Wild Turkey Recipes....

[WapitiTalk1]

Ok, being honest here, I’ve heard nothing but bad about the taste of the wild gobblers from the cats I know.  Are they that horrible?  Any recipes better than others?  Smoking them good?  I won’t plug anything that I won’t/can’t eat 

[Parasite]

If i gave you some wild smoked brined turkey breast, you'd swear it was domestic. It's really good. The secret is the brine. I'll see if I can find the recipe. And not that my brine is anything special, you can tailor it to your tastes.

[Born2late]

My wife uses a williams sonoma brine. It's awesome. It's the autumn fruit and spice turkey brining blend.We cook at least two a year with it and all our guests love it.
Brines it in a bucket. then covers it with thick bacon strips when she cooks it. yummers
I've done big Toms and hens and they all turn out the same.

[MtnMuley]

I'd take wild turkey over chicken any day of the week. I mix the leg and thigh meat with 50% pork and make breakfast, sweet/spicy Italian sausage that's as good as it gets in my opinion. Usually fry the breasts in strips and choice of breading. Remove the silver skin and it's very tender. Stir fry
and tacos are great too. I've made believers out of many with wild turkey. I've never brined nor baked nor smoked nor have much desire to do so.

[Oh Mah]

I watched a meat eater episode that had an awesome one that looked very good i'm gonna try next bird.He cut the breasts off cut into slices of about a half inch.Then he took it and put it on a hard surface took a cast iron pan and smashed it.Then he breaded it and fried it.not tough to eat.cooked fast and he said it was delicious like a breaded chicken patty only it was wild turkey. 

[Magnum_Willys]

Cooked it like I do grouse - was great.  Put on bed of chopped apples, celery and packet of wild rice w seasonings.  Put strips of bacon over it bake at 350 til done.

[ian_padron]

I'd like to see the spicy italian recipe! Sounds amazing

I'd take wild turkey over chicken any day of the week. I mix the leg and thigh meat with 50% pork and make breakfast, sweet/spicy Italian sausage that's as good as it gets in my opinion. Usually fry the breasts in strips and choice of breading. Remove the silver skin and it's very tender. Stir fry
and tacos are great too. I've made believers out of many with wild turkey. I've never brined nor baked nor smoked nor have much desire to do so.

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[MtnMuley]

I'd like to see the spicy italian recipe! Sounds amazing

I'd take wild turkey over chicken any day of the week. I mix the leg and thigh meat with 50% pork and make breakfast, sweet/spicy Italian sausage that's as good as it gets in my opinion. Usually fry the breasts in strips and choice of breading. Remove the silver skin and it's very tender. Stir fry
and tacos are great too. I've made believers out of many with wild turkey. I've never brined nor baked nor smoked nor have much desire to do so.

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Send me an address and I'll get you a packet of seasoning in the mail.

[CaNINE]

Our favorite way to eat wild turkey is in breakfast sausage and as fried cutlets. Last year I turned two toms into bacon, apple and onion breakfast sausage using the Rinella recipe. You can finding it on his YouTube channel. Think I ended up with 15 pounds of sausage out of that deal. And it’s pretty good stuff. For the cutlets pound it out flat, remove the sinew, coat in flour, then egg, then panko or bread crumbs and fry till golden.  This can be used as a sandwich or a entree with pan gravy and mashed potatoes.

[Whitpirate]

I brine the breast cutlets and then coat with german brown mustard and coat with panko.  Pan fry until golden and cooked.  My wife loves them.  I'll also make sausage and confit the legs/thighs for salads and the like.  I wish I was willing to pluck them but I've found the skin just isn't as resilient as domestics and takes too long so I breast and leg/thigh them.

[sneakyjake]

Wow, I didn’t know so many people didn’t like the flavor.  I prefer it way more then domestic birds.   I usually do an elaborate gourmet stuffing and pair it with some delicious sides to go with the gravy.  Tonight I just stuffed it with apples and roasted it.  Paired it with broccoli and jasmine rice. Mushroom gravy to coat. Was excellent. The rest goes to soup and other favorites which I will do tomorrow.  I really appreciate lean meat and the turkey goes well in so many recipes.   

[ctwiggs1]

My favorite hunting partners for turkey are people who don’t like the taste.  More turkey for me 👍🏿

A few things that we or my hunting partner (who does like it) have tried-
Schnitzel - was ok, not my favorite though
Turkey breast stir fried with squash and other summer veggies - great
Turkey legs in the crockpot with a bunch of BBQ sauce 8 hours on low - great lunch meat
Turkey breakfast sausage from meat eater - pretty good.
Turkey roasts are nice but they produce a LOT of meat. Just too much for our family. I have to break the birds down.
My buddy did a deep fried turkey and said it was the most moist turkey they’d ever had.
a number of people Reccomend smoked turkey.  I haven’t tried it yet.

Generally I break my turkey down into 4 meals:  each breast is a meal that gets vac sealed, and each leg/wing combo the same.  Then I split the remaining carcass in half hamburger style (there is kind of a natural breaking point), make sure it’s free of any innards or anything else gross, and vac seal each section.  Each section is used for stock later on.  We get 4-5 quarts of stock per batch, 8-10 per bird.

Oh, and I save the hearts for a friends cat 😂

[sneakyjake]

Great usage of the bird man!  A reminder to hunters, get those birds cooled down. That game taste can come from a case of Johnny rotten crotch if you aren’t too careful.
Tonights meal

[konradcountry]

My neighbor smoked mine last year. Came out perfect.

Better than any store bought turkey I've ever had.

[WaltAlpine]

I heard the same thing when I first started turkey hunting
I shot one the morning of my first hunt.
I didn’t know any better so I just roasted it like it was thanksgiving day.
I told my family that we would run and get a pizza if they didn’t like it.
It was devoured in in one sitting.
It was different than a butterball but obviously not worse


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