{"id":958,"date":"2010-03-30T09:29:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T09:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/?p=958"},"modified":"2010-03-30T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T09:29:09","slug":"recipe-turkey-schnitzel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/2010\/03\/30\/recipe-turkey-schnitzel\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipe | Turkey schnitzel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-959\" title=\"Turkey schnitzel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/photo.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/photo.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/photo-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After Alex&#8217;s illuminating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/2010\/03\/29\/jewish-passover\/\" target=\"_blank\">insight into Passover yesterday<\/a> I thought it only right to have a go at making schnitzel myself, with proper <em>matzo <\/em>meal and everything. The flattening of the turkey breasts (which I imagine is half the fun) was sadly unnecessary, as I found some ready-pounded escalopes. Still, if you end up doing this with chicken breasts then pop the breasts under a leaf of clingfilm and go hog wild with a rolling pin. If you can&#8217;t find matzo meal then buy a packet of Matzos (usually lurking in the cheese biscuit department) and grind them down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Turkey schnitzel <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Serves 2<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Turkey escalopes (around 300g), flattened<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">1 beaten egg<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">4 tablespoons matzo meal<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Half a lemon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Salt and pepper<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Olive oil<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">&#8211; Coat the escalopes in beaten egg and shake off any excess. Turn them in the matzo meal until well coated and season with salt and pepper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">&#8211; Heat a little oil in a frying pan over a medium-high heat and carefully place in the breaded escalopes. Fry for two minutes on each side until golden and remove to kitchen paper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">&#8211; Serve, as Alex says, with fried spuds and lots of ketchup (and a squeeze of lemon juice).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Needless to say, these knocked the socks off last week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/2010\/03\/19\/this-weeks-food-news-and-a-recipe-for-turkey-twizzlers-19th-march-2010\/\" target=\"_blank\">turkey twizzlers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>Are you observing Pesah? If so, let me know what you&#8217;re cooking. So far I&#8217;ve heard of a Jewish grandmother cooking Thai green curry. Probably not a classic Passover dish but there you go. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"geo-post-958\" class=\"geo geo-post\" style=\"display: none\"><span class=\"latitude\">0<\/span><span class=\"longitude\">0<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Alex&#8217;s illuminating insight into Passover yesterday I thought it only right to have a go at making schnitzel myself, with proper matzo meal and everything. The flattening of the turkey breasts (which I imagine is half the fun) was sadly unnecessary, as I found some ready-pounded escalopes. Still, if you end up doing this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[581,811],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","tag-passover","tag-turkey-schnitzel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zdji-fs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}