Cooking the turkey on Christmas Day can be the hardest part of making the Christmas dinner.
With there being many different turkey recipes out there and ways of cooking this meat, you’re spoilt for choice.
While using the oven, and more recently the air fryer, are the most popular ways to cook turkey, there is another method – but it comes with a warning.
Some households decide to use their BBQ to cook a turkey which gives a smoky flavour, but for anyone wanting to enjoy the meat as leftovers the next day in a soup or some other dish, it can be “off-putting” as one person found out.
After purchasing a smoked turkey, one person took to Reddit to share their disgust over using it as leftovers the following day.
They posted: “We splurged and bought a fully smoked turkey from a BBQ joint this year, since Thanksgiving is our favourite holiday.
“It’s just two of us though, so we have a ton of turkey leftover. Unfortunately, I’m finding the smokey flavour way too strong and off-putting.
“I tried to make a broth out of the carcass and even that seems to taste more like smoke than turkey.
“I saved the skin, which wasn’t crispy when we ate it the first time, but I don’t know what to do with it.”
Asking fellow users for advice, the person said: “So what can I do to minimise the smoky flavour in my leftovers? I’d love to make a soup or casserole or something out of some of the leftover turkey. Can the broth or skin be salvaged?”
Users in the comments recommended playing into the smokiness of the meat by “looking up recipes that call for including smoked meat/smoky flavour”. They claimed: “Chilli would be great, braised collard greens, split pea soup, etc.”
Jamie Oliver has shared his recipe for “the best turkey in the world”, claiming that it’s “not too tricky”.
In his recipe, households simply need to flavour the meat with butter, fresh herbs and clementines
As a rough guide, you want to cook the turkey for about 35 to 40 minutes per kilogram, so a 7kg turkey will take about four to four and a half hours in the oven.
