Does anyone have a recipe for the BBQ grill for turducken?!
Answers:
here you go right from chef paul but use a smoker at 250 degrees instead of the oven it cooks up awesome!
Chef Paul Prudhomme's
TURDUCKEN
It's a lot of fun to let your guests think you're serving them a regular holiday turkey!. When you start to carve the "turkey", they'll be quite surprised to see you cut right through its "bones"!
Since the Turducken takes about 12 hours to cook, you will need to plan your time wisely!. The quickest way is to get friends or family members to make the dressings (or, if you're on your own, you will need to make the three dressings the day before boning the fowl and assembling the Turducken)!.
Cover the dressings tightly, and refrigerate them for several hours so they will be well-chilled before you place them in the meat!. You can bone the meat (be sure to save the bones for stock) and assemble the Turducken the day before cooking -- and family or friends can have fun helping you with this, too! Keep the Turducken refrigerated until ready to cook!. Make the gravy after the Turducken comes out of the oven!.
To stuff the Turducken itself, you will need about 7 cups of the andouille dressing, about 4 cups of the cornbread dressing, and about 3 cups of the oyster dressing!. It's also nice to serve additional dressing from bowls at the table, so we've told you in the list of ingredients how many times to multiply each dressing recipe to have plenty extra!.
If you're inexperienced at boning fowl, start with the turkey; because of it's size, you can more easily see the bone structure!. After boning the turkey, the duck and the chicken will go much faster!. Remember, each time you do a Turducken it gets easier; it doesn't take magical cooking abilities, it just takes care!. What is magical is the way people eating your Turducken will feel about your food!
NOTE: If you're really inexperienced with boning fowl, and this is scaring you off from making the Turducken, have your butcher do it for you!. That's really the hardest part -- the rest is fun!
Ingredients for assembling the Turducken:
? 4 recipes Andoullie Smoked Sausage Dressing
? 2 recipes Cornbread Dressing
? 4 recipes Oyster Dressing
? One 20 to 25 pound turkey
? One 4 to 5 pound domestic duckling
? One 3 to 3-1/2 pound young chicken
? About 7 tablespoons Creole Seasoningor Chef Prudhomme's commercially packaged Cajun Poultry Magic seasoning
? 5 recipes Sweet potato Eggplant Gravy
Tools needed:
? One small hammer
? One 3-inch needle; a "packing" needle with a curved tip works well
? One 15x11 inch baking pan, at least 2-1/2 inches deep
? One pan, larger than the 15x11 pan, that the smaller pan will fit inside with room to spare
Make the three dressings, then refrigerate!.
Boning the fowl
It's helpful to keep the following in mind:
1!. Your goal is to end up with one large piece of essentially boneless turkey meat; the finished product will contain only the tip end of each leg bone and the first two joints of each wing!. You will end up with one piece of completely boneless duck meat, and one piece of completely boneless chicken meat!.
2!. Be careful not to pierce the skin except for the initial slits!. Cuts in the skin tend to enlarge during cooking and make the end result less attractive, as well as more dry!.
3!. Allow yourself plenty of time, especially if you're a beginner!. And even if you're experienced, approach the boning procedure with a gentle, careful touch -- the meat is not tough and you want to end up with as much of it as possible!.
4!. Bone one side of each bird -- either the left or the right -- before doing the other side!.
5!. Use a sharp boning knife and use mainly the tip; stay close to the bone at all times with the knife!. 6!. It's worth the time and effort!
To bone the turkey:
Place the turkey, breast down, on a flat surface!. Make an incision the entire length of the spine through the skin and flesh!. Starting from the neck end and using the tip of the knife, follow as closely to the bone as you can cut, carefully teasing the skin and meat away from the frame!. Toward the neck end, cut through the meat to expose the shoulder blade (feel for it first and cut through small amounts of meat at a time if you have trouble locating it); cut the meat away from around the bone and sever the bone at the joint so you can remove the blade!.
Disjoint the wing between the second and third joint; free the heavy drumstick of the wing and remove it, being careful to leave the skin intact!. Continue teasing the meat away from the backbone, heading toward the thighbone and being careful to keep the "oyster" -- the pocket of meat on the back -- attached to the skin instead of leaving it with the bone!.
Cut through the ball-and-socket joint to release the thigh bone from the carcass; you should now be able to open the bird up more in order to better see what bones are still left to deal with!. Continue teasing the meat away from the carcass until you reach the center front of the breast bone!. Then very carefully separate the skin from the breast bone at the midline without piercing the skin (go slowly because the skin is very thin at this point)!.
Repeat the same boning procedure on the other side of the turkey, with the turkey still breast down!. When both sides are finished, carefully remove the carcass!. Save carcass for stock or gumbo!.
Remove the thigh and leg bone on each side as follows: being careful not to break through the skin, use a small hammer to break the leg bone completely across, about two inches from the tip end!. Then manipulate both ends of the bone with your hands to be sure the break is complete!. Leave the tip of the bone in, but remove the leg bone and thigh bone as one unit!. To do this, cut the meat away form around the thigh bone first, using the knife tip; then, holding the thigh bone up with one hand, use the other hand to carefully cut the meat away from around the leg-thigh joint!. (Don't cut through this joint, and don't worry if it seems as if you're leaving a lot of meat around the joint -- it can't be helped, and besides, it will add flavor to the stock you make with the bones!)
Then use the blade of the knife to scrape the meat way from the leg bone; remove the leg-thigh bone!. With your hands or the knife, one by one remove as many bin bones from the leg meat as possible!. Then, if necessary, pull the tip of the leg bone to turn the meat to the inside, so the skin is on the outside and it looks like a regular turkey again!. Refrigerate!.
To bone the duck:
Place the duck, breast down, on a flat surface and follow the same procedures you did to bone the turkey, except this time you will remove all of the bones, instead of leaving in part of the wing and leg bones!.
To bone each wing, cut off the first two joints of the wing, leaving the wing's drumstick!. Cut the meat from around the drumstick and remove this bone!.
When you reach the thigh, follow the thigh-leg bone with the knife blade to release the bone as one unit; again, be careful not to cut the skin!.
Trim some of the excess skin and fat from around the neck area!. Cut the skin in small pieces and reserve it for making the gravy!. Discard the fat!. Refrigerate the duck and skin pieces!.
To bone the chicken:
Use precisely the same procedure to bone the chicken as you used to bone the duck!.
To assemble the Turducken:
Spread the turkey, skin down, on a flat surface, exposing as much meat as possible!. Sprinkle the meat generously and evenly with a total of about 3 tablespoons of the Creole seasoning, patting the seasoning in with your hands!. (Be sure to turn the leg, thigh and wing meat to the outside so you can season it too!.)
Then stuff some of the cold andouille dressing into the leg, thigh and wing cavities until full but not tightly packed!. (If too tightly packed, it may cause the leg and wing to burst open during cooking)!. Spread an even layer of the dressing over the remaining exposed meat, about 1/2 to 3/4 inches thick!. You should use a total of about 7 cups dressing!.
Place the duck, skin down, on top of the andouille dressing, arranging the duck evenly over the dressing!. Season the exposed duck meat generously and evenly withCreole seasoning, using about 1 tablespoon, and pressing it in with your hands!. Then spread the cold cornbread dressingevenly over the exposed duck meat, making the layer slightly less thick than the andouille dressing, about 1/2 inch thick!. Repeat with the chicken and the oyster dressing!.
Enlist another person's help to carefully lift the open Turducken into an ungreased 15x11 baking pan that is at least 2-1/2 inches deep!. (NOTE: this pan size is ideal because the Turducken fits snugly in the pan and stays in the proper shape while cooking)!.
As you life the Turducken into the pan, fold the sides of the turkey together to close the bird!. Have your helper hold the turkey closed while you sew up all the openings, making the stitches about 1 inch apart!. When you finish sewing up the Turducken on the first side, turn it over in the pan to sew closed any openings in the other side!. Then tie the legs together, just above the tip bones!. Leave the turducken to cook, breast side up, in the pan, tucking in the turkey wings!.
Place the Turducken pan in a slightly larger pan with sides at least 2-1/2" deep, so that the larger pan will catch the overflow of drippings during cooking!. Season the exposed side of the Turducken with about 2 tablespoons of Creole seasoning, patting it in with your hands!. Refrigerate until ready to bake!.
Bake the Turducken at 190°F, about 12 hours, until done, or until a meat thermometer inserted through to the center reads 165F!. (NOTE -- there's no need to baste, but you will need to remove accumulated drippings from the Turducken pan every couple of hours so that the lowWww@FoodAQ@Com
Chef Paul Prudhomme's
TURDUCKEN
It's a lot of fun to let your guests think you're serving them a regular holiday turkey!. When you start to carve the "turkey", they'll be quite surprised to see you cut right through its "bones"!
Since the Turducken takes about 12 hours to cook, you will need to plan your time wisely!. The quickest way is to get friends or family members to make the dressings (or, if you're on your own, you will need to make the three dressings the day before boning the fowl and assembling the Turducken)!.
Cover the dressings tightly, and refrigerate them for several hours so they will be well-chilled before you place them in the meat!. You can bone the meat (be sure to save the bones for stock) and assemble the Turducken the day before cooking -- and family or friends can have fun helping you with this, too! Keep the Turducken refrigerated until ready to cook!. Make the gravy after the Turducken comes out of the oven!.
To stuff the Turducken itself, you will need about 7 cups of the andouille dressing, about 4 cups of the cornbread dressing, and about 3 cups of the oyster dressing!. It's also nice to serve additional dressing from bowls at the table, so we've told you in the list of ingredients how many times to multiply each dressing recipe to have plenty extra!.
If you're inexperienced at boning fowl, start with the turkey; because of it's size, you can more easily see the bone structure!. After boning the turkey, the duck and the chicken will go much faster!. Remember, each time you do a Turducken it gets easier; it doesn't take magical cooking abilities, it just takes care!. What is magical is the way people eating your Turducken will feel about your food!
NOTE: If you're really inexperienced with boning fowl, and this is scaring you off from making the Turducken, have your butcher do it for you!. That's really the hardest part -- the rest is fun!
Ingredients for assembling the Turducken:
? 4 recipes Andoullie Smoked Sausage Dressing
? 2 recipes Cornbread Dressing
? 4 recipes Oyster Dressing
? One 20 to 25 pound turkey
? One 4 to 5 pound domestic duckling
? One 3 to 3-1/2 pound young chicken
? About 7 tablespoons Creole Seasoningor Chef Prudhomme's commercially packaged Cajun Poultry Magic seasoning
? 5 recipes Sweet potato Eggplant Gravy
Tools needed:
? One small hammer
? One 3-inch needle; a "packing" needle with a curved tip works well
? One 15x11 inch baking pan, at least 2-1/2 inches deep
? One pan, larger than the 15x11 pan, that the smaller pan will fit inside with room to spare
Make the three dressings, then refrigerate!.
Boning the fowl
It's helpful to keep the following in mind:
1!. Your goal is to end up with one large piece of essentially boneless turkey meat; the finished product will contain only the tip end of each leg bone and the first two joints of each wing!. You will end up with one piece of completely boneless duck meat, and one piece of completely boneless chicken meat!.
2!. Be careful not to pierce the skin except for the initial slits!. Cuts in the skin tend to enlarge during cooking and make the end result less attractive, as well as more dry!.
3!. Allow yourself plenty of time, especially if you're a beginner!. And even if you're experienced, approach the boning procedure with a gentle, careful touch -- the meat is not tough and you want to end up with as much of it as possible!.
4!. Bone one side of each bird -- either the left or the right -- before doing the other side!.
5!. Use a sharp boning knife and use mainly the tip; stay close to the bone at all times with the knife!. 6!. It's worth the time and effort!
To bone the turkey:
Place the turkey, breast down, on a flat surface!. Make an incision the entire length of the spine through the skin and flesh!. Starting from the neck end and using the tip of the knife, follow as closely to the bone as you can cut, carefully teasing the skin and meat away from the frame!. Toward the neck end, cut through the meat to expose the shoulder blade (feel for it first and cut through small amounts of meat at a time if you have trouble locating it); cut the meat away from around the bone and sever the bone at the joint so you can remove the blade!.
Disjoint the wing between the second and third joint; free the heavy drumstick of the wing and remove it, being careful to leave the skin intact!. Continue teasing the meat away from the backbone, heading toward the thighbone and being careful to keep the "oyster" -- the pocket of meat on the back -- attached to the skin instead of leaving it with the bone!.
Cut through the ball-and-socket joint to release the thigh bone from the carcass; you should now be able to open the bird up more in order to better see what bones are still left to deal with!. Continue teasing the meat away from the carcass until you reach the center front of the breast bone!. Then very carefully separate the skin from the breast bone at the midline without piercing the skin (go slowly because the skin is very thin at this point)!.
Repeat the same boning procedure on the other side of the turkey, with the turkey still breast down!. When both sides are finished, carefully remove the carcass!. Save carcass for stock or gumbo!.
Remove the thigh and leg bone on each side as follows: being careful not to break through the skin, use a small hammer to break the leg bone completely across, about two inches from the tip end!. Then manipulate both ends of the bone with your hands to be sure the break is complete!. Leave the tip of the bone in, but remove the leg bone and thigh bone as one unit!. To do this, cut the meat away form around the thigh bone first, using the knife tip; then, holding the thigh bone up with one hand, use the other hand to carefully cut the meat away from around the leg-thigh joint!. (Don't cut through this joint, and don't worry if it seems as if you're leaving a lot of meat around the joint -- it can't be helped, and besides, it will add flavor to the stock you make with the bones!)
Then use the blade of the knife to scrape the meat way from the leg bone; remove the leg-thigh bone!. With your hands or the knife, one by one remove as many bin bones from the leg meat as possible!. Then, if necessary, pull the tip of the leg bone to turn the meat to the inside, so the skin is on the outside and it looks like a regular turkey again!. Refrigerate!.
To bone the duck:
Place the duck, breast down, on a flat surface and follow the same procedures you did to bone the turkey, except this time you will remove all of the bones, instead of leaving in part of the wing and leg bones!.
To bone each wing, cut off the first two joints of the wing, leaving the wing's drumstick!. Cut the meat from around the drumstick and remove this bone!.
When you reach the thigh, follow the thigh-leg bone with the knife blade to release the bone as one unit; again, be careful not to cut the skin!.
Trim some of the excess skin and fat from around the neck area!. Cut the skin in small pieces and reserve it for making the gravy!. Discard the fat!. Refrigerate the duck and skin pieces!.
To bone the chicken:
Use precisely the same procedure to bone the chicken as you used to bone the duck!.
To assemble the Turducken:
Spread the turkey, skin down, on a flat surface, exposing as much meat as possible!. Sprinkle the meat generously and evenly with a total of about 3 tablespoons of the Creole seasoning, patting the seasoning in with your hands!. (Be sure to turn the leg, thigh and wing meat to the outside so you can season it too!.)
Then stuff some of the cold andouille dressing into the leg, thigh and wing cavities until full but not tightly packed!. (If too tightly packed, it may cause the leg and wing to burst open during cooking)!. Spread an even layer of the dressing over the remaining exposed meat, about 1/2 to 3/4 inches thick!. You should use a total of about 7 cups dressing!.
Place the duck, skin down, on top of the andouille dressing, arranging the duck evenly over the dressing!. Season the exposed duck meat generously and evenly withCreole seasoning, using about 1 tablespoon, and pressing it in with your hands!. Then spread the cold cornbread dressingevenly over the exposed duck meat, making the layer slightly less thick than the andouille dressing, about 1/2 inch thick!. Repeat with the chicken and the oyster dressing!.
Enlist another person's help to carefully lift the open Turducken into an ungreased 15x11 baking pan that is at least 2-1/2 inches deep!. (NOTE: this pan size is ideal because the Turducken fits snugly in the pan and stays in the proper shape while cooking)!.
As you life the Turducken into the pan, fold the sides of the turkey together to close the bird!. Have your helper hold the turkey closed while you sew up all the openings, making the stitches about 1 inch apart!. When you finish sewing up the Turducken on the first side, turn it over in the pan to sew closed any openings in the other side!. Then tie the legs together, just above the tip bones!. Leave the turducken to cook, breast side up, in the pan, tucking in the turkey wings!.
Place the Turducken pan in a slightly larger pan with sides at least 2-1/2" deep, so that the larger pan will catch the overflow of drippings during cooking!. Season the exposed side of the Turducken with about 2 tablespoons of Creole seasoning, patting it in with your hands!. Refrigerate until ready to bake!.
Bake the Turducken at 190°F, about 12 hours, until done, or until a meat thermometer inserted through to the center reads 165F!. (NOTE -- there's no need to baste, but you will need to remove accumulated drippings from the Turducken pan every couple of hours so that the lowWww@FoodAQ@Com
I don't think there is anyway you're going to be able to get the turducken cooked all the way through to the center on a grill without overcooking the outside terribly!.
The only method I could suggest, since all of the meat is deboned anyway, would be to butterfly it open and cook it flat using a meat thermometer to make sure it gets done all the way!. of curse, this would only work with a turducken that isn't stuffed with dressing!.
You might also be able to get a grilled flavor by starting it on the grill and finishing it in the oven!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
The only method I could suggest, since all of the meat is deboned anyway, would be to butterfly it open and cook it flat using a meat thermometer to make sure it gets done all the way!. of curse, this would only work with a turducken that isn't stuffed with dressing!.
You might also be able to get a grilled flavor by starting it on the grill and finishing it in the oven!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I think you have to debone everything!. Stuff the turkey with the duck, and the duck with the chicken, and for added flavor, stuff the chicken with a hamster, the hamster with a gerbil, and the gerbil with a mouse!.
Sounds like a lot of damned work to me, and it'd be hard to grill a large sized turkey successfully anyway!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Sounds like a lot of damned work to me, and it'd be hard to grill a large sized turkey successfully anyway!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
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Good luck!. Sounds like too much work for me!.
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Good luck!. Sounds like too much work for me!.
Regards,
DanWww@FoodAQ@Com