Homemade English toffee! Top this crunchy, caramel toffee with dark chocolate and toasted nuts. It's so easy to make and keeps for weeks. Ships well, too!
Homemade English toffee! Top this crunchy, caramel toffee with dark chocolate and toasted nuts. It's so easy to make and keeps for weeks. Ships well, too!
I don’t know about you but by the time I’m done loading my plate with stuffing, gravy, cornbread, and cranberry sauce, all I want is a nice, fresh salad. This leftover turkey Cobb salad is easy, delicious, and good for you…an all-around winner if there ever was one!
Giving New Life to Leftover Turkey Recipes
Our mission is to stop food waste at home, especially during the holidays, when families gather for that big massive feast!
When using leftover turkey for a new meal, the biggest secret is to make sure it tastes COMPLETELY different than your holiday meal. Because let’s face it – holiday leftovers never taste as good as it did the first time around! Nobody wants to relive that same meal four nights in a row!
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A Cobb salad is a quintessential American salad stuffed full of all sorts of delicious components you probably already have in your fridge! Best of all, if you don’t have one of the ingredients, there are so many others that if you leave one out, you won’t even notice. Whip up a Cobb salad with the below ingredients and enjoy!
Even after so much Thanksgiving day food, we quickly start to miss the flavors and the holiday. So, with this leftover recipe we are using a trifecta of leftovers. Turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce. It is a super easy recipe that comes together quickly. It still has that traditional, nostalgic Thanksgiving day flavor, but still reinvented into something brand new!
Giving New Life to Leftover Turkey Recipes
Our mission is to stop food waste at home, especially during the holidays, when families gather for that big massive feast!
When using leftover turkey for a new meal, the biggest secret is to make sure it tastes COMPLETELY different than your holiday meal. Because let’s face it – holiday leftovers never taste as good as it did the first time around! Nobody wants to relive that same meal four nights in a row!
Also in this Giving New Life to Leftover Turkey series:
What’s in this Thanksgiving leftovers stuffed squash?
We are using a tri-fecta of leftovers to create fun recipe!
Leftover turkey
Leftover stuffing
Leftover cranberry sauce
Turkey broth or wine
Onions
Garlic
Acorn Squash
Tips to make the most out of this Leftover Turkey and Stuffing Stuffed Squash:
Turkey Broth: Make your own turkey broth! If you aren’t using your leftover turkey bones to make your own broth you are missing out on so much flavor! Use this recipe to create a quick and flavorful broth. You can leave out the dashi and miso if you want too!
Cubed or Diced: The size and how you cut up your turkey for this stuffed squash totally matters here! You want the turkey and the stuffing to be roughly the same size. If you cubed your bread for the stuffing, cube your turkey. If you diced it, dice your turkey.
Cranberry Sauce: It might seem like a lot, but it helps keep everything moist, along with the broth, and add just enough sweetness!
Squash: You can use just about any squash you’d like, but our preferred squash is acorn. It’s a little sweet and cook quicker than some of the other larger squashes. Pre-roast your squash with a little olive oil and salt to begin to build that flavor.
I’m all about using up all of those Thanksgiving leftovers, but after that meal full of gravy and cranberry sauce, all I want is a nice, spicy Buddha Bowl filled with delicious fresh vegetables and Korean Spicy Gochujang Sauce.
Bibimbap (BEE-beem-bop) is a classic – and delicious – dish of steamed rice served with meat (in this case, leftover turkey!), any colorful vegetables you have leftover in the fridge, and a fried egg on top. Talk about a palate cleanser! I’m already getting hungry.
Giving New Life to Leftover Turkey Recipes
Our mission is to stop food waste at home, especially during the holidays, when families gather for that big massive feast!
When using leftover turkey for a new meal, the biggest secret is to make sure it tastes COMPLETELY different than your holiday meal. Because let’s face it – holiday leftovers never taste as good as it did the first time around! Nobody wants to relive that same meal four nights in a row!
Also in this Giving New Life to Leftover Turkey series:
Glad you asked! A Buddha Bowl can be whatever you want it to be, but here’s what we usually do. Start with a base of grains or some kind of starch, then add veggies–cooked, raw, parboiled, etc.–and a protein. Wrap it all up with a signature sauce and a crunchy topping. This is a great way to use up all your leftover rice, lean proteins and all the bits of veggies you find in the drawer.
For this recipe, we’ll be making a bibimbap-inspired buddha bowl with leftover Thanksgiving turkey.
What is Bibimbap?
To make this buddha bowl, inspired by a Korean bibimbap, here’s what you need!
Leftover Turkey: Of course! But when you fall in love with this buddha bowl, you’ll be able to make it with whatever leftover meat you have on hand.
Vegetables: Cucumber, daikon radishes, scallions, spinach, carrots, or whatever else you have in your vegetable drawer!
Gochujang is a Korean red pepper paste made from red chiles, glutinous rice and soybeans, found at Asian markets and many supermarkets. If you prefer your Bibimbap to not be spicy, look for Doenjang, which is a soybean paste without the chiles. We love using gochujang as a quick way to add a big punch of flavor into buddha bowl sauces.
If you can’t find Doenjang, you can use miso paste. Since both are made from beans, they give any dish an umami-rich, savory flavor. Gochujang, Doenjang, and Miso paste all store well in the refrigerator. If you really seal it well, it could last for a year!
Making the Gochujang Sauce
This gochujang sauce is the key to transforming this turkey into something completely different. Here’s how to make it:
Whisk together the sauce.
Toss with leftover turkey, and let sit while you’re assembling your other ingredients.
Add the turkey to your buddha bowl, then drizzle the leftover sauce over your bowl for an added kick!
fresh veggies, sliced thinlylike cucumber, radish, or carrots
crunchy toppinglike fried shallots or peanuts
Instructions
In a medium bowl, whisk the Gochujang Drizzle. Add in the leftover turkey to the bowl and let marinate on counter while you continue with recipe.
Put pan over medium-high heat. When hot, drizzle in just a little cooking oil. Add in the spinach and stir fry, tossing frequently, for 2 minutes, until spinach is wilted. Remove spinach to plate and set aside.
Wipe pan clean. Return same pan to medium heat. When hot, swirl in cooking oil. Crack in the eggs and cook without stirring for 3 minutes or until the egg whites are set on the edges. Cover pan, reduce heat to medium-low and cook for an additional 1-2 minutes until the egg whites are cooked through and the yolks still runny. Remove from pan to a plate, and set aside.
Evenly divide the rice, turkey, spinach and veggies between four bowls. Top each bowl with a fried egg.