This turkey cauliflower bake is a great recipe to make when you have leftover turkey or even chicken.
Who doesn’t love turkey? But sometimes you want a one pot meal that you make with the leftovers from Thanksgiving or Christmas turkey dinner. One pot meals are always a hit in my home. Simply make a side salad and steam some vegetables and you have a healthy dinner that everyone will enjoy.
This recipe originally appeared on Delicious Alternatives with Shirley Plant, nutritionist.
Thanksgiving Turkey
Turkey is the most common main dish of a Thanksgiving dinner, to the point where Thanksgiving is sometimes colloquially called “Turkey Day.” In 2006, American turkey growers were expected to raise 270 million turkeys, to be processed into five billion pounds of turkey meat valued at almost $8 billion, with one third of all turkey consumption occurring in the Thanksgiving-Christmas season, and a per capita consumption of almost 18 pounds (8.2 kg). The Broad Breasted White turkey is particularly bred for Thanksgiving dinner and similar large feasts; its large size (specimens can grow to over 40 pounds) and meat content make it ideal for such situations, although the breed must be artificially bred and suffers from health problems due to its size. {source}
What do you do with your leftover turkey? Comment below!
| Turkey Cauliflower Bake |
- 2 1/2 cups cooked turkey diced
- 1 Cauliflower cut into pieces (approx. 3 cups)
- 3/4 cup raw cashews
- 3/4 cup chicken or vegetable stock
- 2 tbsp grainy mustard
- 1 tbsp cornstarch or arrowroot
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 clove Garlic
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley
- 3 kumato tomatoes sliced or 2 large tomatoes, sliced
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Ingredients
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- Soak cashews in water for a few hours
- Drain cashews and in a blender combine cashews, mustard, garlic, paprika, stock and cornstarch until creamy
- Chop up turkey into bite sized pieces and place in a deep oven proof dish
- Blanch cauliflower in hot water for a few minutes. Drain and add cauliflower in with cut up chicken
- Pour cashew sauce over top of cauliflower and turkey and mix well add in chopped parsley
- Slice tomatoes and place on top
- Bake 375F for 30 minutes
I made this recipe tonight. It was a little bland so I added a dash of hot sauce. I’ll make it again but next time I’ll use a touch more smoked paprika and garlic.