| Are you looking for a Thanksgiving dish that will have | | | | purchase one pre-made from a specialty meat shop |
| your dinner guests talking for months to come? If you | | | | or you can make your own. |
| answered yes, then it is time you tried Turducken. This | | | | If you choose to make your own, keep in mind that this |
| original Cajun creation is a combination of turkey, duck | | | | will take a lot of patience and some skill with a knife. |
| and chicken. Actually, it is a turkey, stuffed with a duck | | | | But creating your own can become a family event |
| that is stuffed with a chicken that is stuffed with | | | | that will make the holidays even more enjoyable. |
| stuffing. Sound complicated? Read on to learn a little | | | | One of the most difficult parts of creating it is the |
| more about this unique Cajun delicacy. | | | | de-boning process. You may want to get detailed |
| As you have probably figured out by now, this dish got | | | | instructions on how to correctly de-bone your fowls. If |
| its name by combining the words turkey, duck and | | | | you do not de-bone the turkey, duck and chicken, you |
| chicken. But what is the origin of this outrageous dish? | | | | will never get them stuffed into each other. |
| Like most legends, the origin of this dish is slightly | | | | After you have the duck and chicken stuffed, the next |
| muddy. Some will say that the dish began in the middle | | | | hardest part is stuffing this combination into the turkey. |
| of the last century when a renowned surgeon used | | | | This will take more than one person. You may want to |
| his skill with a scalpel to de-bone a turkey, duck and | | | | get a family member ready with a video camera, |
| chicken and created the dish. Others will say that it's | | | | because this can be quite hilarious. Imagine trying to |
| the creation of a well know Cajun-Creole chef named | | | | push a slippery, stuffed chicken into the cavity of a |
| Paul Prudhomme in 1982. | | | | very slippery turkey. The video could be used for |
| One of the more popular stories about the origin says | | | | entertainment for all of your guests before |
| that in the mid 1980's a local, unnamed farmer brought | | | | Thanksgiving dinner. |
| a turkey, duck and chicken, cleaned and plucked to | | | | So if you want a unique Thanksgiving meat that will |
| Herbert's Specialty Meats located in Maurice Louisiana. | | | | make your dinner a hit, try turducken this year. Get a |
| The story claims that this unnamed farmer requested | | | | great recipe for the stuffing and find detailed |
| that Herbert make the now (regionally) famous holiday | | | | instructions for de-boning. Keep in mind that this type |
| dinner centerpiece. Herbert's Specialty Meats is now | | | | of turkey cannot be deep fried and it will take a little |
| making about 5,000 of them per week. | | | | longer to bake than the traditional turkey. Get the |
| Whatever the origin, you have two choices when it | | | | family involved and make your holiday dinner one to |
| comes to acquiring one for your dinner. You can either | | | | remember! |