Turkey meat is well suited for feeding children, even those who suffer from various kinds of allergies. It is the very first meat with which it is recommended to introduce babies, while you need to know how and how much to cook a turkey for a child in order to preserve all its useful elements.
Such meat contains a large amount of protein, contributing to the growth of the child's body, as well as vitamins, phosphorus and more. In addition, the turkey enhances immunity, so it is recommended to use it from time to time. So, turkey meat for a child can be stewed, baked, boiled or steamed. Cooked meat is added to soups, cutlets or meatballs are made from it. Moreover, each mother should know not only how much to cook the turkey, but also how to do it correctly.
To do this, cook meat separately for half an hour, drain the broth, add vegetables, add new water and boil until the latter is ready. The combination of vegetables and turkey is a good combination that energizes and enhances the health of a small person. It should be remembered that children under two years of age are not recommended to give broth, since it is considered heavy food.
Considering how much to cook a turkey, if you want to cook a broth (which adults will use), then it should be noted that the meat is put only in cold water and cooked for half an hour. The meat for the second dishes is dipped in boiling water, covered with a lid and cooked on low heat for one and a half hours, while the foam is not removed from the broth. Here it is necessary to remember that meat after cooking decreases in volume, since more than 30% of the liquid leaves the broth from it.
Let us consider in detail how and how much to cook a turkey.
This bird can be cooked whole or chopped.
1.If the turkey is cooked whole, it is placed in boiling water and cooked over medium heat for at least three hours. In the process, spices, carrots and onions are added. Cooked meat must be cooled and cut into portions.
2. For soup, the turkey must be cut, separating the breast, back, wings and hips. Pour the pieces with cold water and put on simmer for a half hour. You can add bay leaf, various roots and spices in the cooking process.
If we consider how much time it takes to cook a turkey purchased in a store, especially if it is a fillet, then it cooks much faster. So, the fillet is cooked for half an hour. To do this, it is placed in cold water and cooked for the first fifteen minutes, after which it is removed. When there are fifteen minutes left before the soup is cooked, the turkey slices are put back and cooked in full readiness.
It should be noted that turkey meat is rich in amino acids, vitamins, zinc, potassium, phosphorus and magnesium. It helps to prevent anemia, the rapid absorption of fats, carbohydrates and proteins, normalize the activity of the heart, stimulate brain activity. Therefore, it is recommended to consume a turkey at least three times a week.
Thus, when it became known how much to cook the turkey, you can cook tasty and healthy dishes from this product, for example, "French turkey."
This will require one turkey, a bottle of red wine, one hundred grams of honey, butter, five hundred milligrams of consom, two hundred grams of grapes and eight pieces of medlar, as well as juice from one lemon, shallots, salt and pepper.
First of all, you need to remove the insides of the bird and scald it. Pour water into a large dish, add a little salt and bring to a boil. Put the turkey there and cook, thus, for half an hour. They remove the skin from the grapes, take out the bones and stuff the bird with it. In the pan, the butter is melted and the shallots are languished, after which the turkey is put there, poured with honey and fried. During frying, the consom and the wine pour in, their volume should be reduced by half. Medlar is cleaned and laid out twenty minutes before the end of cooking. After all this, the finished turkey is laid out on the dish, while the resulting sauce is filtered, lemon juice, salt and pepper are added to it, and the bird is poured with it.