Turkey Pot Pie

So the cook book I used today is one of my favorites. I use it for about...oh...two recipes. Ha! Here is one of them - Turkey Pot Pie. Yummers! I make this after the holidays so I can make my own turkey stock with the bones and so we can use up the left over turkey. Brad has a thing about leftovers, he won't eat them two days out, so I have to hide them. Skillfully.

Here is Pioneer Woman's recipe taken from her website:

Leftover Turkey Pot Pie
1 pie crust (1/2 of Perfect Pie Crust recipe)
1/2 stick butter
1/2 cup finely diced onion
1/2 cup finely diced carrot
1/2 cup finely diced celery
2 cups leftover turkey, light and dark, diced or shredded (or both!)
1/4 cup flour
2 cups low-sodium chicken or turkey broth
splash of white wine (optional)
1 cup heavy cream
Frozen peas (optional)
Fresh thyme, chopped
salt and pepper to taste

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Melt butter in a skillet or dutch oven. Add onion, carrots, and celery, and cook until translucent (a couple of minutes.)
Add turkey and stir. Sprinkle flour over mixture and stir. Cook over medium heat for a couple of minutes, stirring constantly.
Pour in chicken or turkey broth, stirring constantly. Splash in wine (you can leave this out if you’d like.) Pour in cream. (May add frozen peas at this point if you’d like.)
Bring to a slow boil and allow mixture to cook and thicken for a few minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste (do not underseason), and fresh or dried thyme to taste. Do one final taste at the end and add what it needs.
Pour mixture into a casserole dish or deep pie pan.
Roll out crust so that it’s about 1 inch larger than the pan you’re using.
Place the crust on top of the pot pie mixture, and press crust into the sides of the dish. Cut vents in the top of the crust.
Bake for 30 minutes or until very golden and bubbly.
Allow to cool for a little bit before serving.

Now here is the big thing - Brad hates peas. I leave them out when I make this, sometimes adding in broccoli sometimes not. Eh. I also make double crusts from her recipe in her book and freeze one for the top of this and use the other for a pie for the meal. So basically we have apple pie for our Thanksgiving dinner and then pot pie a few days later. It is heaven in a casserol dish. Try it. Love it. Then become addicted to Pioneer Woman and dream of being her one day.

I don't have a photo of this because we ate it...and then the leftovers Brad stuck in a plastic container before I could get the camera out. Whatever. It was good.