These Nashville hot turkey legs are breaded, deep fried, then doused in hot, spicy oil.

This ground turkey and vegetable stir fry is colorful, saucy, and tasty. Once you start cooking, it goes very quickly, so be sure to have everything ready to go. It’s especially good over steamed rice or cauliflower rice.

These jazzy stuffed peppers are a “jazzed up” but simplified version of traditional stuffed peppers, using ground turkey and New Orleans-style dirty rice mix as the filling for a perfect balance of spices. Serve with toasted bread rounds

This simple turkey brine works overnight to ensure your turkey is moist, juicy, and full of delicious flavor! Use this easy brine on a fresh turkey, not on one already injected with any other brining solution. This recipe makes enough brine for a turkey in the 15- to 20-pound range.

This turkey fried rice is a quick and easy recipe for leftover turkey. It conquers that need for something different after a day of roasted turkey and the fixin's!

Leftover Thanksgiving Turkey Sliders are like the holidays on a bun! Sweet Hawaiian rolls are brushed with a sweet and savory glaze, filled with turkey, cranberry sauce, and cheddar cheese, then warmed in the oven.

We transformed the rich and savory flavors of classic French coq au vin blanc into juicy weeknight-friendly meatballs.

Homemade Cajun seasoning and a baking sheet are all you need for a spicy, juicy bird.

How do you make the best possible gravy? Start with the best possible broth.

Chef Joanne Chang also seasons her sweet-and-savory Thanksgiving turkey with sesame, ginger, and Chinese five-spice powder.

"I wasn't always a briner," says Shawn McClain, "but when enough people tell you it's the thing to do, you try it." He's glad he did: The brine here, which is a simple combination of salt, sugar, spices and water, keeps the turkey moist in the oven and seasons the meat perfectly.

"Brining introduces flavor that penetrates to the bone," says chef Ken Oringer. "And, because brining adds moisture, the turkey can handle high heat."

Even though he's lived in Los Angeles for 11 years, chef Lee Hefter gravitates to people from the East Coast, who, like him, might have seen the fall foliage every year and watched maple syrup being tapped. "When you grow up with these memories," he says, "you want to share them." He thinks adding maple syrup to gravy makes it go better with all the traditional Thanksgiving side dishes.

Smoking with a fruit wood like cherry gives this bird a depth of flavor with a light hint of sweetness.

This quick and easy technique for the perfect bird results in deeply flavorful meat and crackling, crispy skin.

This is a marvelous turkey — simple, satisfying, and completely delicious. Sweet Italian sausage gives the dressing an extra-special touch.