Recipe Turkey roll with radicchio and ricotta – Italian Cuisine

Recipe Turkey roll with radicchio and ricotta


  • 800 g turkey breast
  • 250 g ricotta
  • 200 g red chicory
  • 100 g sliced ​​bacon
  • 2 egg whites
  • 1 onion
  • flour
  • chervil (alternatively parsley)
  • butter
  • White wine vinegar
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • thyme
  • salt
  • pepper

Break up the radicchio, keeping aside the most beautiful leaves. Peel and slice the onion; brown it gently in a pan with 1/2 tablespoon of butter for about 3 minutes, until it starts to brown, then add the radicchio and cook for 3 minutes. Deglaze with a sprinkle of vinegar, season with salt and leave to flavor for 1 minute.
dry good the ricotta by dabbing it with kitchen paper and mix it with the radicchio, the egg whites, 1/2 tablespoon of flour (it will serve to give compactness to the filling, preventing it from crumbling when cut) and the leaves of a couple of sprigs of thyme.
Peel turkey breast, eliminating the fatty parts and connective tissues; open it like a book and beat it between two sheets of parchment paper or food foil with a meat mallet until you get a rectangular slice less than 1 cm thick. You can also buy the sliced ​​turkey breast: spread them, slightly overlapping them, between two sheets of parchment paper and beat them with the meat tenderizer, until you get a single rectangular slice less than 1 cm thick.
Add salt the meat, then spread the filling leaving a couple of fingers of margin on three sides and about 4 cm on one of the long sides. Roll the topside on the long side with the edge of two fingers, then cover the roll with the slices of bacon and tie it with a few turns of kitchen string.
lay them in a baking tray lined with parchment paper, salt it, pepper it and bake it in a static oven at 200 ° C for about 35 minutes. United the radicchio leaves kept aside with a few tufts of chervil and seasoned all with oil and salt. serve the turkey roll with the radicchio and chervil salad.

This recipe has already been read 127 times!

Proudly powered by WordPress

By continuing to use the site, you agree to the use of cookies. Click here to read more information about data collection for ads personalisation

The cookie settings on this website are set to "allow cookies" to give you the best browsing experience possible. If you continue to use this website without changing your cookie settings or you click "Accept" below then you are consenting to this.

Read more about data collection for ads personalisation our in our Cookies Policy page

Close