Turkey “Ossobuco”

Name: Turkey “Ossobuco”
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: 750 g/1½ lb ripe plum tomatoes, peeled, deseeded and chopped; 6 tablespoons olive oil; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 scant teaspoon finely chopped garlic; 2½ teaspoons grated lemon peel; flour; 3×750 g/1½ lb turkey drumsticks, each cut through the bone into quarters (it is better to chill the drumsticks before sawing through with a junior hack saw); 2½ tablespoons finely chopped parsley; 1 glass dry white wine

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Leaves from The Walnut Tree

By Ann Taruschio and Franco Taruschio

Published 1993

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Ingredients

3×750 g/1½ lb turkey drumsticks, each cut through the bone into quarters (it is better to chill the drumsticks before sawing through with a junior hack saw)
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Method

Remove the large sinews and small bones from the drumsticks with kitchen pincers. Dust the pieces of turkey in flour. In a frying pan, fry the turkey pieces in olive oil until golden. Stir in the tomatoes and add the white wine, salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste. Cover the frying pan with a lid, reduce the flame and gently simmer for 30–40 minutes. Check the seasoning. The sauce sho