How To Make Turkey Legs
Satisfy your meat cravings with a recipe that’s savory yet light, such as these roasted turkey legs. Each leg is also stuffed with celery for more flavor.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 3celery stalks,cut in thirds
- 3turkey legs
- 6tbspsbutter
- salt,to taste
- ½cupwater,or as needed
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Rinse the turkey legs and pat dry.
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Stand the turkey legs upright (as if the turkey were standing). Press a knife downward into the deep tissue, creating 2 or 3 long pockets. Press a piece of celery into each opening.
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Pull back the skin on the legs, rub with butter, and season with a little salt. Put the skin back into place, rub with more butter, and season lightly with salt. Lay the legs in a roasting pan.
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Roast uncovered for 1½ to 2 hours, until the legs are golden brown and the internal temperature is 180 degrees F when taken with a meat thermometer.
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Add more water if needed while roasting, and baste occasionally with the juices or butter.
Nutrition
- Calories: 1385.07kcal
- Fat: 77.94g
- Saturated Fat: 31.41g
- Trans Fat: 0.93g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 22.79g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 15.83g
- Carbohydrates: 1.21g
- Fiber: 0.64g
- Sugar: 0.55g
- Protein: 159.96g
- Cholesterol: 640.42mg
- Sodium: 2148.51mg
- Calcium: 163.65mg
- Potassium: 2338.81mg
- Iron: 14.13mg
- Vitamin A: 211.22µg
- Vitamin C: 1.24mg
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