Turkey that spit cordon bleu chicken (turkey), also known as the seven-faced chicken, this is wild, has been domesticated for meat poultry. The whole body is black, white, dark yellow feathers. Head, upper neck bare, with red coral-like skin tumors, throat under the meat pendant, the color from red to purple, can change. Male turkey tail feathers can be unfolded in a fan shape, a bunch of hairballs in front of the chest, female turkeys weighing 8-9 kilograms, the annual production of turkey eggs 50-80 eggs, each egg weighs 20-80 grams. Currently raising varieties of "bronze turkey" and "white turkey" is more.

Turkeys are noted for their large size, rapid growth, disease resistance, high lean meat rate, comparable to broiler chickens, known as "meat machine". Turkey meat is not only tender, light, and in the nutritional value of "a high two low" advantages. A high is the protein South content is high, in more than 30%; two low is turkey meat in foreign countries is considered to be the ideal health food for patients with cardiovascular disease, at the same time, turkey meat is also beneficial to the spleen of the therapeutic good. At present, many countries in the world to turkey meat instead of beef, pork, lamb and duck.

Turkey is a specialty of the Americas, and was domesticated by the Indians before Europeans came to the Americas. The name of the turkey is "Turkey" in English. Because Europeans think it looks like the Turkish costume: body black head red. Europeans loved to eat roast goose. After immigrating to the Americas, they had a request to eat goose before they could raise it well, so they ate turkey and found that turkey was better than goose. And there were a lot of turkeys in North America. So roast turkey became a big American dish, essential for important holidays.

This custom has a history of more than three hundred years.

It is said that on Christmas Day, 1620, a large number of immigrants from Britain arrived at Portsmouth Hill on the American continent. At that time, there were only turkeys scattered all over the mountains, so they caught turkeys as the main dish for the holiday.

So in addition to ham, sweet potatoes, vegetables, raisins, pudding, fruitcake and cocktails, there is of course a turkey in the Christmas meal!

How to cook a turkey

The most traditional way to cook a turkey is very simple, you just need to rub the turkey well inside and out with salt and pepper, and then roast it in the oven for about 3 hours.

Turkey at Christmas

Turkey has been eaten for nearly 400 years. The "Dinner" in "Christmas Dinner" and "Thanks giving Dinner", which symbolizes the harvest and reunion, did not originally refer to dinner. "It was not originally meant to be eaten at dinner, but at noon. Instead, it should be eaten at noon. Thanksgiving Day falls on the Thursday of the fourth week of November. It is very close to Christmas, which is the big holiday of the year. And Christmas is the day to give thanks for the coming of Jesus. Thus, the turkey dinner, which symbolizes thanksgiving, extends to Christmas.

Turkey on the table

The American custom of eating turkey is to stuff the turkey's belly with a variety of ingredients and roast it in the oven. When it is cooked, the whole turkey is brought to the table, and then the roasted turkey is cut up with a knife and fork and served together. In other words, they eat the "whole chicken". Why don't they just cut it up and bring it to the table? It's probably the same reason we eat fish on New Year's Eve and serve it whole instead of fillets. Not only does it take into account the beauty and visual richness of the dish. At the same time, there is also a symbol of family reunion to enjoy a big meal together