Marcela Valladolid uses a special meat syringe to a mixture of chicken stock, melted butter and tequila hit right into the breast, thighs and legs of the turkey, and the meat turned out very сочным. 
Time: 3 час. 50 min Difficulty: easy Servings: one 0 – 12 Recipes used volumetric containers: 1 cup (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
- 1 turkey (6.3 kg.), Remove the entrails and save
- 3 and 3/4 Art. chicken broth (portioned)
- 3 tbsp. l tequila
- Salt
- 4 tbsp. l (55 gr.) Melted butter
- 1/3 Art. apricot confiture
- 2 tsp broken pieces of dried oregano
- 2 cloves of garlic
- Ground black pepper
- 5 dry long green Anaheim chili peppers (peeled and stalks)
- Dried apricots (dried apricots), chili peppers, fresh cilantro, for decoration
- Optional equipment: meat syringe
Recipes with similar ingredients: Turkey, Chili, Apricot jam, dried apricots, cilantro, oregano, garlic, tequila
Recipe preparation:
- In a medium-sized pot, put chili peppers and pour 2 tbsp. chicken stock. Bring to a boil and turn off the heat. Leave pepper in the broth for 5-10 minutes to make it soft.
- In a small metal bowl, mix 3/4 tbsp. chicken broth, melted butter and tequila. Salt. Dial this mix with a meat syringe and stick into the thighs, breasts and legs of the turkey. If a the mixture begins to solidify, place the bowl on a gas burner or in warm oven until the butter melts again.
- Put chili pepper with liquid in a blender. Add apricot pulp, oregano, garlic and beat until smooth. Salt and pepper to taste. Transfer the chili puree to the stewpan medium size. Spread turkey with chili puree, about a glass (leave the rest for sauce at the end of cooking), a little mashed potatoes put under the skin of the bird in the area of the breast. Salt well and pepper the turkey.
- Preheat the oven to 220 ° C. Put the turkey on the wire rack, set in a baking dish. Tuck the tips of the wings under carcass. Tie the legs with kitchen thread. Fold off the giblets in a form. Pour the remaining glass of broth into the mold and bake for 45 minutes.
- Reduce oven temperature to 180 ° C. Keep baking turkey for about 2 hours, pouring it with the allocated juice every 20 min., until the culinary thermometer shows 75 ° C in the thickest parts of the thigh. If the skin starts to burn, cover loosely turkey foil. Put the turkey on the dish, leaving it stand out juice, and let stand while you prepare the sauce.
- Strain the juice from the baking dish into a large heavy saucepan and discard all the hard pieces. Spoon fat from the surface with a spoon liquid and throw it away. In the pan, add the remaining mashed potatoes from chili peppers and mix well. Cook over high heat until the sauce slightly thicken, about 10 minutes Salt and pepper over garnish. Garnish the turkey with dried apricots, dried chili peppers and fresh cilantro. Serve with mashed chili.
