Three recipes to take advantage of the Christmas turkey leftovers

Christmas dinner is delicious, whether you eat turkey or baked pork, not everyone likes to repeat the same dish the days after the celebration.

It may be that there are families where there is not even enough for the next day’s heating, but others may be left with an excess of prepared food. For this reason, here we propose three ideas to take advantage of the remains of the turkey and eat them in another way.

turkey sandwiches

Ingredients

• baked turkey meat
• 1 red onion
• 1 lemon
• 2 Creole lettuce leaves
• 6 rolled breads

Preparation

Cut the red onion into thin slices, add salt and lemon. To get the strong flavor you can put the onion in a bain-marie for about 5 minutes and it will turn pink. Add a splash of oil.

In a similar way to a typical pork sandwich, we assemble the sandwich by piling finely cut lettuce on the bread, the turkey slices, red onion and accompany with the turkey juice to soak the sandwich. If you like tomato, you can add a few slices to the lettuce base.

Other recipes to use the leftover turkey

A variation could be a hot turkey sandwich with slices of cheese.

hot turkey sandwich

Ingredients

• 1 baguette
• baked turkey meat
• 1 pearl onion sliced
• 1/2 red bell pepper
• 6 slices of mature cheese, type Gouda or Gruyere
• 2 tablespoons mayonnaise mixed with Dijon type mustard

Preparation

Sauté the onion cut into squares of about 4 centimeters with a small drizzle of oil, as well as the red pepper.

Cut the bread into 4 portions. On the baguette bread, arrange the mayonnaise mixed with the mustard, or just use mustard.

Place the sautéed onions, the turkey pieces. Put the slices of cheese on top and take to the oven for about 5 minutes so that the cheese melts.

Turkey Noodle Caesar Salad

Ingredients

• chopped turkey meat
• 2 cups of spiral or lazito type noodles
• 12 cherry tomatoes
• croutons
• 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
• Cesar dressing

Cesar dressing

• 2 garlic cloves, finely minced
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
• 2 teaspoons Worcestershire Sauce
• 1 cup mayonnaise
• 1/3 cup olive oil
• 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper

Preparation

Cook the noodles with salt in plenty of boiling water. When they are ready, drain them.

Separately, make the Caesar sauce and mix with the noodles and cherry tomato.

To serve, add the chopped turkey and grated Parmesan cheese to the noodle mixture. This salad can be placed on a bed of silken lettuce. (F)