Plenty of bones in a turkey leg apparently

[bc7683023]

This happened to me a little while ago I brought 6 turkey legs from the butcher and he asked me whether I wanted them cut up so seeing the size of them I thought this would be a good idea as they are rather large so he chopped each one into about 3 or 4 bits Eventually I cooked them In a stew and it seems that the whole stew was full of these little bones and it made the stew rather tricky to eat and odd to look at.
Isn't a turkey leg structured like a chicken leg? Why all the bones?

[woofgang]

they aren't actually bones, a turkey leg has two bones like a human leg. What they do have are boney type ends to the sinews. Better to get the leg bones and remove all those bits..its not difficult to bone yourself if you have a fine sharp knife. I think the sinew ends calcify as the turkey gets more mature.

[woofgang]

PS a good butcher should have known this and NOT suggested just cutting them up!!

[ethandron]

maybe the bones splintered (as chicken and turkey bones are prone to) when the butcher chopped each one into 3 or 4 bits, and it's the bits of splintered bone you keep finding in the stew. horrible.

[bc7683023]

Thanks for the answers I'll ask the butcher to leave them whole next time.