After Christmas

Christmas Leftovers

Cooking for Christmas leftovers as promised, here I have a few tips what to do with the turkey. 

Wrap it up with baking paper then plastic glad wrap,  keep it in a labelled cloth bag, refrigerate!  It keeps well for a few days.  To do it this way is much better then if you stay in a plastic box-refrigerated.

It does not only keep well in the cloth bag, but it is also very hygienic, preventing food cross-contamination within the refrigerator.

Cooking with the leftover Turkey:

• For a hot dish, I do with the breast meat, sliced thinly, then dip in a batter mixture with cheese then pan fry until golden.  Serve hot with a salad.

• The most obvious one is to slice the meat thinly to have them for the sandwich filling, which is mixed with mayonnaise and avocado.

• Mix the cold meat with egg pasta, serve it in room temperature dressed with the best virgin olive oil and mixed fresh herbs.

• For the red meat (the thigh or leg), shred the meat, add some lime juice, oil and herbs.  Serve it on a leaf (lettuce) as a Sang Chai Bao.

• Chop the meat finely then add in fresh crushed garlic, some mashed potato, ground white pepper, salt and eggs.  Mix them together, then make small balls out of that mixture, fry in hot deep oil until golden brown, these are very delicious simple croquettes.

• Make some fresh pancake rolls, fill with cold turkey meat, together with fresh carrots-Julianne and shredded iceberg lettuce. Serve with a dipping sauce that you like.

• Last but not least, add some chopped meat to nasi goreng (fried rice Javanese style) to replace chicken.  Turkey is not readily available in Java, in fact, it is not commonly cooked; however, I don't mind if my nasi goreng has some turkey meat in it. 

At Mel's Christmas Lunch, one of the dishes was baked salmon.  Leftover salmon is good to have in kedgeree for breakfast the next day.  Look up the recipe in the older post.

Christmas Turkey
Buffet

Hope you like the tips, you could do more, be creative to have more exciting recipes.

Any leftover Christmas Cake is alright.  It keeps for months.

Until Next Post.
Susy