Mini Turducken - Most Holy Trinity

In the section Trinity Sunday in The Catholic All Year Compendium, I wrote: I have a liturgical living bucket list of crazy foods I would like to someday be able to serve for feast days. They haven’t happened yet because they are difficult to obtain or prepare or are prohibitively expensive. On that list is my dream food for the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity: Turducken. It’s a chicken, stuffed into a duck, stuffed into a turkey (all deboned and sewn back together with various veggies and stuffings in there too). Three birds in one meat. The chicken is meat. The duck is meat. The turkey is meat. The chicken is NOT the duck. The duck is NOT the turkey. The turkey is NOT the chicken. How perfect would that be? Well, I have an update. I can happily report that I have made a simplified mini- turducken for this feast day multiple times now. It’s time-consuming, even in the mini-version. But it’s a fun family challenge to make. And even if, hypothetically, one of them were to kind of fall apart a bit in the oven while cooking, it would still be pretty impressive, and delicious, and worth it. #askmehowiknow Note: At my local grocery store, chicken breasts are readily available fresh or frozen. Boneless turkey breast is available year-round in the freezer section. I defrosted it, then did a butterfly cut to open it up to place the other ingredients inside. If boneless turkey breast isn’t available, it could be defrosted, then de- boned. I couldn’t find duck breasts, so I bought a whole frozen duck, defrosted it, and removed the breasts. I ended up getting two turkey breasts as well and made two mini-turduckens. (I saved the rest of the duck to make street tacos.)