Turnover turkey, I'm gonna finish you off (Poultry)

Member Name: Andy2901

Product:	Poultry
Date:	05/11/08 (110 review reads)
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Advantages: Uses up your leftovers

Disadvantages: Do you want to be cooking all Christmas?

This is a recipe for Turkey Turnover

You know you're going to buy a turkey that could feed your neighbourhood for Christmas, and then be left eating sandwiches you didn't want for the next few days. So never mind going out spending your poor hubby's money in the boxing day sales, make him this recipe to use up some of your leftovers instead.

Ingredients:

One and a half pounds of cold cooked turkey meat
8 ounces of mushrooms
1 small chopped onion
Three Quarters of a pint of bread sauce (packet mix will do)
1 level teaspoon thyme
1 large packet of frozen puff pastry
Salt and pepper to taste
1 ounce of butter
Beaten egg or milk for the glaze

Preparation:

Cut the turkey into strips or cubes or small pieces.
Slice the mushrooms and dice the onion and gently fry them both gently in the butter for 5 minutes, turning constantly.
Make up the bread sauce mix and add the turkey, mushrooms, onions and thyme, and also the seasoning to taste. Leave this to go cold.

Roll out the puff pastry so that it's 14 inches long and 12 inches wide, with the edges neatly trimmed, then leaving it whole, place half of it on to a baking tray.
Put the cold filling on to the pastry on the tray and spread it to within a quarter of an inch of the edges.
Brush a little bit of water round the edge of the pastry, then turn the rest of the pastry over so that the filling is completely enclosed. Press all the edges firmly together and knock them up with the back of a knife.
Brush the top with the beaten egg or milk, then using the back of the knife again, mark the top in lines, then leave it in a cool place for half an hour.

To Bake:

Bake in a hot oven, gas mark 7, 220c/424f for 20 minutes, then reduce the heat to gas mark 5, 190c/375f for a further 20-25 minutes.
Can be served hot or cold.

A simple and easy way to use up some of your leftover turkey. You might not have any dried thyme in your cupboard however this is no problem, simply take away a few ounces of the turkey and add the equivalant weight in stuffing. You could also do the same but add some cooked potato, peas and carrot, and hey presto, you've got yourself a nice large turkey cornish pasty. You can basically add any leftovers you want, just keep the weight of the ingredients to 2 pounds excluding the onion.

Happy Cookmas

Summary: Useful for using up your turkey leftovers