Thursday, December 10, 2015

Turkey 2015 - Mom's Way

This is what my Mom has been using for the past 20+ years. It is Turkey with a Chinese twist. I love the sticky rice stuffing.

Ingredients:

All ingredients is based on a 10-12 lb turkey.
Marinate
Green onion - 3 stalks, diced
Ginger - 1/3 cup, grind
Soy sauce - 1 cup
Salt - 3 TBS
Vinegar - 1 TBS
Cooking wine - 1/2 cup
Stuffing
Glutinous rice - 4 cups (soaked in water for at least 2 hours or overnight)
Red onion - 1 medium, diced
Dried mushroom - 1 cup, diced
Ham - 2 cups, diced
Dried date - 1 cup
Dried lotus seeds - 1 cup, soaked overnight
Sunflower seeds - 1/2 cup (or use pine nuts, other tree nuts)
Raisin - 1/2 cup
Optional: Dried Apricot - 1/2 cup
Coating
Honey - 1/2 cup

Steps

1. Steam the glutinous rice until 70% cooked.
2. In a frying pan, stir fry the diced red onion, mushroom, and ham together.
3. In a mixing bowl, mix all the stuffing ingredients.
4. Run hot water over the turkey for a few minutes until the skin tightens.
5. Mix the ingredients for marinate and rub all over turkey. Then let the  turkey air dry for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
6. Stuff the turkey, sew the opening back with needle and cotton thread.
7. Coat the turkey thoroughly with honey.
8. Bake in oven at 350°F for 3-4 hours.

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