A perfect turkey pie? Any ideas, please?

manicdays

I've had a little search thru the mega indexed bit!

I want to use some of the turkey up tomorrow in a pie. Have pastry in freezer. Wanted to make a sauce with the double cream we have left. How?!

So basically can I make a white sauce for the pie with double cream?

TIA!

Lisa :rudolf:

in_my_wellies

Turkey frikasay (sorry about spelling)
Yes it is a white sauce. I make mine with half milk/cream and half stock from the bird. I also add the juice of half a lemon and pepper but no salt. I add some mushrooms if I have some in.

squeaky

Sure you can and it should turn out very rich and creamy. If you are unsure of a white sauce recipe you can't do better than the ones on the Be-ro website listed under sauces on the right hand side of the page in the link below:-


http://www.be-ro.co.uk/f_insp.htm

carol_a_3

I'm making a turkey and leek pie today but must admit I'm using a can of condensed soup as the sauce and keeping the double cream for coffee or to pour over left over apple pies (we don't like mincemeat so I make little apple ones)

tootles_2

If you use either cream or yogurt in a sauce you should put either flour or cornflour in the sauce to stop the cream or yogurt splitting..... I add mushrooms to mine.....

manicdays

thank you very much. He's b*ggered off to the football so I'm not making it for him now!!!!

Lisa x

icandream

After my useful audit of my freezer last w/e, I unearthed some turkey, from Christmas. I fancy making it into a pie, as I also unearthed a lot of shortcrust pastry.

I've checked Rosieben's terrific recipe collection, but can only find one entry for pies: and that's a recipe for a mince pie. I've googled, but have found some I don't trust (I've spent 30 mins looking - one even had grated cheddar in it?!). So I'm now asking for help. Do you have a tried and trusted and rather delicious turkey pie recipe you could direct me to for tonight's supper? I love pies, but have never really perfected them, and shop bought have proved better (says a lot, doesn't it!). But I am desperately trying not to spend so much on such an expensive way of feeding the family.

Thanks for any help.

Pink.

Hi iceandream,

This older thread might give you some ideas:

turkey pie recipe help please

Or could you adapt some of the suggestions on this thread:

Chicken pie?

Pink

dan1979

Just throw some chopped onion into a pan, soften then add chicken stock, flour to thicken leftover veggies and the turkey. When it's warm and thickened stick it in a pie dish and cover it with the pastry.

It's all I do and have to say it results in a pretty taste pie (i.e better than anything I've ever had from a supermarket) with minimal cost/effort - I've always done it with cold leftovers.

Bit of mash and some more veg on the side and a dribble of gravy over it - textbook.

mollymunchkin

There's a turkey pie recipe on the 'lovefoodhatewaste' website posted by boo81:

http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/recipes/show/128

ubamother

with spare chicken/turkey for a pie i soften an onion, leeks, diced carrots and celery (or whatever you have!), and make a sauce of gravy thickness with half stock/half millk, and add the chopped meat and put the pastry over that - i find the milkbased sauce matches the gentle taste of white meat well.