Turducken

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by sea6ear • 13 years ago

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beejhuff• 13 years ago

I'm a Turducken aficionado. In my home town of Lafayette, LA, deep in the heart of Cajun Country, it has become something of masterpiece of both engineering and culinary art.

I have endeavored on a few occasions to prepare one from scratch, but these days I find it much easier to head over to www.cajungrocer.com to have a fully deboned and stuffed Turducken delivered ready for cooking.

Traditionally my family cooks a fried Turkey for our Thanksgiving meal, but we occasionally opt for the Turducken instead. Either way, it's a pretty simple way way to feed an entire extended family on a single dish.

The Turkduckens you get from www.cajungrocer.com are actually prepared by Hebert's Meats (from Maurice, LA) and unlike the Wikipedia article, have intermediary layers if stuffing consisting of Jambalaya and Shrimp and Crawfish étouffée.

You don't have to be born and raised a Cajun to appreciate them, but it may help to have some Cajuns on hand if you want to finish one of these delights. That or an NFL football team (one fact the Wikipedia article gets correct is that these are gargantuan preparations, usually starting in at 40-50 lbs).

Bon Appetit!

bdz• 13 years ago

Kenji Lopez-Alt's turducken guide is a must have in the topic http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/11/the-food-lab-the-ulimate-...

Turducken

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