Holiday Turkey Meal, Cajun Style!

Published: November 11, 2007, 10:53 am

Night of the TurduckenBy Meredith Phillipshttp://www.austinchronicle.com/A turducken is a hybrid of a turkey, a duck, and a chicken, but you don't have to be a bioengineer or even a student of animal husbandry to make one -- turduckens are more about cramming than they are about science. The idea is to strongarm a duck into a turkey, and a chicken into the duck, then roast the thing and eat it. Even before you taste one, the mysterious nature of the procedure combined with the absurdity of its name give the turducken an unusual appeal. My curiosity mounted until last week, when I prepared a turducken and invited 30 people over for a roaring, if protracted, success of a dinner. I wholly recommend trying it for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or just for fun. The instructions and commentary that follow would be useful to another first-time turducken chef.-----------------------------------Instructions (and Commentary)Central Market started selling turduckens last year. I assumed they were the

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