Turducken. A legend? A myth? The casting of a magic spell? Hybrid, GMO poultry? Turducken is a phrase used for deboned chicken inside a deboned duck inside a deboned stuffed turkey making the ultimate Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner. However, it is not often prepared because of the tedious steps to make such a meal.
To unravel the secrets of turducken we must understand where it comes from.You might be shocked to learn that turducken was popularized by chef Paul Prudhomme from Louisiana. This masterpiece of a meal is full of good flavors, and plenty of calories, as turducken as this meal can feed 13 to 15 adults. Packing 12,240 calories for each turducken you can feed the average adult man for 4 and a half days with 2,500 calories as their maintenance calories.
A turducken lasts 3 to 4 days after Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner, and is perfect for leftovers, as you can make sandwiches out of the meat.
You can cook your own turducken with skill or you can buy a premade one that you would just cook without having to stuff each bird. This can cost 94 dollars for a regular or a well made one, to upwards of 130 dollars, with some ranging prices being even more expensive. On average people usually buy 15 pound turkeys for 35 dollars which is way cheaper than the turducken, a 12 pound turkey can feed 8 people, and finally a duck to finish. The price for Turkey is cheaper than the turducken which is why many people do not choose to buy a turducken for dinner. You pay more for the turducken because it is pre-made and you are paying for someone else’s labor of deboning and stuffing each bird making it when in Turkey you just cook and eat without requiring as much labor.
The most popular holiday dinner dish is a roasted turkey and the second most eaten holiday meat is Ham. Americans eat 46 million pounds more of turkey than ham with only 24 million pounds of ham eaten a year. Sadly, turducken is not nearly as popular, but there are some famous people who loved turducken such as John Madden who was a famous football coach for the NFL.
Whether you are a turkey person or a ham person, or even a turducken person we all like a big filling meal. At least now you know about the infamous turducken and where it came from.
