Native cooks share what to do with Thanksgiving leftovers

CLEVELAND, Ohio – It’s an unwritten rule that hosts should prepare dinner an excessive amount of for Thanksgiving dinner.

Begin by planning the correct quantity of meals – 1 to 1.5 kilos of turkey per visitor plus sides. Then, you add to it.

After dinner, package deal leftovers to ship with family and friends. Or pack them into the fake Tupperware containers you saved from takeout and Jenga them into the fridge.

Leftovers are enjoyable. For some time. However turkey can develop into boring and tedious by Sunday, to not point out approaching its expiration date.

To handle leftovers, we requested plenty of cooks round Northeast Ohio what to do with Thanksgiving leftovers. In any case, you possibly can solely eat so many open-faced turkey and gravy sandwiches. And turkey tetrazzini is so Nineteen Seventies.

Cooks provided the next recipes. If you learn via these, you’ll want for extra leftovers.

Turkey Soften with Apple Slaw

Fats Cats, Cleveland, Tremont

Serves 1

Fats Cats2061 W. tenth St., Cleveland, will add a turkey soften with apple slaw to the menu after Thanksgiving. When you can’t get to Tremont, make it at dwelling. Proprietor Ricardo Sandoval suggests including a fried egg for a brunch possibility that’s “gooey good.”

2 slices hardy bread

4 skinny slices turkey breast, cooked

2 slices Gruyère cheese, thinly sliced

4 tablespoons unsalted butter

Apple Slaw:

1 apple, julienned (matchstick dimension)

1 cup napa cabbage, thinly sliced

¼ cup carrots, matchstick-sized thinly lower

¼ cup pink onion, matchstick-sized thinly lower

Candy & Bitter Dressing:

½ cup cider vinegar

½ cup canola oil

¼ cup sugar

¼ cup mustard

1 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon pepper

Preheat oven to 375 F.

In an oven-safe skillet, soften 4 tablespoons of butter over medium warmth. Prepare bread slices within the pan with the curvature dealing with out.

Place thinly sliced Gruyère cheese on each bread slices. Add cooked turkey onto one of many bread slices and bake within the oven, open-faced, for 3 to five minutes or till the underside of the bread is golden.

Take away from oven and let it cool for a minute.

In a bowl, toss the julienned apple, napa cabbage, carrots and pink onion with the candy and bitter dressing. Place a beneficiant quantity of slaw on high of the bread with turkey, then high it with the opposite toasted bread. Slice the sandwich in half and luxuriate in.

Turkey Silog

Fats Cats Tremont

Serves 1-2

1 cup cooked jasmine rice

6 oz. shopped leftover turkey

1 garlic clove, minced

3 scallions, chopped

Salt and pepper to style

2 tbsp. cooking oil, not olive oil

1 egg

pickled carrots (or the rest pickled)

cilantro

Warmth oil in a pan. Add turkey and prepare dinner till browned. Add garlic. Stir within the cooked rice and scallions, mixing nicely to include the flavors.

In a separate pan, fry eggs to your liking.

Serve the turkey combination in a bowl then high with a fried egg. Garnish with pickled carrots and cilantro

Thanksgiving Leftover Chile Relleno (Stuffed Pepper)

Julia’s 1902, Willoughby

Serves 6

Chef Jose Coronado is getting ready to launch Julia’s 1902 at Willoughby Home, 37819 Euclid Ave., Willoughby, within the spring. Born in Guatemala, he lately led the kitchen at Felice City Café in Larchmere. Right here he makes use of his globally impressed experiences to create a Latin tackle an American favourite.

6 massive poblano peppers

4 oz. leftover stuffing

6 ouncesleftover pulled turkey

4 ouncesleftover veggies (candy potato, inexperienced beans, corn)

4 cups canola or excessive warmth oil, not olive oil

3 massive eggs

½ cup all-purpose flour

½ teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon cumin

½ teaspoon oregano

Garnish:

1 cup cilantro, coarsely chopped

½ cup queso fresco, crumbled

Preheat over to 400 F.

Roast peppers in a big, foil-lined baking sheet for five minutes till the pores and skin is blackened and blistered. Take away from oven and place peppers in a Ziplock bag to steam about 5 minutes. Peel the blackened pores and skin from the peppers. Reduce a small slit on one aspect of pepper and take away seeds. Put aside peppers.

Put olive oil in a sauté pan over medium warmth. Add leftovers and sauté for five minutes. Add cumin, salt and pepper. As soon as heat, stuff into peppers.

To make the egg batter, separate whites and yolks into separate bowls. Use mixer to whip the whites till stiff peaks type. Gently stir in yolks, one after the other. The batter must be gentle and fluffy.

Put together to fry by heating oil in a skillet over medium warmth. When oil is prepared, coat the peppers with the batter. Fry 3 to five minutes on all sides till the batter is golden brown. Serve with salsa rosa, recipe under. Garnish with cilantro and queso fresco.

Purple sauce:

6 Roma tomatoes

1 small white onion, chopped

3 garlic cloves

5 sprigs cilantro

1 teaspoon kosher salt

1 teaspoon olive oil

½ teaspoon pepper

Add tomatoes, onion, cilantro, salt, cumin, garlic and pepper to blender or meals processor. Puree till clean. Warmth olive oil in a small saucepan over medium-high. Add salsa and convey to a boil. Simmer for five minutes.

Leftovers Calzone

Loretta Paganini Faculty of Cooking, Chesterland

Serves 6

Loretta Paganini, founder/proprietor of Loretta Paganini Faculty of Cooking8613 Mayfield Street, Chesterland, and ICASI8700 Mayfield Street, Chesterland, turns to her native Italian tradition for a calzone recipe that makes use of Thanksgiving leftovers.

Dough:

1 cup heat water (95 – 110 levels Fahrenheit)

1 tsp. dry yeast

1 tsp. sugar

2 ½ cups all-purpose flour

1 tbsp. dry milk

1 tsp. salt

¼ cup additional virgin olive oil

Filling:

2 cups cooked turkey, chopped

2 cups cooked greens (spinach, mushrooms, inexperienced beans, peppers)

2 cups shredded mozzarella

Egg wash (1 egg combine with 1 tsp water)

Place heat water in a bowl, stir in yeast and sugar. Cowl with a moist material and let it proof for 10 minutes in a heat spot.

Combine 1 cup of flour with the proofed yeast. Add milk and olive oil. Combine utilizing a fork. Dough can be sticky and moist. Place in a bowl coated with the moist material and permit to relaxation for half-hour or extra in a heat spot away from drafts.

Add remaining flour and salt. Combine nicely. Work the dough with the heel of your palms till clean and elastic. (Add flour or water if wanted).

Make the dough right into a ball and place it in an oiled bowl. Cowl with a moist material. Let the dough rise till double in bulk for 20 minutes.

Punch down and divide in six items. Roll out each bit of dough right into a spherical flat sheet.

Warmth oven to 400 F.

Combine turkey, greens and cheese in a bowl. Place vegetable combination onto every dough. Brush edges of the dough with egg wash. Fold the dough over and crimp to seal. Place on a baking sheet. Brush ready calzoni with egg wash.

Bake at 400 levels for 25 minutes or till evenly brown.

Stuffing Waffle Sandwich

Spice Hospitality Group, Cleveland

Serves 1

Natalie Blake, govt chef for Spice Catering Co. in Cleveland, has an in depth culinary background that has landed her on cooking reveals together with “Hell’s Kitchen + Grocery store Stakeout.” Turning Thanksgiving leftovers right into a “new” and spectacular meal is her favourite vacation problem.

1 cup leftover stuffing (will make 1 every mini waffle sandwich)

Leftover turkey or ham, sliced thinly

2 tbsp cranberry sauce

4 tbsp mayo

Non-obligatory: 1 tbsp chopped rosemary

Non-obligatory: Sandwich toppings of your selection.

Mini- or regular-sized waffle maker required.

Spray pre-heated waffle maker with pan spray. Add ½ cup leftover stuffing and press down so stuffing spreads. Cook dinner till waffle is crispy and simply lifts out with a fork. Repeat till you may have sufficient waffles.

Combine leftover cranberry sauce and mayo collectively, and put aside. Add in rosemary, if desired.

Unfold cranberry mayo onto all sides of your waffles, and construct your sandwich utilizing desired toppings. Make as many as wanted.

Paris Wolfe writes about meals, eating and ingesting for Cleveland.com. You’ll be able to attain her with story concepts at pwolfe@cleveland.com. Right here’s a listing of her newest posts. Comply with her on Instagram @pariswolfe.

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