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Roast Turkey Tights Recipe
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Thomas Sixt is a chef, food photographer, cookbook author and blogger.
Here he shares recipes, answers cooking questions and helps with cooking.
The roast turkey tights recipe, prepared from a fresh turkey leg, I present to you today with step-by-step photos and great cooking tips.
I’ve left you a new secret recipe for the sauce, after all, you want to shine in the kitchen!
I wish you great pleasure in cooking this recipe. If you like, share the recipe with your friends – thank you and good luck!
Table of Contents
1. Roast Turkey Tights Shopping List
Because it is so practical, you will find the list of ingredients for your shopping right at the beginning:
- Turkey top leg with bone
- Olive oil or sunflower oil
- Salt, pepper, cayenne pepper
- Fresh thyme or rosemary
- Mushrooms
- Stock
- Soy sauce
- Cranberries
- butter
- Cornflour
- Basil fresh
2. Turkey Top Leg Pictures for your Purchase
To avoid any confusion, I have included the piece of meat here with two illustrations.
There are already recipes for turkey roll roast and turkey legs, but today we want to prepare the roast directly from a fresh piece of meat.
When it comes to side dishes for roast turkey, I like to keep it simple, but there is still an extra point for side dish selection according to the recipe!
3. Recipe Roast Turkey Tights in Oven
I wish you good luck and lots of fun with your cooking. I look forward to your comments and success stories.
Roast Turkey Tights
Instructions with step-by-step photos, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.
Servings 2
Calories 732
Total Time 60 Min.
Preparation Time 20 Min.
Cook Time 40 Min.
Roast turkey tights recipe with step-by-step photos and lots of cooking tips for preparation in the oven, turkey gravy and side dishes.
Ingredients
| Putenbraten | ||
| 1 | pc | Turkey top leg with bone |
| 4 | tbsp. | Olive oil |
| Salt | ||
| Pepper black, ground | ||
| Cayenne pepper | ||
| 5 | twigs | Thyme fresh |
| Putensoße | ||
| 8 | pc | Mushrooms |
| 2 | tbsp. | Soy sauce (I use tamari) |
| 4 | tbsp. | Cranberries |
| 50 | g | butter |
| 1-2 | tsp | corn starch (Potato or maize starch) |
| 1/4 | bunch | basil |
Instruction
Unwrap meat
Preheat the oven to 200°C on fan or bottom/upper heat setting.
Unwrap the turkey leg, rinse under cold water and dry.
Place meat
Place the meat on a kitchen board with the skin side down.
Bone out
Using a sharp knife, bone out the bone first from the top, then along the side of the bone.
Lift bone
Lift the bone and cut it off the meat.
Place meat
Cut the meat in half and place in a suitable roasting pan with the skin side up and the bone.
Season meat
Season the meat with salt and pepper, add sprigs of thyme or rosemary.
Drizzle the meat with a little olive oil.
Meat oven
Cook the roast in the oven for 45-50 minutes on the middle shelf.
Check the cooking point of the meat with a thin meat fork by testing the needle:
–> If the meat can be pierced easily without resistance and only colourless juice comes out, the roast is cooked.
Keep meat warm
Remove the roast from the roaster and keep warm in the oven at 120°C.
Place the roaster and cook on the cooker.
Deglaze roaster
Heat the roaster, deglaze with stock, add the mushrooms cut into eighths and bring to the boil.
Cook off the drippings and then leave to infuse.
Cook sauce
Season the sauce with soy sauce, salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, cranberries and butter and thicken with cornflour mixed with cold water, if desired.
Keep the sauce warm.
Prepare herbs
Pluck off the basil leaves and deep-fry in hot oil until crisp.
Place the herb chips on a paper towel and season with salt.
Arrange and serve
Slice the meat and place on warm plates.
Place the mushrooms on the side and add the sauce.
Decorate with cranberries and herb chips.
Serve quickly, bon appétit!
Video
When is the roast ready?
Prick the meat with a thin fork or needle. If colourless meat juice comes out, the meat is cooked.
Recommendation to ensure that the roast is juicy on the table:
Turn off the oven and let the roast rest for a good 10 minutes before cutting it.
Courses
Cousine
Keyword
4. Calories and Nutritional Values at a Glance
5. Suitable Side Dishes for Roast Turkey Tights
Here I recommend some simple filling side dishes and vegetable side dishes as well as ideas from country cuisine.
5.1 Satiating Side Dishes
A mashed potato and rice tastes quite fine with it 🙂 However, the easiest side dish for this roast is Baked Potatoes.
You can cook the seasoned potatoes on a baking tray in the oven at the same time.
5.2 Matching vegetable side dishes:
Vegetable side dishes are wonderful as part of a low carb diet. It doesn’t always have to be potato and rice!
Tip from Chef Thomas Sixt
5.3 Side Dish Ideas from the Country Cuisine
I had already prepared a small table for this a long time ago:
| Kitchen | Vegetables |
|---|---|
| German | potatoes, carrots, parsley root, parsnips, soup vegetables |
| Mediterranean | zucchini, eggplant, paprika, fennel, olives, capers |
| Austrian | potatoes, chanterelles, porcini mushrooms |
| American | pumpkin, chestnuts, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes |
5.4 Side Dish Ideas According to Season
To round off the hatchet theme, here is a table for ideas by season and festive season:
| Season | Side Dishes | Sauce |
|---|---|---|
| Spring / Eastern | asparagus green or white, courgette, green beans, potatoes | light white wine sauce |
| Summer / Garden Party | EXTRA from the oven: baked potatoes, EXTRA : fresh from the grill corn on the cob, peppers, courgettes | grill sauces see recipes Thomas Sixt |
| Autumn / Thanksgiving | mushrooms, carrots, pumpkin, turnips, potatoes | brown sauce with a light red wine |
| Winter / Christmas | chestnuts, Brussels sprouts, potatoes, cranberries | dark sauce with a heavy red wine and dark chocolate to taste |
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Comments, Cooking Questions and Answers
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Thank you Syd!
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Yummy.-) YummY 🙂 Yummy 🙂
ReplyThank you Zoe 🙂
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Hi Masterchef Thomas!
Excellent instructions, the roast turned out very well for me.
Thanks Syd