I made the confit and the take-apart turkey yesterday for a crowd of 30 at our house. I used the homemade stock for the gravy and in the sourdough stuffing that I made. We have been hosting for 16 years & it was easily the best meal I’ve put out yet. The confit vanished and there’s hardly any turkey leftovers (glad I saved a breast in the fridge). Thank you for these recipes!!! 💯
In a previous T-giving video you mentioned that when you cook the big meal, you never cook the turkey as whole bird. That you break it down and cook the pieces the way SHOULD be cooked, seperately. I've waited (seemingly) forevor for this confit turkey legs video, and you absolutely smashed it!
I did this a couple of years ago and it was AMAZING! Only two of us eat turkey and we both like dark meat so this was what I chose. OMG! And the fat it produces is delicious! Save for later dishes to add an amazing savoriness. 🤤
TOP TIP: i made this last year and at the bottom of the pot under the oil after you take out the legs and thighs, there is a bunch of very rich and gelatinous stock. I didn’t notice until i had dumped out the cooled oil, there was an inch thick layer of turkey jello!
Definitely going to try the confit strategy with my turkey legs/thighs but crisping the skin in a pan like that was insane. I'm assuming you just did that because of your sponsor and you had to integrate them somehow, but obviously the right move is to throw the skin on parchment on a sheet pan and straight into the oven. No sticking and much more even crisping.
how long and what temp would you cook it for? because yeah no way i'd be fussing around with a pan, oven, pan, and then back in the oven is way too much
I have been making chicken and Turkey confit for about 15 years.. I will definitely Be taking some tips from this video.. This would be a great way to make some Turkey carnitas... I Normally cure the Chicken legs overnight. Confit them in Olive oil The way you did here or in a slow cooker.. Instead of removing the skin, I just heat up a cast iron skillet and Straight from the Olive oil crisp them up in the hot skillet. I save the oil for cooking it's so yummy.. They are a big hit..😉
Dude... you are easily my favourite UA-cam chef. Your recipes and videos are so accessible and encouraging. I have used your tomatoe soup and pasta a limone recipes numerous times. Keep up the great work. 🔥
I can’t wait to cook this for Thanksgiving. I’ve cooked several of Stephens recipes over the years and they never disappoint. Thank you Stephen for always showing me new things to cook and enjoy with my family. This one is sure to please everyone, even my picky kids…lol
I can honestly say I've never done a confit of turkey, so I will definitely try this. I'm not a fan of beurre manie and tend to either use a traditionally made roux or even a baked roux, which I find to be more versatile. It also keeps for a very long time (and if you use olive or vegetable oil in the baked roux, you don't even have to refrigerate it).
There's a method I've done before for a Turkey "Osso Buco" which calls for cutting the drumstick down near where it gets thicker (with a clean saw) and using clean kitchen pliers to pull the tendons out of the legs. I think making the legs and thighs a more even (or smaller) size might help to fit more pieces of turkey in the same vessel, thereby minimizing the need for so much olive oil. You could probably also save scraps of chicken fat and skin for a few months in a double bag in the freezer and then when you've accumulated enough, render it down and use in place of olive oil (or supplement with olive oil). When I make a batch of chicken stock I probably have a few pints from that alone.
@@NOTANOTHERCOOKINGSHOW Dude, I live in JY. I would love to come to work with you on one of your restaurant specials. I have 10 years of experience doing every job in NY restaurants, I have even built restaurants. I think the shit you are doing is awesome
Olive oil would be the last oil I would use for this recipe. Vegetable, canola or peanut (assuming there are no allergies) will give a better or more traditional flavor.
My mouth is still watering! The first time I ever heard of turkey confit was on Emeril. I've always wanted to make it and you're given me more encouragement. Just one thing...what do you do with all of that leftover olive oil????
putting the turkey skin on s sheet pan with parchment underneath and on top of it with another sheet pan on top of that and crisp the skin in the oven works so well with no sticking to a pan and you get a much better result, almost glass like
Made your turketta and confit this year, both super excellent! the confit I was unable to give enough time, I'm not sure if it was just oven holding temp poorly or I had too much but they never got to absolute peak tenderness -- STILL turned out spectacular. Stock and gravy recipe also went great. Thanks for the methods!
I'll be making BOTH this and the "Turquetta"! My only question: What do you do with all of that Olive Oil after you're done with the Dark Meat Confit? Can you use it for something else? Or do you have to throw it away? Thanks for the incredible recipes!
I don't even celebrate Thanksgiving but I love some new recipes 😍 Ordered a new stowe today, patiently waited more than a year, and after I get him, this is one of many recipes I'm trying. We love to eat turkey all year long, but I never made it like this! Thanks for the great video
Wow this changes the turkey game! Your videos are always so new and innovative. I would never think to cook turkey this way and it looks absolutely delicious.
Hes changed the entire landscape of Thanksgiving for me and my future generations! So many stars of the show...they compete for the spotlight. They just cant fit all in one day, and i wouldn't want them too. So Thanksgiving is expanding to a whole week.
To crisp the skin skip the skillet and just put it on a silpat lined baking sheet and throw it in the hot oven. I do that all the time with chicken skin.
I did mine in rendered pork fat and butter. You can buy it at the Fiesta mart here in Texas. They sell it in quarts. A lot cheaper. The turkey had great flavor and family loved it. Just like pulled pork. Will do it again for the big day.
@NOTANOTHERCOOKINGSHOW Stephen, for the beurre manie, I have a suggestion: if you spread flour on some foil and pre-toast it on a sheet pan until it is golden brown, or even pre-toast it in a pan, and then let it cool and make the beurre manie, it may give you results you might like better. Pre-toasting the flour is a trick I heard about that some restaurants use. The pre-toasted flour is called a dry roux. It is just about instantly usable without needing to cook away any raw flour taste. You can pre-toast the flour to any level of darkness you prefer, and then all you need to add is oil. Apparently you can make a whole lot of this, and make roux and gravies all week, so it's a real time saver if you need to do this in a restaurant. I don't know how long it keeps, but if it keeps well, it could save you time for home cooking as well.
@@mattanderson9733 does cooking a roux made with uncooked flour until the roux browns reduce the thickening power to a comparable extent as pre-browning the flour as a dry roux? Or is there an advantage to doing the browning in the pan with the butter/fat?
You just blew my mind. and Ive been a foodie all my life. hahaha amazing stuff yet so simple. If I ever make it and take a picre of it I will refrence you as the brilliant mind behind it. fantastic, thank you.👌
Phenomenal recipe. I love the technique, and it made me wonder what to do with all of that olive oil afterwards. Is it like when you cook lobster in butter and you save it as lobster butter that you can use for eggs and other things? Is it usable afterwards? Will it keep?
Yes! I made turkey thighs confit a couple of years ago for Thanksgiving, and it turned out amazing. Saved the leftover fat in jars (in the fridge) and used in recipes over the next couple of months.
Does it need to be covered? Was thinking of leaving it open on my offset. Probably wouldn’t get much more smoke? Would you confit first then smoke or other way around?
...I'm...reeeeally tempted, but our holiday thing is always gonna be white trash ham - 1.5 cans full-sugar Coca Cola and 2 shots of bourbon is how it starts, but then the magic begins and that part's top secret. Maybe I'll just do this confit for fun! yum!
I tried it last night for a trial run before thanksgiving and didn’t get a good result. 😣 My turkey never got soft. It was in for 3 hours and 45 minutes and felt like it never rendered. When it came out (because it was getting late) it didn’t fall off the bone at all. It was tough and dry. I checked it at 1.5 hours and it had a TON of tension when I tested it with a cake tester. It never got any better. I don’t know what I did wrong. I left it in the fridge uncovered and salted for two days instead of one because I ended up being busy the first night. That was the only thing I did differently. ☹️
Question: What is the reason or benefit of oven baking the turkey in oil rather than water or stock? Just want to understand why oil over water base. Thanks!
this looks really amazing! however I would be worried about the flavor olive oil imparts on the meat. was it very mild? obviously it'd be great to get duck fat or lots of rendered turkey fat from other recipes, but that could be upwards of 5X the cost.
Burr-Mon-Yay not Burr-mah-nay. I don't normally care how people pronounce stuff but this was like nails on a chalk board for me. Awesome Recipe. Looks amazing!!!
The weight, while helping to prevent the skin from bubbling up, more importantly helps to render the fat by literally pushing it out as the skin cooks. And less fat = a shatteringly crisp skin.
The skin thing is WAY too labor intensive to be messing with on turkey day! Just crank the oven to 450 and leave the skin on the legs and thighs and roast until skin is nice and brown and crispy!! Then just carve the meat off the bones and shred or just serve in nice large chunks. You could also just deep fry the joints for 7-8 minutes at 375!
The turketta and confit methods seem the optimal choices for cooking a non smoked Turkey to me, which smoked Turkey is my family’s traditional choice. I’ve been gifted Turkey in the past that was not smoked. We boiled it a’ La crawfish boil. No crispy skin, however, the meat had excellent flavor.
I made the confit and the take-apart turkey yesterday for a crowd of 30 at our house. I used the homemade stock for the gravy and in the sourdough stuffing that I made. We have been hosting for 16 years & it was easily the best meal I’ve put out yet. The confit vanished and there’s hardly any turkey leftovers (glad I saved a breast in the fridge). Thank you for these recipes!!! 💯
In a previous T-giving video you mentioned that when you cook the big meal, you never cook the turkey as whole bird. That you break it down and cook the pieces the way SHOULD be cooked, seperately. I've waited (seemingly) forevor for this confit turkey legs video, and you absolutely smashed it!
They gon' call me Chef B when I make it! Blessings to you, big homie.
I did this a couple of years ago and it was AMAZING! Only two of us eat turkey and we both like dark meat so this was what I chose. OMG! And the fat it produces is delicious! Save for later dishes to add an amazing savoriness. 🤤
TOP TIP: i made this last year and at the bottom of the pot under the oil after you take out the legs and thighs, there is a bunch of very rich and gelatinous stock. I didn’t notice until i had dumped out the cooled oil, there was an inch thick layer of turkey jello!
You can use this in the gravy if you make it ahead, or melt it into the confit meat when you reheat it.
Definitely going to try the confit strategy with my turkey legs/thighs but crisping the skin in a pan like that was insane. I'm assuming you just did that because of your sponsor and you had to integrate them somehow, but obviously the right move is to throw the skin on parchment on a sheet pan and straight into the oven. No sticking and much more even crisping.
how long and what temp would you cook it for? because yeah no way i'd be fussing around with a pan, oven, pan, and then back in the oven is way too much
@@barbrothers2 350, not sure how long it's gonna take just going to have to watch them
This is a fact! That’s how I do salmon skin . It’s like stain glass
Thank you. Very helpful.
@@barbrothers2I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that. just confirmed I'll be using the air fryer method when mine is done in 2 hrs 🤤
I have been making chicken and Turkey confit for about 15 years.. I will definitely Be taking some tips from this video.. This would be a great way to make some Turkey carnitas...
I Normally cure the Chicken legs overnight. Confit them in Olive oil The way you did here or in a slow cooker.. Instead of removing the skin, I just heat up a cast iron skillet and Straight from the Olive oil crisp them up in the hot skillet.
I save the oil for cooking it's so yummy..
They are a big hit..😉
Dude... you are easily my favourite UA-cam chef. Your recipes and videos are so accessible and encouraging. I have used your tomatoe soup and pasta a limone recipes numerous times. Keep up the great work. 🔥
I can’t wait to cook this for Thanksgiving. I’ve cooked several of Stephens recipes over the years and they never disappoint. Thank you Stephen for always showing me new things to cook and enjoy with my family. This one is sure to please everyone, even my picky kids…lol
I can honestly say I've never done a confit of turkey, so I will definitely try this.
I'm not a fan of beurre manie and tend to either use a traditionally made roux or even a baked roux, which I find to be more versatile. It also keeps for a very long time (and if you use olive or vegetable oil in the baked roux, you don't even have to refrigerate it).
There's a method I've done before for a Turkey "Osso Buco" which calls for cutting the drumstick down near where it gets thicker (with a clean saw) and using clean kitchen pliers to pull the tendons out of the legs. I think making the legs and thighs a more even (or smaller) size might help to fit more pieces of turkey in the same vessel, thereby minimizing the need for so much olive oil. You could probably also save scraps of chicken fat and skin for a few months in a double bag in the freezer and then when you've accumulated enough, render it down and use in place of olive oil (or supplement with olive oil). When I make a batch of chicken stock I probably have a few pints from that alone.
I am on it. I'm not gonna go the whole Turketta, but will absolutely do the confit leg/thigh/skin prep. And the gravy.
You’ll be eating well
@@NOTANOTHERCOOKINGSHOW Dude, I live in JY. I would love to come to work with you on one of your restaurant specials. I have 10 years of experience doing every job in NY restaurants, I have even built restaurants. I think the shit you are doing is awesome
Just made this for thanksgiving and it was a hit! So easy to make also! Hardest part is taking the skin off without tearing it
Your recipes never fail and I’ve never seen a recipe you’ve posted that looks disappointing! This looked phenomenal and I’d totally make this! ❤
Olive oil would be the last oil I would use for this recipe. Vegetable, canola or peanut (assuming there are no allergies) will give a better or more traditional flavor.
Agreed, ghee or other animal fat would be better as well. Olive oil is rather acid I think
Isn’t it kind of up to your taste? Stephen has Italian tastebuds!
My mouth is still watering! The first time I ever heard of turkey confit was on Emeril. I've always wanted to make it and you're given me more encouragement. Just one thing...what do you do with all of that leftover olive oil????
putting the turkey skin on s sheet pan with parchment underneath and on top of it with another sheet pan on top of that and crisp the skin in the oven works so well with no sticking to a pan and you get a much better result, almost glass like
That sounds like a much more straightforward way of crisping skin. Do you recall the temperature and timing of how you've gone about that?
Made your turketta and confit this year, both super excellent!
the confit I was unable to give enough time, I'm not sure if it was just oven holding temp poorly or I had too much but they never got to absolute peak tenderness -- STILL turned out spectacular.
Stock and gravy recipe also went great. Thanks for the methods!
I'll be making BOTH this and the "Turquetta"! My only question: What do you do with all of that Olive Oil after you're done with the Dark Meat Confit? Can you use it for something else? Or do you have to throw it away? Thanks for the incredible recipes!
My thoughts exactly. That's a LOT of olive oil to throw away.
I don't even celebrate Thanksgiving but I love some new recipes 😍 Ordered a new stowe today, patiently waited more than a year, and after I get him, this is one of many recipes I'm trying. We love to eat turkey all year long, but I never made it like this! Thanks for the great video
You are the best !! Each Time I watch a video I run buying ingredients to make it.
I made this and the Turketta this year. I’m never making it any other way. Thank you so much for a delicious and refined Thanksgiving dish:)
What a great idea! I have made Duck Confit. But Turkey makes so much more sense. thanks for this. Love the Turkey Cracklings!
Wow this changes the turkey game! Your videos are always so new and innovative. I would never think to cook turkey this way and it looks absolutely delicious.
That looks MAGNIFICENT!
Definitely going to have to create this. Best wishes from North East England!
Smart choice changing the thumbnail, as I scrolled by it as first thinking I’d seen it already
I was so conflicted about how I was going to cook my Turkey this year. Not anymore!!!!!! Thanks dude! As always this show is the best!
Hes changed the entire landscape of Thanksgiving for me and my future generations! So many stars of the show...they compete for the spotlight. They just cant fit all in one day, and i wouldn't want them too. So Thanksgiving is expanding to a whole week.
I really wanted to see one of my faves make turkey confit so I'm really happy you made this video😁
Very inspired turkey recipes. It’s such a healthy meat. Can be eaten all year round 😊
To crisp the skin skip the skillet and just put it on a silpat lined baking sheet and throw it in the hot oven. I do that all the time with chicken skin.
My mom developed celiac so our usual pasta dishes for Christmas are a no go, this one looks good
Oh this is happening, phenomenal technique. I know this was delicious!
This is great idea! I did duck confit couple of times, and I will definitelly try it.
I like you because I know you work hard AF, and your recipes taste good. Cheers brother
I did mine in rendered pork fat and butter. You can buy it at the Fiesta mart here in Texas. They sell it in quarts. A lot cheaper. The turkey had great flavor and family loved it. Just like pulled pork. Will do it again for the big day.
This just saved me a chunk of change 🤝
12/17/23 , Well I missed Thanksgiving but I won’t miss out on this Christmas. Sounds wonderful.
Turkey skin crisps up great in the oven. Add some red pepper flakes.
This looks amazing. That gravy looks incredible!
this is stunning
Who else is making this today? I cant wait to try it! Also doing turkey 🦃 porketta recipe 🎉
U r an amazing chef and teacher!👏 Thank u!❤
I love how you love food
@NOTANOTHERCOOKINGSHOW Stephen, for the beurre manie, I have a suggestion: if you spread flour on some foil and pre-toast it on a sheet pan until it is golden brown, or even pre-toast it in a pan, and then let it cool and make the beurre manie, it may give you results you might like better. Pre-toasting the flour is a trick I heard about that some restaurants use. The pre-toasted flour is called a dry roux. It is just about instantly usable without needing to cook away any raw flour taste. You can pre-toast the flour to any level of darkness you prefer, and then all you need to add is oil. Apparently you can make a whole lot of this, and make roux and gravies all week, so it's a real time saver if you need to do this in a restaurant. I don't know how long it keeps, but if it keeps well, it could save you time for home cooking as well.
A dry roux will keep indefinitely in the freezer, but it has less thickening power than uncooked flour.
@@mattanderson9733 does cooking a roux made with uncooked flour until the roux browns reduce the thickening power to a comparable extent as pre-browning the flour as a dry roux? Or is there an advantage to doing the browning in the pan with the butter/fat?
Fried skin, pulled turkey, and bacon clubs are the best.
Thanks!
This was BOOOOOOMMMMBBBB! I’m making my Turkey this way d from NOW ON!
You just blew my mind. and Ive been a foodie all my life. hahaha amazing stuff yet so simple. If I ever make it and take a picre of it I will refrence you as the brilliant mind behind it. fantastic, thank you.👌
naaah bro that thumbnail is craaazy 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Amazing recipe and textures, such a creative guy
i throw my skins in the air fryer and let them bubble. the bubbles taste the best!
Turn this Turkey into Thanksgiving tamales! cornbread stuffing mixed with the masa, and a home made cranberry sauce and this meat in the middle.
I’m making this, thanks.
What a great idea! Looks delicious!
I'm making this right now... but I added slices of onion to the oil cause....confit onions. smells so good in here right now
Hi Steven! I was wondering if the used oil from the confit process is still usable?
This looks absolutely INSANE!
Love confit! Love this video!
Is there any reason why not to go in on duck fat? Duck fat can used over and over for frying potatoes, carrots etc. and freezes solid.
That might be the most delicious looking turkey I've seen. Just need a dollop of cranberry sauce for me to balance the richness.
Wow ! I have to try this. Thanks
Wow... My mouth is watering...
Leaf lard is the bomb.
Phenomenal recipe. I love the technique, and it made me wonder what to do with all of that olive oil afterwards. Is it like when you cook lobster in butter and you save it as lobster butter that you can use for eggs and other things? Is it usable afterwards? Will it keep?
Yes! I made turkey thighs confit a couple of years ago for Thanksgiving, and it turned out amazing. Saved the leftover fat in jars (in the fridge) and used in recipes over the next couple of months.
I like this a lot.
Looks great bro
Does it need to be covered? Was thinking of leaving it open on my offset. Probably wouldn’t get much more smoke? Would you confit first then smoke or other way around?
Sensational as always Adam....... Happy Thanksgiving to you & your family....... worldwide........!
...I'm...reeeeally tempted, but our holiday thing is always gonna be white trash ham - 1.5 cans full-sugar Coca Cola and 2 shots of bourbon is how it starts, but then the magic begins and that part's top secret. Maybe I'll just do this confit for fun! yum!
If I make this ahead, what's the best way to reheat? Also, I finally have a use for my bucket of duck fat in the freezer! So exciting!
Bravo!
I tried it last night for a trial run before thanksgiving and didn’t get a good result. 😣
My turkey never got soft. It was in for 3 hours and 45 minutes and felt like it never rendered. When it came out (because it was getting late) it didn’t fall off the bone at all. It was tough and dry. I checked it at 1.5 hours and it had a TON of tension when I tested it with a cake tester. It never got any better. I don’t know what I did wrong. I left it in the fridge uncovered and salted for two days instead of one because I ended up being busy the first night. That was the only thing I did differently. ☹️
Bro this looks fuego 🔥
(breathing heavily........) THAT turkey confit is more than enough to give me a FOODGASM!!
Nice work.
looks delicious
I think turkey should be a year round bird like chicken.
A Masterpiece!!👌🏻
❤️❤️❤️
Thankyou
Another banger herei got a small turkey and picked a couple serprete legs today probley use vegetable oil as its cheaper
Thanks!
For sure this is the smartest way to use the whole bird. We'll done!
Question: What is the reason or benefit of oven baking the turkey in oil rather than water or stock? Just want to understand why oil over water base. Thanks!
Oil is hydrophobic and keeps the moisture in the meat.
Interesting, makes sense....thank you for explaining.@@pastramiking
this looks really amazing! however I would be worried about the flavor olive oil imparts on the meat. was it very mild? obviously it'd be great to get duck fat or lots of rendered turkey fat from other recipes, but that could be upwards of 5X the cost.
Burr-Mon-Yay not Burr-mah-nay. I don't normally care how people pronounce stuff but this was like nails on a chalk board for me.
Awesome Recipe. Looks amazing!!!
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
Steve. Great video. But do we need to put the oil in an oven. Can’t we just put the oil on an induction cooktop that we can set at 220 degrees.
Excellent
This sounds incredible. Can you use vegetable oil instead of olive oil?
I would stick with olive oil
I love turkey! I am gonna try this one!
I love turkey thighs, and this is a new way to cook them. But what to do with the confit oil? Suggestions, please.
The weight, while helping to prevent the skin from bubbling up, more importantly helps to render the fat by literally pushing it out as the skin cooks. And less fat = a shatteringly crisp skin.
Steve! Wow!
Doing it...
You can use lard instead, it's much cheaper and it's like mexican carnitas
Anyone here who knows of this method works with water or broth instead of olive oil? I appreciate every Tipp and suggestions. Thank you very much
You'll end up with boiled or poached turkey, not confit. Completely different.
The skin thing is WAY too labor intensive to be messing with on turkey day! Just crank the oven to 450 and leave the skin on the legs and thighs and roast until skin is nice and brown and crispy!! Then just carve the meat off the bones and shred or just serve in nice large chunks. You could also just deep fry the joints for 7-8 minutes at 375!
The turketta and confit methods seem the optimal choices for cooking a non smoked Turkey to me, which smoked Turkey is my family’s traditional choice.
I’ve been gifted Turkey in the past that was not smoked. We boiled it a’ La crawfish boil. No crispy skin, however, the meat had excellent flavor.
looks amazing!
did you leave the lid on the comfit after you put the oven up to 400 degrees?
Great video!! As usual!❤