Whole Tandoor Turkey with Village Bread and Potato Pies

Greetings friends and welcome back to Faraway Village. Here, in the wonderful area of Azerbaijani mountains, we live our amazing rustic life, full of delicious food and interesting housecrafts. Join us today for something new. Day in the village starts peacefully. Just imagine you're here for a sec. Sun is warming your cheeks, animals are running around playing, and the air is so fresh that you want to breathe in and out deeply every time. This is rural morning. For today, we need a lot of firewood because it's tandoor dish in the menu. But before working, let yourself enjoy this majestic landscapes. Before start, let us have a moment to tell you about our online shop. Here you can get presents for you and your closest people who are real fans of cooking. High quality knives, kitchenware and handmade goods. Scan the code. Now let's begin. We have a few little turkeys to cook. It's gonna be great. Even with fact that Azerbaijani people don't eat this meat often, we really love it for juiciness and tenderness it has. And in tandoor, it's simply great. Meanwhile, we found the future firewood. It's a little quest to find a dry branch in the forest. But it's a great occasion to have a little pleasant walk around. We burn turkeys carefully to remove all the hair from the skin. In days when people had no burners, they did it just under the open fire. It's much more dangerous. And luckily, we have this little gadget now. Turkey is less popular than chicken, and usually people have associations with Thanksgiving Day only. But the true is that turkey's meat has much more protein and less fats that made it popular for healthy diet. Today's is no butchering. The whole carcasses will be roasted in tandoor. As well as turkey became more popular, a lot of ways of cooking were found out. Except roasting, it's delicious to sous vide and to add to bowls. Sure, the most famous turkey dish is still stuffed Thanksgiving bird. Every chef has its own recipe of perfect dish with fruits, butter, herbs or veggies. What is your favorite one? Write your option in the comment. For not to miss anything, don't forget to subscribe and click on the bell to get news from our channel. Our dish is gonna have oriental notes. So we use seasonings, turmeric and hot pepper for spices. It's always goes great with any type of bird's meat. Also, turmeric gives a unique aroma and perfect golden color of the dish. Meanwhile, meet tandoor, the king of Central Asian cuisine. It's a huge underground oven that has a few kinds of the construction. With bricks, it keeps temperature and smoke together, provides even cooking and great taste of the food. Turkeys had a little massage with a marinade. The more and longer you press, the better result you will get. This is how stereotype about man are best. Meets chefs was born. But the truth is just having some physical forces. Cooking process is continuing and we still have some household duties. Rustic life is about work, hard but with a great result. Also, it makes you closer to the nature. You literally touch it with your fingers while working. The best side dish for the turkey are sure veggies. It's not only popular and healthy now, it's an ancient oriental tradition to serve the meat with a lot of different vegetables that could be fresh, roasted or stuffed. The whole oriental cuisine is based on halal meat, flatbreads, hot spices and veggies side dishes. Also, every country has its own tastes combos. In Azerbaijan, we like to make dish sweet and savory, adding fruits to meat. Now it's time to plant new trees at our yard. In rural area, trees have so much functions. First of all, it's sure the fruits. The harvest is the most important. Also, it gives a nice shadow in the summer and sure, it looks so beautiful in the garden. And let's get back for cooking. To all these veggies, we decided to add quince. It's an amazing fruit that is very popular in our country. It reminds of a pear for a little bit, but thicker and sweeter with its unique taste. Quince is a fruit that no one eats just like that. As usual, we cook jams, pies, stuff it with meat and add to other dishes. It's quite hard to chew while it's raw. Also, it could be too much tart. After cooking, it becomes soft and sweet. Our turkey will be cooked with all that combo of vegetables, oranges and quince. It's going to give all the juices and absorb the smell of the meat. Easy and great recipe that represents rustic cooking so well. And the thing that represents Azerbaijani rustic cooking even better is tandoor. Traditional methods of cooking have its own charm, feels like at grandma's house. That's why the best traditional restaurants don't use regular ovens. Tandoor is not Azerbaijani pride only, sure. It's very popular in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Iran, China and Japan. Sure, all these countries have its own name and construction, but the point is underground cooking. In tandoor, you can cook literally everything from roasted birds to bakery. Uzbekistan world's famous samsa is cooked in a circled tandoor. Little pies are literally stick on the walls inside. And baking, it's easy to remove, no worries. Meanwhile, to make the side dish more nutritive, we fill it with little potatoes, a classical combo that always works amazing. If you wait for new videos for too long, please follow us on Insta to watch more satisfying rustic content between YouTube filming. For our turkeys to be well cooked and juicy, we roll it twice in baking paper and in foil. We always cook meat like that while using firewood oven or tandoor to save the meat from the open fire. The tandoor has heated up and smell of the smoke flies in the air. So it's time for turkeys to start roasting and soon we'll have an amazing traditional dinner. Life in a village is built on traditions. And while you learn the methods of cooking and doing household duties, you can realize the wisdom of generations before you. Even now, when people have so much gadgets, it still works. Time has come and we finally can have the best meal ever. Let's check out the turkeys. But anyway, we're sure it's great. The smell is never lie. Ye's friends, tandoor is very deep and without this big construction, it's simply impossible to get the dish safe for hands. But we're used to do it. If you've ever tried tandoor dish, you'll understand it costs. A little present under the packaging, a perfectly roasted turkey. With a light smell of veggies, it wakes up the appetite in one second. The table is served, waiting just for the main course and the family to eat. Even the weather can't spoil the atmosphere of having a dinner together. You can see meat fibers are perfect, light, easy separating and tender. Thanks to cooking method, fruits and veggies inside, it's unbelievably delicious. If you enjoyed watching, please subscribe and like the video. That was Faraway Village. Thanks for spending a day with us and see you next time. In the most picturesque area of Azerbaijani mountains, we invite you to join the day of rustic cooking and duties with us. Take a sip of hot drink and let's begin. The first association that we have talking about village life are little pies with any kind of filling, sweet or savory, with the fluffiest dough, hot and incredibly delicious. So we decided to surprise you with this really rural dish. Today we use a recipe that is traditional for our region and our grandmothers did pies like that. For the dough, we need hot and cold water. It'll make it sticky as we need. Good dough starter is the most important thing to do while cooking pies. In Eastern Europe, it's more popular to cook with milk. It becomes even fluffier. For example, in Ukraine and Poland, people use it for pies and bread. Azerbaijani pies are more about fluffiness and crispiness together. So water and oil will do the job. All the ingredients must be mixed with hands. This is not a hack, it's a must-have. With hands, you put all your love and good energy. Friends, winter holidays are coming. If you look for a perfect present and you closest people are fans of cooking, you can take a look at our shop. Here you'll find everything, knives and kitchenware and can take handmade socks as addition. We truly like the partnership we have. Everyone makes everything possible and find some time to help. So together we're preparing the pies filling, potatoes with onion. It's very popular pie combo all over the world, isn't it? The best thing about pies is that they can be literally everything. You can fill it with fruits, berries, jams, veggies and meat. They're going to be delicious anyway. Maybe you have the traditional pies we don't know about? Share the recipe. In Central Asian cuisines, we have hundreds recipes of the pies. And in every country, it's absolutely unique. You'll always recognize what you're eating now. It's different with a dough, spices, herbs, forms and even baking ways. While onions are frying and potatoes are cutting, let's talk more about the pies in the world's cuisines. In Central Asia, we have tandoor, underground ancient oven. It makes the dough crispy on top but very soft inside. And it's great. In China, you can find bao. It's steamed buns with meat filling like pies but circled. This method of cooking makes dough specifically tender and the taste is very different from the baked one. Nowadays, bao are popular everywhere. Eastern Europe is famous by fluffy little pies. It's made with other classic fillings like everywhere. But the difference is in extra softness with baking. Also, Europeans use yarn dough for pies more often than puff one. Meanwhile, potatoes must be boiled. After that, we will mash them and mix with onions. Balkans have very interesting kind of pies. It's usually made with puff dough. It's very crispy and you can even hear that sounds. As well as Oriental Samsa is making. But the form of that pies are usually rolled in different ways. Time for the filling of our pies. It's a very simple recipe. But what is representing traditional food and rustic life? Better that easy, nutritive and extremely delicious food. Meanwhile, the base of the filling is done. Now we're going to add fried onions, salt, pepper and some turmeric. We're making Azerbaijani pies and it's not possible to imagine without the most popular spice. And now we move on to the cooking art, forming the pies. It's the most meditative process ever, like making dumplings, painting, modeling and crafting. Just trust the process, relax and breathe, thinking about nothing. The art is in everything. If you have time and a wish to create unique pies, you can decorate the sides and it's going to impress anyone. Today's weather is quite cold and the best decision for a rustic family to warm up is sipping the tea, spending that time together. Now the surprise. We're not going to bake the pies. Sure, in our cuisine we usually do that. But nothing can beat fried pies. It's a special guilty pleasure. When you know that every bite will be better than the bite before. While oil is heating up, pies are almost formed. Look at that form. A bit like a tube, but it's going to be bigger after frying. Like watching satisfying rustic life? Then follow our Instagram for more. Here it goes. The best launch you can imagine. This golden color waked up the appetite and we can barely wait until everything's will be done. While frying, you must be very focused. Pies needs to be golden and cooked from the inside. If you distract, it can be raw or burnt. Hot pies and a cup of tea. Grandma's best recipe for good mood and smile on your face. This is the atmosphere we wanted to create today. Families warm, recreated in a little treat. The only one detail that was missing. Homemade tomato sauce and herbs. It always goes great with potatoes filling. Also, it's good with sour cream. Finally, serving time has come. Even son is here now to watch these tiny fried masterpieces on our plate. Wish you can be our guests to try that too. Moment of truth. The smell of fried dough is so sweet and appetizing. Filling is soft and the turmeric gives a special note. That makes a big difference. It's a wonderful result. If you enjoyed watching, please subscribe and like the video. That was Faraway Village. See you soon.