Turkey breast (fillet) - 12 recipes

Turkey meat is in great demand among housewives for its tenderness and dietary properties. Recipes for cooking turkey breast have many options, among which there is sure to be one that will appeal to all households.

If the novice culinary specialist has dried the fillet for some reason during cooking, then the situation can be saved by serving cream or sweet and sour sauce to the finished dish.

Oven baked turkey breast with potatoes

1. 400 g turkey fillet is washed, cut into small pieces and dried with paper towels. If the meat is frozen, then it is necessary to withstand it in warm water until completely defrosted, not forgetting to periodically change the liquid.
2. Prepared pieces are laid out in a bowl, sprinkled with salt, pepper and spices. Leave to marinate for ten minutes.
3. Half a kilogram of potatoes is cut into round pieces or pieces equal to meat. Then they are laid out in an even layer in the form, salted, and minted.
4. A small amount of liquid is poured onto the bottom of the mold so that the potatoes in the baking process acquire a soft consistency and soak in the aroma of meat and spices.
5. The large onion is peeled and cut into thin half rings that are evenly distributed over the potatoes.
6. A layer of turkey is laid out on top. The mold is covered with a lid or foil and set to bake at 200 ° C for one hour. Ten minutes before the end of cooking, the lid or foil is removed to obtain a delicious crust.
7. If desired, the dish can be sprinkled with grated cheese.

It is interesting: what to cook from turkey fillet?

Juicy meat in tomato and cheese sauce

1. 350 gr of washed and dried meat is diced.
2. Carrots are washed, cut in the same way.
3. A deep frying pan is heated with vegetable oil. Meat and carrots are laid out in it, fried until golden brown.
4. The medium-sized onion is peeled, cut into half rings and added to the meat. Fried for five minutes.
5. Three teaspoons of tomato paste are mixed with a glass of water and poured into a pan. Everything is closed by a lid and left to simmer for 20 minutes.
6. Large juicy bell pepper is peeled from seeds and stalk, diced and added to the stew with vegetables. Everything is mixed and cooked under the lid for another five minutes.
7. Four triangles of cream cheese are broken into small pieces and added to the pan, knead with a fork and cook for another ten minutes.
8. Added salt, black pepper, a pinch of coriander. The ingredients are mixed, the fire turns off, the dish is left under the lid for about five minutes.

Unusual turkey fillet salad with cucumber

1. 300 g of chilled boiled meat is cut into a small cube.
2. A pair of small young cucumbers is washed and cut similarly.
3. Two eggs are boiled, and chopped as well.
4. A bunch of green onions finely chopped.
5. All ingredients are laid out in a salad bowl and mixed.
6. In a separate bowl, 200 ml of low-fat sour cream with three tbsp. tablespoons of soy sauce, chopped garlic cloves and ground black pepper.
7. The salad is seasoned with sour cream sauce, if desired, it is salted and served at the table.

You should not prepare the dish in advance, since the released juice from cucumbers will spoil its appearance.

Cooking recipe with mushrooms and cream

Turkey fillet goes well with fresh forest or artificially grown mushrooms. The dish turns out incredibly tasty, juicy, aromatic.

Forest mushrooms are pre-boiled, or fried for 15 minutes, while champignons or oyster mushrooms do not need preliminary heat treatment.

1. 800 g of white meat is washed, wiped and cut in any form. Then it is fried in a saucepan in vegetable oil for five minutes.
2. A large onion, diced and half a kilogram of mushrooms, sliced, are added to the meat, and fried for another five minutes.
3. After frying, 400 ml of fresh cream is poured into the fillet with mushrooms, brought to a boil. The gas is reduced, the stewpan is covered with a lid where the ingredients are stewed for 40 minutes.
4. 10 minutes before graduation, the dish is salted.

Turkey breast in soy-honey sauce

1. In a bowl 4 tbsp mixed. tablespoons of soy sauce with a couple of tbsp. tablespoons of liquid honey, 1 ½ teaspoon of ground ginger, teaspoon of sweet paprika, 2 slices of chopped garlic, white and black ground pepper, teaspoon of balsamic vinegar.
2. Half a kilogram of turkey fillet is cut into portions, mixed with marinade and put in the refrigerator for infusion. The minimum pickling time is 25 minutes.
3. Large bell peppers or a pair of small peppers, peeled from seeds and stalk, cut into thin strips.
4. Large onion - in half rings, carrots - on a coarse grater.
5. 3-4 tbsp. Pour into a pan with a thick bottom tablespoons of vegetable oil.
6. The meat is reclined in a colander, collecting the sauce in a separate bowl.
7. The marinated portion of the turkey is fried in a pan for 4-5 minutes, constantly stirring. After laid out in a separate cup. The oily layer remains in the pan.
8. In the remaining oil, onions and carrots are fried for a couple of minutes, then bell pepper is added to them, continuing to be passaged for another 3 minutes.
9. The sauce poured from meat is poured into the fried vegetables, pieces of meat are laid out. The fire is reduced to medium. The contents of the pan are stewed with constant stirring for about a couple of minutes, after which the gas turns off.The dish is closed with a lid and infused for 10 minutes.

Juicy and soft fillet with onion sauce in a slow cooker

Preparing a turkey breast soft and juicy using a slow cooker is not at all difficult, you just need to follow the cooking steps in the described order.

1. 700 g of meat is cut into portioned pieces, and stacked in a deep bowl.
2. 4 large onions are peeled and cut into half rings. Mixed with meat.
3. Coarse carrots are grated and sprinkled over onions and meat.
4. Then 4 tbsp. Pour into the bowl. tablespoons of soy sauce, black pepper and curry are added. Everything is mixed up.
5. At the bottom of the bowl of the device is poured Art. spoon of vegetable oil, the contents of the bowl are laid out on top.
6. The crock-pot turns on the "Extinguishing" mode for 50 minutes. After half the time, the contents of the bowl must be mixed, and if necessary, add.
7. 5 minutes before being prepared for stew, a bunch of chopped finely chopped greens is added. If you need to get a thick sauce, then the device for the remaining time does not close the lid.

Bake a sharp breast in foil

1. About a liter of cold water is poured into the pan, in which st. a spoonful of salt. Then 1.5 kg of washed skinless fillet is placed in the salt liquid and aged for 2 hours.
2. After time, the meat is taken, wiped with a paper towel and stuffed with pieces of garlic cloves.
3. In a bowl is mixed a couple of Art. tablespoons of acute adjika with 2 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil and half a teaspoon of red ground pepper.
4. The salted meat is rubbed with the burning mixture, after which it is wrapped in baking foil and put in the oven, previously heated to 200 ° C, for half an hour.
5. After the expiration of the period, the fire is turned off, and the spicy dish is left in the closed oven for 1.5 hours.

Turkey fillet ragout with vegetables

The composition of the vegetable stew with turkey can be supplemented with any vegetables in any quantity, and also use fresh mushrooms during cooking, improving the taste and benefit of the dish.

1. 400 g fillet without skin is cut into a rather large cube and fried in vegetable oil until a crust forms.
2. In a separate frying pan, the onion is cut, diced with carrots, grated or cut into circles. Then a young unpeeled zucchini and a pair of bell peppers are added to the vegetables. All ingredients are fried until cooked.
3. 800 g of young potatoes, peeled and cut in a similar way, as well as 200 g of chopped cabbage are added to the meat in a stewpan. Everything is filled with water so that it reaches the top of the ingredients, brought to a boil. It is closed by a lid, and stewed over low heat for 20 minutes.
4. The contents of the pan are laid out in a stewpan. The stew is salted, peppered, 3-5 minced cloves of garlic are added, greens and simmer for another 15 minutes.

Chops recipe

1. 600 gr fillet without skin, bones and tendons is cut into slices across the fibers with a thickness of up to one and a half centimeters. Then each part laid between the layers of the film is slightly beaten off with a hammer.
2. Small bowl of salt, ground pepper, a pinch of sugar and seasoning for chicken are mixed in a bowl. Each chop is rubbed with a mixture. The meat with spices, folded in a bowl, is poured with cold cow's milk and left for an hour for pickling.
3. A pair of eggs with a small amount of salt is mixed in a separate plate, and another plate with sifted wheat or corn flour is placed next to it.
4. Pat the pickled portion of the chop with a paper towel, then roll in succession in flour and egg. Place on a hot frying pan greased with vegetable oil.
5. The meat is fried on both sides until golden brown. Turning a piece on the non-fried side, it is recommended to reduce the heat to medium, and close the pan with a lid.

Turkey breast rolls with garlic and cheese

1. Cut 2 turkey breasts into strips across the fibers, beat off and coat with soy sauce.
2. 50 g of hard cheese grate on a large cell grater mix with a bunch of finely chopped greens.
3. The filling is laid out on chop strips, which are twisted in the form of rolls and fastened with a wooden toothpick.
4. The dish is fried on all sides until golden brown in a preheated pan with non-stick coating.
5. In a separate bowl, mix 100 g of sour cream or unsweetened yogurt with a finely chopped clove of garlic and 50 g of cheese.
6. For each fried roll put a spoonful of sour cream sauce, cover the pan with a lid, turn off the gas. After ten minutes, the dish can be served.

Under the cheese crust

1. The breast is cut into portioned pieces, which are slightly beaten, smeared with salt-pepper mixture and laid out on a greased baking sheet.
2. In a separate bowl, mayonnaise and garlic are mixed (based on one piece of meat - a tbsp.spoon of mayonnaise and a clove of garlic).
3. The surface of the meat is greased with a mayonnaise mixture, generously sprinkled on top with grated hard cheese.
4. The baking sheet is placed in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 20-25 minutes.

Pan steak

1. In a shallow bowl, 20 grams of olive oil are mixed with 30 grams of mustard seeds, 10 black pepper peas, a mixture of herbs and salt.
2. Fresh turkey fillet, weighing 1 kg, is cut into pieces about 2 cm thick, which are slightly beaten with a hammer and rubbed with the cooked marinade.
3. The pickled meat is put in the refrigerator for half an hour.
4. In a hot frying pan with sunflower oil, steaks are fried on both sides for 3 minutes until an appetizing crust is formed. After frying, the gas is reduced, the pan is covered with a lid, the meat is brought to readiness.