Turkey breasts with herbs
( Fesa di tacchino agli aromi )

Marinated and boiled turkey breast recipe

Preparation

• - Place turkey breast in a large bowl.
• - Cover it with with abundant water.
• - Add cubed onion, wine, dried herbs and 2 tsps olive oil.
• - Cover and allow to marinate, 3 to 4 hours.

Cooking

• - At this point season with salt and bring to a boil.
• - When the water begins boling, reduce heat to just simmering point, cover and cook, about an hour.
• - Let cool in its cooking water.

Just before serving

• - Cut your meat into thick slices and dress with olive oil and, if you like, with fresh or dried chives.

Note

Tips

• - This meat is more delicious if you dress it with some drops of balsamic vinegar from Modena - Italy.
• - If you want, you can store its stock, after filtering it, in the refrigerator up to 2 to 3 days or freeze up to a year.
  It can be used for cooking a very good risotto, link to our index below.
  But you can use it for steaming potatoes too (colored potatoes) (link below).

Useful links for this recipe

• - As promised, here's our risotto recipe index.
• - Another interesting and scenic recipe is colored potatoes.

Healthy eating

• - As you can see, when you use the portions suggested for meat and do not exceed the dressing,, calories are not high.
• - The Mediterranean diet does not exclude meat but prefers white meat than the red one and the fish than meat, to distribute better the sources of protein.

Loretta

What's the right wine for " Turkey breasts with herbs "?

Our suggestion is: Grignolino d'Asti (red wine of Piedmont - Italy).