Add a new tradition to your holiday table with a festive turducken roll.
This holiday season, consider adding a new tradition to your table with a turducken roll. Perfect for meat lovers, a turkducken roll includes three types of meat: turkey, duck and chicken. In a traditional turkducken roll, the duck is stuffed in the turkey and the chicken is stuffed in the duck. While you can purchase a prepared turducken at your local grocery store, making your own turkducken roll can be a fun and rewarding process. Consider purchasing prepackaged, boneless poultry since deboning meat can be quite time-consuming.
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease roasting pan with a dab of olive oil.
2. Pound the turkey until it is about 1/2-inch thick. Repeat this with the duck and chicken cutlets until they are 1/4-inch thick.To pound meat, use two sheets of plastic wrap. Place the meat between these sheets and pound the meat with your hands. Set the duck and chicken aside.
3. Chop up the garlic. Use 2 cloves of garlic, but you may want to use more depending on your taste. Drizzle olive oil and chopped garlic over the turkey. Season with a sprinkle of salt, pepper and paprika. You can experiment with other seasonings such as thyme.
4. Spread 1 cup of stuffing over the middle of the turkey, leaving a 1-inch border. This border makes the rolling easier as well as ensures that the turducken isn't overstuffed.
5. Lay the duck breasts over the stuffing. Add a sprinkle of salt, pepper and paprika. Spread the rest of the stuffing on top of the duck breasts. Again, leave a border for the stuffing.
6. Cover the stuffing layer with the chicken cutlets. Drizzle olive oil on top.
7. Roll your turducken. Using both hands, roll the meat away from you. Roll tightly, folding the sides in as you go. If the turducken is too large to roll, you may have to remove some stuffing.
8. Secure the roll with wooden toothpicks or bind the roll with two pieces of string.
9. Drizzle more olive oil and seasoning over the roll. Place your roll in the large roasting pan. Cover the pan with a sheet of aluminum foil.
10. Cook the roll for 1 1/2 hours. To keep the turducken moist, baste with drippings every 30 minutes. You can also use the drippings to create a delicious gravy.
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