With Thanksgiving coming up, you might have a lot of food leftover! I always do the basic reheat or sandwiches, but there is so much more that you can do with these leftovers. This week we have just the blog for you. We’re doing a Thanksgiving leftover blog and we’ll take a look at a bunch of things you can do with your turkey leftovers.
The obvious
things would be your cold turkey sandwich. You can make the basic with bread,
lettuce, and lots of mayo. Or you can make a warm one with stuffing piled
inside of it and cranberry sauce and gravy; really utilize all of the
leftovers. You can even make a toasted hot turkey sandwich. I’ve done open
faced ones on toasted bread with gravy poured on top or you can add some
stuffing on that as well. Make it fancy and upgrade your bread (make it a
panini or pita), but you really want to use what you have leftover from dinner;
don’t add too much extras. I love making clubhouses with my fresh turkey. On
toasted bread with lots of mayo, I layer on turkey, bacon, avocado, tomato, and
a little lettuce and sometimes cheese. So divine!
Another
popular thing to make with turkey leftovers is turkey pie. Buy a pie crust or
make one. Mix some of your leftover veggies (bean, corn, carrots, and peas are
the best) add in some chopped onions and celery and then pour in your leftover
gravy with a bit of salt and pepper and any other flavours you like. You can
decide how runny you want your pie filling to be. If you don’t have enough
gravy left you can add in some water, chicken broth, or cream of chicken soup
until it reaches the consistency you want. Pour the filling into one pie crust
and then place another one on top and brush with some egg wash and put in a few
slits on the top. Bake at 375 degrees for about 40 minutes or until golden and
you can see the filling bubbling.
Pasta is
always popular. You can make a tomato based sauce or rose and add turkey to it
along with some veggies or you can make more of an alfredo sauce with turkey
added to it or you can make a baked tetrazzini.
Soup is also a good way to use up your leftovers. You can make a turkey noodle soup with
veggies and your turkey. You can even add in some mashed potatoes in. If you
like a really hearty soup you can make a chowder as well.
Other less
obvious but creative things to make are waffles topped with turkey trimmings,
mashed potato pizza, cranberry mixed in with your oatmeal/yogurt, turkey
poutine, frittata, quiche, turkey dumplings, apple/pumpkin pie milkshakes, turkey
and stuffing stuffed peppers, turkey lasagna, turkey roll ups, turkey nachos,
turkey chilli, enchiladas, turkey egg rolls, turkey and veggie casserole, turkey
and veggie Shepard’s pie, turkey hash...the recipes are endless!
One recipe that really stood out to me was this turkey dinner in a biscuit.
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