Dishes made from this meat can rightfully be considered the most tender, most aromatic and juicy. Cooking your turkey properly will give you incredible flavor. And I would also like to remind you that turkey fillet, the main ingredient of our dish today, is considered dietary and often finds its place in weight loss diets. How to cook turkey in cream sauce in the oven? We’ll talk about this further, as well as what properties this meat has.
Turkey breast is a tender dietary product
The dietary properties of this meat are due to the large amount of protein, which is easily absorbed in the body. The most dietary part of the carcass is the sirloin; the breast contains almost no fat, so the structure of the meat is homogeneous, and it itself is pale pink in color. A turkey breast is much larger in size than a chicken breast, so one fillet is enough to prepare a nutritious dinner for the whole family.
For reference: 100 g of turkey fillet has 84 kcal. Again for comparison: the calorie content of a chicken breast is 110 kcal.
Properties of turkey
Turkey loin is enriched with complete protein; it contains enough amino acids, including tryptophan, a precursor of melatonin. There are also B vitamins in full, necessary for the stable functioning of the nervous system.
Since there is almost no fat in the breast, cholesterol levels do not rise after a turkey dinner. The selenium content in turkey is enough to maintain the daily requirement, and it is essential for normalizing hormonal levels. Turkey meat is often recommended for consumption by those suffering from gastrointestinal disorders. Thus, we can come to the conclusion that turkey for dinner is not only tasty, but also healthy, and for variety it is an excellent replacement for chicken and rabbit.
Let's see what recipes for turkey fillet in cream sauce in the oven with photos are available below.
Turkey fillet in cream sauce
So, what recipes for turkey fillet in creamy sauce have we prepared for you? There are several cooking options, which we will discuss in detail in this article. Turkey fillet goes well with creamy sauce, and in combination with mushrooms the taste is simply unsurpassed. We will tell you about options for turkey in cream sauce in the oven.
Let's start with the simplest thing. You will be surprised, but from simple ingredients you can prepare a great dish both for a holiday and for every day.
It’s easy to make a step-by-step recipe for turkey fillet in cream sauce in the oven into reality. This wonderful dish is prepared very simply, and the result is very tasty.
Option with carrots
A dish made using the technology described below goes well with almost all side dishes. Thanks to this, you can diversify your family menu without any problems. To prepare a delicious and healthy dinner, you will need:
- 700 grams of turkey fillet.
- Large carrot.
- 400 grams of fresh mushrooms.
- 2 onions.
- Vegetable oil (for frying).
Since this recipe for turkey with mushrooms in sour cream sauce involves the use of several auxiliary ingredients, make sure in advance that you have everything you need on hand at the right time. You will need:
- A tablespoon of mustard.
- 200 milliliters of sour cream.
- 2 tablespoons chopped parsley.
- A pinch of dried basil and thyme.
- A little salt, pepper and tarragon.
You need to start preparing this dish by processing the vegetables. They are washed, cleaned and crushed. Then grated carrots and chopped onions are placed in a heated frying pan with vegetable fat. All this is fried for a few minutes and then mixed with mushroom cubes and continued cooking. Shortly before the process is completed, the vegetables are salted and seasoned with pepper. Part of the resulting mass is placed on the bottom of a heat-resistant form. Chopped and beaten meat is placed on top. All this is covered with the remains of mushrooms, onions and carrots. The resulting semi-finished product is poured with a sauce made from sour cream, mustard and seasonings. All this is put into a hot oven and brought to full readiness. Bake turkey with mushrooms in sour cream sauce at 190 degrees for 40-50 minutes.
Cooking meat
Rinse the turkey fillet under water, remove excess fat threads and dry with a clean waffle towel or napkins. Cut the meat into large pieces, but not too large. Take into account the fact that the meat will be fried, and small pieces will not look as appetizing.
Pierce the pan in advance before adding the fillets. First fry until golden brown, add salt at the end. Place the pieces on a greased baking sheet and make the sauce.
Option with mustard
This simple and tasty dish is prepared using extremely simple technology that does not take much time. Therefore, it is optimal for dinner with a narrow family circle. To create it you will need:
- 600 grams of turkey fillet.
- 250 milliliters of low-fat sour cream.
- 200 grams of champignons.
- Large raw egg.
- 30 grams of mustard.
- 100 milliliters of water.
- 20 grams of butter.
- Salt and spices (to taste).
The chopped turkey is placed in a frying pan greased with butter and fried with slices of champignons. After a few minutes, add a sauce made from sour cream, beaten egg, mustard, salt and spices to the browned ingredients. Mix everything thoroughly, dilute with the required amount of water and bring to full readiness. This dish is served hot with buckwheat, rice or mashed potatoes.
Turkey with mushrooms in creamy sauce is a wonderful homemade dish that will go well with any side dish. Cream can be used from 15 to 25% fat. For the dish I used curry seasoning, it added some oriental notes to the dish, but you can experiment and replace it with other spices. The dish can be classified as quick and simple.
Prepare all the necessary products for the dish according to the list.
Wash and dry the turkey fillet, cut into long strips.
Peel the onion and cut it into half rings. Cut the champignons into wide slices.
Heat sunflower oil in a frying pan, add turkey strips and fry until golden brown on all sides. This will take 5-7 minutes. At the end, add salt and pepper.
Place the meat in a bowl and cover with a plate or lid to keep it warm. Pour a little more oil into the pan, add the onions and mushrooms, fry for 3 minutes, add salt and pepper.
Return the turkey fillet to the pan, cover and simmer for another 3 minutes. Then add curry seasoning and stir.
Pour in the cream and heat everything together for 5 minutes.
Add chopped dill and stir.
Serve delicious turkey with mushrooms in creamy sauce with your favorite side dish. I have it with rice.
Bon appetit!
Ingredients:
- turkey fillet – 500-600 g
- champignons – 200 g
- cream 10% – 200 ml
- onion – 1 large onion or 2 small ones
- olive oil – 70 ml
- salt - a pinch
- ground pepper - on the tip of a knife
Turkey with champignons in cream sauce is an incredibly tasty and tender dish. It can be served as an independent dish or with a side dish. Mashed potatoes, rice, buckwheat, pasta are suitable here - the choice is yours. Turkey with champignons in creamy sauce is very quick and easy to prepare, so it can be a wonderful dinner for you and your family.
Since both turkey and mushrooms are dietary products, this dish can be safely consumed by people who eat healthy foods and want to lose weight.
Sauce
Let's prepare the sauce. Pour heavy cream into a saucepan, 20% works great. Add a spoonful of mustard and cook over low heat slowly, constantly stirring the future creamy sauce with a whisk.
Add ground black pepper to it. Be careful not to over-pepper. Stir the pepper thoroughly and add a piece of butter.
Slowly pour in the flour with one hand and continue stirring the sauce with the other. It also needs to be salted. Salt to taste.
Finely chop a bunch of dill. You can also add other favorite herbs such as parsley or basil - it's up to you. Once poured, mix the greens with the sauce.
Pour the finished sauce into a baking tray with fillet pieces and place in the oven for 20 minutes. Preheat the oven to 190 degrees.
5-7 minutes before readiness, grate the cheese onto a coarse grater, mix with a second bunch of chopped herbs and sprinkle the almost finished turkey in the creamy sauce in the oven. When the cheese has melted, remove and serve.
Turkey in cream sauce with white wine in a slow cooker
What do you need:
- 800 grams of turkey;
- Cream with 20% fat content – 250 ml;
- A glass of dry white wine;
- Champignon mushrooms – 200 grams;
- Onion head;
- One carrot;
- Water – half a glass;
- Vegetable oil;
- 100-150 gram slice of Parmesan cheese;
- Allspice – 5-6 peas;
- A little salt and ground black pepper.
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Cooking time: 1 hour.
Calorie content of 1 serving – 242.
Let's move on to cooking:
- We clean the carrots, rinse them from dirt and wipe them with large shavings;
- Remove the peel from the onion and chop into cubes;
- Rinse the champignons, dry and cut into thin slices;
- Rinse the turkey meat and cut into medium cubes;
- Pour vegetable oil into the multicooker cup, select the “Baking” or “Frying” program and place the meat there;
- Fry it for 10 minutes, stir and pour dry white wine;
- Then put champignon slices, onion cubes and carrot shavings there, mix everything, simmer for a couple of minutes;
- After this, fill everything with cream, add allspice, ground black pepper, and add some salt;
- Select the “Stew” mode and cook for half an hour under a closed lid;
- Grate a piece of Parmesan cheese on a coarse grater;
- After half an hour, add the grated cheese to all the ingredients, mix and leave to simmer in the “Keep Warm” mode for 10-15 minutes;
- The finished meat will be very tender, and the wine will give it juiciness.
Turkey with champignons in cream sauce
There is another wonderful way to cook this dietary meat; the recipe for turkey fillet in creamy sauce with champignons will win your heart, it will become your favorite dish. It is a little more complicated to implement and will require a little more ingredients, but the latter are just as simple and accessible to everyone, so feel free to write down the recipe and try cooking for yourself and your family. The unique aroma of bechamel with tender turkey fillet in a rich mushroom sauce is a real pleasure.
It may seem like the dish takes a long time to prepare. To prevent cooking turkey fillet in creamy sauce in the oven from taking too long, prepare the ingredients in advance: clean, rinse, chop if possible.
Let's start our acquaintance with a detailed step-by-step recipe.
How to cook turkey with mushrooms in creamy sauce
Defrost the fillet and mushrooms. Today, these are tender and fragrant forest boletuses and aspen boletuses, collected from our own collection. Before freezing, the mushrooms were washed, cut into large pieces and blanched until almost ready, so cooking the base of the dish will not take much time. We do not salt the meat or mushrooms so that they do not lose their juice during the frying process.
We will chop the onions, carrots and celery root in the final, so the shape of the cut does not matter, but for speed of cooking it is better to chop them into small cubes or strips.
Place a frying pan and a wide saucepan on high heat, pour in a tablespoon of vegetable oil. Place turkey pieces in a frying pan in heated oil and pour onions into a saucepan.
When the meat is browned and the onion becomes transparent, put mushrooms in a frying pan, and celery, carrots and a dry mixture of white roots (parsley, parsnip, celery, leek) in a saucepan. Fry both for a few minutes over high heat, then lower the temperature, cover with lids and simmer for 10-15 minutes, practically in their own juice. If the contents of the frying pan or saucepan begin to stick to the bottom, you can add a little boiling water.
In the meantime, chop the cheese curds (the most common domestic processed Dutch cheese) so that they dissolve more easily in the sauce.
Mushrooms are often combined with sour cream, but in this case we don’t need acid; we’ll use cream or milk as a liquid, or even dry milk diluted with boiling water.
Pour the chopped cheese into a saucepan, pour in the milk while stirring constantly and, continuing to stir, heat at a low boil so that the cheese begins to melt, then grind with a blender. If you want a thinner sauce, you can add more milk or cream during the chopping process.
Season the creamy sauce with spices. Provençal herbs and basil work well here. The cheeses are quite salty; the turkey and mushrooms were not salted at all, so we add a little salt.
Place the meat and mushrooms into the prepared creamy sauce with cheese, mix, sprinkle with freshly ground pepper mixture, turn off the heat, taste for salt, add more salt if necessary, then turn off the heat, cover with a lid and leave for a few minutes to allow the dish to “ripen.”
To complement the delicate, refined taste of turkey with mushrooms in creamy sauce, you need to choose a side dish that is neutral in taste so as not to compete with the sauce: pasta, mashed potatoes, buckwheat, rice.
When serving, visually, you can “play in contrast” and emphasize the tenderness of the sauce with the brightness of the color of the side dish. Today I did just that. The photo shows that I will have red rice and parsley as a side dish.
Meat and mushrooms are a combination that everyone likes. In the finished dish, these products complement each other perfectly. I like to use diet turkey and mushrooms.
Turkey with mushrooms in a sauce made from cream or milk is tasty and aromatic. In general, this recipe can be called ideal, because the tender dietary meat of this bird is best cooked with gravy - this way the dry fillet will be perfect.
Turkey breast, fried in pieces with champignons and stewed in white sauce, can be supplemented with any side dish, for example, boiled or fresh vegetables, pasta. By keeping turkey stew in the fridge and changing up the sides, you can not only add variety to your dinner table, but also save a lot of time preparing dinner.
Preparation
So, the first step in cooking turkey in cream sauce in the oven is preparing the meat. Wash 700 grams of fillet, dry and cut into large pieces. Transfer to a separate container, sprinkle with salt, pepper, season with a couple of tablespoons of olive oil and half a teaspoon of honey, knead the fillet thoroughly. This is a marinade. Use freshly ground pepper to make the dish as aromatic and appetizing as possible. Let the meat sit while we prepare the other ingredients for the dish.
Let's start with the mushrooms. Rinse the champignons (300 g) well and dry. Cut into small cubes or thin slices lengthwise, as shown in the photo. Heat the pan and lay them out: you need to evaporate all excess moisture from them and dry them.
Peel the onion (2 pcs.), cut into small pieces and add to the mushrooms. When chopping the onion, remove the top scale, it will be needed for the sauce. Add a spoonful of olive oil, mix everything together and simmer over low heat until half cooked. Don't forget to stir the mushrooms.
Stewed turkey with mushrooms in creamy sauce with orange juice
Any recipe can be adjusted and improved by just adding a few original ingredients.
And such a small culinary trick will help you create a real masterpiece with an unusual and refined taste from an ordinary dish.
An alternative to braised turkey with fresh mushrooms in a light creamy sauce is to add orange zest and juice:
- Wash and cut 500 g of turkey fillet into pieces, then fry in hot vegetable oil until golden brown for 10-15 minutes.
- Stew 400 g of chopped champignons separately in oil to remove excess moisture.
- Add the chopped onion to the frying pan with the meat and, stirring, simmer the mixture for 3-5 minutes. After combining with mushrooms, sprinkle with a teaspoon of rosemary, 1 tablespoon of orange zest and 60-80 ml of orange juice. A couple of minutes under the lid is enough for the dish to absorb the necessary aroma.
- The final stage is to add 200 g of cream and simmer for 10 minutes over low heat.
The juicy and original treat is ready and can be served. Exquisite aroma and unsurpassed taste are the characteristics that are its main distinguishing feature.
