Turkey and Dumplings
"It's the day after Thanksgiving and you're staring at a mountain of leftovers. What do you do with them all? Easy! Make Turkey and Dumplings! This recipe is so easy to make and SO good. It's comfort food at its finest. These are so good, you might end up baking another turkey just to have more leftovers. Well, maybe that's stretching it. They are good though. Enjoy -- and happy eating!"
photo by Cooking Ventures
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
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6
ingredients
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GRAVY BASE
- 22.18 ml butter
- 1 bunch scallion, finely chopped (white and light green parts)
- 118.29 ml frozen mixed peas and carrots
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 354.88 ml leftover turkey, cut into bite-size pieces
- 946.36 ml turkey broth or 946.36 ml leftover turkey gravy
- chicken broth, as needed
- salt and pepper
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DUMPLINGS
- 473.18 ml all-purpose flour
- 19.71 ml baking powder
- 4.92 ml table salt
- 236.59 ml milk
- 59.14 ml melted butter
directions
- Measure out 4 cups of turkey broth or leftover turkey gravy. If using gravy instead of stock, it needs to be quite thin. If the gravy was on the thick side even when it was hot last night at dinner, thin it down with a little chicken stock. If you do not have enough turkey broth or leftover turkey gravy, measure what you have and add some chicken broth until you have approximately 4 total cups of liquid. When I made it last time, I had to add nearly 1 cup of chicken broth because I only had 3 cups of leftover turkey gravy. It tasted just fine.
- In a 10" skillet with straight sides, melt the butter over medium heat. Add the scallions, peas, and carrots and cook for 2 minutes. Add the garlic and cook 1 minute longer. Add the turkey then the turkey broth/gravy/chicken broth and stir to combine. Bring to a simmer and taste for seasoning. Add salt and pepper to taste. Don't under season the broth. Once the dumplings are added, the flavors will be muted so season the broth a little more robustly than you normally would.
- While you are waiting for the broth to come to a simmer, make the dumplings by whisking together the flour, baking powder, and salt. When the broth mixture comes to a simmer and you have adjusted the seasonings, add the milk and melted butter to the flour mixture and use a spoon to stir everything together until it is just combined. Don't over mix or you'll toughen the dumplings.
- I use two soup spoons to add the dumpling dough to the broth. I scoop up some of the dough with one spoon and push it off into the broth with the other. Continue adding dough as quickly as you can – leaving a little room between dumplings, if possible. It'll be a tight squeeze to get all of the dough into the broth but it'll fit. IMMEDIATELY cover the dumplings with a tight fitting lid and cook for 20 minutes. Whatever you do, DON'T PEEK while they're cooking. The dumplings should lightly simmer while cooking. I normally reduce the heat to someplace between medium low and medium after the first 5 minutes of cooking so the liquid does not simmer too aggressively.
- After 20 minutes, take the skillet off the heat and serve piping hot. This is an EXCELLENT way to use up Thanksgiving leftovers. Delicious and easy!
- TIP: This recipe has a high ratio of dumplings to broth – which means that it is not particularly soupy when fully cooked. If you like a lot of soup with your dumplings, use the same amount of gravy base but halve the dumpling recipe.
Questions & Replies
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Whatever you do, do not follow these instructions for the temperature of step #4 or the timing of step #5. Not sure which did it but I followed the recipe exactly as written and came out with a full pot of charred turkey and dumplings. Completely inedible and a huge waste of all the turkey bone broth and other ingredients. -
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Reviews
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I used chicken broth instead of turkey broth and mixed veggies instead of peas and carrots. It turned out great! very tasty and the dumplings were perfect!! Next time I may add some thyme. -
I am amazed, this was delicious! The dumplings were light and fluffy. Very easy to prepare. Thanks!
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This was so easy and delicious! I used about 1/3 cup of chopped onion instead of the scallions because that's what I had on hand. This recipe is a keeper! -
This was my first time making dumplings and they were delicious! Such an easy recipe when you have everything left over from Thanksgiving. I would make this again, definitely! -
I normally do all of the cooking in my family. My wife and kids loved these dumplings. You made me look like a real winner. I definitely want to make this again at Thanksgiving.
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Tweaks
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I absolutely love this recipe! Here's a modification to make one large supper sized or two lunch sized servings: Gravy- 1/2 Tb butter 1 cup broth 1 clove of garlic (minced) Equal amount of minced onion to garlic (or more) Veggies of choice to preference Turkey or chicken to preference Dumplings- 1/2 cup flour 3/4 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 ts salt 1/4 cup milk 1 Tb melted butter -
I used chicken broth instead of turkey broth and mixed veggies instead of peas and carrots. It turned out great! very tasty and the dumplings were perfect!! Next time I may add some thyme.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
I love cooking. If you could see my big patootie, you'd know I love eating, too! I particularly enjoy trying new recipes and reinventing old ones. I have a cooking blog with lots of recipes and crazy stories. Check it out sometime if you're looking for a wide assortment of recipes that range from comfort foods to Mexican cuisine to sinfully rich desserts. I hope you enjoy my recipes!
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