Learn how you can cook appetizing turkey leg in the oven using the simplest sweet and sour marinade, but believe me, no less rich in flavor. This four-ingredient marinade goes perfectly with any kind of meat. But I especially like to use it with poultry, where my top choices are turkey legs and chicken thighs. Moreover, since we are not roasting the leg but baking in the oven bag, the meat turns out very juicy, delicious, and savory.
You first can be turned off by the amount of prepping time, but in reality, you spend at the most 15 minutes in the kitchen. Just combine ingredients for the turkey drumstick marinade, smear with it the turkey leg and leave it for approximately 6 hours to marinate. Then you spend 5 minutes, max., transferring the leg to an oven bag and placing it in the oven. Then you simply wait for turkey to bake. As simple as it can get. In addition, I will share with you a pretty basic trick to get a crispy crust with that juicy inside in the end.
You may be interested in other recipes that have turkey meat, as an ingredient:
Ingredients for Baking Turkey Drumstick in the Oven:
- 1 turkey leg (1 kg);
- 1 small bunch of fresh rosemary (20g).
Ingredients for Turkey Leg Marinade:
- 1 tbsp. soy sauce;
- 1 tbsp. honey;
- 1 tbsp. Dijon mustard;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to your taste.
How to marinate turkey legs for baking:
- Let`s prepare the marinade for turkey leg first. Combine soy sauce, Dijon mustard, and honey In a small deep bowl. Peel garlic cloves and press them into the bowl (or chop them into the smallest pieces).
- Season sour-sweet marinade with salt and freshly ground pepper, thoroughly stir the mixture until smooth.
- Take a turkey leg and clean it under cold running water. But be careful not to splash water everywhere on your kitchen counter as you can transfer germs from the fresh meat. After cleaning the leg, pat it until dry with paper towels.
- Cover the leg with marinade over the entire surface. If there is a way, try to get marinade even under turkey skin on the leg. Leave the leg to marinate for 6 to 8 hours. So, you marinate it in the morning and in the evening you have a delicious baked turkey. You even can leave it overnight.
How to cook a turkey leg in the oven:
- After marinating, take the leg and place it in the oven bag of the right size. Now goes our second ingredient. Take sprigs of fresh rosemary and lay them on top of the leg to add that peerless aroma for extra flavor. I make several punctures with a wooden skewer, so the steam can escape from the bag while the turkey is cooking. For reference, I marinated the leg in the morning and left it for 7 hours in the fridge.
- Bake turkey leg at 350ºF/180°C for an hour and a half (1h30m). It is the easiest way how to cook turkey legs in oven bag.
- If you want your baked leg to have crispy skin, then bake it for 1h15m in the oven bag, then carefully remove it or cut it in the middle to open the leg for the heat. Roast turkey leg for additional 15 minutes. You can even raise heat to 450ºF to get it extra crispy.
- You can cut meat from the bone or serve oven baked turkey leg as it was originally. Enjoy your meal!
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I hope that you will get the chance to test the recipe. This is one of my favorites as it takes very little time to cook. I spend 15 minutes in the morning marinating it and, in the evening, I have a perfect main dish for a family dinner. I simply need to choose what we are having alongside baked turkey leg. Among my top choice are the following recipes:
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Baked Turkey Leg Recipe with Soy Sauce Marinade
Ingredients
- 1 turkey leg (1 kg)
- 1 small bunch of fresh rosemary (20g)
- 1 tbsp. soy sauce
- 1 tbsp. honey
- 1 tbsp. Dijon mustard
- 2 cloves of garlic
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to your taste
Instructions
- Let`s prepare the marinade for turkey leg first. Combine soy sauce, Dijon mustard, and honey In a small deep bowl. Peel garlic cloves and press them into the bowl (or chop them into the smallest pieces).
- Season sour-sweet marinade with salt and freshly ground pepper, thoroughly stir the mixture until smooth.
- Take a turkey leg and clean it under cold running water. But be careful not to splash water everywhere on your kitchen counter as you can transfer germs from the fresh meat. After cleaning the leg, pat it until dry with paper towels.
- Cover the leg with marinade over the entire surface. If there is a way, try to get marinade even under turkey skin on the leg. Leave the leg to marinate for 6 to 8 hours. So, you marinate it in the morning and in the evening you have a delicious baked turkey. You even can leave it overnight.
- After marinating, take the leg and place it in the oven bag of the right size. Now goes our second ingredient. Take sprigs of fresh rosemary and lay them on top of the leg to add that peerless aroma for extra flavor. I make several punctures with a wooden skewer, so the steam can escape from the bag while the turkey is cooking. For reference, I marinated the leg in the morning and left it for 7 hours in the fridge.
- Bake turkey leg at 350ºF/180°C for an hour and a half (1h30m). It is the easiest way how to cook turkey legs in oven bag.
- If you want your baked leg to have crispy skin, then bake it for 1h15m in the oven bag, then carefully remove it or cut it in the middle to open the leg for the heat. Roast turkey leg for additional 15 minutes. You can even raise heat to 450ºF to get it extra crispy.
- You can cut meat from the bone or serve oven baked turkey leg as it was originally. Enjoy your meal!
Notes
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