Got any turkey leftover? Turkey Tetrazinni is a dish we like almost as much as the big bird just out of the oven on Thanksgiving Day. Leftover turkey is great on nice crunchy rolls with all the other goodies. But my husband usually requests this dish if I have at least two cups of leftover turkey. Here’s what you do:
Into a pot of boiling water add 8 oz. of spaghetti that you have broken into small pieces – thirds or fourths
While that is boiling:
- melt 3 T. butter in a skillet
- Add 1/2 c. chopped onion
- and 1/2 c. chopped green pepper.
Cook until soft. Stir occasionally.
- In a big bowl:
- empty one can of cream of chicken soup
- stir in 1/2 c. milk until smooth
- add 2 to 2 1/2 c. chopped, cooked turkey
- add the onion and green pepper thats been cooking in the skillet
Drain the spaghetti when it is done and rinse it. Add it to everything in the big bowl. Mix all together. Then add and stir together 2 c. shredded Monteray Jack cheese.
Put into a lightly buttered casserole dish and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. I hope you enjoy this dish. Let me know how it turns out.
I am excited to try this recipe – Jay has been talking it up! We will do it tomorrow.
Thanks for the posting!!
YUMM!!! Just put a piping hot piece of pasta in my mouth… changed it by using fusilli, and sauteed the onion and pepper in bacon grease from this morning. Aaah, the decadence of Thanksgiving.
Thanks, Margot!!
OH man I want some! I really missed the tetrazinni. Oh I am so sad. I am going to have to buy a turkey to cook it up so I can have some tetrazinni. lol
We had tetrazini too — accidentally had to use some (hot) habanero cheese I had bought at Costco instead of the cheddar (my recipe calls for). We LOVED it — so much I had to make it again by poaching some chicken breasts in leftover turkey broth. Yes, yum.
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