Devil's Spicy Pulled Turkey Pirate Boat

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Devil's Spicy Pulled Turkey 

This dish oringinated from Malacca, a city on the South West of Malaysia. The Turkey is cooked slowly in Nyonya's ( Malacca native women) spices and coconut cream. The turkey meat is shredded and serve in the rich  spicy cooking sauce and garnished with chillies, crispy fried onions, cashewnuts and coriander. The slow cooking and the hot and spicy flavour will sure to suit the pirates' palates. The Pirates can obtain plenty of fresh coconuts from the beaches of Malacca to make this dish


This year British Turkey teamed up with Red Tractor for a #TurkeyTractorChallenge competition. The theme is "Pirate". I got very excited so I  jumped on board and came up with this delicious slow cooked Devil's Spicy Pulled Turkey recipe. This is a traditional Malaccan Dish.  It is inspired by the pirates on the Strait of Malacca. Strait of Malacca is a stretch of sea sandwich between the Malay Peninsula and the Island of Sumatra. For centuries Piracy in Strait of Malacca has always been a threat to the Mariners. The calm and sheltered sea of the Strait made an ideal hiding place for pirates.

Devil's Spicy Pulled Turkey Boat

I used British Turkey thigh for this recipe because it give a better flavour. The long and slow cooking in spice and coconut milk makes the turkey very tender, succulent and delicious. I used Red Tractor chilli, tomatoes, carrots and potatoes in the slow cooking to add extra sweetness to the recipe. I also garnished my dish with Red Tractor red and green chillies and coriander leaves.

Devil's Spicy Pulled Turkey Boat

Ingredients:

1 British Turkey thigh ( 800g) Red Tractor

1 cup coconut cream

3 tomatoes ( chopped) Red Tractor

1  carrot ( chopped) Red Tractor

1 teaspoon brown sugar

2 tablespoon tamarind juice

2 stalks lemon grass

200g potatoes ( peeled and shaped into nuggets) Red Tractor

Spice Paste:

2 red chillies( chopped) Red Tractor

2 onions

4 cloves garlic

1 tablespoon chopped ginger

1 tblespoon chopped galangal

1 teaspoon  ground turmeric

1 teaspoon paprika

3 tablespoon rapeseed oil  RedTractor

1 teaspoon salt

Garnished:

Toasted cashewnuts

Sliced red and green chillies Red Tractor

Coriander leaves Red Tractor

1. Place all the ingredients for the spice paste in a blender and puree until smooth. Set aside.

2. Heat up a heavy based frying pan. Put all the spice paste  in the pan and fry for 5 minutes until aromatic.

3. Place the Turkey thigh in a casserole or a slow cooker. Add in coconut cream, lemon grass, tamarind juice, brown sugar, salt and  spice paste. Stir well. Place the casserole in low  oven Gas mark 1 or 120C for 4 hours. If a slow cooker is used, turn on the lowest setting and cook the turkey thigh for 4 hours till the meat falls a part. Add the potatoes in the sauce cook till tender (towards the last half an hour before finish cooking).

4. Remove the turkey from the pot. Leave to cool slightly. Pull the spicy turkey into shreds using  forks. Put the pulled turkey back in the aromatic spicy sauce and mix it well. 

5. Serve with Pirate's gold Nugget Sambal potatoes and pirate's jewels coconut rice. Garnish well.

Pirate's Gold Nugget Sambal Potatoes:

• 1 chopped onion
• 2 fresh chilies
• 2cloves sliced garlic
• 28g  tamarind paste
• 2 tsp turmeric powder
• 1 teaspoon Malay shrimp paste ( optional)
• 1 Tbsp sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoon rapeseed oil Red Tractor

Place all the ingredients except the oil in blender. Blend to a paste. Heat the oil in a frying pan. Add in the sambal and fry for 3-4 minutes. Remove the potatoes from the casserole and add to the sambal sauce. Mix well and serve

Coconut Jewel Rice:

1 cup of cooked rice

150 ml. coconut cream

2 tablespoon peas

2 tablespoon Fresh sweetcorns Red Tractor

1 tablespoon chopped tomatoes Red Tractor

8 tomatoes shells Red Tractor

Place the rice and the coconut cream in a pan. Add in all the vegetables , Slowly bring to the boil. Stir constantly till the rice is soft and creamy. Spoon the rice into the tomatoes shells and serve.

Devil's Spicy Pulled Turkey Pirate Boat: garnished with chopped and whole toasted cashewnuts, fried crispy onions, red and green chillies and coriander leaves.

I like to cook the Pulled turkey in double the quantity so that I can use some for sandwiches the next day. This is my Spicy Pulled Turkey Pirate Sandwich.

 Pirate's Spicy Pulled Turkey Sandwich

Alternatively for a pirate party, I baked a Pirate ship pastry and filled it with Spicy Pulled Turkey. Absolutely delicious.