Turkey Pot Pie Recipe – Sally’s Baking Habit

Flip leftover turkey into a wholly new meal with this turkey pot pie recipe. Greens and cooked turkey come collectively in a creamy herbed gravy, and it’s all topped with a buttery golden pie crust. This base recipe might be custom-made to your liking with components you’ve gotten readily available, and you should utilize pre-cut, leftover, or frozen greens to save lots of time. Most consolation meals for minimal effort!

Each fall season, I attempt to discover a number of recipes to make use of up leftover cooked turkey or rooster. (, after we’ve had our fill of turkey sandwiches!!) Pot pie normally involves thoughts first as a result of it’s at all times a satisfying, crowd-pleasing alternative.

Why You’ll Love This Turkey Pot Pie

• Satisfying all-in-one meal
• Straightforward flavorful gravy, created from fundamental pantry components
• A good way to make use of up leftover cooked turkey (or rooster)—use mild or darkish meat or a mixture
• Use the steered greens, or swap them to your favorites
• Use frozen, pre-cut, or leftover greens to save lots of time
• High with flaky buttery pie crust, or use store-bought pie dough

Begin With Pie Crust

Earlier than we get to the filling, have your pie crust ready and able to go. I like utilizing this selfmade pie crust, a dough created from each butter AND shortening to yield the flakiest, most tender and buttery crust. This turkey pot pie recipe makes use of simply 1 disc of pie dough, so should you made my selfmade pie crust recipe to your pumpkin pie or French silk pie, you’ll have 1 leftover for in the present day’s pot pie!

You can also make the dough as much as 5 days prematurely.

Listed below are another crust choices:

Components in Turkey Pot Pie Filling (& Substitutions)

Right now’s filling is just like my flavor-forward and additional hearty vegetable pot pie. You want:

• Butter: Like a lot of our baked items, the filling begins with butter. Butter provides taste and, together with flour, helps the gravy-like filling correctly thicken.
• Vegetable Base: Chopped onion, celery, and carrots are a typical flavorful base to many sauces and soups, together with creamy rooster noodle soup. In in the present day’s recipe, I additionally add mushrooms. Be at liberty to make use of extra of 1 and fewer of one other, to fit your tastes, and should you want to skip the mushrooms, substitute with extra vegetable add-ins as famous beneath.
• Garlic: I normally use 3 cloves of garlic, however you should utilize 4 for further taste.
• Flour: Flour thickens the gravy filling.
• 4 Important Seasonings: Taste the filling with salt, pepper, thyme, and rosemary. In the event you don’t have rosemary, use extra thyme; or a bit sage can also be tasty.
• Turkey or Hen Inventory/Broth: Use broth and complete milk because the liquids in in the present day’s filling. When you’ve got turkey broth or inventory, go forward and use that. Or use rooster.
• Entire Milk: I normally use complete milk in pot pie fillings. In the event you want a nondairy milk suggestion, I like to recommend plain unsweetened oat milk or almond milk.
• Vegetable Add-ins: Right here’s the place you’ll be able to have plenty of enjoyable by including the greens you like most or have readily available. I normally use frozen peas. As a substitute of peas, you should utilize recent or frozen chopped broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, leeks, bell peppers, inexperienced beans, butternut squash, and/or recent/frozen/canned corn. No must thaw or cook dinner these greens earlier than utilizing, but when they’re already cooked, that’s fantastic too. Simply add them in!
• Cooked Turkey…

Use Leftover Thanksgiving Turkey

Use cooked turkey, which is very handy after a Thanksgiving meal. After the leftover-Thanksgiving-sandwich-eaters have had their fill of the bigger slices, go forward and use 3 cups of chopped/shredded turkey within the filling. You need to use mild or darkish meat, or a mixture of each.

(By the best way, if the thought of getting again within the kitchen to cook dinner one other dinner is lower than interesting after a vacation meal, let me reassure you: this all-in-one meal is straightforward to arrange.)

Can I exploit cooked rooster as a substitute? Sure, be at liberty to substitute.

These Step-by-Step Pictures Will Assist

After the bottom veggies and butter cook dinner collectively, add flour, salt, pepper, thyme, and rosemary. (Main taste constructing is occurring throughout these essential steps!) Under, left: The bottom of the pot pie filling. Under, proper: After including the flour & herbs.

After the flour soaks up the moisture from the cooked greens, add the broth and complete milk. Let every part simmer and thicken on the range, till the sauce has a thick gravy-like consistency.

Then you definitely’ll add the cooked turkey and your vegetable add-in. (Peas, on this case.)

Your filling is completed! ↓ Let it cool for 10 minutes, after which pour it right into a 9-inch pie dish:

Assemble Pie Dough & Bake

Roll out your pie dough and lay over the filling. Tuck the overhanging dough below and meld it into itself, to make a thick crust edge across the pot pie. Flute edges along with your fingers or crimp with a fork. Reduce slits within the high for steam vents, after which brush on an egg wash earlier than baking.

To make your egg wash, combine 1 egg with 1 Tablespoon of milk (handy since you simply used milk within the filling!). The egg wash provides the crust its golden, glistening sheen.

FAQ: Can I Add Potatoes?

Sure. I like to recommend including 1 cup peeled and chopped potato (or candy potato) while you add the broth. To make room for this addition, take away the mushrooms or 1 cup of vegetable add-ins on the finish.

FAQ: The way to Thicken the Turkey Pot Pie Filling

It is a good, hearty, and satisfying turkey pot pie filling as a result of we take the time to let the gravy simmer on the range. The flour soaks up the greens’ moisture, and when paired with the milk, helps create that easy and creamy base. Keep away from half-and-half and heavy cream as a result of each are too heavy… and also you’ll be consuming a brick below that pie crust!

FAQ: How Can I Make Smaller Turkey Pot Pies?

When you’ve got smaller pie dishes or oven-safe 8-ounce ramekins, you’ll be able to spoon the filling into every and high with smaller pie crust circles. Reduce the pie dough into circles about 1 inch bigger than the diameter of your ramekins/smaller pie dishes. The bake time can be shorter than the full-size model, and that point actually relies on the precise measurement of your mini turkey pot pies. When the crust is golden brown on high and the filling is effervescent via the steam vents, they’re achieved.

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