Homemade Telly Dinner: Turkey Amongst Cornbread Dressing, Peas & Sugariness Potatoes

Ingredients:
for the turkey & gravy
1 lb turkey thorax cutlets (4 slices)
1 loving cup chicken or turkey stock
2 tablespoons white or rose vino (optional)
1 tablespoon butter PLUS closed to for the pan
1 tablespoon flour
salt
pepper

for the dressing
1 1/2 loving cup crumbled cornbread
1 loving cup chicken or turkey stock
1/3 loving cup diced celery
1/3 loving cup diced onion
1 1/2 tablespoons sage
1 tablespoon butter
tabular array salt
pepper


1 baked sweetness potato, mashed
frozen peas (do non defrost)
4 pats mutual depression temperature butter

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350. In a small-scale skillet, melt the butter. Add the onions in addition to celery in addition to laid upwards over depression rut until the onions are soft in addition to translucent but non browned. In a small-scale bowl, mix together the onion in addition to celery amongst the residuum of the stuffing ingredients. Divide evenly betwixt 2 plates. Spread until it creates a apartment surface to identify the turkey on.

In a nonstick skillet, rapidly chocolate-brown each cutlet on both sides inward butter. The turkey does non bring to locomote cooked all the agency through. Place 2 cutlets over the stuffing on each plate inward the largest well. Add the tablespoon of butter in addition to flour in addition to laid upwards until it turns a nutty brown. Add the stock, spices in addition to vino in addition to cook, whisking occasionally, until it thickens in addition to reduces a bit. Divide evenly over the turkey.



Fill the other 2 wells amongst frozen peas in addition to mashed sweetness potato. Cover tightly inward foil in addition to bake for xv minutes or until the repast is pipage hot in addition to the turkey is cooked through. Top the sweetness murphy in addition to peas amongst generous pats of butter.

Serves 2, easily doubled.


Notes: To relieve time, I baked the murphy the 24-hour interval earlier I made the TV dinners in addition to scooped it (still cold) into the good in addition to and thence mashed it amongst a fork.

If you lot don't bring an oven rubber divided dish, whatsoever oven rubber plate or fifty-fifty a pie plate would work. I used oven rubber ceramic divided plates that I bought at Crate &a Barrel years ago. I institute ones that expect like (identical?) for sale here.

My thoughts:

As I mentioned inward my piece for the Kitchn virtually our New Year's Eve retro dinner in addition to flick marathon, the 1950s were a wasteland when it came to abode cooked food. There was a major force towards convenience cooking that was partially due to innovations on freezing in addition to packaging techniques. It was but thence modern to serve your menage unit of measurement a frozen repast or shelf stable product, but intend of all the time, fuss in addition to mess you lot were saving yourself from! So this year, I decided to recreate closed to prefab products using existent ingredients.

Swanson introduced the starting fourth dimension really successful consummate frozen dinner in addition to coined the term "TV dinner" inward the early on 1950s. The starting fourth dimension dinner was turkey amongst turkey gravy, mashed sweetness potatoes in addition to peas. It was a huge success in addition to was associated amongst a large print in addition to television campaign. Other varieties presently followed but it wasn't until 1960 the iv business office divided tray (and dessert) was introduced.

Now, it has been closed to years since I've eaten a frozen repast but I bring to say, this is much improve than whatsoever frozen repast could promise to be; the homemade turkey, gravy in addition to stuffing is uncomplicated but really flavorful. Perfect for a weeknight dinner inward front end of the TV.