Turkeychicken Ring Food

CHICKEN RING

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl, combine chicken, cream of chicken and onion soups, broccoli, bacon bits, and cheese. (substitute cream of mushroom soup for onion if desired, then add chopped onion).
• Open cans of crescent rolls and divide them. On a round cookie sheet or stone, lay them in a ring. pointy side facing out, leaving a hole in the middle. Press firmly around to form groove for mixture to go into.
• Spoon mixture into groove of crescent rolls. Pile it high!
• Fold pointy ends of crescent rolls over top of the mixture, so that points meet in the middle hole.
• Bake in preheated oven of 350°F for 30 minutes or crescent rolls are brown.

TURKEY AND STUFFING RING

Steps:

• Place 3 cups bread cubes in bottom of greased 12-cup bundt pan.
• Place turkey evenly over bread, then spread Swiss cheese over turkey layer.
• Sprinkle with dry onions and top with remaining 3 cups bread cubes.
• Combine beaten eggs with milk and seasonings; pour over mixture in pan.
• Place bundt pan in a pan of water and bake at 350°F for 1 hour.
• Remove from water pan and bake an additional ten minutes or until knife comes out clean.
• Cool ten minutes.
• With plastic spatula lift turkey mixture away from edges of pan and remove.
• Serve with steamed broccoli or veggie of choice in center of ring.

TURDUCKEN (A CHICKEN IN A DUCK IN A TURKEY)

Steps:

• Debone the birds:.
• If it is your first time deboning a fowl, you might want to practice first on the chicken rather than the turkey since mistakes will be hidden inside the bigger birds.
• Rinse the turkey and remove the neck and any giblets.
• Place the turkey, breast side down, on a clean flat surface.
• Cut through the skin along the length of the spine.
• Using the tip of a knife and starting from the neck end, gently separate meat from rib cage on one side.
• Toward neck end, cut through the meat to expose the shoulder blade; cut meat away from and around the bone, severing bone at the joint to remove shoulder blade.
• Disjoint wing between second and third joints. Leave the wing bones and keep the wing attached to the meat.
• Continue separating meat from frame, working toward the thighbone and being careful to keep the "oyster" (pocket of meat on back) attached to skin, rather than leaving it with the bone.
• Cut through ball-and-socket joint to release the thighbone from the carcass (bird will be open on one side). Keep the leg attached to the meat.
• Repeat boning procedure on the other side of the bird.
• Carefully remove the carcass and use it to make stock for your gravy and stuffing. To make stock, put the turkey carcass in a large pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil, then simmer on low heat. You can also place it in a large crock pot.
• You should end up with a flat boneless (except for wings and legs) turkey with the skin intact in one large piece. Put the boned turkey in a large dish or bowl and cover with plastic wrap to keep it from drying out. Place it in the refrigerator.
• Repeat the deboning process on the duckling and the chicken, but debone both stumps of wings and leg drumsticks. Cut through flesh at the thinnest point and trim around these bones with a knife until they can be removed. (Since they have little meat, you can cut off the entire wings and add them to the stock pot.) Both the chicken and duck will be stuffed inside the turkey and need not be kept "perfectly" intact.
• Trim excess skin and fat from the birds. Ducks, in particular, have a lot of excess fatty skin that should be saved to render fat to be used later for making gravy. You can completely remove the skin from the chicken, but keep some duck skin which adds flavor.
• At least 10 to 11 hours before dinner, assemble the Turducken.
• Mix together the seasonings in a small dish.
• Spread the turkey, skin down, on flat surface, exposing as much meat as possible.
• Rub 3 tablespoons of seasoning mix evenly on meat.
• Spread some of stuffing over the turkey in an even layer approximately 3/4 inch thick.
• Place duck, skin down, on top of stuffing.
• Season exposed duck meat with about 1 tablespoons of seasoning mix.
• Spread more stuffing in an even layer (about 1/2 inch thick) over the duck.
• Arrange the chicken, skin down, evenly on top of the stuffing.
• Season chicken meat with seasoning mix.
• Spread remainder of your stuffing on top of chicken.
• With another person's help, carefully lift the sides of the layered birds, folding the sides of the turkey together.
• Have a helper hold the bird while sewing the opening down the back of the turkey together using cotton thread. The bird may not close perfectly, and a strip of cheese cloth can be used to help close the "crack" in the back of the turkey so stuffing will not leak out when the bird is turned over.
• Since the turducken has no skeleton, it must be trussed up or it may fall apart in cooking.
• Tie 4-5 pieces of cotton string around the bird, widthwise to act as skeletal support.
• Turn the bird over and place in a roasting rack inside a large roasting pan so it is breast side up and looks like a "normal" turkey.
• Tie the legs together just above the tip bones.
• Cooking:.
• Heat oven to 225 degrees F.
• Place the bird in the center of the oven and bake until a meat thermometer inserted through to center reads 165 degrees, approximately 9 hours, though cooking times will vary depending on the size of the birds and amount of stuffing used. Rely on temperature and not time cooked for doneness.
• There will be no need to baste, but accumulated drippings may need to be removed from the pan every few hours so that the lower portion does not deep fry in the hot oil. Save pan drippings for gravy.
• Remove the turducken from the oven and let cool in the pan for an hour before serving. Make gravy according to your favorite recipe.
• To serve cut bird in half. Carve crosswise so each slice reveals all 3 meats and stuffings.

FLORENTINE CHICKEN RING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F In large bowl flake chicken. Chop bell pepper and water chestnuts. Add to chicken along with spinach, cheese, mayonnaise, lemon zest, salt and nutmeg; mix well. Unroll crescent dough; separate into 16 triangles. Arrange triangles in a circle on baking sheet with wide ends of the triangles overlapping in the center and points toward the outside. (There should be a 5-inch-diameter opening in the center.) Scoop chicken mixture evenly onto widest end of each triangle. Bring outside points of triangles up over filling and tuck under wide ends of dough at the center of ring. (Filling will not be completely covered.) Bake 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.

CHICKEN CLUB BRUNCH RING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• In a bowl, combine mayonnaise and mustard.
• Snip parsley.
• Chop onion.
• Add parsley and onion to mayonnaise mixture; mix well.
• In a 2 quart bowl, flake chicken with a fork.
• Chop bacon.
• Add bacon, 3/4 cup swiss cheese, and 1/3 cup of the mayonnaise mixture; mix well.
• Unroll crescent dough, separate into 16 triangles.
• Arrange triangles in a circle on a 13-inch baking stone with wide ends of triangles overlapping in the center and points toward the outside (there should be a 5-inch diameter opening in the center of the stone).
• Scoop the chicken mixture evenly onto widest end of each triangle.
• Bring outside points of triangle up over filling and tuck under wide ends of dough at center or ring (filling will not be completely covered).
• Slice tomatoes, cut slices in half.
• Place 1 tomato half over filling between openings of ring.
• Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until deep golden brown.
• Remove from oven, immediately sprinkle with remaining 1/4 cup swiss cheese.
• Using a v-shaped cutter, cut around bell pepper.
• Separate halves; remove membrane and seeds.
• Fill with remaining mayonnaise mixture; place in center of ring.
• Arrange lettuce around the pepper.

CHICKEN OR TURKEY TETRAZZINI DELUXE

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain and set aside.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Meanwhile, melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add mushrooms, onion and bell pepper and saute until tender. Stir in cream of mushroom soup and chicken broth; cook, stirring, until heated through. Stir in pasta, Cheddar cheese, peas, sherry, Worcestershire sauce, salt, pepper and chicken. Mix well and transfer mixture to a lightly greased 11x14 inch baking dish. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and paprika.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 25 to 35 minutes, or until heated through.

TOLL HOUSE RESTAURANT NOODLE RING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350-degrees and place a pan of water, large enough to hold a ring mold in the oven to warm while your making the recipe.
• Cook noodles according to package directions, drain and set cooked noodles aside, until later.
• In a large bowl, combine all the other ingredients and mix well.
• Add the cooked noodles and combine with the other ingredients.
• Pour ingredients into a buttered ring mold, and place the ring mold into the pan of warm water in the oven.
• Bake for about 30 minutes.
• Remove the baked dish and let it cool down enough until it can be unmolded onto a plate.
• Fill center with your choice of vegetables.