# Leftover Turkey - Need Answer Fast! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 10, 2009, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leftover-turkey-need-answer-fast/488952 "2009-03-10T13:53:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leftover-turkey-need-answer-fast/488952/1 "2009-03-10T13:53:11Z")
OK, it isn’t quite an emergency in the same vein as “how to land on concrete without dying - need answer fast” but… I brined and baked a turkey breast last Friday. Two fairly boring meals of sliced turkey and veggies, followed by one of a sort of shepherd’s pie (turkey, salsa, black beans, a little corn, topped by store-bought mashed potatoes, plus some pepper jack cheese - kids LOVED it), and I tossed the carcass into a pot to make stock and salvage what turned out to be a surprising amount of meat. Turned the resulting stock (made from cider-brined turkey = yum even if it was just a single breast, not a whole bird), plus all that meat, into turkey noodle soup for last night’s dinner. Leftover now: a fair amount of turkey swimming in a bit less stock than I’d usually want, if I were going to cook up some more noodles and serve soup again. It’s more like a somewhat liquidy stew now. Any suggestions for another way to serve it? I have this vague idea of draining off the liquid, boiling it down a bit and thickening it somehow, then dumping the solids (meat, plus some carrots/celery) and the thickened stock, into a pan and making pot pie out of it, but I dunno how well that’d work. Also any other favorite recipes for cooked turkey meat for future reference? I have at least one more of those turkey breasts in the freezer (they were on sale). ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leftover-turkey-need-answer-fast/488952/2 "2009-03-11T06:20:03Z")
How about making a flour-thickened gravy with the liquid and serving the solids with the gravy over mashed potatoes? ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leftover-turkey-need-answer-fast/488952/3 "2009-03-11T07:59:50Z")
Try this [Turkey Tortellini soup](http://www.butterball.com/recipe/turkey-tortellini-soup). It is great! We make it every Christmas (from the frozen broth/turkey from Thanksgiving). Easy to make, and go ahead and double or triple the ingredients. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leftover-turkey-need-answer-fast/488952/4 "2009-03-15T00:43:50Z")
Thanks! I wound up just dumping the results in with a bunch of plain noodles, so it was more like just turkey noodle soup with a much much higher proportion of noodles than usual. Not as good as some of the alternatives. I’m sorry I didn’t save the pan drippings - those, plus the broth and a bit of flour, would have made a very tasty sauce for over the spuds. I’ll have to try the tortellini soup also, next time - I’ve got at least one more of the turkey breasts in the freezer. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leftover-turkey-need-answer-fast/488952/5 "2009-03-15T01:27:05Z")
How about cooking the stock off (or reserving it for something else) and make taco meat or barbeque sauced pulled turkey? 'Twould be easy enough to do.