I don’t know about you, but I’m already tired of turkey. But we still have turkey leftovers and it WILL get used. I hate throwing leftovers away. Today for lunch we had homemade turkey soup (recipe coming Tuesday) and tomorrow for dinner we’ll be having Turkey Pot Pie topped with Garlic Biscuits. And that, I hope, will be the last of the turkey. But I love to see what other people are doing with their leftovers, so I gathered a few links.
At Baking Bites, she’s making leftover turkey sandwiches with cranberry-barbecue sauce. I have to tell you, I do have leftover cranberry sauce because I’m the only one who eats it (but I still make it myself). She’s also got other leftover sandwich ideas for you to try out.
The Kitchn at Apartment Therapy gives several posts with ideas for leftovers, including hand pies, panfried stuffing, sweet potato and cornbread hash w/gravy, and turkey pot pie.
Serious Eats also has a turkey pot pie recipe, along with a whole post of other ideas to explore (mmm, chili?)
For the most unique leftover recipe, it’s The Barefoot Kitchen Witch and Thanksgiving wontons. I actually had a similar recipe printed out and bought the wonton wrappers last year at Thanksgiving to make these, but never actually did. Now I wish I had wonton wrappers in the house so I could do this for dinner tonight.
Anyone have any other great leftover recipes or ideas to share?
Okay, yeah, we’re Texans. Tex Mex is comfort food, but turkey tostadas/tacos is one of our favorite turkey leftover ideas. It just takes a can of tomato sauce (once the turkey is sauteed with onions) and as much cumin as you think makes it taste Mexican-y enough. (I think the original recipe calls for maybe 1 tsp. I just shake till it tastes right.) It is NOT spicy-hot. Just flavorful.
My sister really likes to do turkey gumbo. It has rice and okra and other gumbo-y things in it–andouille sausage, celery, bell peppers, cayenne, garlic, onions. She makes it with a roux, but I leave the roux off for my gluten free fella.
However, I will have to wait till Christmas to get to do any of these yummy things. We had Thanksgiving with a lot of large college-aged young men, and there’s no turkey left. No sandwiches. No gumbo. No tostadas. Alas.
Mmm, those sound good. I would never have thought of doing either!
Turkey salad is one of my favorite leftovers… mayo, finely chopped onions, celery mixed with dried cranberries (sweetened) and chopped walnuts or pecans, salt and pepper to taste.
Oh, Tara Marie, where were you when I needed a recipe for the very last of the turkey? That sounds perfect!
I just finished picking off the last of the turkey meat (went into a quiche) and boiling the carcass last night for stock and to make Cream of Turkey and Rice soup tonight.
I saw an amazing recipe for Cream of Turkey and Rice soup on allrecipes.com that I was going to make, but somehow I had NO long grain or wild rice. How does that happen?