Today’s Secret Recipe Club post kicks off Thanksgiving week. This year I want to celebrate everyone’s second favorite part of the holiday – leftovers! I knew that in my search through my assigned blog, Chocolate & Chillies, I knew I would be on the search for turkey friendly recipes.
If you don’t yet know, in the Secret Recipe Club, each participating blogger is assigned a blog from another participating blogger and secretly searches their site for something to recreate. The accompanying blog post then goes live on reveal day!
And last month, Asiya was assigned my blog! She made Pumpkin Zucchini Bread inspired by my Pumpkin Broccoli Bread. Asiya left the workforce as an analyst seven to stay home with her first son. I can relate as I too just left my job as an engineer after having my first child. She started her blog as a way to branch out in the kitchen, and she has a husband who happily supports her endeavor. Her family is Indian and her husband Pakistani, so her blog is heavily influenced by these two cultures.
Using dishes from other cultures is a wonderful way to use up those turkey leftovers without getting bored, so I must thank the Secret Recipe Club for helping me to think outside of the box! If you usually make soup with your leftovers give her homemade oyster crackers a try; they’re on my bucket list.
I pulled two recipes off of Chocolate & Chilles, Mummy’s Chicken Pie and Chicken Biryani. As I am posting a rice skillet dish tomorrow I opted for her chicken pie. Because I used precooked roasted turkey instead of cooking chicken for use in this dish, I added extra garlic and ginger paste. Normally I’d shy away from the eggs in the pie filling, but it’s Secret Recipe Club so I left the ingredient, and I’m glad I did! I’d also never worked with phyllo dough before, mostly because I’m too impatient to brush each layer with melted butter, but also because I don’t want to be using that much butter. I’m glad that Asiya used a milk and olive oil wash instead!
Stuart and I both loved this Thanksgiving leftover solution. I served it with the leftover twice baked sweet potatoes from my “Thanksgiving for Two” menu.
Turkey Pie
Ingredients:
- 1 lb cubed cooked turkey breast
- 2 hard boiled eggs, diced
- 2 tbsp canola oil
- 1 tsp ginger paste
- 1 tsp garlic paste
- 2 tbsp flour
- 3/4 C + 6 tbsp milk, divided use
- 1 roll frozen phyllo dough, thawed
- 2 tbsp olive oil
Steps:
- In a saucepan heat canola oil over medium heat. When hot add the ginger and garlic pastes, reduce heat – it will splatter. After 30 seconds whisk in the flour and return heat to medium. Slowly whisk in 3/4 C milk, whisk over medium heat until thickened slightly and free from lumps. Mix cubed turkey and diced hard boiled eggs. Set aside.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Whisk together 6 tbsp milk and 2 tbsp olive oil. Brush mixture on bottom of a 7×11″ casserole dish.
- Slice phyllo dough in half, place one half in the fridge until ready to use. Place one sheet of phyllo in casserole dish, brush with milk and oil mixture, repeat until all of the sheets have been used.
- Top phyllo with turkey pie filling.
- Top the filling with the second half of the phyllo dough – repeating the process of brushing with the milk and oil mixture. Brush the top of the pie with the milk and oil.
- Bake 20 – 25 minutes, or until the top is lightly golden and inside is hot.
*This recipe is adapted from Asiya at http://www.chocolateandchillies.com/2011/06/mummys-chicken-pie.html*
To see the other bloggers who participated in the Secret Recipe Club this month click here:
Sew You Think You Can Cook 
I love Asiya’s site! And what a perfect dish for this time of year!! Great SRC pick 🙂
Her blog was fun to search through
This sounds so interesting! Great combination of leftovers!
It tasted kinda like a pot pie, with a twist.
How unique! 😀 Great choice for the SRC as well as a festive idea for that leftover turkey! 😀
Thanks!
Perfect timing for leftovers. Although I am partial to having the legit meal over and over again until all of the remaining turkey is gone. Happy Reveal Day!
🙂 Happy Thanksgiving’
Perfect almost Turkey-day recipe – sounds soo yummy! I’ve never played with phyllo dough before, it’s on my “to-cook-eventually” list. 🙂
This was my first time!
Drool! This looks absolutely amazing!
Thanks!
I have never had phyllo but it looks so amazing! I would definitely have to give this a try! Happy reveal day!
As it comes in a two pack I still have a roll in my freezer. I’ll definitely have to play around with it!
Perfect recipe for this week! You know I love working with phyllo 🙂 This looks delicious
Maybe it’ll make you like turkey!
So glad you enjoyed the pie! What a great idea to use leftover turkey 🙂 I’m actually making this chicken pie for dinner today. Thank you for your kind words! Have a wonderful day!
We loved it!
So perfect for leftovers!!! This pie looks delicious!!
It was!
yum yum yum!!! this pie looks great. I shoudl try this. I have phyllo at home already!
great pick!
I hope you do, it’s great!
What a delicious Thanksgiving “left-overs” dish! And I am intrigued with the idea of using hard boiled eggs and phyllo dough in this recipe. All around wonderful and unique! 🙂
Thanks! I was skeptical but it’s delicious!
Great use of leftover turkey. I also like the sound of your twice baked sweet potatoes! Yum!
Those are another src member’s recipe from group b!
This looks like a great twist on a pot pie, and perfect timing with the turkey! What a great way to use up some leftovers after Thanksgiving! Great post this month 🙂
Thats what it reminded me of!
Wonderful idea for leftover turkey! Great SRC selection!
Thanks!
Great SRC post, perfect timing!!
LOVE the look of this pie! Karen
Thanks!