Thanksgiving: it’s a time for celebration, gratitude and most importantly, food. There’s always plenty to go around, with an abundance of leftovers and also an abundance of ways to deal with them.
Shepherd’s Pie
With mashed potatoes and turkey, you can make this beloved dish. It consists of a mixture of olive oil, carrots, onions, turkey, flour and beef broth as a base layer underneath seasoned mashed potatoes.
- Melt a quarter of a cup of butter in the frying pan.
- Cook half a cup each of chopped carrots and onions over medium-high heat until they become soft.
- Add in two cups of shredded turkey and let it cook for about five minutes.
- Stir in a tablespoon of flour for two to three minutes.
- Pour in half a cup of the chicken broth and let it cook until the mixture has slightly thickened. Season with salt and pepper.
- Transfer to a baking pan, and spread about three cups of mashed potatoes over the mixture and cook for around thirty minutes, until brown.
Turkey Apple Salad
If you’re feeling healthy, try this one on for size. The simplest of the three recipes, it consists of spinach, shredded turkey, sliced apples and walnuts.
- Begin with a mixing bowl filled with two cups of baby spinach leaves.
- Add in a cup of shredded turkey, one cup of sliced apples and half a cup of walnuts.
- Toss the ingredients around until they are spread throughout the bowl.
- Drizzle on any dressing of your choice.
Cranberry Turnovers
Leftover cranberry sauce calls for these warm, puffy pastries.
- Grab one package of defrosted puff pastry. Roll it out into a ten inch square and cut it into four five inch squares.
- Place one and one half tablespoons of cream cheese and one tablespoon of cranberry sauce in the middle of each square.
- Wet the edges of the squares with whisked egg yolk.
- Fold one edge over to transform the square into a triangle and apply pressure with a fork to bond the edges together. Brush the remaining egg yolk on both sides of the turnovers.
- Bake the turnovers for about twenty minutes, until slightly brown and raised. Frost the turnovers if desired.