Friday
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Festival Turkey Legs
- In a large pot combine soda, sugar, hot sauce, red pepper flakes, black pepper. Add turkey legs and bring to gentle boil for apx 30 minutes & internal temp is 165F / 75C (180F/85C If refrigerating to finish cooking later).
- Preheat BBQ to medium heat (If you’ve got ‘em a handful of dampened smoker chips wouldn’t go amiss).
- Scatter thick onion slices over surface of grill (or on a grilling tray if your grate just means you’d be feeding onion slices to your coals ;)) & place turkey legs on top of them.
- Brush/Drizzle/Squirt honey over Legs, sprinkle over steak seasoning, and grill for abooooooout 15 minutes / internal temp = 180F / 85C AND surface is all deep redish brown and glossy as they cook in their own fat / skin crisps up.
- Wrap ends in tinfoil for easier / less messy eating
I often get a bit lazy, and rather than 15 minutes with medium heat; move the coals to one side, and cook with lower / indirect heat for 30-60 minutes with the lid closed for extra smokiness... but they don’t need it / it really doesn’t change much. It’s just an excuse for me to sit and have a beer or a coffee while they’re doing their thing, or to bust my ass cooking other things.
Yep. All of this can be done in a medium oven, instead (350F / 175C). Plan on about 30 minutes to really get the fat rendered & skin crisp. If you need a bit more color a minute under the broiler/grill darkens things up nicely, but will burn if you blink.
- 4-8 Turkey Legs* (or more! :D Just double the recipe )
- 1 (2-liter) bottle Sprite or 7up (you can use lemonade as well, but if so, add a few big pinches of salt / salted pasta water level, and sparkling lemonade is better. This is essentially a hot brine : salt/sugar/citrus/oomph, and the carbonation helps infuse the meat quickly.)
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons hot sauce
- 1 tablespoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 tablespoon black pepper
- 1 large sweet onion (sliced)
- 2-4 tablespoons honey (roughly, I just squeeze a zig zag out of the bear ? )
- 1 tablespoon steak seasoning
- In a large pot combine soda, sugar, hot sauce, red pepper flakes, black pepper. Add turkey legs and bring to gentle boil for apx 30 minutes & internal temp is 165F / 75C (180F/85C If refrigerating to finish cooking later).
- Preheat BBQ to medium heat (If you’ve got ‘em a handful of dampened smoker chips wouldn’t go amiss).
- Scatter thick onion slices over surface of grill (or on a grilling tray if your grate just means you’d be feeding onion slices to your coals ;)) & place turkey legs on top of them.
- Brush/Drizzle/Squirt honey over Legs, sprinkle over steak seasoning, and grill for abooooooout 15 minutes / internal temp = 180F / 85C AND surface is all deep redish brown and glossy as they cook in their own fat / skin crisps up.
- Wrap ends in tinfoil for easier / less messy eating
I often get a bit lazy, and rather than 15 minutes with medium heat; move the coals to one side, and cook with lower / indirect heat for 30-60 minutes with the lid closed for extra smokiness... but they don’t need it / it really doesn’t change much. It’s just an excuse for me to sit and have a beer or a coffee while they’re doing their thing, or to bust my ass cooking other things.
Yep. All of this can be done in a medium oven, instead (350F / 175C). Plan on about 30 minutes to really get the fat rendered & skin crisp. If you need a bit more color a minute under the broiler/grill darkens things up nicely, but will burn if you blink.
