When it comes to turkey, however small your bird, there always seems to be leftovers.
While there’s still a place for the humble turkey sandwich; you really can do a lot with this versatile lean meat.
Safety First
Make sure your turkey is completely cool before you refrigerate, and freeze within the first 90 minutes if possible.
Leaving the turkey on the kitchen side all day may make it unsafe to eat, so before you sit down, decide what you’re doing to do with it.
Leftover turkey should be eaten within two days but can be frozen for up to three months. Freeze it in portions, but sealing it in a reuseable freezer bag or container and labeling it up.
If you’re putting your turkey in the fridge, then place it in the middle shelf, saving your bottom half for any raw meat or fish.
7 Leftover Diced Turkey Recipes
Turkey Egg Fried Rice
This is really easy to make and quick to cook, this turkey egg fried rice stir fry is cheap and cheerful. Bung anything in and you have dinner for the family for just 67p a head.
Handful Turkey £1.87
2 Egg 14p
250g Rice 31p
60g Frozen peas 5p
2 tsp Soy sauce 4p
100g Frozen onion 15P
100g Frozen peppers 13p
Total: £2.69 = 67p a head for 4 people
Turkey Carcass Soup
This turkey carcass soup does take around 2 hours to cook, but it can be left to its own devices in a pan or slow cooked over night to get all the turkey off.
Turkey carcass
250g Potatoes 31p
125g Carrots 31p
100g Frozen onion 15p
100g Cabbage 31p
400g Tin tomatoes 34p
1 tsp Worchester sauce 2p
Herbs 4p
Total: £1.48 = 37p a head for 4 people
Baked Turkey Pesto Alfredo
This baked turkey pesto alfredo is a really simple dish that my kids love! Perfect for defrosted turkey and dice it as small as you want.
25g Butter 14p
25g Plain flour 9p
600ml Milk 26p
350g Pasta 24p
Handful turkey £1.87
100g Cheese 95p
400g Tin tomatoes 34p
3 tbs Pesto 5p
Total: £3.94 = 98p per head for 4
Leftover Turkey Casserole
I love this turkey casserole recipe. My kids like the turkey diced really small and then whizzed with my hand blender, but the recipes says just chucks is fine.
200g Frozen Onions 30p
1 Apple 32p
Herbs 5p
25g Plain flour 9p
300ml Stock 10p
2 tbsp Honey 5p
Handful of turkey £1.87
50g Whole red cabbage 15p
100g Whole roasting potatoes 15p
62g Whole carrots 15p
Total: £3.63 = 90p a head for 4 people
Turkey Korma
We all have our favourite curry recipe, but I like this one as it’s
There’s loads of recipes out there. I like this turkey korma because the kids will actually eat it, but I amend when goes in depending on what I have in the cupboards.
Turkey £1.87
25g Natural yogurt 4p
100g Frozen onion 15p
2 Garlic cloves 2p
Herbs 5p
25g Plain flour 9p
50ml Double cream 16p
10g Caster sugar 6p
20g Ginger 10p
Total: £2.54 = 63p a head for 4 people
Turkey Meatballs
These turkey meatballs come in at 1p over, but they are so lush. They go with anything. My kids eat them by themselves!
Handful turkey £1.87
50g Frozen onion 7p
227g Pork sausage meat £1.75
Bread crumbs 20p
Egg 7p
Tsp Worcestershire sauce 5p
2 tsp flour 4p
Total: £4.05 = £1.01 per head for 4
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Turkey Smothered Sweet Potatoes
Really simple to make. My kids cover theirs in cheese like this turkey smothered sweet potato recipe but I don’t, as I think they’re sweet enough.
4x Sweet potato 44p
Handful turkey £1.87
50g Frozen onion 7p
5 tsp Tomato sauce 5p
Can of kidney beans 30p
Total: £2.73 = 68p a person for 4
