How To Brine Turkey With Lassi, Follow Padma Lakshmi’s Thanksgiving Turkey Recipe

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

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In an Instagram Reel, Padma Lakshmi took us through the steps to prepare a lip-smacking turkey with a lassi twist. “A riff on my classic buttermilk brined turkey but with lassi! tenderizing meat in yoghurt is an age-old Indian practice,” she wrote.

To begin with the recipe, first, arrange the ingredient below.

For the brine or marinade:

Bay leaves – 8

Plain lassi – 4-6 bottles

Granulated sugar – ½ cup

Coarse sea salt – ½ cup

Black pepper – 1 tbsp

Ground cayenne pepper – 1 ½ tsp

For the turkey

Turkey – 1 whole with neck and giblets removed

Bay leaves – 20

Fuji or Honeycrisp apples – 3 cored and cut into wedges

Granny Smith apples – 2 cored and cut into wedges

Sliced fennel bulb – 2

Sliced red onion – 1

Sliced yellow onion – 1

Thyme – 1 small bunch

Fresh ginger – 10 slices

Garlic – 12 sliced cloves

Orange – 1 cut into 1-inch wedges

Toasted black pepper – 1 tbsp

Lemon

Extra-virgin olive oil

Coarse sea salt

Follow the steps below to prepare the turkey:

Step – 1 Take a pot and pour the lassi into it.

Step – 2 Add sugar, black pepper, ground cayenne pepper, and bay leaves to the pot and mix everything.

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

Step – 4 Drain out the brine and remove the excess lassi.

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

Step – 6 Take an oven tray and place yellow and red onion, fennel bulbs, bay leaves, ginger, black pepper, and thyme on it to prepare a bed for the turkey.

Step – 7 Place the whole turkey inside the tray and drizzle some olive oil on it. Then add apple wedges and rub the turkey with salt.

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

Try this unique recipe for Thanksgiving meal. 

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