Lemon and Soy Glazed Turkey Cutlets
Total time: 20 minutes
Turkey cutlets, are thin slices of turkey breast meat. They cook quickly and are particularly well suited to savory marinades and sauces. If you can't find them, substitute thinly sliced turkey tenderloin or chicken breasts. This is an intensely flavored, savory dish.
Ingredients:
- 2 - 3 turkey cutlets, 350gr, 12.4oz
- 1/2 onion, 50gr, 1.8oz
- 1 clove garlic, 4gr, .14oz
- 1/3 cup chicken stock, 75gr, 2.6oz
- 3 tbs lemon juice, 45gr, 1.6oz
- 2 tbs soy sauce, 32gr, 1.2oz
- 1 tbs brown sugar, 9gr, .32oz
- 1 tsp ginger substitute 1/4 tsp powdered ginger
- 1 tbs olive oil, 13.5gr, .48oz
- 2 tsp cornstarch (or thickener of choice) dissolved in 1 tbs water, 5.2gr, .18oz
Instructions:
- Combine soy sauce, lemon juice, brown sugar and stock in a dish.
- Add turkey cutlets, turning to coat and allow to marinate for a bit.
- Thinly slice onion.
- Mince garlic.
- Mince ginger if using fresh.
- Sauté onion, garlic and ginger in oil in large nonstick skillet over medium heat for 5 minutes.
- Add turkey (reserving marinade) and sauté until golden - pushing onion mixture to sides of pan to prevent burning.
- Add reserved marinade, reduce heat and cook, covered 4 - 6 minutes longer or until done. Remove turkey from pan.
- Thicken pan juices by adding cornstarch mixture and stirring well. Pour over turkey and serve.
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Nutrition Information Recipe serves 2 Entire Recipe / per serving Calories: 620 / 310 Total Carbohydrates: 26 / 13 Dietary Fiber: 2 / 1 Total Fat: 16 / 8 Saturated Fat: 3 / 1.5 Cholesterol: 218 / 109 Protein: 92 / 46 Calcium: 72 / 36 Sodium: 2068 / 1034 |
General Technical Details and Disclaimer:
Measurements are actual measurements used for calculation. If there are no values the nutritional numbers were simply too small.
I try to be accurate, but I do not guarantee it. I use 'grams' as the unit of weight; with an approximate conversion to ounces.
My information comes from my own digital, computerized scale and the USDA Nutrient Data Library: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/