Best Bacon Topped Turkey Medallions Recipes

TURKEY BACON WRAPPED TURKEY MEDALLIONS

Steps:

• Blend all marinade ingredients (paprika, apple cider, applejack, cinnamon, shallots, garlic and salt and pepper) together in a shallow glass container. Reserve 1 cup marinade to use with sauce. Cover and refrigerate reserved marinade.
• Cut tenderloin, across the grain, into 12 2-ounce medallions. Flatten slightly.
• Wrap each slice of bacon around a medallion. Secure with wooden toothpick.
• Place wrapped medallions in marinade, cover and refrigerate for about 4 hours.
• Spray grill rack with nonstick vegetable spray. Prepare grill for direct cooking method.
• Remove turkey medallions from marinade and discard marinade.
• Place medallions on preheated grill rack, about 4 inches from the high heat. Grill about 4 to 5 minutes, brush with marinade and turn once. Continue to grill another 4 to 5 minutes or until the internal temperature reaches 170 degrees F.
• Mix butter with reserved 1 cup marinade.
• Over medium heat, cook to reduce to desired consistency, stirring occasionally.
• Add salt and pepper to taste.
• Portion two medallions on each warmed dinner plate. Ladle bourbon sauce across top of medallions.

BACON-WRAPPED TURKEY TENDERLOINS WITH GARLIC SPINACH

Steps:

• Cut each tenderloin crosswise into 4 steaks. Wrap each with a strip of bacon, securing it with a toothpick; season with salt and pepper.
• Sauté turkey with 2 tablespoons oil in a sauté pan over medium-high heat until golden brown, about 3 minutes per side. Turn filets on edges and brown the bacon all around, 3-4 minutes. Turkey is done when it reaches an internal temperature of 165°.
• Let turkey rest 3 minutes, then remove toothpicks.
• Heat 2 tablespoons oil in same pan over medium-high heat. Stir in garlic and pepper flakes; sauté just until fragrant.
• Add spinach, tossing with tongs until wilted; season with salt.
• Serve turkey with lemon wedges to squeeze over meat and garlic spinach.

TENDER TURKEY MEDALLIONS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, mix ground turkey, grate fresh bread to make bread crumbs.
• Add fennel, sage, allspice, egg and 2 teaspoons salt. With well floured hands, shape turkey mixture into 2 inch balls and flatten balls into patties. Heat oil in skillet and cook several patties at a time till browned on both sides, adding more oil if needed cooking in batches. Remove turkey medallions to covered platter to keep warm and make sauce. Into same pan, add the shallots, and cook 2-3 minutes till tender, then stir in broth, beef boullion granules (or beef base concentrate) brown sugar and wine to deglaze, scraping up the browned bits and add garlic, salt and pepper to taste; let sauce simmer a few minutes, then add cornstarch slurry and continue simmering, stirring constantly to thicken. Whisk butter into sauce to smoothen out and make velvety; taste to correct seasonings. Pour sauce over turkey patties and serve over noodles or rice.

TURKEY FILET MIGNON WRAPPED IN TURKEY BACON

Steps:

• Combine molasses and softened butter. Cover and hold for service.
• Wrap each turkey medallion with one strip of bacon. Lightly sprinkle with black pepper.
• Bake in a preheated 350 degree F oven for 15-20 minutes or until food thermometer reaches 170 degrees F.
• Pipe molasses butter into a star on top of the turkey filet.

BACON WRAPPED TURKEY

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Sprinkle sage and garlic powder over the entire turkey. Wrap turkey completely with bacon. Place turkey on a roasting rack and place roasting rack in a large baking dish. Pour water into the base of the dish.
• Bake turkey in the preheated oven, basting every 45 minutes with juices in baking dish, until no longer pink at the bone and the juices run clear, 3 1/2 to 4 hours. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the thigh should read 165 degrees F (74 degrees C).