Turkey with tomatoes and cheese baked in the oven

Delicious, tender, juicy, fragrant, dietary! Turkey baked in the oven with tomatoes and cheese is prepared quite simply. It takes very little time for marinating and baking. The dish is perfect for both a festive table and an everyday dinner.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 50 % 15 g
Fats 37 % 11 g
Carbohydrates 13 % 4 g
168 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 30 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to bake a turkey with tomatoes and cheese in the oven? Prepare the ingredients. Any fillet will do — both from the breast and from the thigh. It is better if the meat is chilled, in the case of frozen, defrost it according to all the rules so that it retains juiciness.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Cut the fillet into portions. Try to cut the meat across the fibers — then it will turn out softer. Lightly beat off each piece with a special meat hammer.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Put the meat in a bowl, add salt, spices and soy sauce. Mix well and leave to marinate for half an hour. When adding soy sauce to a dish, it is worth considering that it has a rather salty taste. Reduce the total amount of salt, otherwise you risk over-salting.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Meanwhile, grate the cheese on a fine grater, combine it with sour cream and finely chopped dill. Choose greens according to your taste or availability.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Cut tomatoes into circles.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Cover the baking sheet with foil, lightly oil it. Put the prepared pieces on a baking sheet, put slices of tomatoes on each piece.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Cover the pieces evenly with cheese mass on top. Pour a little liquid (water or broth) on the baking sheet. Bake the turkey in a preheated 180 ° C oven for about 40 minutes until golden brown.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Serve the finished turkey with any side dish. Bon appetit!

Note that the quality and taste of the finished dish largely depends on the proper defrosting of the ingredients. How to avoid mistakes and choose the best way, read the article about defrosting.

Any cheese is suitable for this dish — hard, semi-hard, soft, like mozzarella. The main thing is that it is tasty, high-quality, without milk fat substitutes and melts well.

Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of ovens !

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Tomatoes - 23   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream with 30% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 25% fat content - 284   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream with 20% fat content - 210   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 10% fat content - 115   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream - 210   kcal/100g
  • Turkey carcass without skin - 161   kcal/100g
  • Turkey II category - 194   kcal/100g
  • Dutch cheese - 352   kcal/100g
  • Swiss cheese - 335   kcal/100g
  • Russian cheese - 366   kcal/100g
  • Kostroma cheese - 345   kcal/100g
  • Yaroslavsky cheese - 361   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese 50% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Soviet cheese - 400   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "steppe" - 362   kcal/100g
  • Uglichsky cheese - 347   kcal/100g
  • Poshekhonsky cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Lambert cheese - 377   kcal/100g
  • Appnzeller cheese with 50% fat content - 400   kcal/100g
  • Chester cheese with 50% fat content - 363   kcal/100g
  • Edamer cheese with 40% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Cheese with mushrooms of 50% fat content - 395   kcal/100g
  • Emmental cheese with 45% fat content - 420   kcal/100g
  • Gouda cheese with 45% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Aiadeus cheese - 364   kcal/100g
  • Dom blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360   kcal/100g
  • Lo spalmino cheese - 61   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "etorki" (sheep, hard) - 401   kcal/100g
  • White cheese - 100   kcal/100g
  • Fat yellow cheese - 260   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Kaunas cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Latvian cheese - 316   kcal/100g
  • Limburger cheese - 327   kcal/100g
  • Lithuanian cheese - 250   kcal/100g
  • Lake cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Gruyere cheese - 396   kcal/100g
  • Dill greens - 38   kcal/100g
  • Soy sauce - 51   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Spices dry - 240   kcal/100g

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