Your favorite way to cook your bird ?

[turkeyfeathers]

Curious to any favorite ways you guys/gals cook up your bird.

Mine is  breast brined for a few hours,little bit of Bearman dry rub, wrapped in bacon and smoked over some apple chips.  Let's hear your go to recipes. Thanks in advance

[ants]

I have a bunch of favorite ways….& smoking it is one. I made last years tom, a few weeks ago. Made creamed wild turkey & wild rice soup. It was WILD LOL!! Seriously though….good stuff..

[Lawdwaz]

The only way I'll EVER do a wild turkey breast anymore is to grind it and make turkey tetrazzini.

 

 

 

(Thanks Tim)

[2012_taco]

Got some breasts in the freezer, think I might try the bacon smoker recipe.

[TeeBugg]

Deep fry the whole bird. Injected with jalapeno/butter marinade. Mmmm reminds me i need to get more peanut oil

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[Zag]

TBug, im with you. We injected one with hot sauce and fried that bird. Always a good time drinking with your hunting buddy's while the bird fryin!!

Edited April 29, 2014 by zag

[TeeBugg]

Heck yeah!

[agross]

Well for me its only been one bird so far.  But I breast it out and cut into strips and made fried turkey cutlet strips with a nice cold coors light.  After hunting ritual which is a carry over from the coors light bacon wrapped  back strap from deer  season.

[Doc]

So, does anyone actually pluck the feathers and roast it like a conventional Thanksgiving turkey, or isn't it done that way?

[Lawdwaz]

So, does anyone actually pluck the feathers and roast it like a conventional Thanksgiving turkey, or isn't it done that way?

 

The first turkey I ever killed back in 1981 was plucked in the basement at home.  OMG..........OMG.........what a mistake THAT was. 

 

 

 

Did I mention that was the last turkey I ever plucked?

 

YMMV.............But if you're going to pluck one, do it on a windy day.

[TeeBugg]

My fiance plucked mine last year...that was fun! Then we did the garbage can turkey and it was pretty good actually. Shes never had a fried turkey so hopefully this season i can get one to fry!

[Grizz1219]

Garbage can turkey????????

 

[TeeBugg]

Youtube it. Basically set the bird on a stake, cover with a metal can and have charcoal around the outside bottom of can. Turns out pretty good

[TeeBugg]

I would advise to inject it if possible. Or shove a bunch butter an spices under the skin

[reeltime]

if you do the garbage can turkey make sure you burn the galvinization from the INSIDE of the garbage can. you have to make sure all the galvinize is off the metal on the inside as its toxic.  what we have done iin the past is roll up a bunch of newspapers and put them in the garbage can and lite them up, while its burning we toss in cardboard tomake the fire hotter. This is done until the can is really hot then we wash it out and check to see if its clean, if not repeat step one.

 

 

used to pluck them and cook like a conventional bird except we covered the bird with bacon.

 

now I breast them out, wash them off good and then put each half in a 1 gallon ziplick bag and put a full bottle of wishbone italian dressing in each bag. that goes in the freezer, when I take them out I put the bag in the fridge and thaw it.  once thawed I put the entire bag contents in the crock pot and add about 1/2 a drinking glass of water, turn on low and cook for 8-9 hours..   there is rarely anything left for leftovers!

 

we have done them the same way using sugar cure instead of italian dressing.

 

[TeeBugg]

if you do the garbage can turkey make sure you burn the galvinization from the INSIDE of the garbage can. you have to make sure all the galvinize is off the metal on the inside as its toxic. what we have done iin the past is roll up a bunch of newspapers and put them in the garbage can and lite them up, while its burning we toss in cardboard tomake the fire hotter. This is done until the can is really hot then we wash it out and check to see if its clean, if not repeat step one.

used to pluck them and cook like a conventional bird except we covered the bird with bacon.

now I breast them out, wash them off good and then put each half in a 1 gallon ziplick bag and put a full bottle of wishbone italian dressing in each bag. that goes in the freezer, when I take them out I put the bag in the fridge and thaw it. once thawed I put the entire bag contents in the crock pot and add about 1/2 a drinking glass of water, turn on low and cook for 8-9 hours.. there is rarely anything left for leftovers!

we have done them the same way using sugar cure instead of italian dressing.

Yep forgot to add that you should burn a few fires in it first!

[papabear]

pot pies also a nice turkey stew is always a good way to go

[518BowSlayer]

Deep fry the whole bird. Injected with jalapeno/butter marinade. Mmmm reminds me i need to get more peanut oil Sent from my SCH-I200 using Tapatalk

you pluck the feathers or just skin him???

[TeeBugg]

Pluck it

[ants]

Youtube it. Basically set the bird on a stake, cover with a metal can and have charcoal around the outside bottom of can. Turns out pretty good

 

 

A friend did a store bought bird that way, a few years back at a cook out he had. It was great….

Never tried it myself though.

[TeeBugg]

Did one last spring, and it ws amazing! Im used to deep frying, turkey soup, strips so this was nice to have a break from the norm. This year i got some jalapeno/butter injectable marinade for one hehe

[josephmrtn]

Crockpot

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[mpavlus]

Wild turkey marsala. Excellent dish.

[jjb4900]

I always roast the whole bird, not a big fan of just using the breast and tossing the rest as garbage......no matter how you cook it, try and use the whole bird in one way or another.

[Berniez]

Fillet the breast into thin cultlets. Place a slice of prosciutto (Orif cheap boilr ham) and swiss cheese on the cutlet and roll (use toothpicks to keep closed).  Drench in flour . Salt and pepper the cutlet.  In a pan melt butter and saute the cutlets.  When slightly browned add some white wine,chicken broth and  finely sliced mushrooms. Cover until done (Do not overcook.)  Serve with parsley buttered red potatoes.

Boil the thighs and legs making a great turley consumee. (Throw throw the drumsticks out) and chop the thighs to be made as a turkey salad.