Deep Fried Turkey: Thanksgiving Recipe

Non Vegetarian

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By Anwesha Barari

Thursday, November 24, 2011, 14:27

Deep fried turkey, this easy Thanksgiving recipe sounds unhealthy doesn't it? But it actually doesn't make all that difference when you compare it with a roast turkey. May be a few hundred calories here or there for this fried turkey recipe but when you are in the festive mood that is hardly anything. Deep fried turkey is an easy Thanksgiving recipe for those who do not have an oven or a microwave.

Most often, even the most easy turkey recipes in the oven take more than 3 to 4 hours. But when you are trying fried turkey recipes the cooking time is drastically cut down. Moreover the entire marination process becomes simpler in this easy Thanksgiving recipe because you can cook with whole spices. You can actually cook fried turkey with very simple ingredients.

Ingredients For Deep Fried Turkey:

1. Whole Turkey (skinned) about 8 pounds
2. Onions 3 (paste)
3. Ginger garlic paste 4 tablespoons
4. Green chilli 5-6 (paste)
5. Clove powder 1 tablespoon
6. Pepper powder 1 tablespoon
7. Vinegar 2 tablespoons
8. 200 ml of white oil
9. Salt as per taste

Procedure For Deep Fried Turkey:

• Clean the turkeys guts out and leave a gaping hole in the neck portion so that the insides too get fried.
• Make deep incisions on the turkey. Remember it is a big bird, not like a chicken that you have to just slice.
• Marinate the Turkey with ginger garlic paste, onion paste, green chilli paste, clove powder, pepper powder, vinegar and salt for 2 hours.
• Heat oil in a huge skillet (big enough to accommodate the turkey and the oil) and boil the oil in it to at least 200 degrees.
• Now put the marinate turkey into the boiling oil and seal the mouth of the skillet with butter paper or aluminum foil.
• Cook for 40 to 45 minutes on low flame and then give it standing time for half an hour.

Drain oil and serve deep fried turkey as an easy replacement of roast turkey for Thanksgiving 2011.