Turducken

Turducken

The word turducken combines turkey, duck, and chicken. Outside of the United States and Canada, it is known as a three bird roast. Gooducken is a traditional English variant, replacing turkey with goose. It was popularized in America by John Madden, who evangelized about the unusual dish during NFL Thanksgiving Day games.

About Turducken in brief

Summary TurduckenThe word turducken combines turkey, duck, and chicken. Outside of the United States and Canada, it is known as a three bird roast. Gooducken is a traditional English variant, replacing turkey with goose. The dish is a form of engastration, which is a recipe method in which one animal is stuffed inside the gastric passage of another. It is a fairly solid layered poultry dish, suitable for cooking by braising, roasting, grilling, or barbecuing. It was popularized in America by John Madden, who evangelized about the unusual dish during NFL Thanksgiving Day games and, later, Monday Night Football broadcasts.

A New Orleans surgeon, Dr. Gerald R. LaNasa, was locally known for his use of a scalpel in deboning his three birds of choice, sometimes adding pork or veal roasts in the final hen’s cavity. Andouille sausage and Foie Gras were always key ingredients of the LaN Nasa creations. In the United Kingdom, a turducker is a type of ballotine called a \”three-bird roast\” or a \”royal roast” The Pure Meat Company offered a five-bird roasted, described as a modern revival of the traditional Yorkshire Christmas pie, in 1989; and a three- bird roast in 1990.