Leftover turkey pot pie with a garlic bread top

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No pastry to roll. Nagi tops a creamy turkey, mushroom and pea filling with garlic-butter bread chunks and melted cheese. The bread goes crunchy on top and soft underneath.

From Nagi Maehashi at RecipeTin Eats · @recipe_tin

A creamy turkey, mushroom, carrot and pea filling in one skillet, topped with garlic-butter bread chunks and melted cheese instead of pastry.

You need

• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 5 oz mushrooms, sliced
• 4 tbsp butter
• 1 onion, finely chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 carrot, peeled and diced
• 4 tbsp all-purpose flour
• 2 1/2 cups milk
• 4 cups (about 1 1/4 lb) cooked turkey, chopped
• 1 1/2 cups frozen peas
• 1 tsp chicken stock powder (or 1 cube)
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp black pepper
• For the topping: 4 tbsp salted butter, melted
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 5 packed cups bread chunks (1-inch cubes)
• 2 tbsp grated Parmesan (optional)
• 1 cup shredded mozzarella or other melting cheese

How to make it

1. Heat the oven to 350°F.
2. Topping: stir the melted butter and garlic together, pour over the bread chunks in a bowl and toss to coat.
3. Heat the oil in a large ovenproof skillet over high heat and brown the mushrooms, about 4 minutes. Tip them out.
4. Lower the heat to medium-high, melt the butter in the same pan and cook the onion and garlic 2 minutes. Add the carrot and cook 1 minute, then the flour, stirring 1 minute into a paste.
5. Pour in half the milk while stirring hard to dissolve the paste, then the rest. Add the stock powder, salt and pepper. Cook, stirring, until it bubbles and thickens enough to coat a spoon, 2 to 3 minutes.
6. Stir in the turkey, peas and mushrooms.
7. Cover the top with the bread, then the Parmesan and mozzarella.
8. Bake until the cheese has brown spots, 12 to 15 minutes, then lay foil loosely over the top and bake 10 minutes more so the filling is bubbling hot.

Written in our own words from Nagi Maehashi's recipe, with their quantities. The original: Leftover turkey pot pie with a garlic bread top, RecipeTin Eats.

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