Turkey Roulades

A different way of serving turkey these holidays: turkey roulades stuffed with cheese and vegetables in a delicious sauce.

ROULADES OF TURKEY

Small and tender turkey roulades with an amazing sauce, cooked in a cast iron skillet, a light and easy to make holiday meal.

So, in preparation for Thanksgiving or Christmas I decided to have a small series of turkey recipes here on the blog. We all love turkey in our family and that is why cooking (and eating) for this series has been particularly enjoyable for all of us.

We are lucky enough to be able to buy our turkey here in the village from a farm raising turkeys, chickens and geese and I always think that the farm turkeys taste better than the turkey I buy when we run out of the farm poultry.

The turkeys we get to buy here are huge, so large that they could never fit in our freezer or in the oven in one piece. Even if I was able to get it in the oven to cook it, we would probably need one week to eat it all. So, when I am cooking with turkey it is always with smaller pieces of it and never an entire bird.

WHAT IS A TURKEY ROULADE?

The turkey roulades consist of a thinly cut piece of turkey, stuffed with various fillings, rolled and tied and cooked in the oven or in the skillet. It is usually served with sauce, potatoes and vegetables.

How to cut the turkey cutlets?

• To make this small turkey roulades I used some of the cutlets I cut from the turkey breast. I did my best to cut them rather thinly so that they are easily rolled and the rolls are not very thick.
• If you do cut your own cutlets it really helps if you either only half defrost the turkey breast before cutting it or, if your turkey breast is fresh, put it in the freezer until slightly frozen. This makes the slicing of the meat so much easier.
• The easiest solution though is to buy ready cut turkey cutlets, I always do that if I don't happen to have a whole turkey breast in the freezer or if I cannot be bothered with slicing the meat myself.

INGREDIENTS FOR TURKEY ROULADES

Pesto:

• I used my homemade herb garlic paste to smear on the turkey cutlets, I absolutely love that stuff, it is pretty addictive, I put it into most of the things I am cooking nowadays. If you have been reading my blog for a while, you might have noticed that I am a total garlic junkie... and I like salty things... so, that paste is the food of gods for me. 🙂
• However, if you do make that paste and use it for this recipe (or any other recipe) be careful with the addition of salt afterward, the paste is a condiment and very salty, I rarely have to use extra salt to adjust the taste of a dish when using the garlic parsley paste.
• If you don't make the paste, feel free to use any other herb-garlic paste you have or pesto, whatever kind of pesto you like. The kind of pesto you use will slightly change the taste of the turkey roulades, but as pesto is always delicious, it won't really matter if you use regular basil pesto, wild garlic pesto, parsley pesto or even mint pistachio pesto.

Cheese:

• I used Gouda slices, but Cheddar will be just as good. And for a change you could even take some freshly grated Parmesan instead of the sliced cheese, I tried that as well, it is delicious.
• The sliced cheese will melt and start to ooze out of the rolls, I was a bit disappointed when seeing that the first time, but got happy again when I started eating and I just loved that melty cheese. Not to mention the kids, they particularly love the melting cheese.

Vegetables:

• Zucchini, carrots, parsnips and green onions, all julienned very finely.

White wine:

• If you don't want to use wine for the sauce, although it is particularly delicious and the alcohol cooks off anyway, you could replace it with good quality chicken stock.

HOW TO MAKE TURKEY ROULADES?

• Start with the vegetables, they should all be cut into long and fine strips (julienned).
• Heat some oil in a pan and cook the veggies for about 4-5 minutes or until slightly softened.
• Adjust the taste, remove from the pan and let cool slightly while you prepare the rest.
• If necessary, thinly slice the turkey breast as described above.
• Season the cutlets lightly and smear them with pesto or garlic herb paste.
• Place the cheese slice on top. The cheese slices should be slightly smaller than the turkey cutlets. Trim them if necessary.
• Arrange the vegetables on the turkey cutlets, roll the cutlets and secure each one with one or two toothpicks.
• Fry the turkey rolls for about 5 minutes, turning them often so that they get brown on all sides.
• Add the white wine and place the skillet in the oven. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until the turkey rolls are cooked through but not overcooked.
• Remove the turkey roulades from the skillet and make the sauce.
• Add the double cream and the milk to the pan and simmer for about 3-4 minutes or until the sauce thickens slightly. 
• Return the turkey rolls to the pan.

HOW TO SERVE TURKEY ROULADES?

Serve the roulades of turkey immediately.

Suitable sides dishes would be:

Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Homemade Yeast Rolls

Creamy Spinach Potato Mash

Sauteed Mushrooms

French Style Green Beans

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Turkey Roulades

A different way of serving turkey for Thanksgiving: turkey roulades stuffed with cheese and vegetables in a delicious white wine and cream sauce.

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Course: Poultry

Cuisine: German

Prep Time: 20 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 25 minutes minutes

Total Time: 45 minutes minutes

Servings: 6

Calories: 431kcal

Author: Adina

Equipment

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  Cast iron skillet

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Ingredients 

• ▢ 6 thin turkey cutlets
• ▢ 4-5 teaspoons pesto or homemade garlic parsley paste
• ▢ 6 thin cheese slices Gouda, Cheddar, slightly smaller than the turkey cutlets
• ▢ 2.5 oz g/ 2.5 oz carrots 70 g
• ▢ 1.7 oz parsnip 50 g
• ▢ 2.5 oz spring onions 70 g
• ▢ 3.5 oz zucchini 100 g
• ▢ 2 tablespoons olive oil divided
• ▢ ½ cup white wine 125 ml
• ▢ ⅓ cup heavy cream 100 ml
• ▢ ⅓ cup milk 100 ml
• ▢ fine sea salt and black pepper

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius/ 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Filling: Julienne the carrots, parsnip, spring onions, and zucchini. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in the skillet (or another ovenproof pan) and add the vegetables. Cook for about 4-5 minutes until slightly softened. Adjust the taste with some salt and pepper, but again leave away the salt if using the salty homemade garlic parsley paste. Remove the vegetables from the pan. Leave to cool slightly while you prepare the rest.
• Season: Place the turkey cutlets flat on the working surface and season lightly with salt and pepper. If you are using my homemade garlic paste, don't salt the cutlets anymore, the paste includes lots of salt.
• Smear the cutlets with pesto or garlic-parsley paste. Place the cheese slice on top. If the cheese slices are larger than the turkey breast pieces, trim them slightly smaller than the cutlets.
• Roll: Arrange the vegetables on the turkey cutlets, roll the roulades and secure each one with one or two toothpicks.
• Fry: Add the second tablespoon oil to the skillet. Fry the turkey roulades for about 5 minutes, turning often so that they brown on all sides. Add the white wine to the rolls and place the skillet in the oven.
• Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until the roulades are cooked through but not overcooked. Remove the roulades from the skillet and keep warm while making the sauce.
• Make the sauce: Add the cream and the milk to the pan and simmer for about 3-4 minutes or until the sauce thickens slightly.
• Serve: Return the roulades to the pan and serve immediately.

Nutrition

Serving: 1roulade | Calories: 431kcal | Carbohydrates: 7g | Protein: 41g | Fat: 25g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 12g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 134mg | Sodium: 433mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 2g

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