Left-over Turkey in Cacciatore!
2nd of a Series of 12 Days of Left-over Turkey!
This is a great recipe to use to stretch a bag of left-over turkey meat into 6 good portions of sauce for pasta or rice. If you've frozen your turkey, you could be eating this a couple months after Thanksgiving, but if you are using it up quickly ... there is no better way to get over all that "turkey and dressing" theme than to serve Italian! Of course, I cook turkeys all year long and enjoy having bags of the meat in the freezer ... but I'm never amazed to learn that some families just have turkey a couple times a year. I always think they are really missing out!
Left-over Turkey Cacciatore
3 – 4 cups of left-over turkey chunks or several slices
1 small onion, sliced
1 16-ounce can of tomato sauce
1 cup sliced mushrooms
1 green pepper, chopped
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon dried basil
½ teaspoon celery seed
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup white or red wine
4 Tablespoons olive oil
Place the olive oil in the bottom of the crock pot and turn it on
high. Wait about 30 minutes, then add
the vegetables and spices and stir them around in the olive oil. Lay the turkey pieces over the vegetables and
pour the tomato sauce over it. Put the
lid on the pot and let it cook for 2 hours.
In this short amount of time, the vegetables should be done and the
flavors will have combined for a delightful sauce to serve over pasta or rice.
I'm sharing this post with a couple parties this week, so make sure you click through to visit the other folks. But first, visit my home page or my "Turkey Left-overs" page ... so you can see the other recipes. I'm posting a series of 12 recipes to use turkey in ... and you'll want to visit often so you'll be ready when the big day arrives ... the day AFTER Thanksgiving!
I'm sharing this post with a couple parties this week, so make sure you click through to visit the other folks. But first, visit my home page or my "Turkey Left-overs" page ... so you can see the other recipes. I'm posting a series of 12 recipes to use turkey in ... and you'll want to visit often so you'll be ready when the big day arrives ... the day AFTER Thanksgiving!
