How to Cook a Turkey : The Basic Steps
Few dishes are as beloved as a golden roast turkey. It’s hard to go wrong with the basic method, but there are some recipes that rise above the rest, yielding a delicious bird that is …
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Roast Turkey With Berry-Mint Sauce and Black Walnuts
The flavor of heritage turkey breeds is richer and more pronounced than that of commercial turkeys sold at supermarkets nationwide. Put plainly, heritage breeds taste more like turkey. Heritage birds are raised outside, pecking at …
Turkey Meatballs in Tomato Sauce
Tender meatballs filled with onions and Parmesan, bathed in plenty of tomato sauce, are classics in every way except for one: They call for turkey instead of the usual beef (or beef-veal-pork combination). Serve them …
New England Roast Turkey Recipe
This adaptation of an old Yankee Magazine recipe for classic New England roast turkey is solid and unfancy, the sort that has adorned tables from Portsmouth north for generations. Old-line New Englanders may be tempted …
Cantonese-Style Turkey Recipe
In this vaguely Cantonese-Style turkey, the bird is roasted beneath a rich glaze of fermented soybean paste, garlic, ginger, soy sauce and alliums galore, then served with roasted potatoes basted in the sauce and drippings …
Rosemary and Citrus Turkey Recipe
This recipe makes things easier on you if you’re feeding a crowd at Thanksgiving. Instead of roasting two birds, or a giant, hard-to-maneuver 22-pounder, borrow a trick that caterers use at large weddings. There’s the …
Roast Turkey With Orange and Sage Recipe
Roast turkey with white wine and a lot of butter, too, as it happens. The butter, massaged under the bird’s skin, does a lot to help keep the breast meat moist, and the juice and …
Dry-Brined Turkey Recipe
This fantastic turkey recipe borrows a technique perfected by Judy Rodgers, the chef from the Zuni Café in San Francisco, who had exceptional results salting chickens long before roasting them (also called dry-brining). No more …
Cheddar-Stuffed Turkey Burger With Avocado
The secret to keeping lean turkey juicy as a burger? Adding fat! The burgers in this recipe, stuffed with cheese and a bit of butter, are moist, flavorful and, best of all, hold together and …
Turkey Burgers Recipe
Turkey burgers are much leaner than hamburgers, but they can be dry and dull. Moisten them by adding ketchup and a bit of grated onion to the ground turkey – or mayonnaise and a bit …