Famous dish traditional American. Prepares for Thanksgiving (Thanksgiving Day in english) Feast of Christian origin which falls on the last Thursday of November when Americans are grateful for the harvest. And’ linked to Pilgrim Fathers (Puritans) who landed on American shores aboard the Mayflower to escape religious persecution they had in their homeland England.
Why turkey?
It 'a re-enactment of when the Pilgrim Fathers (group of British citizens of the Christian religion Puritan persecuted at home for their ideas rather fundamentalist: 52 men, 18 women and 32 children) arrived in 1621 American shores and found themselves in a wilderness inhabited only by Native Americans; Pellegrini was winter and built a wooden village and called Plymouth.
When spring began to work the land, aided by the Indians who lived in that area who taught them how to grow wheat and to breed an animal that they had never seen before: turkey. So it was that after the hard work of the early Pilgrims indissero a day of thanksgiving to God for the abundance received and to celebrate the success of the first harvest.
Ingredients
- Turkey 1 the 5 kg
- Chestnuts 1,5 kg
- Stale bread without crust 800 g
- Butter 150 g
- Onion 1
- Celery, stem 1
- Lemon 1
- Dry white wine 2 glasses
- Rosemary 4 sprigs
- Parsley 1 tuft
- Marjoram 1 teaspoon
- Timo 1 teaspoon
- Oil q.b.
- Sale q.b.
- Pepe q.b.
Preparation
Boil the chestnuts for about 45 m. Clean and wash carefully the turkey inside and out, dry it carefully and rub the meat with 1/2 lemon. When the chestnuts are cooked, peel, Privatel film inside and spezzettatele.
Melt the butter in a frying pan, join the onion and celery cleaned and finely chopped, then let them season on medium heat. When they are soft, add you 1 glass of wine and let evaporate.
Cut the bread into cubes and then pour it into the pan, Also joining the chestnuts chopped, parsley, marjoram, thyme, salt and pepper. Mix well, let cook for 5 m. then let it cool all.
When the mixture has cooled, use it to fill the turkey and then sew the opening with kitchen twine. Salt and pepper the turkey outside and tie it with another string, interposing between it and the meat the sprigs of rosemary.
Place the turkey in a roasting pan, cover with a gauze impregnated with cooking oil and bake at 180 °, cook for about 1 h.
6 After this time,, add the white wine glass and put in oven for 2 and h 1/2, wetting occasionally with the cooking liquid. Finally removed the gauze and cook for about twenty minutes. Before you bring to the table, let cool for a few minutes.
