Turkey Pot Pie

I know it's a total and complete cliche, Turkey Pot Pie to use up some of the leftovers from Thanksgiving.   But I'm of the firm conviction that the old tried and true is good.  Nothing fancy here, just plain old goodness.
I do use Puff Pastry instead of pie dough, mainly because you can make it look spectacular and it tastes good.
Which actually is the point, that it taste good. 

The filling, ready to be topped.

 Puff Pastry rolled out a little with leaf shapes cut into it along with the scoring.

 Scoring the Puff Pastry in squares, makes it a little easier to serve out.

Author: Sid's Sea Palm Cooking

Turkey Pot Pie

prep time: 20 minscook time: 40 minstotal time: 60 mins

ingredients:

 Turkey Pot Pie

2 cups or more, chopped cooked turkey
1 cup sliced mushrooms
2-3 stalks diced celery
8 oz. green peas
3 carrots, peeled and diced
2 cups turkey stock
1 2/3 sheets of puff pastry, rolled out a little.
1 tsp. poultry seasoning
Salt and Pepper to taste
Olive oil and butter for sauteeing

instructions:

Saute the mushrooms in some butter with a little olive oil until they're browned a little and have released their moisture.   Cook the carrots and celery in the turkey stock, just til almost tender, with the poultry seasoning, for about 10 minutes.   (of course if you have leftover veggies from Thanksgiving you can skip this step and just add the veggies to some gravy and turkey and bake them)
Drain the carrots and celery and set aside, reserving the turkey stock for the gravy.   Chop up the turkey into bite size pieces and set aside.

Make the gravy with the reserved turkey stock, then place the veggies, peas, mushrooms and turkey into the gravy, check for seasoning, adding salt and pepper if you like.

Let it cool before completing the next step, if you can.    Pour into a large casserole dish, 9x13  and top with the rolled out puff pastry.

You can cut shapes out of the pastry at this point, before placing it on the pie filling.  (I will cut a strip off of one side of the Puff Pastry sheet and then make leaf shapes or other shapes, and place them on top)  Puff Pastry does shrink up, so you want to drape the pastry over the sides of the casserole dish.   If one sheet won't cover it, then use part of another sheet.      I also scored the pastry sheet to make it easier to scoop out servings, and it made it look kind of pretty as well.

Bake for 30-40 minutes at 375 deg. or until the puff pastry is golden and puffed up.

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