Re: Need Chicken/turkey main dish recipe...slow cooker preferred

June 15, 2001

At 12:53 pm 6/15/01 -0700, you wrote:

>Hi all! I thawed out leftover turkey (already cooked) and want to use the

>slow cooker to make a main dish meal. Any great gfcf (simple) tasty recipes?

Oh, too tempting for me to pass up! This is what I do, cooking-wise.

Leftovers are my specialty, and I think turkey is great for that because it

has lots of flavor.

Unfortunately, I'm not a recipe type person. I think that's why my wife

does the baking; she's good about following directions and I like working

by eye.

Here's how I'd do this, although I've never used a slow cooker. I'd just

put everything in a skillet and let it cook 1-2 hours.

Take enough vegetables out to make a reasonable stew. Like for one big

ziploc bag of cooked turkey I'd probably use 3-4 medium potatoes, 2 med.

onions, 3 carrots, a celery stalk, and whatever else is around and needs

cooking, e.g. zucchini or yellow squash, string beans, tofu, eggplant.

Slice the veggies. Heat up a skillet, add olive oil, then onions. After the

onions are half cooked, add potatoes and carrots, rest of the vegetables,

and the meat on top (since it's already cooked). Layer the ingredients so

the lower layers get covered by the higher layers, and the stuff needing

the most cooking like potatoes and carrots are closest to the heat source.

You can add a little white wine, flavorful gf/cf vinegar, or no-wheat soy

if you like. Turn the heat down as low as possible while keeping the juices

on the bottom slightly bubbling; add spices to taste.

Two favorite variations in our house are removing the potatoes from the

recipe, cutting all the vegetables up real small and serving over either

rice or rice noodles.

Marty

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