Leftover Turkey Recipes
What to do with the rest of the bird — turkey ham pot pie, turkey salad pitas, crescent turkey casserole, tetrazzini — for the week after a big holiday meal.
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lunchLeftover Turkey Ham Pot Pie by Christin
Don't know what to do with leftover Thanksgiving Turkey and Ham? You can make a pot pie 🥧 and clear the fridge for Christmas! I make this almost every year!
Christin GarciaIngredients
- Left over shredded turkey
- Left over cubbed ham
- 2 sticks Chopped Celery
- 1 Chopped Yellow onion
- 1/2 cup Chopped Carrots
- 4 cloves Minced garlic
- 10. 5 oz Cream of chicken or mushroom
- Pilsbury biscuits
- 12 oz Frozen mixed veggies
- 2 tbs Butter
Instructions
- 1I'm stock pan melt 2 tbs butter
- 2Sauté onion, celery, carrots, and garlic
- 3Poe in frozen mixed vegetables and cream of mushroom or cream of chicken
- 4Cook until frozen veggies are defrosted. Add in cracked pepper.
- 5Pour in shredded turkey and ham mixing all ingredients together
- 6Place the mixture into a large baking bowl fit for a pot pie
- 7Open pilsbury buscuit package and spread out the dough to fit the top surface of the pot pie. If needed place some flour on clean flat surface to more easily shape the dough.
- 8Place dough on top of the pot pie
- 9Egg wash in separate bowl crack one egg and add one tablespoon of water or milk. Whisk together.
- 10Brush the egg wash on top of the dough.
- 11Place in oven at 350• for 20 mins or until the dough topping is golden
- 12Enjoy these leftovers! You will be so proud!!
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A picked-over turkey is half your dinner already cooked. Once the meat is off the bones, you're just deciding between a crust, a noodle, or two slices of bread.
Cooks on Pepper reach for these the Friday after Thanksgiving, when nobody wants another plate of the same thing but nobody wants to waste it either.
Every recipe here starts with turkey you already have: Leftover Turkey Ham Pot Pie, The Best Leftover Turkey Salad, Turkey Salad with Honey Almonds, Cornbread & Leftover Turkey Casserole, Crockpot Turkey Tetrazzini, and Cranberry Turkey Sandwich Buns for the last of the cranberry sauce.
Quick Tips
- 1
Pull the meat warm
Strip the carcass within 2 hours of dinner while it still comes off easy, then refrigerate in a shallow container so it cools fast.
- 2
Simmer the bones
Cover the carcass with water and simmer 3 to 4 hours for turkey stock — it makes a far better pot pie gravy than water and bouillon.
- 3
Chop celery small
For turkey salad, dice 2 to 3 stalks into 1/4-inch pieces so every bite has crunch and it still holds together in a pita.
- 4
Add turkey last
Stir cooked turkey into casseroles and tetrazzini at the end and bake just 25 to 30 minutes, or it turns dry and stringy.
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