Re: What is Your Favorite Christmas or Holiday Food?
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Spicey
Turkey is dry no matter how you cook it, usually. It's just a dry meat. Why couldn't turkey soup have been the thing way back when? ;)
Haha good to know we aren't messing up the turkey baking too badly then!
Sometimes I think the real appeal of turkey is that we associate eating it with being around friends and family, and that it's big enough to feed a bunch of people at once. I always find the meat dry, yet I still look forward to eating it every year :D
Re: What is Your Favorite Christmas or Holiday Food?
Surely there’s a way of cooking turkey to get it moist ??
I’ll have to ask the wife although I think we get a leg of lamb and turkey crown of late ...
I’m sure the wife cooks whole chickens upside down so the breast is cooking in the juices ?? It’s never dry anyways
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Re: What is Your Favorite Christmas or Holiday Food?
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Originally Posted by
Zincubus
I’m sure the wife cooks whole chickens upside down so the breast is cooking in the juices ?? It’s never dry anyways
I did that once with a turkey, quite by accident. Totally ruined the presentation of the bird - it fell apart when I tried to remove it from the roaster and of course it didn't have that lovely browned skin over the breast. The meat was excellent though.
One trick to moisten breast meat is to carefully separate and slightly lift the skin (without tearing or breaking it) from the top of the turkey just enough to slip your hand under it, and rub softened butter between the skin and turkey breast. You can also add poultry seasoning or garlic powder to the butter. The melted butter will slowly baste the breast meat as the turkey is roasted. If you have an unbrined turkey you can use bacon grease instead. Note that every frozen turkey in the grocery store has been brined, and if you use bacon grease on a brined bird it gets oversalted.
