How To Make Baked Turkey Legs – Recipe With Pictures

baked turkey legs

Have you seen those giant turkey legs sold in the meat section of the grocery store? Do you always pass on them because you don’t know how to cook turkey legs? Next time you see turkey legs, get them – cooking turkey legs is really easy. In fact, baked turkey legs is an effortless meal – you just put the turkey legs in the oven, and the oven does all the work for you!

Turkey legs are so huge – they make chicken legs look super tiny. Look at the above picture – 4 turkey legs take up the whole baking sheet! One turkey leg is more than enough for dinner even for the hungriest and biggest eater :)

Turkey legs are usually very cheap. Baked turkey legs is a great budget dinner, and is a nice change from the chicken legs. Turkey legs are so yummy with the cranberry sauce!

How To Make Baked Turkey Legs:

Preheat the oven to 375F.

Sprinkle the turkey legs with salt and pepper. Put in the oven and bake for 1 1/2 hours, or until done. You know when the turkey legs are done when the meat thermometer put in the thickest part of the leg registers 165F, and also when the juices run clear (not pink) when the thickest part of the leg is cut.

Enjoy the turkey legs with the cranberry sauce! A great side dish to go with the baked turkey legs is mashed potatoes.

6 Responses to How To Make Baked Turkey Legs – Recipe With Pictures

Robert on April 18, 2012 at 7:20 pm

Refreshing to see a person post a nice simple receipe. Most other people’s recipes are listing wrong baking/frying times. Silly concoctions that I think they post as a joke.

Thanks for using the K.I.S.S. principle. Love your receipes!
Sherry on July 27, 2012 at 2:17 pm

Weird question, but are these best done on a baking sheet, roasting pan, or baking dish?
Melanie Mendelson on July 27, 2012 at 4:53 pm

I don’t think it matters what kind of dish you use. I made these turkey legs on a baking sheet and in a baking dish, they were exactly the same. I haven’t tried to make them in a roasting pan, but I don’t see why not.
Melanie on October 26, 2012 at 5:52 pm

Melanie, great name! I made my own BBQ sauce and kept basting it even while I had it covered. Took the cover off the last 20 min and kept putting sauce on. (Don’t forget to turn them over!) It came out SO GOOD and so juicy! I hate paying $9 for the legs at a fair and they’re dry!! Thanks for the oven temp and cooking time. So glad it didn’t end up having to cook for 3 hours b.c the temp given was to low… I’ll visit here again for my next culinary question and for recipe ideas!
suzanne on March 10, 2013 at 10:58 am

Thanks Melanie, I’m not much of a cook but they sound so easy to do.
Melonie on April 1, 2013 at 6:37 pm

Thanks Melanie. Really happy I came across your recipe. I’ll be trying this tonight. Hope I get it right! :)