There are plenty of recipes for the breasts on here, so wanted to share how I cook the dark meat. Crock pot! Cover in water, add salt, pepper, garlic powder, cook on low for about 8 hours, the meat will fall off the bone and be fairly tender. I've used the chopped up meat for the following, and it all turned out pretty good: dressing, dumplings, vegetable / camp soup, bbq, stroganoff. No need to waste all that meat!
I use it to make turkey salad...good stuff!
I had 8 leg/thighs from turkey killed this year at our camp. I just couldn't let them be tossed out so I took them home with me. I've been thinking about how to cook them and came up with this idea. I deboned everything and cleaned it until I had just red meat. I then weighed the turkey meat and added the same amount of Boston butt pork meat with some fat included. I mixed both meats together and passed it through my grinder to make ground meat. I seasoned it with the seasoning listed below and made burgers with it. I was surprised on how good it came out. My wife even ate it knowing it had wild turkey in it and she doesn't eat anything with wild game in it. It's a little work cleaning the turkey meat but I think it was worth the effort
4.5# wild turkey leg/thigh meat
4.5# Boston butt pork with fat
Salt - 58 grams (6.60 grams per lb of meat)
Red Pepper - 7 grams (Cayenne) (.72 grams per lb of meat)
Black Pepper - 9 grams (1.0 grams per lb of meat)
You can round the total amount of each seasoning up or down. (example - Red Pepper 9lbs total meat X .72 grams/lb = 6.48 grams so I rounded it to 7 grams)
I'm with 8upbowhunter.. Only I go a little further and make Italian and breakfast sausage out of them. Turns out great!! Usually mix 60% pork shoulder with 40% wild Turkey(both light and dark meat).. Making sausage is fun, easy, and delicious!!
I chunk mine up and throw it in the croc pot with a can of soup. Usually cream of celery. I like to leave it in there for at least 8 hours.
I use the thighs (four of them) and cook up a pot of gumbo.
Quote from: troutfisher13111 on May 24, 2012, 03:07:16 PM
I chunk mine up and throw it in the croc pot with a can of soup. Usually cream of celery. I like to leave it in there for at least 8 hours.
I do the same only with the addition of cream of mushroom soup. Tastes great over rice.
I just made 4 home-made turkey pot pies this week with 2 drumsticks and 2 thighs. I cooked them for about 4-5 hours in a pot of water with a bunch of seasoning until the meat fell off the bone.
Pot Pie recipe
2 - cans cream of chicken soup
1 - bag of frozen mixed vegetables (peas, carrots, corn & green beans)
about 1/2 to 3/4 cup of milk
Garlic powder
Onion powder
Salt & Pepper
as much meat as you want
your favorite crust(s)
Directions:
de-bone turkey meat and tear up to size pieces you want in your pot pie
heat up frozen vegetables in pot of water until thawed then drain
pour two cans cream of chicken soup into pan then add vegetables and meat.
Add 1/2 cup to 3/4 cup of milk to mixture
Add any seasoning you like (Salt, Pepper, Garlic & Onion etc..)
I usually heat up my filling but not to hot.
I then add filling to my home made crust and then put another crust over top
pinch crusts together, removing excess crust first
then bake it for about 30-40 minutes at 400 degrees or until crust is golden brown.
Let set out of over for about 15 minutes giving filling inside some time to cool and set up.
Enjoy!!
Don't mind my patched up crusts as I am not a perfect crust maker although the crust is what makes the pot pie!
I save them for home protection. All kidding aside some good recipes here.
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Quote from: troutfisher13111 on May 24, 2012, 03:07:16 PM
I chunk mine up and throw it in the croc pot with a can of soup. Usually cream of celery. I like to leave it in there for at least 8 hours.
I do the same only with the addition of cream of mushroom soup. Tastes great over rice.
Same here troutfisher13111 only I use the garlic cream of mushroom soup made by campbells.
I pick every ounce of meat I can off a turkey just like a deer and it goes into the grinder. We like the ground turkey well enough there's usually a few packages of breast meat that ends up in the grinder too.
I use the legs and thighs in Turkey chilli. Delicious
Carnitas. Is this a trick question? :funnyturkey:
You can cook them in an Instant pot for 62 min and it will fall off the bone.