Hunting & Fishing Wild Turkey Recipes

[Jig Stick]

Anybody have a good recipe for wild turkey? Me and 4 friends all got birds yesterday. I would like to find a nice rustic style recipe....like using apple cider or thyme in it. with carrots, potatoes etc. I cant seem to find a recipe like that. Mostly recipes saying to wrap it in bacon.

 

[Jon Lester]

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Deep fry in peanut oil! You need a cooker for this.

 

[mom x 3]

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This looks like a good recipe for apple cider-brined turkey.

http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=10000000780346

 

[KClark]

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It's damn hard to get a wild bird to roast up good, they are lean and DRY.........

Not what your looking for but..I filet the breast and pound it with a meat hammer, dip it in milk and crackers then chicken fry it. Put it in a baking pan and cover with canned cream of chicken soup and bake for 1/2 hour or so. Almost edible.

 

[ewoaf]

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just drink it straight

 

[Jayhawker]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: KClark</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It's damn hard to get a wild bird to roast up good, they are lean and DRY.........

Not what your looking for but..I filet the breast and pound it with a meat hammer, dip it in milk and crackers then chicken fry it. Put it in a baking pan and cover with canned cream of mushroom soup and bake for 1/2 hour or so. Almost edible. </div></div>

+1...

Wild turkeys are just too lean to treat them like a domestic bird, I've tried roasting a couple of them and no matter what we did, they always turned out dry as dirt..

Ours get the same treatment...cut the breasts into cutlets, beat hell out of them with a mallet, flour them and pop them into Grandmas old cast iron chicken fryer...good eats...

Legs and thighs go into the stockpot for soup...

 

[el gordo2]

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Have tried all the above...been there and done that.
Now days this is what I do with my spring birds.

slice

Season

Smoke

Enjoy

 

[Guest]

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Almost Fried Turkey Breast

Pete's Rubbed and Almost Fried Turkey:

* 1/4 cup roughly chopped garlic
* 1/4 cup roughly chopped fresh rosemary leaves
* 3 tablespoons roughly chopped fresh sage
* 2 lemons, zest finely grated
* 1/4 cup kosher salt
* 3 tablespoons freshly ground black pepper
* 3 pounds boneless, skinless turkey breast
* Oil, for frying

Special Equipment: deep heavy-bottomed pot for frying turkey

Process the garlic, herbs, lemon zest, salt and pepper in a food processor fitted with the metal blade until coarsely ground. Rub mixture generously over turkey breast. Roll the turkey breast into a compact shape by turning the smaller end of the breast under. Wrap tightly in 3 layers of heavy-duty aluminum foil.

Fill a deep heavy-bottomed pot 2/3's full with oil. Heat over medium-high until a deep-fry thermometer reads 350 degrees F. Fry the turkey breast, wrapped in the foil, for 35 minutes or 12 minutes per pound. Carefully remove turkey from oil and set aside, wrapped in the foil, to cool to room temperature. Refrigerate turkey until firm enough to thinly slice, at least 2 hours or overnight.

 

[sandyhames]

The juice, cinnamon and pint are 3 common grindings for me to get a delicious turkey, and which can be regarded as the easiest way as a turkey recipes. Each of them is enough in 1/2 cup, then just put them into the electric roaster with 325F for 3.5 hours.

 

[bogey]

yep jerky

and I brined and made into corned turkey....well smoked it so probably pastrami.

A lot of ways are good if you eat it all right away. If you let it cool and try to re heat it my golden retriever still likes it

 

[Precision Underground]

Oh, i was going to say just a splash of water.... You meant bird turkey. Carry on.