Chicken vs. turkey

That’s another tricky question.

I prefer turkey. That’s why:

• The meat of turkey is more homogenous. If you buy a whole chicken, very often it has a very dry breast and very fat legs.
• The production of turkey is not as industrialised as the production of chicken (at least here in Russia). This creates a humble hope that turkeys eat less hormones.
• Turkey has less bones and fat, than chicken. It’s more meaty.

Enough?

My favourite way of cooking turkey is the simplicity itself: take any part of turkey (this evening I’m having a leg), salt it, add pepper and bay leaves, then pack it carefully in foil and put in oven for a couple of hours.

That’s it.

For your curiousity: in English turkey is supposed to come from Turkey. In Russian it’s “indeika” - from India!