Turducken review

Christmas has come and gone and I remembered that I owed my blog a review of the Turducken we had for the Miller family Christmas dinner. We had 15 folks all told.

I got it via Cajun Grocer and went with the cornbread stuffing. Perhaps another time I may get the seafood jambalaya stuffing.

Directions had us defrosting 2 days before the event in the refrigerator. I think it should have been 3 days. We had to do an overnight cold water defrost to speed things up a bit. Worked out O.K.

Preparation and cooking was a snap. Just needed to get it in an appropriate sized pan. The aroma in the house was fantastic after about an hour. The different spices on top of the cooking turkey, chicken and duck let everyone in the house know there was some serious bird in the oven.

It was done when we needed it to be done. Carving up the bird was a little challenge because I didn't know exactly what the layout was under the skin. When I and my brother-in-law got the Turducken out of the cooking pan a portion of it broke off but it was no big deal.

Carving was simple. Other than the legs on the turkey it's essentially boneless. I used an electric knife so I was able to get enough meat on the platter in a short period of time while it was still warm and juicy.

And it tasted wonderful. The cajun spices made themselves known but it wasn't overpowering. It was delicious, and having the same spices interacting with different types of meat made it like a mini buffet.

Got lots of compliments from the family and they were surprised at how good it was.

We will Turducken again in the future.