What do you do with all the leftover turkey?

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28 November 2020, 03:32 PM

jon-nyc

What do you do with all the leftover turkey?

We have a small crew so slowly eating it as leftovers and sandwiches won’t get the job done.

I was thinking of making a bunch of individual-sized turkey pot pies (in muffin tins) and freezing them.

What other ideas are out there?

28 November 2020, 03:58 PM

Steve Miller

I make turkey rice soup and freeze individual portions.

28 November 2020, 04:20 PM

wtg

ATK turkey tetrazzini.

And I make turkey broth with the carcass, which turns into turkey noodle soup with veggies and diced turkey meat.

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28 November 2020, 05:21 PM

wtg

Was looking for something else and stumbled upon this.

https://www.oregonlive.com/coo..._leftovers_reci.html

28 November 2020, 09:58 PM

jodi

I found a recipe for dim sum like dumplings made with chopped cooked turkey. Going to try those.

28 November 2020, 11:26 PM

Mary Anna

We did a chicken this year, but the leftover-usage recipes are the same.

I like to make turkey salad. My usual recipe is just chopped turkey, boiled eggs, mayonnaise, and chopped sweet pickles. This year's low carb version was very good. I swapped out the sweet pickles for radishes, green onions, and dill pickles.

I also like to make stock out of the carcass and I usually use that to make vegetable soup. This year, I just used it for stock.

29 November 2020, 11:00 AM

jodi

I did stock with the carcass for the first time ever this year. Froze it in plastic bags. I seem to make a lot of things in the instant pot that require a little bit of chicken broth.

29 November 2020, 11:21 AM

Mary Anna

My son's favorite Thanksgiving leftover meal was a sandwich loaded down with...all of it.

Lay down a slice of thick-cut bread
Cover it with slices of turkey
Spread the turkey with cornbread dressing
Warm the giblet gravy, but not so hot that it flows off the sandwich, drizzle heavily on turkey and cornbread
Spread the other piece of bread with a bunch of cranberry sauce and assemble

You probably have to be a seventeen-year-old boy to survive this, so I don't know if he still does it.

Once, when he was seventeen-ish, he thought that we'd run out of the critical ingredient and he was going to wait a year for another Thanksgiving sandwich extravaganza. The he found a tub in the back of the refrigerator. You could hear him all over the house when he cried out,

"MORE GRAVY! There is a God!"

29 November 2020, 11:38 AM

jodi

29 November 2020, 11:44 AM

wtg

29 November 2020, 12:34 PM

pianojuggler

It must be heartwarming when your kids get religion.

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29 November 2020, 03:18 PM

Nina

Turkey enchiladas or turkey quesadillas!

29 November 2020, 03:27 PM

Mary Anna

quote:
Originally posted by pianojuggler:
It must be heartwarming when your kids get religion.

Indeed!

01 December 2020, 09:56 AM

jodi

Ok, for the record, my steamed/fried dumplings (Gyosa) that I used chopped cooked turkey in (instead of pork and shrimp) were not worth the time it took to put them together. The turkey is just TOO strong a taste, especially the dark meat. Turkey really isn’t my favorite anyway - it’s all the fixin’s that I like - and I’m thinking next year I might cook chickens instead...