Don't know if you need a recipe. Heat over low heat in chicken broth or in gravy or turkey drippings. As a gravy lover, anything covered in it is great. Thanksgiving is the only time I eat gravy, so I put it on everything!!! Can also wrap in foil with turkey drippings or left over gravy and heat in low oven. Leave lots of room in the foil and it sorta steams. Good luck.
My wife makes homemade soup, on average, four days a week.
If I so much as laid a finger on a leftover turkey carcass before she'd had the opportunity to boil it down she would stab me in my sleep. And if you had had her turkey soup and served on her jury you would vote to acquit her of my murder, as would I.
Tear pieces of meat off carcass. Throw those pieces in a large pot. Add chopped carrots, potatoes, onions, frozen peas, frozen corn. Add water until everything is covered and then some. Season heavily. Heat to a boil and simmer for 90 minutes.
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Put in several tablespoons of flour or cornstarch to thicken the water or add beef or chicken stock. You can pour a can of cheap beer in for a tangy flavor.
I always use leftover, a-mouldering and drying turkey meat in a hash. I finely chop it and add it to stuffing that I also kind of chop. I add leftover anything, but mostly just some mashed potatoes that are going stale. Then I add two beaten eggs, mush it all up in a bowl with my hand. I heat a hot cast iron skillet (big cast iron fan, here) to operating temperature, then add 2-3 table spoons of olive oil, and toss the mixture. I eat it with warmed over turkey gravy and cranberry sauce.
You laugh, but it's good. And it gets rid of a lot of leftovers at once. It's great for breakfast.
Don't forget to break up the carcass and put it in a 4-5 quart pot with onions, garlic, celery, carrots, peppercorns and stuff, cover with water and cook for like an hour. Then strain once through a colander, and again through a sieve for usable broth. 'Tis a sin to throw out the carcass before rendering it.
cludgie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Don't forget to break up the carcass and put it in > a 4-5 quart pot with onions, garlic, celery, > carrots, peppercorns and stuff, cover with water > and cook for like an hour. Then strain once > through a colander, and again through a sieve for > usable broth. 'Tis a sin to throw out the carcass > before rendering it.
Almost, but not quite.
Render it like mentioned but in the crackpot on low overnight. Then use the broth for turkey soup, add potatoes, carrots, celery, onion, ect, bite size flakes/chunks of turkey. Crockpot on low for 3-4 hours until the potatoes are done.
Chop up the turkey into small pieces, chop up the left over baked potatoes and brown/cook in a little oil in a fry pan. Add seasonings, (whatever you prefer), we use onion and garlic.
I use the leftovers to make wraps: Spread some honey-walnut cream cheese on a wrap/tortilla. Toss on some greens, a green onion, some apple slices, a little sharp cheddar, leftover cranberry sauce, or just dried cranberries. And then whatever else, leftover turkey (or just the veggies/fruit). You could also skip the sweet stuff like the cranberry sauce and cream cheese and throw in leftover mashed potatoes and gravy and boom.