Turducken
Turducken is a dish consisting of a de-boned chicken stuffed into a de-boned duck, which is in turn stuffed into a de-boned turkey. The word turducken is a portmanteau of turkey, duck, and chicken. The dish is a form of engastration, which is a recipe method in which one animal is stuffed inside the gastric passage of another.[1]
The thoracic cavity of the chicken/game hen and the rest of the gaps are stuffed, sometimes with a highly seasoned breadcrumb mixture or sausage meat, although some versions have a different stuffing for each bird. The result is a fairly solid layered poultry dish, suitable for cooking by braising, roasting, grilling, or barbecuing.[2]
American football commentator John Madden popularized turducken during a National Football League broadcast. While announcing for CBS Sports he displayed a turducken and began carving it. He promoted it again on Fox Sports by awarding a turducken to players on the winning team of the Thanksgiving Bowl. On the November 9, 2008 broadcast of NBC Sunday Night Football, Madden responded to a fan's sign reading "JOHN MADDEN, BRING BACK TURDUCKEN" by calling his fixation with turducken "a thing of the past," stating that he would return to a traditional turkey for subsequent Thanksgivings.[3]
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In the United Kingdom, a turducken is a type of ballotine called a "three-bird roast" or a "royal roast". The Pure Meat Company offered a five-bird roast (a goose, a turkey, a chicken, a pheasant, and a pigeon, stuffed with sausage), described as a modern revival of the traditional Yorkshire Christmas pie, in 1989;[4][5] and a three-bird roast (a duck stuffed with chicken stuffed with a pigeon, with sage and apple stuffing) in 1990.[4][5] Multi-bird roasts are widely available.
In his 1807 Almanach des Gourmands, gastronomist Grimod de La Reynière presents his rôti sans pareil ("incomparable roast")—a bustard stuffed with a turkey, a goose, a pheasant, a chicken, a duck, a guinea fowl, a teal, a woodcock, a partridge, a plover, a lapwing, a quail, a thrush, a lark, an ortolan bunting and a garden warbler—although he states that, since similar roasts were produced by ancient Romans, the rôti sans pareil was not entirely novel.[5][6][7] The final bird is very small but large enough to just hold an olive; it also suggests that, unlike modern multi-bird roasts, there was no stuffing or other packing placed in between the birds.
Gooducken is a goose stuffed with a duck, which is in turn stuffed with a chicken.[6]
An early form of the recipe was Pandora's cushion, a goose stuffed with a chicken stuffed with a quail.[7]
A vegetarian or vegan turducken, made with tofu and other meat substitutes such as seitan, is called a tofucken.[8]
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References [edit]
- ^ "Engastration". Retrieved 2012-12-26.
- ^ "Turkey Finds Its Inner Duck (and Chicken)"], The New York Times, November 20, 2002. Accessed November 21, 2007
- ^ NBC Sunday Night Football, November 9, 2008
- ^ a b Walker, Harlan (ed.). Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery, 1990: feasting and fasting : proceedings. p. 35.
- ^ a b c Williams, Anne. "Send a friend a meal on wheels", The Sunday Times (London), December 2, 1990.
- ^ a b Iredale, Will (November 21, 2004). "TimesOnline.co.uk Three-in-one bird is big this Christmas". The Times (London). Retrieved May 3, 2010. TimesOnline.co.uk. Retrieved on June 2, 2008
- ^ a b "Pandoras Cushion". Retrieved 2012-12-26.
- ^ Zimmer, Erin. "Tofucken, the Vegetarian Turducken and Other Interesting Meat Marriages". Serious Eats. Retrieved 28 November 2012.
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