The Tale of the Turducken

Yes – we made and ate Turducken for Christmas and it was glorious!
What is turducken, you say? Well it’s a chicken, inside a duck, all inside a turkey. Yes, three birds all cooked together.
This was the recipe we used. I didn’t really do much except help make the stuffing that went inside each bird. Really Adam’s brother Nat de-boned all three birds which is the hardest and most time consuming part, and Adam was his sous chef stuffing it and tying it all together.
They started at about 10:30 pm on Christmas Eve prepping this thing, finished about 1:30 am, to wake up and put it in the oven at 9am. It took about 9 hours to cook and was so delicious. But this post is really more about the pictures than anything else.

De-boning the duck

De-boning the turkey

A lot of stuffing for these three birds

Turkey all prepped and ready to be stuffed with two more birds

Working on their masterpiece

How appetizing is this?

All three birds stacked and stuffed

Carefully moving it to the roasting pan

Here she is all stuffed and ready tied together

Check out these chefs

Ready to eat

All carved up

Thanks Nat for the delicious Christmas meal!

Not sure if we'll do it again, but it sure was tasty, the turkey had a nice flavor from the duck fat that dripped into it and the meats were all tender and moist.   If you want to try something new and different, I'd recommend it, but only if you have a lot of time and patience.