Turkey is a dietary and tender meat, and there are many recipes for preparing it: it can be stewed, baked, fried or boiled. Turkey dishes will definitely become a favorite and a favorite on everyone's table.
Since turkey meat is a low-calorie product, it is often included in the diet of people on a diet. The calorie content of a dish depends on the cooking method. Boiled turkey breast will have the lowest.
In addition to low calorie content, turkey meat contains many B vitamins, phosphorus, calcium, iron, iodine, and magnesium necessary for the proper functioning of the body.
Thanks to this, the meat is well absorbed and quickly digested, so it does not cause discomfort or a feeling of heaviness in the stomach.
This article will describe recipes for preparing juicy and tender turkey fillet in batter. This dish will definitely please the whole family.
Turkey fillet in batter
Turkey fillet in batter is very quick and easy to prepare, served with a side dish or as a separate dish.
Ingredients:
- 0.6 kg turkey fillet;
- 200 g flour;
- 2 eggs;
- 2 garlic cloves;
- 30 ml soy sauce;
- 2 tbsp. olive oils;
- a little salt and pepper.
We wash the bird, wipe it and cut it into small oblong pieces. Place them on a cutting board, cover with cling film and beat with a hammer.
Advice! We beat the tender fillet very little, otherwise the too broken meat fibers will dry out quickly.
Peel the garlic and chop it finely. Place the meat pieces in a bowl, sprinkle with chopped garlic and sprinkle with soy sauce. Mix everything and leave to marinate for a quarter of an hour.
For the batter, prepare a mash of two fresh eggs in one bowl, and pour flour into the next one. Dip the pieces in the egg, then roll in flour and place in a frying pan with heated oil.
Fry the meat at moderate heat for 5-7 minutes on each side. Turn the turkey over and finish frying it with the lid on.
Advice! Serve the finished fillet with sweet and sour sauce. And as a side dish you can offer mashed potatoes and vegetable salad. When cold, this turkey can serve as a snack or filling for pita bread.
How can you diversify standard recipes?
- How many variations can you make from one turkey dish? Baked turkey fillet according to the above recipe can be prepared not only with fruits
, but also
with vegetables
: carrots, tomatoes or bell peppers. Turkey is also delicious with onions. In this case, increase the amount of soy sauce and remove the sweet ingredients. - To fry turkey fillet in batter
, stir mayonnaise and black pepper, add a little soy sauce to the recipe. Then roll the fillet pieces in the resulting mixture and fry in a frying pan on both sides. - A recipe for turkey fillet in a slow cooker allows for the addition of other dried fruits
besides prunes: for example, steamed raisins.
- To prepare the dish faster, marinate the meat the night before
: the longer it is in the sauce with spices, the more tender and appetizing the flesh and crust will be. - If you choose a regular frying pan for frying meat, cook the fillet, covered,
over medium to high heat. Also, do not forget that you will need to turn the product more often, about once every two to three minutes - this way it will not burn and will retain its juiciness. - To expand your culinary arsenal, take a look at other equally simple and quick turkey recipes
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Turkey is not only healthy, but also very tasty and tender meat. This product is especially attractive and appetizing if you fry it in pieces in a frying pan. We offer options for this preparation below in our recipes.
How to fry turkey in a frying pan in pieces with sour cream - recipe
Ingredients:
- turkey breast fillet – 490 g;
- vegetable oil without aroma – 65 ml;
- sour cream (preferably homemade) – 125 g;
- – 190 ml;
- onion – 160 g;
- dry aromatic herbs of your choice - 1-2 pinches;
- garlic cloves – 3-4 pcs.;
- fresh parsley, basil and dill - 2-3 sprigs each;
- table salt - to taste;
- freshly ground black pepper - to taste.
Preparation
To cook the turkey into pieces in a frying pan, wash the skinless poultry fillet, dry it and cut it into small slices. Place the meat in a frying pan with heated oil without aroma and let the pieces brown well, then add the peeled onion and cut into half rings or rings and fry together for a few more minutes. Now add rich sour cream to the meat and onions, pour in vegetable or meat broth, add table salt to taste, ground pepper and dry aromatic herbs of your choice.
How long to stew the turkey in pieces in a frying pan depends on the size of the pieces of poultry meat. On average, fifteen minutes will be enough for the turkey to reach the required degree of softness. Finally, season the dish with peeled and finely chopped garlic and fresh herbs and let it brew for five to ten minutes under the lid.
Fried turkey in a frying pan with oatmeal breaded pieces
Ingredients:
- turkey breast fillet – 940 g;
- classic – 90 g;
- large chicken egg - 1 pc.;
- wheat flour – 35 g;
- onion – 90 g;
- small oat flakes for breading;
- coarse table salt - to taste;
- freshly ground black pepper - to taste;
- vegetable oil without aroma for frying.
Preparation
Cut the turkey fillet into pieces across the grain and beat it a little with a kitchen hammer, covering the meat with cling film for convenience. Peel the onion and grate it. Place the onion mixture in a bowl, add the egg, mayonnaise, add flour, salt, ground black pepper, add the chopped poultry slices to the resulting mixture, mix and leave to marinate for about an hour.
For breading we need small oat flakes. If necessary, grind the product a little in a blender bowl. At the same time, heat a frying pan with enough oil, bread the marinated turkey pieces in oatmeal breading and let them brown on both sides.
Turkey is a large poultry. But its meat is quite lean, so it is recommended for dietary nutrition, as well as for those who cannot eat fatty foods.
Tender turkey fillet is suitable for frying and baking. It makes delicious steaks that can be cooked in the oven, on the grill or in a frying pan. But so that they are not dry when finished, they should not be overcooked.
Delicious turkey in batter in a frying pan
If you don’t believe that you can get juicy turkey fillet meat in a frying pan, then try this recipe.
Ingredients:
- 600 g turkey fillet;
- 2 tbsp. milk;
- 3 chicken eggs;
- 2 tbsp. flour;
- a little salt and pepper.
Cut the washed and dried fillets into thin slices the size of your palm. Beat everything with a hammer and rub with salt. You can add some poultry spices.
Advice! Nutmeg, curry, mixed peppers, rosemary, savory, dried basil, turmeric and others are great for roast turkey.
Place a frying pan with oil on the burner to heat up. Roll pieces of meat in flour, moisten with egg. Now we repeat the steps in the same sequence to get double breading, and put it out to fry. Cook the fillet for 3-5 minutes on each side.
Place the browned meat in a saucepan and pour in the milk. Simmer the contents over low heat until all the liquid has evaporated.
With oat flakes
You can cook meat breaded with oatmeal. The washed and dried fillet is cut into flat pieces. Dip it in a marinade of natural yogurt with seasonings of ground pepper, thyme, crushed garlic and refrigerate for 1 hour. At this time, breading is prepared in the form of crushed oatmeal or ready-made finely ground oatmeal. After marinating, each piece of meat is breaded and placed in vegetable oil heated to high temperature. Fry in a frying pan. This will give you an excellent crispy crust.
Simple and juicy chops are made breaded with 1 egg, 100 milliliters of milk, and poultry seasonings. Cut turkey fillet slices and place in the egg mixture for 40 minutes. After this, each piece is rolled in breadcrumbs and shaken (to obtain a thin breadcrumb crust). This will reduce the consumption of vegetable oil and preserve the structure of the meat.
Turkey nuggets in the oven
Nuggets in the oven can safely be called a dietary dish, because... there is not a drop of excess fat in it. They turn out crispy, golden brown and very tasty.
Ingredients:
- 2 turkey fillets;
- 3 tbsp. wheat flour;
- 1 tbsp. breadcrumbs;
- 2 large eggs;
- a little salt and spices.
Cut the turkey into small pieces across the grain and add salt.
For a crispy batter, beat the eggs, add the cracker mixture and stir thoroughly. Pour flour into another plate.
Advice! If you don’t have crackers at home, you can make them yourself. You just need to dry a few slices of bread in the oven and grind them in a blender until crumbly.
Line a baking tray with baking paper. Dip the turkey into the mixture and place on parchment paper. Bake the dish at 200 degrees for about 25 minutes.
Useful tips
Most often, turkey breast or fillet is used to prepare portioned chops in batter. It is necessary to choose fresh meat, without odor or blood stains.
The pulp must be thoroughly rinsed in a sufficient amount of cool water, and then be sure to dry, easily removing all moisture with a paper towel.
The turkey should be cut into portions of the desired size across the grain. The optimal thickness of steaks ranges from 1.5 to 2 cm. For greater softness, you can beat the meat with a kitchen hammer. It is easier to maintain the integrity of the piece during the beating process if you first place it between layers of dense polyethylene. In addition, this will significantly speed up the process and also protect the kitchen from possible splashes and contamination.
As a marinade, you can use simple salt with seasonings or any ground spices:
- rosemary;
- grated ginger root;
- curry;
- thyme;
- oregano;
- sweet or smoked paprika;
- mixture of allspice and hot peppers.
You can marinate the meat in mayonnaise or soy sauce, mustard or vinegar, which will give the dish a more tender consistency due to additional softening of the fibers. Egg batter perfectly preserves the juiciness of meat, quickly creating a crust that seals the pores and prevents juice from leaking out. For tenderness, milk or cream is added to the eggs, and starch or any kind of flour acts as a thickener for the batter. You can also add various spices to the mixture.
Grated spicy cheese or feta cheese, fresh chopped herbs with garlic or sesame seeds are often used as a flavor accent for the dish. For a dietary version of frying, it is better to take a thick-walled frying pan with a non-stick coating or grill, which allows you to cook with a minimum amount of fat.
Small pieces in a crispy, golden-brown batter turn out to be very tasty if you deep-fry them. Tender fillet of aromatic and juicy turkey is obtained by quick frying in a frying pan, if you first roll the pieces of meat in batter, and excess oil can be removed by placing the finished dish on a wire rack or on paper towel.
Turkey fillet in batter and corn flake breading
Such cute and crispy pieces of meat are not easy to refuse. They just beg to be eaten, seasoned with some delicious sauce.
Ingredients:
- 0.5 kg turkey fillet;
- 1 egg;
- 150 g corn flakes;
- 2 tbsp. breadcrumbs;
- 100 g flour;
- 100 ml milk;
- 1 tsp dried garlic;
- 0.5 tsp each turmeric and dry ginger;
- 1 tsp ground pepper;
- refined oil.
Cut the washed pulp into portions. If desired, you can lightly beat them off. Sprinkle the preparations with spices and dried garlic, lightly rubbing everything with your hands.
Grind corn flakes into crumbs, add crackers, sweet paprika and black pepper. Separately, break the egg into a deep bowl. Beat it with a fork until smooth along with the milk.
Dredge the poultry pieces in flour, then dip them into the milk-egg mixture and finally coat them with a dry breading of flakes. Fry the pieces in oil until a golden brown, crispy surface is formed.
Cooking instructions
Wash the turkey fillet and dry with paper towels. Cut the fillet into pieces for chops, beat, salt, sprinkle with dried garlic, and pepper. Place in a bowl, cover and leave for an hour or more. You can leave the chops in this form for the next day by placing them in the refrigerator. An hour before cooking, remove the chops from the refrigerator.
Beat the eggs with a fork.
First dredge the turkey chop in flour on all sides.
Then dip in eggs and then roll in breadcrumbs.
Heat oil in a frying pan and fry turkey chops on both sides until golden brown.
Transfer the fried chops to a clean plate. When all the chops are fried, return them to the pan, cover and cook over low heat for 10-15 minutes.
Delicious, tender turkey fillet chops are ready.
Bon appetit, make your loved ones happy!
- Wash the whole fillet quickly under running water. Dry thoroughly with paper towels.
- Mix seasoning with salt.
- Cut the meat into medium-sized pieces.
- Lightly brush each piece with the spicy mixture.
- We beat it with a special hammer.
- Break an egg into a deep plate. Let's add salt to it. Beat until smooth.
- Let's drop the chops here. Gently mix so that the egg mixture coats each one on all sides.
- Bread each piece on both sides in breadcrumbs or semolina.
- Heat a frying pan, pour a little oil.
- Fry the pieces over medium heat for several minutes.
- Turn over and fry a little less on the other.
Turkey batter
The simplest turkey batter is made from eggs and flour. Be sure to sift the flour and beat the eggs until fluffy. But you can add various additives to such a base, then the dish will turn out even more interesting.
Cheese batter for turkey
Turkey in cheese batter turns out very tender and crispy. And if you add some cheese with a piquant taste, this will also have a positive effect on the taste of the dish.
Ingredients:
- 3 eggs;
- 30-40 ml of water;
- 50 g of any hard cheese.
Break chicken eggs into a container, add water, mix thoroughly. Finely grate the cheese and add to the mixture. Stir everything with a fork until smooth. Before dipping into the batter, roll the meat in wheat or corn flour.
Batter with mayonnaise
Batter with mayonnaise will help you prepare an amazingly tasty turkey. Be sure that such a delicacy will not go unnoticed on the table.
Frying with chef's secrets
How to deliciously fry pike in a frying pan
Thirty minutes have passed, and we generously pour olive oil into the pan and heat it over decent heat. Then we put in the first chop. How long to fry? According to this recipe, 3 minutes in two trips on each side will be enough.
Make sure that the meat does not burn; vary the intensity of the fire if necessary. That's probably all you need to know in order to cook wonderful, juicy turkey chops, even as a novice cook.
But still, we will tell you a few more important nuances that will undoubtedly come in handy if you practice at the stove at home or at the grill outdoors.
Remember that:
- Turkey meat is tender, and the main mistake of inexperienced cooks is that they simply dry out the chops. Hence the rule - carefully monitor the cooking time,
- Under no circumstances should you test the degree of readiness of the dish with a fork - this way valuable, tasty juice will flow out of the “wound”, coupled with the marinade;
- turkey steaks should be at room temperature and dry with a disposable towel. Firstly, this way the desired dish will be prepared faster. Secondly, if the fillet is too wet, it will begin to stew rather than fry, and in this case the chop will not get a crispy, golden-brown crust;
- If you have frozen turkey, do not force the thawing process in hot or even warm water. This will completely kill the tender representative of the pheasant family and make its meat look like rubber or a dry bun;
- If there is juice left in the pan after frying the turkey, you can use it for gravy or sauces;
Turkey chops are not the same in thickness and size; you can fry them in a frying pan after dipping them in batter.
It is prepared simply: beat an egg in a large glass, add 200 milliliters of sparkling water, salt and spices, and then flour. Mix everything thoroughly to obtain the consistency of thick sour cream. Pour into a flat plate. Dip the fillet pieces into the batter and place them in a hot frying pan. Fry for 2-3 minutes on each side. If you want to surprise your guests with something delicious, you can add 50 grams of hard cheese to the batter, after grating it.
Chefs have one more secret that will allow them to improve matters, even when the cook has been lazy and has dried out the dish. The solution can be a properly selected sauce, as a rule, it is either creamy or with a kilo-sweet taste.
For example, cranberry, currant or tomato. Now you just have to think about what side dish to serve turkey chops with.
Step-by-step preparation
- Prepare the ingredients. To cook turkey in batter in a frying pan we will need: turkey breast fillet, vegetable oil, ground black pepper and salt.
- Wash the turkey fillet, dry it and cut it lengthwise into 3-4 slices. Lightly beat each piece with a hammer on both sides.
- Salt and pepper the meat.
- Batter. To prepare the batter we will need: flour, egg, paprika, suneli hops, dried rosemary and salt.
- Beat the egg until smooth.
- Combine flour with spices and salt and mix until smooth.
- Roll turkey slices on both sides in flour mixed with spices.
- Then dip the turkey slices into the beaten egg.
