Left Over Turkey – Homemade Pot Pie Recipe

My kids and family all love pot pies and I love to make them! Homemade Pot Pies are so easy to make, you can adjust the ingredients to whatever you like. I made these tasty little individual pot pies for my family with our Thanksgiving left over turkey and they turned out AMAZING! If you want to make your pot pies in individual bowls like I did – you will first need to make sure you have oven safe bowls. I found these oven safe Fireside Soup Bowls on Amazon that would be perfect for homemade pot pies, French Onion soup, single serve cobblers and more!

Ingredients:

• 2 cups left over turkey, chopped
• 1 cup carrots, diced
• 1 cup frozen peas
• 1 cup onion, diced
• 1 cup celery, diced
• 2 TBSP flour
• 2 cups whole milk
• 3-4 TBSP butter
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp seasoning salt
• Salt and Pepper
• 1/2 tsp or 1/2 cube chicken bouillon (optional)
• Homemade crust (recipe HERE)

Directions

1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Saute onions, celery and carrots in olive oil or butter. Once veggies are nearly fully cooked, add butter to mixture.
3. Once butter is fully melted in the veggie mixture, add flour 1 tablespoon at a time to make a rue. The rue should look like a thick paste.
4. Slowing mix in milk to the rue. Using a whisk, continue mixing while the mixture creates a gravy like texture.
5. Add in frozen peas, chopped turkey, seasoning salt, garlic powder, salt and pepper all to taste. If the filling needs more flavor you may want to add a little more garlic powder or a little bit of powdered/paste bouillon.
6. Pour mixture into oven safe bowls, ramekins or pie plate. Cover mixture with a pie crust (recipe HERE) and fold pie crust around the bowl. Poke holes or create a design with your knife in the pie crust.
7. Cook for 20 minutes or until the crust is golden brown.