Turkey Pie With Potatoes Squash Chard And Cheddar Recipes

TURKEY POTPIE

Steps:

• Make the biscuit dough: In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Add the cold chunks of butter and toss to coat. Using your fingers, pinch, smear and squeeze the butter into the flour until the butter pieces are the size of a penny or the size of a pea. There's no need for perfection, but the butter should be evenly distributed throughout the flour, and each butter bit should be coated in flour. Stir in the chives and herbs. Pour the buttermilk into the mixture and mix it briefly and gently with a fork, just until a shaggy dough forms. Cover and put the dough in the refrigerator while you make the filling.
• Make the filling: Heat the oven to 400 degrees. In an oven-safe 10-inch skillet, melt the butter over medium-high heat. Add the onion, season lightly with salt, and cook, stirring occasionally, until translucent and shrunken, 6 to 8 minutes. Add the garlic, carrot and celery, and cook, stirring, until fragrant and slightly softened, about 3 minutes. Add the flour and the onion powder, and cook, stirring constantly, until the flour is completely incorporated with the vegetables, about 1 minute. Whisk in the chicken broth, mustard, Worcestershire and lemon juice, and cook, whisking, until the mixture comes to a bubble. Let it cook, whisking once or twice, until it thickens to lightly coat the back of a spoon, about 2 minutes. Stir in the turkey and the peas. Season generously with black pepper; taste and season with additional salt if desired. Remove pan from the heat.
• Evenly scatter the biscuit dough over the top of the filling, in golfball-size clumps. (Don't press or roll the dough into neat balls, which can make the biscuits tough.) Put the skillet on a foil-lined sheet pan to catch any drips and bake in the oven until the filling is bubbling and the biscuits are lightly browned, 35 minutes. (If using canned biscuits or puff pastry, the cook time will be closer to 25 minutes. Check the package directions for a guide.)

TURKEY PIE WITH POTATOES, SQUASH, CHARD AND CHEDDAR

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 degrees. Roll puff pastry into 2 rounds, one 12 inches in diameter, the other 10 inches in diameter. Line the bottom and sides of a 9-inch springform pan with the larger round. Refrigerate lined pan and remaining pastry round while preparing the filling ingredients.
• Put a skillet over medium heat and add bacon. Cook until barely crisp and add onion, stirring until softened, about 2 minutes. Combine bacon-onion mixture with cooked chard and season with salt, pepper and red pepper flakes.
• Layer the ingredients into the pastry: First make an even layer of the mashed potatoes, covering the bottom completely. Sprinkle with a handful of grated cheese. Mix turkey meat with rosemary and season with salt and pepper. Distribute in an even layer and sprinkle with a handful of cheese. Add a layer of chard-bacon mixture and cheese, followed by a final layer of squash and cheese.
• Fit the smaller round of pastry on top and crimp together with bottom pastry, leaving the crimped edge inside the rim. Brush top with beaten egg and cut 2 or 3 vent holes in the surface with a paring knife.
• Bake for 20 minutes, then turn heat to 350 degrees and continue to bake for 40 minutes more, or until an instant-read thermometer registers 160 degrees. Let rest 5 minutes, then carefully remove sides of springform pan. If sides of pie seem soft, bake for another 10 minutes with sides removed. Let rest for 15 minutes before serving. If desired, serve with gravy or a green salad.