Thanksgiving in India

[Recursion]

So, we managed to score a turkey from the import butcher (yes, it was actually alive when I bought it).

I have a rangetop smoker so I'm going to smoke the whole thing. The white meat will go to Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. Along with that we'll have stuffing from cornbread I made and Jimmy Dean sausage from another importer.

The dark meat will go to my wife and mine's amazing invention, butter turkey, or "turki makhani". Imagine butter chicken, made with turkey. It is nomtastic.

For sides, we are doing mashed potatoes with turkey gravy, green bean casserole, dhal (green lentils), lau chingri (roughly bay shrimp with squash), chorizo pulau (roughly, pilaf with smoked sausage, an Indian/Portuguese fusion recipe that dates back centuries), and charcoal-grilled squid.

Pictures forthcoming.

[antiquie]

1. Drooling

and stealing nomtastic.

[Arugula Latte]

2. I'm curious about the green bean casserole.

Do you have the ingredients to make the "traditional" American kind with mushroom soup, worcestershire, and those fried onion thingees on top? Or are you roughly approximating it?

[Recursion]

3. Roughly approximating

Worcestershire is available (it's actually an Indian sauce, being mostly tamarind), and so are mushrooms. So I'm making a bechamel and cooking the mushrooms in it.

The fried onion thingees are used to top every biryani here so they are very easy to find.

[Arugula Latte]

4. I bet your version will be much tastier than the other kind.

Have a great holiday.

[kwassa]

5. I love butter chicken, had some last week.

Turkey is great cooked many different ways.

I've been thinking about doing a garlic turkey, or turkey with garlic paste, after a Lebanese meal I just had recently. Or, a turkey mole, like they make in the Yucatan.

Your sides sound very interesting. I love Indian food.

[trof]

6. Please tell me about the smoker.

[Recursion]

8. I love my rangetop smoker!!!

http://www.cameronsproducts.com/stovetop-smoker

These guys should put me on commission, because I've persuaded about half my friends to get one, it's so good.

[UglyGreed]

13. Nice I have an outdoor smoker

which I have smoked chickens and turkeys in it, very tasty. Also, in the 70s my father gutted a old metal refrigerator made racks and built an brick oven of sorts to place the frig on top. He would smoke eels and other fish in it.

[trof]

14. MANY THANKS! And Happy Thanksgiving.

I'll check it out.

[Suich]

7. My nephew smokes turkeys fairly often.

By the time the plate gets to the table, it's half gone!

Butter chicken is one of my favorites. Never even thought about trying it with the dark meat.

Enjoy!

[elleng]

10. Ditto, about butter chicken = favorite.

[elleng]

9. Looking forward to the pictures.

Butter chicken is one of my favorites.

[herding cats]

11. I find this extremely interesting.

This sounds fascinating and I wish you and your loved ones an amazing, and interesting, holiday. I'm looking forward to the pictures! I'd also like some recipes if you get a chance. Your meal plans have me salivating with just the little tease you've posted.

[Odin2005]

12. Indian-style turkey? OH GOD YESSSSSSSSSS!!! (drools)

After you eat it you'll be doing this:

[denbot]

15. Rec'ing for tasty menu, and knowledge that stovetop smokers exist

I had never heard of Buttered Chicken before.

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16. "Butter" chicken

www.indianfoodforever.com/non-veg/chicken/murgh-makhani.html

Try it!