Turkey fillet is a tasty, healthy and dietary product, and you can buy it now at any grocery store. Many different dishes are prepared from the meat of this bird, but fried and stewed dishes with the addition of vegetables and mushrooms are considered one of the most popular. The basic rules for preparing turkey for cooking, as well as the best recipes for fillet with mushrooms - later in the article.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
To prepare turkey dishes, you can use fresh or frozen fillet. The basic rules for his selection and preparation are as follows:
- fresh meat should have a uniform pink color and a neutral smell;
- there should be no gray spots on the surface of the frozen fillet - they indicate a frost burn as a result of improper storage of the product;
- before cooking, the turkey must be thawed, allowing it to thaw completely in the refrigerator for 24 hours.
Important! If the turkey thawed in the microwave, then it must be used immediately. Under the influence of high temperature, bacteria begin to multiply in the meat.
Turkey fillet recipes with mushrooms
To give the finished turkey dish various flavor notes, vegetables, spices, sour cream and mushrooms are used. As a result of this, the product is very tender, and also acquires a piquant taste due to spices. Poultry meat is cooked in a frying pan or in a slow cooker, and also baked in foil or sleeve with the addition of slices of potato and zucchini. There are many step-by-step recipes for turkey fillet with mushrooms. Some of them are presented later in the article.
Turkey fillet with mushrooms and curry
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Turkey fillet with mushrooms and carr
Did you know? In Europe, the turkey spread in the middle of the XVI century. In this case, at first the bird was bred only for feathers, and not for meat.
Mushroom turkey in creamy sauce
4-5 servings60 min
dry vegetable stock
1 tsp
ground black pepper
1 tsp
ground chili
0.5 tsp
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Rinse meat and mushrooms in water. Peel the onion and garlic. Cut the fillet into large pieces. Sprinkle it with flour (about 1 tbsp. L.), Mix.
- Put the meat in a pan with preheated butter. Fry it over medium heat until cooked for 10-15 minutes. After that, put the fillet on a plate.
- Chop the onion in half rings of medium thickness. Fry it in hot sunflower oil in a separate frying pan until golden brown.
- Cut the mushrooms into small pieces. Pass the garlic through the garlic press, mix it with mushrooms.
- Add the garlic-mushroom mixture to the fried onion, mix. Fry over medium heat until cooked for 10-15 minutes.
- Place the pan on which the turkey was roasted again on the stove. Add a little oil and 1 tbsp. l flour, mix. Pour apple cider vinegar, mix. Add mustard and warm water. Bring the sauce to a boil over low heat.
- Put the fried meat and mushrooms with onions in a pan with sauce, mix. Add salt, spices, vegetable stock and cream.
- Stir the resulting mass. Bring it to a boil over medium heat, and then simmer the dish for about 2-3 minutes.
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Mushroom turkey in creamy sauce
Important! The turkey, cooked with the addition of cream, turns out to be quite high-calorie, so it is recommended to serve rice or stewed vegetables as a side dish.
Turkey goulash with mushrooms and wine
5-6 servings90 min
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Rinse mushrooms, meat and vegetables. Peel the onion and garlic. Finely chop onion and garlic. Chop mushrooms in small slices.
- Slightly fry the garlic in a heated skillet with sunflower oil.
- Add onion, mix. Fry it for about 5 minutes until golden brown.
- Put mushrooms in a pan with onions, mix. Sauté the ingredients over medium heat for 10 minutes. Salt the mixture, put it on the bottom of a shallow pan.
- Cut the fillet into small pieces. Fry it in a separate pan with sunflower oil until golden brown. Add salt, black pepper, mix.
- Put the fried filet in a pan with mushrooms and onions. Add paprika and tomato paste to the container, mix.
- Put the pan with all the ingredients on a slow fire. Simmer the mixture for 5 minutes, periodically stirring it with a wooden spatula.
- Pour wine into the meat, mix. Bring the mass to a boil, cook for about 10 minutes over low heat.
- Add to the turkey with thyme mushrooms. Cover the pan, simmer the mixture over low heat for half an hour.
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Turkey goulash with mushrooms and wine
Did you know? By Thanksgiving, more than 270 million turkeys are specially grown in the United States so that every resident of the country can cook and serve this bird's meat for the festive table.
Turkey dishes will help diversify your daily diet, and you can serve them for lunch or dinner. It takes some time to prepare dishes from the meat of this bird, but it is fully compensated by the excellent taste and unique aroma of the finished fillet with mushrooms and spices.