We have all seen the mouth-watering pictures of roast turkey, which is an indispensable dish on the westerners' Thanksgiving and Christmas table. Roast turkey is also a traditional food in Western food culture, and Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving to celebrate the holiday. Do you want to know what the American roast turkey is like? Then read on!
Thanksgiving was first introduced by the U.S. Thanksgiving is the most authentic and American American holiday of the U.S. national holidays, designed to give thanks to the Indians, and later, Americans also thanked others on this day. Since 1941, Thanksgiving is on the fourth Thursday of November every year in this day will be off for two days, are to be reunited with their families, no matter how busy it is.
The turkey is a specialty of the Americas, having been 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 roasted turkey became a big dish for Americans, essential for important holidays.
The way to eat the turkey also has certain instructions. It needs to be roasted whole, the skin baked into a dark brown, the stomach should be stuffed with a lot of mixed food, such as crumbled bread and so on. When it is brought to the table, it is cut into thin slices by the host with a knife and distributed to everyone. Then each person pours his own marinade and sprinkles it with salt, which makes it very tasty. In addition to turkey, Thanksgiving food includes cranberry moss jam, sweet potatoes, corn, pumpkin pie, home-baked bread, and a variety of vegetables and fruits. All of these things are traditional Thanksgiving foods.
Chinese Thanksgiving Turkey
You can bake a delicious turkey in your home oven.
1: Thaw a turkey under 20 pounds and marinate it in soy sauce, salt, sugar, and some of your favorite large ingredient type at room temperature for one day, or two days if you keep it in the refrigerator;
2: Preheat the oven to 475 degrees F. Roast it for 30 minutes, then take it out and give the turkey a turn and pour the oil out of the roasting pan, and put it back in the oven for another 30 minutes.
3. Add the half-cooked sticky rice with pineapple, ham and dried shrimp stuffing to the turkey, turn the oven up to 450 degrees Fahrenheit, rub the outside of the turkey with a bit of the honey and marinade, return it to the oven for about 30 minutes, then turn it over and rub it with the marinade, and bake it for about 30 minutes.
4. Turning the turkey is not easy, but it's the only way the turkey heats up evenly and the meat is juicy and vaguely pineapple-sweet.
Traditional Thanksgiving turkey
Americans eat most turkeys casserole-style. Usually the turkey is stuffed with various seasonings and mixes, then wrapped in a barbecue bag and roasted whole. In other words, they eat the "whole chicken". Why don't they divide it up and serve it? It's probably the same reason why we eat fish on New Year's Eve and use the whole fish instead of fillets. Not only does it take into account the beauty and visual richness of the dish, but it also has the symbol of the whole family gathering together to enjoy a big meal.