Smoked Turkey Together With Greens Pot Pie

Ingredients:
1 loving cup frozen Lima beans
1 loving cup peeled, diced Russet potatoes
1 bunch kale, chopped
1/2 loving cup flour
1 carrot, cutting into coins
ii stalks celery, diced
ii cloves garlic, minced
ii parsnips, cutting into coins
1 onion, diced
iii tablespoons butter
iii cups cubed, smoked turkey breast*
ii 1/2 cups chicken stock or turkey stock
1 3/4 loving cup whole milk
ii tablespoons fresh thyme leaves
1 bay leaf
1 egg, beaten
salt
freshly reason dark pepper


puff pastry (if using defrosted frozen, you lot volition solely require i sheet)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350.

Melt the butter inwards a large skillet alongside high sides, a large saucepan or a stove overstep in addition to oven rubber 2-quart casserole. Add the onion, garlic, parsnip, celery, carrots, Lima beans, potatoes, in addition to kale. Cook over depression heat, stirring occasionally, until the onion is translucent.

Stir inwards the flour in addition to railroad train for 1-2 minutes. Add the milk, bay leaf, in addition to stock. Simmer, stirring occasionally, until the liquid reduces in addition to thickens a bit, virtually 10-15 minutes. Fish out the bay leaf. Add the turkey, herbs in addition to spices. Stir to evenly distribute all ingredients. Cook for ii minutes. Divide into large, oven-safe ramekins or pour into a ii 1/2 quart casserole dish. Leave  1/4 to 1/2 inch of room at the top.

Top alongside a layer of puff pastry. Pierce alongside a knife. Brush alongside egg. Bake for 20-30 minutes or until the crust is golden chocolate-brown in addition to the filling is bubbly.



*Store-bought or homemade

My thoughts:

I bought this whole, smoked Butterball turkey ages agone at Aldi in addition to stuck inwards the small-scale extra freezer nosotros convey inwards our basement. It sat at that spot forever because nosotros never had room inwards the refrigerator to defrost it. One of the solely lucky things to come upward out of the refrigerator breaking in addition to throwing out all of our nutrient is that nosotros immediately convey tons of infinite because nosotros convey no food. So I defrosted the turkey (and transferred all the frozen materials from the basement into the refrigerator freezer in addition to defrosted that in addition to hence I convey that to create total too!) on the empty shelf. I didn't actually know what to await but it was actually good! It was super moist in addition to juicy (there were fifty-fifty plenty juices inwards the cavity to brand a quick turkey stock with!) in addition to piece smoky, it wasn't overpowering.

One of our favorite things to arrive at alongside smoked turkey legs is brand greens in addition to piece I had kale from my arrive at box order, I wanted to brand something unlike alongside it. So I came upward alongside the consider to combine greens in addition to only about other favorite agency to utilization upward cooked poultry; pot pie! OMG, it was in addition to hence good! Creamy without beingness likewise rich, savory in addition to smoky in addition to only actually truly good. Normally I pose peas inwards my pot pie but since I was going Southern-inspired, I used Lima beans instead. They held upward actually good in addition to added to the "packed alongside vegetables" pot pie I was going for. I loathe having to brand a side dish later making a time-consuming recipe in addition to hence the to a greater extent than vegetables, the better! We convey been in addition to hence busy this summertime it was practiced to larn dorsum into the kitchen alongside my partner inwards wedlock in addition to offense in addition to brand a fun meal! Pot pies are uncomplicated to brand but fourth dimension consuming in addition to hence exit yourself to a greater extent than fourth dimension than you'd mean value for the prep.