Leftover Turkey Pie is delicious comfort food that makes great use of Christmas leftovers like shredded turkey, vegetables, mashed potato and cheese. You could also make it all from fresh for a simple and delicious meal that it perfect for feeding a crowd during the festive season.
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When you are finally bored of Christmas leftovers sandwiches, you need to make yourself this turkey pie with leftovers - it's practically a free meal!
This comforting pie is made with leftover turkey and vegetables and topped with a creamy sweet potato mash, making a really hearty, yet healthy meal.
You can make a big batch of this to freeze for easy weeknight meals that the kids will love too. Easy to bulk out with lots of vegetables - this pie really does have something for everyone. You can adapt it to use up whatever you have!
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Ingredients and Substitutions
A full ingredients list, along with US Customary and Metric measurements, can be found in the recipe card at the end of this post.
- Shredded turkey - This turkey pie uses shredded leftover cooked turkey from either our Air Fryer Turkey or Slow Cooker Turkey Crown. You could also use leftover roast chicken. If you don't have any leftovers, then roast up some turkey breast and shred that to use in this recipe.
- Leeks - A nice alternative to onions. You can cook these from raw, or use leftover cooked leeks.
- Mushrooms - Use a mixture of different type of mushrooms, which all have such different textures. This is a good way to use less meat too.
- Carrots - You can either dice up raw carrots, or chop up leftover roasted carrots.
- Sweetcorn - This adds a little sweetness to the pie and is usually a favourite with kids, so a good way to tempt them to eating it.
- Ham - Got some leftover ham as well? Chop that up and add it in. Ham adds lots of extra flavour too. Try our Honey Roast Ham.
- Stock - We used vegetable stock, however you could use chicken broth or mushroom stock.
- Crème fraîche - This is what makes up the base of the creamy sauce. Rather than using heavy cream, we used reduced fat crème fraîche to lighten it up.
- Cheese - We added extra mature cheddar, as it has a strong flavour, so you can use less of it. If you have leftovers from the Christmas cheese board, then you can use a mixture of cheese in this turkey pie. A mix of cheddar and crumbled Stilton makes this pie really indulgent.
- Herbs - A little dried oregano and marjoram adds lots of flavour to this pie.
- Mashed sweet potato - You can either use leftover mashed sweet potatoes in this pie, or you can make it from scratch. You could also swap it for mashed white potatoes. Or, if you have loads of roast potatoes leftover (that never happens in our house), then smash them up and put them on top.
Leftover Turkey Pie Variations and Substitutions
We used mushrooms, leek, corn and carrots, but you could use any veg you have. This is a great recipe to use up anything that is close to past it's best.
You could use some celery, courgette (zucchini), aubergine (eggplant), peas, broccoli, cauliflower, roasted parsnips or even asparagus. The possibilities are only restricted to what vegetables you can get and it's a great way to use leftover vegetables.
Another amazing variation to this Christmas leftovers pie, is to crumble some leftover stuffing into the mashed potatoes. We have even chopped up leftover pigs in blankets too.
How To Make a Leftover Turkey Pie
Prep: Preheat your oven to 200°C/180°C(fan)/400°F/Gas 6.
- Step 1: Boil the sweet potatoes for 15 minutes and then mash with the milk and butter. Season to taste.
- Step 2: Heat the oil in a pan and cook the mushrooms, onions, garlic and courgettes for 5 minutes.
- Step 3: Add the turkey, ham, sweetcorn, stock, herbs, creme fraiche, mustard and half the cheese. Mix Well.
- Step 4: Transfer to a large baking dish.
- Step 5: Top with the mashed sweet potato and spread so the filling is covered. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes.
- Step 6: Remove from the oven and cover with the remaining cheese.
- Step 7: Put under the grill (broiler) until the cheese starts to bubble and it's golden brown.
Dannii's Top Tips
- You can swap the creamy sauce of a gravy based sauce using leftover gravy in this leftover turkey pie.
- If you don't have leftover turkey, you can use leftover chicken. If you don't have any leftovers, then you can roast a turkey or chicken breast and shred it up.
- Fancy a change from the potato topping? Use a filo pastry topping to make it nice and crispy or a traditional short crust pastry top.
Frequently Asked Questions
You can swap the sweet potato topping for pastry instead. You could use shortcrust pastry, or even puff pastry if you wanted something really crispy. Puff pastry is really easy to just throw on top too and we always have some kind of pastry in the fridge at Christmas.
We love sweet potatoes, but white potatoes are nutrient dense too and you can easily swap them in this recipe. We like the colour that sweet potatoes add though. Which ever potatoes you use, you can make them from scratch or use leftover potatoes.
This pie freezes really well, which makes it great for batch cooking. Simply wait for it to cool and then portion it out in tho freezable containers and then it will keep in the freeze for up to 3 months. Allow it to fully defrost and then you can reheat it in the microwave until heated through.
You can also keep it in the fridge for up to 2 days.
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Recipe
Leftover Turkey Pie
Ingredients
Pie filling:
- 500 g (1.1 lb) of Leftover turkey - shredded
- 1 Onion - diced
- 2 Garlic cloves - crushed
- 2 (1 cups) Leek - sliced
- 2 Carrot - diced
- 10 (2.5 cups) Mushrooms - sliced
- 6 slice of Ham - chopped
- 200 g (1.33 cups) of Sweetcorn - drained
- 200 g (0.75 cups) of Reduced fat crème fraîche
- 250 ml (1 cups) of Vegetable stock
- 50 g (0.5 cups) of Mature cheddar - grated
- 1 teaspoon of Dijon mustard
- 1 tablespoon (1 tablespoon) of Olive oil
- 0.5 teaspoon of Marjoram
- 0.5 teaspoon of Dried oregano
Sweet potato topping
- 6 Sweet potato - peeled and chopped
- 80 ml (0.33 cups) of Whole milk
- 20 g (1.5 tablespoon) of Butter
- 50 g (0.5 cups) of Mature cheddar - grated
- Sea salt and ground black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 200°C/180°C(fan)/400°F/Gas 6.
- Chop 6 Sweet potato and boil for 15 minutes. Once cooked mash with 80 ml of Whole milk, 20 g of Butter and Sea salt and ground black pepper.
- Heat 1 tbsp of Olive oil in a pan and cook 10 Mushrooms, 1 Onion, 2 Garlic cloves, 2 Leek and 2 Carrot for 5 minutes.
- Add 500 g of Leftover turkey, 6 slice of Ham, 200 g of Sweetcorn, 250 ml of Vegetable stock, 0.5 tsp of Marjoram, 0.5 tsp of Dried oregano, 200 g of Reduced fat crème fraîche, 50 g of Mature cheddar and 1 tsp of Dijon mustard. Mix Well.
- Transfer to a large baking dish.
- Top with the mashed sweet potato and spread so the filling is covered. Cook in the oven for 30 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and cover with 50 g of Mature cheddar. Put under the grill (broiler) until the cheese starts to bubble.
Recipe Tips
- You can swap the creamy sauce of a gravy based sauce using leftover gravy.
- If you don't have leftover turkey, you can use leftover chicken. If you don't have any leftovers, then you can roast a turkey or chicken breast and shred it up.
- Fancy a change from the potato topping? Use a filo pastry topping to make it nice and crispy.
Nutritional Information
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The nutritional information provided is approximate and is calculated using online tools. Information can vary depending on various factors, but we have endeavoured to be as accurate as possible.
As all appliances vary, cooking times are a guide. Please note that by changing the serving size, the cooking time may also need to be altered.
Andrea Metlika says
Fabulous use of leftover Turkey. And that sweet potato topping, wow!
Toni Dash says
This was a huge hit at my house! Everyone loved it!
Angela says
Leftover casseroles are a thing of beauty! :) Can't wait to give this one a try!
Mirlene says
I love the added mushrooms in this recipe. I can't wait to give it a try.
Katherine Hackworthy says
Such a great way to use up turkey leftovers! The sweet potato topping looks incredible.
Jacque Hastert says
I have this saved and will be using it to use up my leftover turkey. We always have so much cause I over buy, but this will be a delicious way to enjoy the leftovers.
Gina says
Love the leeks and creme fraiche in this, definitely a unique way to use up leftovers!