BT's Turkey Base for Soup or Sauce

Using the carcass of your Thanksgiving or Christmas turkey place bones in a large enough pot to hold bones that are just covered with cold water.

Bring bones to a simmer….and add

- 1 Spanish onion cut in ¼’s
- 1 carrot
- 1 stalk of celery
- 2 Bay leaves
- 10 Juniper berries
- 1 Roma tomato left whole
- 1tsp curry powder

Let stalk simmer on a low heat for 1 ½ -2 hours with the lid off

Drain and reserve stalk discarding the bones and vegetables . Now you have the base for any great turkey soup or sauce!

Remember that soup is eaten with a spoon and therefore anything that you add to your soup from here on in should fit on a spoon.

Turkey Tortellini Soup

… using 3litres of turkey stalk

- 1cup diced carrot

- 1cup sweet peas

- 1cup diced celery

- 1cup diced tomato

- as much diced turkey that you want…3cups makes a hearty soup

- 1/2 cup chopped fresh herbs (chives, basil, and sage)

Cook these in the stalk until tender then add 3-4 cups of cooked tortellini

- Season soup to taste and serve

This soup will be full of natural turkey flavour and can almost be a meal all on it’s own … garnish with a grate of Parmesan cheese and ENJOY!

Twisted Turkey Pasta Roll

This is the quick dish alternative for all those small pieces of turkey that you don’t know what to do with!

Gather the following then begin!

- 6 cooked sheets of pasta

- 500mls of Ricotta cheese mixed with any herbs you wish and a little milk or cream to let the mixture out, to make it easily spread over pasta

- precooked left over vegetables to ie: peas, carrots, spinach or rapinni, mushrooms

- a combination of light and dark meat turkey cut into small pieces

- salt and fresh cracked pepper to taste

Method:

- Lay overlapping sheets of plastic wrap on your work surface

- Lay sheets of pasta on plastic side by side overlapping by ¾’s of an inch (you now have a large flat surface of pasta)

- Using a palate knife spread the ricotta mixture evenly over the pasta (take the cheese to within a ½ in. of the edge of the pasta)

- Sprinkle the vegetables and the turkey evenly over the cheese, then season

- You now want to roll the pasta in on itself making something that resembles a large jelly roll…start at one edge and begin remember to hold the plastic back so you don’t roll it into your dish

- Wrap the roll in plastic and place in the fridge to set

- When baking cut a 3-4 inch piece of the roll, remove the plastic and bake on a greased pan cut side up in the oven at 350F for 20mins or until hot…serve on your favorite tomato sauce…ENJOY!