🦃 Thanksgiving turkey dinner

Name: Thanksgiving turkey dinner
Total time: 240 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 1 whole turkey, about 5 kg; 300 g day-old bread, cubed, with onion, celery and sage for stuffing; 500 ml turkey or chicken stock; 2 tbsp flour for the gravy; 1 kg potatoes; 100 ml milk and 30 g butter for the mash; 300 g cranberries, 100 g sugar and 100 ml water; Salt, pepper and thyme

Origin: United States

742kcal

per serving · 450 g

165kcal

per 100 g

58 gProtein13 g / 100 g

27 gFat6 g / 100 g

54 gCarbs12 g / 100 g

The classic Thanksgiving plate centres on slices of roast turkey, served with bread stuffing, rich gravy made from the pan juices, tart cranberry sauce and creamy mashed potatoes. The meat is savoury and juicy, the stuffing herby and soft, and the cranberry sauce cuts through with sweet-sour brightness. It is the traditional holiday meal shared by families in the United States in late November.

Diets

✓

High protein13 g protein per 100 g — 32% of the calories

Pork — checkbecause of: stuffing, gravy

Not vegetarianbecause of: turkey, stuffing, gravy

Not veganbecause of: turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potato

Contains glutenbecause of: stuffing, gravy

Contains dairybecause of: mashed potato

Not keto12 g carbs per 100 g

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Gluten ⚠ Milk

What it is made of

turkeystuffinggravycranberry saucemashed potato

Recipe

8 servings240 min

Ingredients

1 whole turkey, about 5 kg
300 g day-old bread, cubed, with onion, celery and sage for stuffing
500 ml turkey or chicken stock
2 tbsp flour for the gravy
1 kg potatoes
100 ml milk and 30 g butter for the mash
300 g cranberries, 100 g sugar and 100 ml water
Salt, pepper and thyme

Method

Season the turkey and roast at 165 °C for about 3–3½ hours, until the thickest part of the thigh reaches 74 °C.
Mix the bread with sautéed onion, celery, sage and some stock and bake in a dish for 40 minutes.
Simmer cranberries with sugar and water for 10 minutes until they burst.
Boil the potatoes and mash with warm milk and butter.
Whisk the flour into the pan juices, add stock and simmer into gravy; carve and serve everything together.

How to make it lighter

Choose white breast meat and remove the skin.
Go easy on gravy and stuffing; fill the rest of the plate with roast vegetables.
Cut the sugar in the cranberry sauce by a third.

History

Turkey became the customary centrepiece of Thanksgiving in the 19th century, after the holiday was promoted nationally and proclaimed by President Lincoln in 1863. The menu of stuffing, cranberry sauce and mashed potatoes grew into a fixed tradition over the following decades.

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