You can cook a turkey steak in different ways.
Dryness is the main, and probably the only drawback of this meat, but it is quite possible to eliminate it, if you cook it correctly.
Turkey Steak - Basic Cooking Principles
Steak can be cooked in a pan, in the oven, multi-cooker, on the grill or on the grill.
For steak, use turkey fillet. It is washed and dried with paper napkins. Slice into slices one and a half centimeters thick.
Before cooking the meat can be marinated. There are a lot of marinade recipes. Which one you choose depends on your preferences. You can use the following option: lemon cut in half, squeeze the juice from half a lemon, salt, pepper, mix and add olive oil.
Chunks of meat marinated for about half an hour, occasionally turning them over.
Roast turkey steaks in a dry frying pan for several minutes on each side.
Steak can be cooked in a sauce. Turkey meat goes well with vegetables, citrus fruits, berries and cheese.
Serve the meat on a pre-warmed plate with a side dish of vegetables or rice.
Recipe 1. Turkey Steak
Ingredients
two turkey steaks;
carrots and tomatoes - 1 pc .;
egg;
two bell peppers;
sunflower oil;
oatmeal flakes;
celery and parsley;
ground black pepper and salt.
Method of preparation
1. Take two turkey steaks, wash them, dry with napkins and repel a little. Salted off meat, season with pepper.
2. Peel carrots, free peppers from seeds and partitions. Celery and vegetables, rinse and cut into strips. Wash tomatoes and cut into quarters. Rinse greens, shake off excess liquid and chop.
3. Beat egg and coat steak with egg mixture. Roll them in oatmeal.
4. Fry the steaks on both sides on heated oil, cover with a lid and bring to readiness. Vegetables fry in a separate pan for three minutes, close the lid and simmer on low heat until cooked. 5. Put the steaks and vegetables on the plate, garnish with chopped greens.
Recipe 2. Turkey steak in a frying pan
Ingredients
turkey fillet - half a kilo;
melted cream and olive oil - 25 ml;
ground paprika, red and black pepper, curry and salt - on a pinch.
Method of preparation
1. Mix the spices with table salt. Meat washed and dipped napkins. Cut the turkey across the fiber into steaks two centimeters thick. Evenly rub the meat slices with a mixture of salt and spices. Cover with cling film and leave for a quarter of an hour.
2. Heat the griddle with a thick bottom, reduce the heat and spread the steaks. After two minutes, turn the meat over and cook the same amount of time. Turn over again and fry until ruddy. Then we reduce the fire to a minimum, cover with a lid and after a couple of minutes we remove from the fire. Remove the lid, cover the meat with foil and leave for three minutes. Put lettuce on plates and serve steaks.
Recipe 3. Royal turkey steak
Ingredients
turkey steaks;
half a kilo of champignons;
two bulbs;
carrot;
cheese - 150 g;
50 g of mayonnaise;
salt and ground black pepper.
Method of preparation
1. Rinse steaks and pat dry. Rub them with salt and pepper, coat with mayonnaise. Put the meat in a plate and marinate in a cool place for six hours.
2. Peel the onions and cut into rings. Rinse the champignons, put on a towel so that the mushrooms dry out and cut into plates. Peel the carrots and rub on a large segment of the grater. Grind cheese on a fine grater.
3. Pass vegetables separately. Fry the mushrooms until half cooked.
4. Grease a baking sheet with butter and place the marinated steaks on it. Put them in the oven, preheated to 220 degrees for 35 minutes.
5. Remove the meat and place carrots and mushrooms on it. Top with a circle of onions. Powder everything with grated cheese. Place the steaks in the oven for another 10 minutes. Serve with a hot, light side dish.
Recipe 4. Turkey steak with orange sauce
Ingredients
Turkey steak - two pcs .; oranges - two pieces;
ground ginger - 5 g;
ground cinnamon and nutmeg - on a pinch;
olive oil - 50 ml;
Method of preparation
1. Nutmeg, ginger and cinnamon mix. Rinse the turkey steaks and dry on a towel. Grate the meat evenly with a spicy mixture, lightly salt and marinate for half an hour.
2. Put the pan on a high heat, pour olive oil and fry steaks on both sides, two minutes for each. Reduce heat and roast meat until tender. Put steaks in a plate and drain the oil from the pan.
3. Rinse the oranges, wipe with a napkin, remove the zest and chop it into thin strips. Squeeze juice from oranges.
4. Pour the orange juice into the pan, boil it, and add, stirring the granulated sugar and zest. Stew the sauce until thick. Put steaks into the sauce, turn over several times until the meat is covered with a glossy crust.
5. Place the steaks on a plate, garnish with zest strips and serve with a salad of fresh vegetables.
Recipe 5. Grilled turkey steak marinated with cherries
Ingredients
turkey brisket - half a kilo.
Marinade
200 g cherries;
250 g onions;
bunch of parsley;
50 g of olive oil;
25 ml of honey;
two pinches of thyme;
salt and black pepper.
Sauce
marinade;
50 ml of dry red wine;
two cloves of garlic;
50 grams of sugar.
Method of preparation
1. Brisket my turkey, obsushivaem and cut portions of steaks.
2. Cooking marinade. Onion peeled and cut into rings. Mix cherries with onions, add honey, chopped parsley, salt, season with pepper and pour in olive oil. Mix, trying to crush the cherries to squeeze the juice.
3. Immerse in the marinade steaks and leave for two hours. After the allotted time, we take out the meat, spread it on a plate, and from the marinade prepare the sauce.
4. Pour the marinade into a saucepan, bring to a boil, add sugar and crushed garlic and pour in the wine. Boil over low heat until the liquid has evaporated twice and the onions are soft. Grind the resulting sauce with an immersion blender.
5. Put the steaks on a grill heated to 230 degrees, cover with a lid and set the timer for three minutes. After the signal, turn over and fry for another minute. We press down with a heavy lid. Put the steaks on a plate and pour over the sauce.
Recipe 6. Turkey steak in ginger-honey marinade
Ingredients
five turkey steaks;
according to art. spoonful of soy sauce and honey;
a piece of iber root;
5 ml of sesame oil;
Art. spoon of olive oil;
10 g of lemon peel;
20 ml of lemon juice;
salt and pink pepper
Method of preparation
1. In a deep plate, mix olive and sesame oil, honey, lemon juice, soy sauce, add lemon zest, grated ginger root and season with pepper. Washed and dried steaks are dipped in marinade, mixed and marinated for half an hour.
2. Fry steaks in a hot, dry skillet on both sides. Then turn down the fire. We bring the meat to readiness, constantly turning it over. Steaks are served whole or sliced.
Recipe 7. Turkey steak in creamy wine sauce
Ingredients
six turkey steaks;
300 ml of dry white wine;
garlic head;
100 g sour cream;
salt and spices.
Method of preparation
1. Rub and dry steaks rubbed with salt from both sides. Then rub meat with spices and spices. Use seasonings for oriental cuisine. We put the steaks in a deep plate, cover with cling film and pickle for half an hour.
2. Peel and chop the garlic into thin slices. After the allotted time, fill the steaks with wine and generously put a plate of garlic on each. We lay out the steaks covered with garlic on a baking sheet with high sides and pour the marinade here. Cover the pan with foil and put it in the fridge for almost an hour.
3. Sheet the foil slightly oiled, lay out the steak, generously lubricate the surface with sour cream and pour the marinade of wine and spices. Wrap the foil so that there is no air access, and send it into the oven. Bake at 180 degrees for 45 minutes. We take out the steak from the oven, remove the foil and lay out the meat on a plate, serve and serve.
Recipe 8. Turkey steak with tomatoes
Ingredients
600 g turkey fillet;
two tomatoes;
100 g of cheese and mayonnaise;
salt, curry, black pepper, ginger and cardamom - to taste;
teaspoon of french mustard.
Method of preparation 1. The washed and dried turkey fillet is cut into steaks, centimeter thick. Each steak slightly beat off, salt, season with pepper and lay out in a greased baking sheet.
2. Wash my tomatoes, wipe with a towel and cut them into half a centimeter thick. Spread on each steak two slices of tomato.
3. In a separate deep plate, mix the mayonnaise with curry, cardamom and ginger, add the mustard. We smear the mixture with a thin layer on top of the tomatoes. We rub cheese on a small segment of the grater and sprinkle it over the turkey.
4. Steaks are baked in the oven at a temperature of 220 degrees for a quarter of an hour until golden brown appears. Serve steaks with any side dish or grilled vegetables.
Recipe 9. Turkey steak with vegetables
Ingredients
a kilo of turkey steaks;
three pieces each carrots and tomatoes;
two bulbs;
on a bunch of green onions and dill;
150 g of mayonnaise and sunflower oil;
dry roots - three Art. l .;
salt and pepper.
Method of preparation
1. Peel and wash carrots and onions. Rinse the steaks and dry. Slice carrots into thin, long straws. Wash tomatoes, wipe with a napkin and cut into thin slices. Rinse green onions and dill, shake off excess moisture and finely chop with a knife. Chop onions with thin feathers.
2. Pour some oil into the pan, put steaks and salt. Cover the pan with a frying pan and cook on low heat for half an hour. For a quarter of an hour on each side. Remove the lid, add dry roots to the pan, season the meat with spices and simmer for another ten minutes, until the extra juice is evaporated.
3. Each steak is abundantly smeared with mayonnaise, put onion feathers on it, carrots on top, tuck in spices, then arrange the tomatoes. Make a mesh of mayonnaise and sprinkle generously with chopped greens. Cover and simmer for another half an hour on low heat, while turning and stirring is not necessary.
Recipe 10. Turkey steak in a slow cooker
Ingredients
turkey fillet - a kilogram;
50 ml of vegetable refined oil;
a mixture of Italian herbs, salt and ground pepper - on a pinch.
Method of preparation 1. Rinse the meat, dry it and cut into identical steaks. A mixture of salt and spices evenly rub each piece. Cover the meat with foil and leave to marinate for an hour.
2. Lubricate the multicooker bowl with oil. We spread on the bottom of the steaks in a single layer. Close the lid and set the “Baking” mode. After 20 minutes open the slow cooker, turn over the steaks, and continue cooking for the same amount of time.
Ready-made steaks are served hot with a side dish of vegetables or rice.
Turkey Steak - Chef Tips and Tricks
- It is better to grill steaks separately. If according to the recipe steaks need to be stewed, then they must first be fried in a pan.
- Before cooking, remove the meat from the refrigerator in advance so that it becomes room temperature.
- If the turkey is homemade, fry it in a frying pan without oil, it will make juice in the frying process.
- In order for steaks to turn out juicy and tender, they must first be pickled.
- Do not check the readiness of the steak with a fork, otherwise the juice will flow out and the meat will turn out dry. If you are not sure of its readiness, make a small incision with a knife in the middle.
- In the process of frying, water the pieces of meat with the resulting juice, it will make it more juicy. Subsequently, meat juice can be used to prepare the sauce.
- It must be remembered that frozen meat is cooked much faster than fresh or chilled.
