How to Make Turkish Salt Pickle with Lassi Follow Padma Lakshmi’s recipe for Thanksgiving Turkey

Besides festivities and warm family gatherings, what is synonymous with Thanksgiving is traditional food. The festival is celebrated with great pomp in the United States, and food, especially tender turkey, is an important part of it. A well-cooked turkey is usually a common sight on the dinner table in American homes Thanksgiving. While most of us may already be familiar with preparing turkey, Indian-American celebrity Padma Lakshmi shared a slightly different recipe that you can definitely try this Thanksgiving.

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In her Instagram Reel, Padma Lakshmi takes us through the steps to prepare a lip-smacking turkey with a lacy touch. “A take on the classic turkey bacon but with a lassi! She wrote that tenderizing meat in yogurt is an ancient Indian practice.

To get started with the recipe, first, arrange the ingredient below.

To prepare brine or marinade:

Bay leaves – 8

Plain Lassi – 4-6 bottles

Granulated sugar – half a cup

Coarse sea salt – half a cup

black pepper – 1 tbsp

ground cayenne pepper – 1 tsp

For the turkey

Turkey – 1 whole with neck and giblets removed

Bay leaves – 20

3 Fuji or Honeycrisp apples, cored and cut into wedges

Granny Smith apples – 2 cored and cut into wedges

Chopped fennel bulb – 2

Chopped red onion – 1

Chopped yellow onion – 1

Thyme – 1 small bunch

Fresh ginger – 10 slices

Garlic – 12 cloves, cut into slices

Orange – 1, cut into 1-inch wedges

roasted black pepper – 1 tbsp

Lemon

Extra virgin olive oil

Coarse sea salt

Follow these steps to prepare the turkey:

Step – 1 Take a bowl and pour the lassi in it.

Step – 2 Add the sugar, black pepper, ground chili pepper and bay leaf to the saucepan and mix everything.

Step 3 – Place the turkey inside the pot and refrigerate it for three days. Remember to turn the turkey upside down every 12 hours.

Step – 4 Strain the brine and remove excess lassi.

Step – 5 Season the turkey cavity with sea salt and stuff with black pepper, orange, lemon, ginger, garlic cloves and bay leaves.

Step – 6 Take an oven tray and put yellow and red onions, fennel onions, bay leaves, ginger, black pepper and thyme on it to make a bed for the turkey.

Step – 7 Place the whole turkey in the pan and drizzle with some olive oil. Then add the apple wedges and rub the turkey with salt.

Step – 8 Cook the turkey in the oven and enjoy the feast.

Try this unique Thanksgiving meal recipe.

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