Turkey Dressing Giblet Recipes

Steps:

• Use the giblets from your turkey. With a heavy cleaver or large knife, chop the turkey neck into 2 to 3-inch pieces. Trim the liver and refrigerate (if it is added to the broth too soon, the liver will overcook and make the broth bitter). In a large saucepan, heat 1 tablespoon vegetable oil over medium-high heat. Add the neck, heart, and gizzard and brown on all sides, about 10 minutes. Stir in 1 quartered small onion and 1 coarsely chopped small carrot. Add a 13 3/4-ounce can reduced-sodium chicken broth and enough cold water to cover the giblets by 1 inch. Bring to a simmer, skimming off the foam that rises to the surface. Add 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and 8 peppercorns. Reduce the heat to low and simmer, partially covered until the giblets are very tender, about 2 hours. Add the turkey liver and simmer until cooked through, 15 to 20 minutes. Strain, reserving the stock, if desired. Cool the giblets. Pull the meat off the neck. Chop the neck meat, heart, gizzard, and liver. Stir into he Bread Stuffing 101 along with the bread cubes.

Steps:

• For the giblet stock: Heat the oil in a 6 1/2-quart stockpot over medium heat until it shimmers. Add the neck and backbone and saute 5 to 6 minutes or until browned. Add the giblets, onion, carrot, celery and kosher salt. Cook, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are softened, 4 to 5 minutes. Pour in the water and add the thyme, rosemary, bay leaf and black peppercorns.
• Cover and bring to a boil over high heat. Uncover, reduce heat to low and simmer for 1 1/2 hours or until the stock reduces to 3 cups.
• Strain the stock through a fine mesh strainer and cool slightly. Discard all solids but the giblets. Chop the giblets and set aside.
• For the giblet gravy: Place 2 cups of the giblet stock in a 4-quart saucier over medium heat.
• Combine 1/2 cup of cool stock with the all-purpose flour in a jar with a tightly fitted lid. Shake vigorously until starch dissolves and no lumps remain.
• Gradually add the flour slurry to stock, whisking constantly. Bring to a boil and cook for 3 to 4 minutes or until thickened slightly.
• Combine the remaining 1/2 cup of cool stock with the potato starch in the lidded jar and shake vigorously until the starch dissolves and no lumps remain.
• Turn off the heat, remove the saucier from the burner and whisk until the liquid temperature decreases to 190 degrees F. Return to low heat and whisk in the potato starch slurry, rosemary, sage, thyme, salt and pepper. Simmer for about 5 minutes to heat through and thicken, then season with additional salt and pepper, if desired. Add the chopped giblets and stir to combine. Keep warm in a thermos until ready to serve.

Steps:

• 1. Place neck and giblets (except liver which is brown and soft) in a saucepan. Add 2/3 water, lots of sea salt, onion, garlic, lots of sage and pepper. Simmer over medium heat for about 2 to 2 ½ hours.
• 2. About half an hour before turkey is ready, add liver to saucepan.
• 3. Meanwhile, in a microwavable bowl, add croutons, chicken broth, parsley, sage, basil, oregano, pepper, garlic, celery stick, and onion. Strain turkey giblets and cut in very small pieces. Mix minced giblets with croutons mixture. Put in microwave, cover with Saran Wrap®, for 2 minutes at high; after 40 seconds in the microwave, mix well and put it back for the remaining time.
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Steps:

• 1. Prepare the turkey. Remove all extra parts; reserve giblets. Cut off wingtips and any excess neck, etc. Season turkey inside and out with kosher salt and freshly ground pepper; be generous. Loosen up leg joints without tearing skin.
• 2. Make the stuffing by roughly chopping the lemon , apple, onion, thyme, rosemary, sage, parsley and bay leaves into 1/2-inch pieces. Mix with oil. Put stuffing into cavity and truss the bird. Do not tie too tight.
• 3. Start the stock at least 30 minutes before roasting the turkey. Place the wingtips and neck in a saucepan; add 6 cups of water. Bring to a boil. Skim off any foam. Reduce heat to a slow simmer. Add onion, celery, carrot, bay leaves, peppercorns and parsley stems. Allow to simmer about 2 1/2 hours. Strain stock and reserve. You should have about 3 cups.
• 4. Make a paste by kneading 6 tablespoons unsalted butter with 1/4 cup flour. Rub this vigorously and thoroughly into the skin of the bird.
• 5. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Sprinkle 4 tablespoons flour evenly on the bottom of a roasting pan. Place turkey on a rack in the pan. Allow time for turkey to come to room temperature if it is still cold to the touch.
• 6. Place turkey in oven. Leave in oven for 40 minutes or until the bird is browned all over. Combine 8 tablespoons butter with 1 teaspoon of water and bring to a boil. Turn the oven down to 350 degrees and baste the turkey generously with the butter mixture. Repeat this process twice, once every 10 minutes, until basting liquid is used up. At this point, the turkey should be in the oven about 1 hour. Now baste 2 more times at intervals of 15 minutes, using pan drippings. At this point, the turkey has been in about 1 hour 30 minutes. Cook 20 minutes more without basting, to allow the skin to crisp. Remove from oven. Allow to rest at least 30 minutes before carving. Make the gravy during this resting period.
• 7. To make the gravy, remove turkey to a serving platter. Place roasting pan directly on top of a burner on medium heat. Cook for about 5 minutes, allowing excess liquid to evaporate. Stir constantly. Now carefully remove any excess fat that has not combined with the flour to make a roux. Add the diced leek and cook for 1 minute. Slowly add 3 cups turkey stock, allowing the gravy to thicken as it comes to a boil. At this point it may be switched to a saucepan. Make sure that every bit of the pan drippings has been incorporated into the gravy. Add the giblets and simmer for about 15 minutes. Stir in the hard-boiled egg and remove from heat. Season to taste with freshly ground pepper and salt, if necessary.
• 8. Carve the turkey and pass the gravy. Serve with country sausage and sage dressing and cranberry relish.

Steps:

• For turkey:
• Combine 4 quarts water and 1 cup coarse salt in very large bowl. Let stand until salt dissolves, whisking occasionally, about 10 minutes. Place turkey in salted water, turning to coat. Let turkey stand at room temperature 2 hours, turning occasionally. Rinse turkey and pat dry with paper towels. Place turkey on rack set in large roasting pan. Tuck wings under turkey body.
• Position oven rack in bottom third of oven and preheat to 325°F. Whisk butter, orange juice, lemon juice, thyme, orange peel, lemon peel, 3/4 teaspoon salt and pepper in medium bowl until well blended. Rub 1/4 cup thyme butter inside turkey. Spoon stuffing loosely into main cavity and neck cavity. Generously rub remaining thyme butter over turkey. Tie legs together loosely to hold shape of turkey.
• Roast turkey until golden, basting occasionally with pan drippings, about 2 hours. Cover entire turkey loosely with heavy-duty foil and roast until meat thermometer inserted into innermost part of thigh registers 180°F or until juices run clear when thickest part of thigh is pierced with skewer, basting occasionally with pan juices, about 11/2 hours longer. Transfer turkey to platter. Tent turkey with foil and let stand while preparing gravy.
• For gravy:
• Strain pan juices from roasting pan into large glass measuring cup. Spoon fat off top of pan juices. Pour juices and Giblet Broth into heavy medium saucepan. Boil broth mixture until reduced to 3 cups, about 10 minutes.
• Melt butter in heavy large saucepan over medium heat. Add flour; cook until golden brown, stirring often, about 3 minutes. Whisk in reduced broth mixture. Simmer until gravy thickens, stirring occasionally, about 5 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Add reserved chopped neck meat and giblets, eggs and brandy; simmer 5 minutes longer. Transfer to bowl. Serve gravy with turkey.
• For Giblet Broth:
• Melt butter in heavy large pot over medium-high heat. Add neck and giblets; sauté until brown, about 10 minutes. Using slotted spoon, transfer neck and giblets to plate. Add carrots, onion and celery to pot. Sauté until vegetables brown, about 10 minutes. Add water, wine, neck and giblets to vegetables; bring to boil.
• Add all remaining ingredients to pot. Reduce heat to medium-low; partially cover and simmer until giblets are very tender, about 11/2 hours. Using slotted spoon, transfer neck and giblets to plate. Cool. Carefully remove all meat from turkey neck. Chop neck meat and giblets; reserve for gravy. Strain broth into bowl, pressing on solids. (Broth and giblets can be made 1 day ahead. Cover separately and chill.) Makes about 3 1/2 cups.

Steps:

• Place turkey giblets and neck into a saucepan with 4 cups water and bring to a boil; reduce heat to low. Simmer until broth is reduced to 3 cups, about 1 hour. Strain broth and reserve 1/2 cup of giblets; chop.
• Combine giblet broth and turkey drippings in a saucepan over medium heat. Whisk cornstarch in 1/2 cup cold water in a bowl until smooth. Whisk cornstarch into stock and drippings. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and stir chopped giblets and hard-cooked egg into the gravy. Season with salt and black pepper. Simmer until gravy is thickened, about 5 minutes.

Steps:

• 1. Broth: Can be made the day before. Remove neck and giblets (gizzard, heart & liver). Remove out of paper bag from thawed turkey. Rinse off and put into a medium pot and fill with water. Add salt and pepper and a teaspoon of poultry seasoning. Cover with water at least above giblets by 2 or 3-inches. Bring to a boil, then turn down to a simmer,cover and simmer for 3 or more hours until meat starts to fall off neck bone. This will end up being your broth for the dressing. Add more water if needed Remove giblets & cool. Pour broth through a strainer to remove any neck bones. Remove neck meat and throw away bones. Chop the meat, cooked gizzard, heart and liver very fine and add to broth. Put broth into refrigerator until ready to use. You should end up with about 4 to 6 cups of broth. If you do not have enough, don't worry, just add more chicken broth if needed. No chicken broth? add water.
• 2. Saute onions and celery in 1 cube of butter. Add more butter if needed. Cook the onions & celery until transparent. Do not brown. Set this aside to cool. Add the 6 eggs to the broth. Mix well. Add poultry seasoning, sage, celery salt and pepper to broth. Season to your taste. I like a lot of seasoning but never measured it out. (1/4 cup poultry seasoning, 1 tbs sage, 2 tesp celery salt)?
• 3. Add enough bread cubes (*dressing mix as per package)to a large bowl. *Seasoned bread crumbs can be used, but cut back on the seasonings to at least half or none at all, that is added to broth. Pour the butter, onions and celery over bread cubes and mix. Pour broth mix over bread mixture and mix by hand until just enough to moisten. Add extra chicken broth or water if the dressing is to dry. Do not over mix.
• 4. Prepare you turkey (wash and dry, inside and out). Salt cavity and breast area. Put dressing into cavity. Do not pack. Put dressing into breast area. Truss as needed. Cook turkey asap. Do not let sit.
• 5. Extra dressing can be cooked along side turkey in a separate backing dish. (will not take as long) This recipe is just for the dressing. Follow your favorite recipe for the turkey.

Steps:

• Take the giblets out of the cavity of the turkey.Take the neck of the turkey and chop into 2-inch pieces.Trim the liver and put it in the refrigerator.
• Heat 1 tablespoons vegetable oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat.
• Add the turkey neck pieces, the heart and the gizzard. Sauté for about 10 minutes, or until everything is brown on all sides.Quarter an onion and add along with carrot, chicken broth and enough cold water to cover the giblet mixture by 1 inch.
• Bring to a simmer.Skim foam that rises to the surface off the top of the mixture.Add thyme, salt and peppercorns.Reduce heat to low and simmer with saucepan partially covered, about 2 hours.Add the turkey liver and simmer an additional 15 to 20 minutes.Strain mixture and reserve stock if you want to use it for something else (like the gravy).
• Otherwise, toss it.Cool the giblets.Pull the meat off the turkey neck with your hands.Chop the neck meat, heart, gizzard and liver and set aside.Chop remaining onion.In a large skillet, melt butter over medium heat. Add onion and celery and cook 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.Place vegetables and butter in a mixing bowl and add bread and parsley.
• Drizzle enough stock over the bread mixture until it is just moist. Season with poultry seasoning, salt and pepper to taste.Gently toss in reserved neck meat, heart, gizzard and liver.Use to stuff a turkey, or place in a casserole dish, pour an extra 1/2 cup stock over the top, and bake, covered, in a 350 degree oven for 45 minutes, or until hot.

Steps:

• 1. CROUTONS: I make these the day before so that I am not sweating my time in the kitchen.
• 2. Cut bread slices into bite size pieces. Place in 2 9x13 cake pans ( you will need to toss these several times so its easier to not overcrowd them).
• 3. Melt butter and all the rest of the Crouton ingredients in a sauce pan. I get it warm then turn off the heat while I finish cutting bread.
• 4. Pour the melted butter mix over the bread in each pan. Toss throughly so that the butter mix is distributed over the whole pan of bread. If the bread is still dry you can drizzle a little olive oil over it to extend the butter.
• 5. Bake at 300 for about 1 hour, tossing the croutons every 20 min for even drying and browning. These should come out very toasty and tasty!
• 6. GIBLETS AND JUICE: I start this as soon as the turkey goes into the oven.
• 7. Put the CROUTONS into a large lasagna pan (mine is 11x15)
• 8. Dump everything in a saucepan, make sure that the neck and giblets are covered in liquid. Boil for 20 min. Turn off heat and let set until cool to the touch.
• 9. Reserve the liquid. Remove neck and giblets. Take all the meat off the neck and put into the CROUTONS.
• 10. I used to mince all the giblets but now I take the easy way out. Throw the heart, stomach and liver into a food processor and whir till small chunks or pasty (your taste). Dump this into the CROUTONS.
• 11. Dump chopped vegetables into the CROUTONS. Toss, stir, mix up ... you know what I mean. Add the reserved giblet/neck broth to this until it is moist. If you have used all the broth and the croutons are not moist enough you can either add olive oil chicken/turkey broth or melt a stick of butter and use that.
• 12. Bake for an hour at 325 (with the turkey) or 30-40 min at 400, you want the vegetables to be tender and the croutons to be semi-dry.

Steps:

• Heat gizzard, heart and neck in water (salted if desired) to boiling; reduce heat. Cover and simmer 1 to 2 hours or until tender, adding liver the last 10 minutes. Drain; reserve liquid for gravy. Remove meat from neck; finely chop giblets. Refrigerate liquid and giblets until ready to use.
• Place roasted turkey on warm platter; keep warm while preparing gravy. Pour drippings from pan into bowl, leaving brown particles in pan. Return 1/2 cup drippings to pan. (Measure accurately so gravy is not greasy.) Stir in flour. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until smooth and bubbly; remove from heat.
• Add enough water to reserved giblet liquid to measure 4 cups; stir into flour mixture. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil and stir 1 minute. Stir in chopped giblets and a few drops browning sauce. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.

Steps:

• Separate the neck from the rest of the giblets. Put remaining giblets into a covered container and put in the fridge for now.
• Put the neck ONLY from the giblets into a full pan of salted boiling water. Bring to a boil agian, cover, turn down to a simmer cook for 1 1/2 hours until the meat is fall off the bone tender, making sure to keep check on the water level throughout.
• Add the remaining giblets to the neck in the water and cook for a further 1/2 hour.
• Drain giblets; reserving liquid.
• Chop up the giblets into small pieces.
• Cover tightly and set aside (if using immediately) or refrigerate until ready to use in the recipe (can be done the day before).
• While the giblets are cooking the rest of instructions follow:.
• Preheat the oven to 350F degrees.
• Slice the bread into 1/2 inch cubes.
• Place the cubed bread onto a ungreased dry cookie sheet and toss with the dried herbs and spices.
• Bake seasoned bread cubes in the oven turning frequently (approximately every 5 minutes) until golden brown and crisp, about 20 minutes or so depending on how moist your bread cubes are.
• While the bread cubes are in the oven, saute the celery, onion and garlic in the butter until tender.
• Remove bread cubes from oven, leave to cool until crisp.
• Mix he celery, onion, garlic mixture into the cooled dried bread cubes. Mixing thoroughly.
• Add chopped giblets to the mix.
• Add the beaten eggs to the mixture, again mixing thoroughly.
• Mix reserved liquid from the giblets and combine with chicken broth to make 1 cup.
• Carefully add the chicken broth to your desired consistency. (Remember, if you are stuffing the bird it will take on more moisture so be careful how moist you want your stuffing at this stage).
• Stuff your bird, making sure not to pack it in to tightly and don't forget to pack a little in the neck cavity.
• Put the remainer of the stuffing into a generously buttered casserole dish and bake for 1/2 hour at 350°F (covered with foil for moist stuffing and uncovered if you want a crispy top).