• Spices (oregano, allspice, basil) - to taste.
Cooking method
1. Cut the turkey meat into large cubes or plates, sprinkle with lemon juice and salt.
2. Chop onion and garlic, add turkey to the fillet, then add spices there.
3. Pour the meat with sour cream, mix well, so that each piece is well rolled in sour cream.
4. Put the meat on a baking sheet, before it there you can pour a little butter, this is to taste. Sprinkle with lemon zest, bake for 1.5 - 2 hours.
Turkey with sour cream and soy sauce
This recipe is a bit similar to the previous one, but very different in taste. Soya sauce gives piquancy.
Ingredients:
• turkey fillet - 700 g;
• soy sauce - 3-4 tbsp. l;
• sour cream - 150 ml;
• some oil;
• salt, pepper, spices - to taste.
Cooking method
1. Cut the breast into cubes of about 2x2 cm.
2. Mix sour cream with soy sauce, add salt and spices there.
3. Pour the turkey fillet with the sauce and leave for 2 hours.
4. Then put the meat in a frying pan and simmer over low heat for about half an hour.
Turkey with sour cream and potatoes
There are no additions to this dish, as it is very nourishing in itself. It is cooked easily, eaten quickly.
Ingredients:
• turkey fillet - 1 kg;
• potatoes - 1 kg;
• sour cream - 250 g;
• hard cheese (optional, you can take the melted) - 200 g;
• several medium sized bulbs;
• a pair of garlic cloves;
• some butter or olive oil;
• salt, pepper - to taste.
Cooking method
1. Cut the turkey into small pieces.
2. Lubricate the bottom of the pan with oil. Spread turkey meat on a baking tray. On top of it - chopped onions.
3. Pour all the sour cream mixed with crushed garlic.
4. Top with the potatoes, cut into slices or slices. You can put several of these layers, each of which should be sprinkled with salt.
5. Now it's up to the oven, where you need to send the meat for 20 minutes. After that, sprinkle everything with grated cheese, pepper and send the dish back into the oven for half an hour.
Turkey fillet with sour cream and Provencal herbs
Provencal herbs give turkey a very peculiar taste, it is worth cooking.
Ingredients:
• turkey breast - 1 kg;
• sour cream - 150 ml;
• several bags of Provencal herbs;
• salt - to taste.
Cooking method
1. Salt the turkey breast and roll in sour cream.
2. Generously sprinkle meat with Provencal herbs and leave for an hour.
3. Place the breast in the foil, how to seal it.
4. Put on a baking sheet and bake for an hour.
Delicious turkey with sour cream and celery
In this recipe, at first glance, there is nothing supernatural, but still the turkey is obtained with a very extraordinary taste. How? Try it yourself.
Ingredients:
• turkey meat - 1 kg;
• garlic - 2-3 cloves;
• celery root;
• parsley root;
• a few sprigs of parsley (you can also dill);
• 2-3 slices of lemon;
• tomato paste - 1 tbsp. l;
• a tablespoon (two possible) sour cream;
• salt, seasonings - to taste.
Cooking method
1. Cut the turkey meat into cubes.
2. Grate the pieces of meat with crushed garlic, seasonings, salt. Leave for half an hour.
3. Spread a large piece of foil, lubricate it with oil.
4. Spread the meat onto the foil.
5. Top with chopped celery and parsley root, grease everything with tomato paste and add a couple of parsley branches. Pour sour cream on top.
6. Now the foil should now be wrapped so that there are no cracks left.
7. Put on a baking sheet and bake until done (about an hour).
Turkey roll in bacon with sour cream
A simple recipe for 5 servings.
Ingredients:
• turkey breast;
• turkey thigh fillet - 100-150 g;
• bacon - 100 g;
• onion
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• sour cream - 70 g;
• some prunes;
• some olive oil;
• sugar - 10 g;
• salt;
• spices as desired, but it is important that they are in harmony with the taste of prunes.
Cooking method
1. Turkey breast should be cut lengthwise without cutting 3-4 cm. Lubricate inside with olive oil. Salt and sprinkle with spices, rubbing them properly on the surface of the meat.
2. Put steamed prunes in the meat.
3. Grind the chicken thighs into small pieces and fry with onions and sour cream until golden. Put on top of prunes.
4. Fold the brisket into a roll and bandage with a twine.
5. Wrap the resulting roll with sheets of bacon.
6. Put the roll on a baking sheet and send in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees. After half an hour, you need to reduce the temperature to 180 degrees.
7. Bake until tender.
Turkey in sour cream - tips and tricks
• For juiciness of meat, the baking temperature should be at least 180 degrees, ideally 200 degrees.
• If you intend to bake, for example, a whole turkey breast, be aware that 1 kg of meat is baked for 1 hour.
• Whatever recipe you choose, the best option for turkey meat is poultry fillet.
• After frying or stewing the turkey, fat or sauce always remains in the pan or pan. It can be used for cooking other dishes and side dishes.
• Defrosting turkey meat, as well as any other meat, is necessary gradually. From the freezer, it should be moved to the refrigerator, you do not need to immediately lay the frozen meat on the table and even more so defrost it in the microwave!
• When choosing meat, pay attention to its tightness and elasticity.
• If you cook turkey in a slow cooker, you need to set the "Stewing" mode on average for half an hour. In a slow cooker, turkey meat cooks faster than in a pan, you can safely shorten the specified cooking time by a quarter.
It does not make sense to speak about the benefits of turkey meat. Cooking it is useful for children, because cauliflower or eggplants, which are not always liked by the younger members of the family, will be eaten for both cheeks together in a fragrant meat.
