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Turkey stuffed with mushrooms and liver

Turkey stuffed with mushrooms and liver

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A Romanian-style stuffed turkey, filled with its own liver, and topped with sautéed mushrooms, parsley, and butter, before being roasted.

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Recipe from Hanna, adapted by Recette de cuisine · · updated on

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Stuffed turkey is a classic Romanian dish. It is prepared by filling the turkey with a filling made of mushrooms and turkey liver. It is a comforting and delicious meal for the whole family.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time40 min
  • Cook time2 hr 30 min
  • Resting15 min
  • Total3 hr 25 min
  • DifficultyEasy
  • CostPricey
  • Cooking methodfour
  • Estimated cost$65.03 $8.13 / serving Estimated price; varies by store. Converted from euros at the ECB rate of October 15, 2026.

Ingredients

8 people
  • $61.64
  • $1.66
  • $1.27
  • $0.06
  • $0.38
  • $0.02

Prices from US supermarkets for 5 of 6 ingredients; Belgian prices for the rest.

Directions

  1. Melt 50g of butter in a pan, then add the turkey liver and cook until browned. Remove from the pan and let it cool.
  2. Clean the mushrooms, drain them well, and slice them thinly. Sauté them in 50g of butter with salt and pepper; add the chopped parsley towards the end of cooking. ≈ 8 min
  3. Slice the liver very thinly. Prepare 50g of butter, mix it with the liver and then the mushrooms. ≈ 8 min
  4. Preheat the oven to 180 °C. Fill the turkey with this mixture and sew up the opening.
  5. Place it in a buttered dish with the remaining butter, and drizzle with the rum mixed with the oil. ≈ 3 min
  6. Roast for approximately 2.5 hours (allowing 35 minutes per kilogram), basting regularly with the juices, until the juices draining from the leg are clear. Let it rest for 15 minutes before carving.

The bill

Turkey stuffed with mushrooms and liver

  • 1 average-sized turkey (approximately 4 kg) with its liver$61.64
  • 180 g of butter$1.66
  • 250 g of mushrooms$1.27
  • salt and pepper$0.06
  • 20 ml of rum$0.38
  • 1 teaspoon of oil$0.02

Total$65.03

that's $8.13 per person

Estimated price; varies by store.

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Ingredients

  • 1 average-sized turkey (approximately 4 kg) with its liver
  • 180 g of butter
  • 250 g of mushrooms
  • Half a bunch of parsley
  • salt and pepper
  • 20 ml of rum
  • 1 teaspoon of oil

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