Fesa di tacchino all'arancia
Orange-flavoured turkey breasts
Turkey breast stew with orange juice. A different way to cook turkey breast cut into pieces. The recipe is tasty but at the same time low in calories and fat. If you respect the right portion of meat per person (100 g) the share of protein is reasonable as you can see below, in the note.
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- 800g (1 3/4 pound) turkey breast meat, cubed
- 80g (2.8 ounces) young fresh onion
- 1 dried bay leaf
- 1 tablespoon dried parsley
- 1 tablespoon dried chives
- 3 oranges
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- Salt
- Time:
preparation: 15 minutes
cooking: 30 minutes
total: 45 minutes - Difficulty:
easy recipe - Nutrition Facts (amount per serving):
Calories: 226 (kCal) 12 % GDA (*) - 947 (kJ)
Protein: 32.5 (g) 65 % GDA
Total fat: 8.3 (g) 12 % GDA
Total carbohydrate: 5.6 (g) 3 % GDA
Sugars: 5.6 (g) 7 % GDA
Squeeze two oranges and put apart their juice.
Just before serving you'll have to slide crossways the other one to garnish the dish.
Put the live oil in a non-stick frying pan.
Chop the onion finely and add to the pan together with the bay leaf.
Now add the cubed turkey too and brown on all sides on low heat, stirring.
Then add the
orange juice and let all the ingredients flavor for few minutes, stirring now and then.
Add a couple of ladles of boiling
water and aromatic herbs.
Season to taste with salt, half-cover and
cook over a low flame until meat is tender and cooking juice is well reduced.
If necessary, add other hot water.
Arrange the meat on the serving dish and garnish with the sliced orange.
You can also dress the orange with oil and salt.
Note
- - You can use vegetable or meat broth if preferred.
In any case avoid broth cube if you like healthy eating and have kids. - - If you have little time you can use sliced turkey breast and cut them into strips. In this way the cooking will be quicker and you should need less orange juice. So you can use smaller oranges.
- - We want to remember you the right meat portion per head is 100g (3 1/2 ounces). Our meat doses are a little abundant.
If you want to follow strictly the indications of a healthy diet you should use 600g of turkey breast for 6 servings.
2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon olive oil should be enough. In this case the nutrient facts change:
calories: 176 (735 kJ)
protein: 24.5g
total fat: 6.3g
total carbohydrate: 5.6g
sugars: 5.6g
As you can see slight variations of the doses on each meat recipe produce substantial differences in calories, proteins and fats ;)))
What's the right wine ?
Our suggestion is prosecco or a red young wine.
The author Loretta Sebastiani lives in Italy (IT)
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