A lot of my American readers have refrigerators bulging with turkey leftovers this morning, and in just a short month my British and Canadian readers will be in the same position.
Some of you will be scratching your heads and trying to come up with new and interesting things to do with them. One thing I have never had a problem with and that is using up leftovers!
My mother always called me the Queen of Leftovers. But really I learned everything that I know from her. She always made the most of everything she was given.
Every time we had a roast dinner of any kind we would be looking forward to the leftovers most of all. Well almost most of all I guess. We still really enjoyed the roast dinner!
This Turkey, Broccoli & Stuffing Casserole is one of my favorite things to do with my leftovers. It uses up some of the meat, gravy and some of the stuffing.
This delicious recipe is sized for two to three people.
If you have leftover vegetables, you can use that in place of the broccoli, or you can simply reheat them and serve them on the side. Today that was brussels sprouts and carrots.
If you don't have any leftover gravy you can use a can of condensed cream of chicken soup, or make a gravy from scratch using my recipe here, which doesn't require the use of drippings.
You can leave out the sour cream altogether and just use the equivalent in gravy, which is what I did today. You can also use a can of gravy if you have it.
Turkey, Broccoli & Stuffing Casserole
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups (250g) leftover cooked turkey, cubed (can use chicken also)
- 1/2 cup (60g) full fat sour cream
- 1 cup (120g) leftover gravy
- 1 small broccoli crown, chopped and steamed for 5 minutes
- 1 1/2 cups leftover stuffing
- 3 slices of processed cheese
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350*F/180*C/ gas mark 4. Butter a small casserole dish.
- Mix the cooked turkey, gravy and sour cream together in a bowl. Spread this in the casserole dish. Top with the steamed broccoli in a single layer. Crumble the stuffing on top.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes. Remove from the oven, top with the cheese and return the casserole to the oven for a further 5 minutes to melt the cheese.
- Serve hot.
Here are some more tasty ideas this morning to help you use up some of those scrumptious leftovers. Of course you could just have a reheat of the leftovers, but
it's also nice to dress them up in a few different ways too!
You Brits and Canucks might want to bookmark this page as Christmas is less than a month away and you 'll be wanting to figure out what to do with your Christmas Turkey leftovers then!
Turkey & Stuffing Casserole. A hearty casserole that is healthy and deliciously low in fat and calories, served with it's own gravy.
This is one of my favourite things to do with leftovers.
Of course you can have a plain old turkey sandwich, but why not dress it up a bit and serve it open faced on a rustic piece of bread, topped with some leftover cranberry sauce.
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