Click here to go back to the Original Recipes Page. Josh's Turkey Picata
Ingredients: lemon juice (from two lemons or 50 ml),
Pepper and/or Cayenne Pepper
Capers
2 or 3 Tomatoes, peeled
Salt
1 or 2 Garlic cloves, chopped fine or pressed
Hot sauce, if desired and to taste
4 Mushrooms, sliced
1 Onion peeled, chopped, and diced
wine
Veggies-Zucchini, carrot, broccoli, bell pepper, whatever floats your boat, chopped
Parsley, Basil, Oregano
Turkey breast cutlet OR Chicken breast
Flour-wheat or white for breading turkey. Quantity depends on how much turkey.
1 egg, optional-for breading the turkey. It can get messy with the egg, but the flour sticks better.
Lemon Pepper to be mixed with flour. Quantity depends as above.
Pasta-whatever you've got, but I prefer fettuccini myselfy
Oil for cooking-sunflower, canola, corn oil.
To make a good marinade, prepare the sauce as follows, but leave out the veggies, mushrooms, onions.
1. Peel Tomatoes. A) Cut an 'X' (not too deep, you're just trying to get the skin off) in the bottom of each tomato. B) Put tomatoes into a pot they'll fit in. Add hot water till they are just barely covered. C) Heat and boil till the skins start peeling off themselves. D) Take the tomatoes out of the water, put them on a cutting board, CAREFULLY pull skins off. E) Chop up tomatoes, but make sure to cut out the place where the stem was-get it?
2. Sauce. Pour water out of pot. A) Take peeled, chopped tomatoes and place them in the pot, INCLUDING juices. It might mean peeling and chopping each tomato individually. B) Add pepper, salt, garlic, hot sauce, mushrooms, onion, whatever veggies, parsley, oregano, basil into the same pot. C) Add capers, as many as you would like. Remember-use only those ingredients you really want and use as much as you want. D) The EXCEPTION is the wine. Don't use too much, because it won't cook out. Just don't take it out on me when you can't eat the meal because you poured in a whole bottle of hot sauce. E) Add lemon juice. Add a little at first, then taste. Keep repeating until you think it's fine.
3. Heat the sauce up until it boils. Reduce heat. Let simmer for a while.
4. Cook the pasta as required on the package. I like to overcook it a little. So, when it's time is up, turn off the heat, but let it sit there.
5. Doing the turkey. A) Mix the flour and lemon pepper together on a plate. A.1) If using the egg, beat the egg in a bowl. B) Pour oil into a frying pan until it is just covering the bottom with a depth of 1/8 an inch. Heat the oil. C) Rub the turkey breast in the flour/lemon pepper mixture until covered. C.1) If using the egg, dip the flour-covered turkey breast in the egg and cover it up with egg. Then, dip it back into the flour mixture. D) Drop the turkey breast into the hot oil. E) Repeat until out of turkey breasts or until the pan is covered. F) Once one side is golden brown, flip it over. Don't burn it.
6. On a plate, put a portion of pasta. Top with the turkey. Top that with the sauce.
