COOKING TURKEY LEGS AND THIGHS RECIPES

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PERFECT ROAST TURKEY RECIPE | INA GARTEN | FOOD NETWORK



Perfect Roast Turkey Recipe | Ina Garten | Food Network image

Provided by Ina Garten

Categories     main-dish

Total Time 3 hours 10 minutes

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 2 hours 30 minutes

Yield 8 servings

Number Of Ingredients 12

1 (12 pound) fresh turkey
Kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1 large bunch fresh thyme
1 lemon, halved
3 Spanish onions
1 head garlic, halved crosswise
4 tablespoons melted butter
1/4 to 1/2 cup good olive oil
8 carrots, peeled and cut in 2-inch chunks
10 red new potatoes, quartered
3 heads fennel, fronds removed, and cut in wedges through the core

Steps:

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
  • Take the giblets out of the turkey and wash the turkey inside and out. Remove any excess fat and leftover pinfeathers and pat the outside dry. Place the turkey in a large roasting pan. Liberally salt and pepper the inside of the turkey cavity. Stuff the cavity with the thyme, lemon, 1 onion, quartered, and the garlic. Brush the outside of the turkey with the butter and sprinkle again with salt and pepper. Tie the legs together with string and tuck the wing tips under the body of the turkey. Peel and slice the remaining onions, toss them with olive oil, and scatter them around the turkey.
  • Roast the turkey for 1 hour. Toss the carrots, potatoes, and fennel with the olive oil and add to the roasting pan. Return the pan to the oven and continue to roast for about 1 1/2 hours more, or until the juices run clear when you cut between the leg and the thigh. Remove the turkey to a cutting board and cover with foil for 20 minutes. Stir the vegetables and return the pan to the oven. Continue to cook the vegetables while the turkey rests. Slice the turkey and serve on a platter with the roasted vegetables.

BRINED ROAST TURKEY CROWN & CONFIT LEGS - BBC GOOD FOOD



Brined roast turkey crown & confit legs - BBC Good Food image

Always wanted to know how to get your turkey breast succulent, and the leg meat falling off the bone? Dry-brining tenderises and adds lots of flavour

Provided by Chelsie Collins

Total Time 6 hours

Prep Time 30 minutes

Cook Time 5 hours 30 minutes

Yield 10

Number Of Ingredients 14

5kg turkey, legs and thighs removed, wings cut from the breast (ask your butcher to chop the neck and backbone into pieces for the gravy)
500g duck fat or goose fat
2 bay leaves
2 thyme sprigs
2 sage sprigs
1 onion, quartered
50g butter, softened
160g flaky sea salt
1 tbsp black peppercorns, toasted
6 bay leaves, crumpled up
6 sage leaves, finely chopped
2 tbsp soft light brown sugar
4 tbsp lemon zest (about 6 lemons)
4 tbsp orange zest (about 4 oranges)

Steps:

  • Up to four days before, make the brine by combining the salt, peppercorns, bay, sage and sugar using a pestle and mortar, or crush with the end of a rolling pin in a bowl. Stir through both zests and spoon roughly 1/ 3 into a large resealable bag and the rest in another bag to chill.
  • Put the turkey legs and wings in the bag with 1/ 3 of the brine and shake well to coat the skin, then leave overnight in the fridge.
  • The next day, heat oven to 120C/ 100C fan/gas 1. Rinse the brine from the legs and wings and pat dry. Put the duck fat in a roasting tin, melt in the oven for 5 mins, then add the turkey pieces (they should be submerged in the fat). Cook in the middle of the oven for about 4 hrs or until the legs are tender. Leave to cool, then cover and chill overnight, or up to three days.
  • On Christmas Eve, cover the turkey crown in the remaining dry brine and chill in the fridge overnight.
  • In the morning, take the crown out the fridge 1 hr before roasting, rinse off the brine and pat dry with kitchen paper. Take the confit legs, thighs and wings out the fridge and leave to come to room temperature so they are easily released from the fat. Take out and put on a baking tray ready to reheat later. Strain the fat and set aside ready to cook the potatoes.
  • Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5 and line a large shallow roasting tin with foil. Set a wire rack on top, scatter the herbs and onion across and sit the crown on top. Rub the butter all over the skin and season well. Roast, uncovered, for 40 mins, then cover with foil and cook for another 30 mins. Remove the foil, and cook for a final 15-20 mins. To test if the turkey is cooked, insert a skewer into the thickest part of the breast – the juices should run clear. Transfer to a platter, cover with foil and leave to rest for at least 30 mins.
  • Meanwhile, reheat the confit legs and wings in the oven for 30 mins or until the skin has crisped up. Add to the platter with the crown and carve.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 645 calories, FatContent 31 grams fat, SaturatedFatContent 10 grams saturated fat, CarbohydrateContent 2 grams carbohydrates, SugarContent 1 grams sugar, ProteinContent 90 grams protein, SodiumContent 2.3 milligram of sodium

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