Turkey Pot Pie

by Sabrina Snyder

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8 servings
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes
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Turkey Pot Pie is the best easy dinner recipe for leftover turkey! Rich, flavorful creamy filling loaded with turkey and vegetables, baked in a flaky crust.

Chicken Pot Pie is classic comfort food made even better with leftover Thanksgiving Turkey for a freezer ready meal or delicious one-pan Dinner fast!

Turkey Pot Pie slice on plate

TURKEY POT PIE

After a long holiday weekend of cooking, Turkey Pot Pie is a go-to Thanksgiving leftovers recipe for an easy dinner in about an hour. Loaded with fresh vegetables, leftover turkey breast, and a savory, creamy sauce made from scratch, the turkey filling is so hearty and flavorful. Save time when making your Turkey Pot Pie by using pre-made pie crust and make a second one to freeze for a later weeknight meal.

Homemade Turkey Pot Pie is quick and easy to make for dinner ready in just about an hour. The Turkey Pot Pie filling recipe swaps the frozen vegetables and canned soup for lots of fresh veggies and a rich, herb-filled creamy sauce. Everything you need to make Turkey Pot Pie can be found in your pantry, with the flavors and ingredients of the holidays.

Turkey Pot Pie filling ingredients in pot

You could make your own short-crust pastry for Turkey Pot Pie but we love the ease of a good quality refrigerated pie crust. Prepared pie crusts are a great time-saver and pre-made crusts tend to come out just right every time. Homemade pie crusts can be tricky to get right so they don’t burn and cook evenly all the way through. If you are worried about your pie crust browning too fast, tent with foil before baking or place strips of foil around the edge of the crust.

A Turkey Pot Pie is so hearty and filling, the perfect comforting dish for busy weeknights during the cold months. Serve Turkey Pot Pie with Thanksgiving side dishes like Turkey Gravy, Cranberry Sauce, and Mashed Potatoes. Lighten up dinner with a salad, even more veggies like Roasted Broccoli, or your favorite easy Soup Recipe! 

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Make Ahead Turkey Pot Pie

Make Turkey Pot Pie ahead and freeze or refrigerate for an easy dinner ready to go on a busy night. Prepare and assemble pot pie completely without out baking and cover tightly with plastic wrap and aluminum foil. Freeze for up to 4 months or refrigerate overnight. Remove plastic wrap and foil, and bake from frozen for 50-55 minutes, or thaw overnight in the refrigerator before baking as usual.

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VARIATIONS ON TURKEY POT PIE

  • Turkey: Instead of leftover turkey, try this Turkey Pot Pie with ground turkey, ground beef, chuck roast, shredded pork, or Roast Chicken. Make sure to cook the meat before adding and drain any grease if you use beef stew meat or ground meat.
  • Seasonings: Use fresh thyme instead of dried, or try other herbs and spices like rosemary, oregano, marjoram, parsley, paprika, sage, mustard powder, and Italian seasonings. 
  • Vegetables: Try a mixture of other fresh or frozen veggies like broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, mushrooms, and green beans – whatever you have on hand works! Don’t thaw frozen veggies before using and keep fresh veggies in bite-size pieces.
Turkey Pot Pie baked in pie plate
  • Potatoes: If you like potatoes in your pot pie, you can replace half the carrots with diced red potatoes, gold potatoes, or sweet potatoes. Make sure the potatoes are no bigger than 1-inch pieces so they cook quickly and peel sweet potatoes or russet potatoes.
  • Mini Turkey Pot Pies: Spray a 12 cup muffin tin with cooking spray. You’ll need about 3 refrigerated pie crusts (or puff pastry sheets). Cut pie dough into 12 circles about 5 inches wide and 12 circles 4 inches wide. Press larger circles into muffin cups with edge sticking out. Fill each cup with Turkey Pot Pie Filling and top with smaller pie dough rounds and slit the top. Bake at 375 degrees for 35-40 minutes.

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HOW TO STORE TURKEY POT PIE

  • Serve: You can keep Turkey Pot Pie at room temperature for up to 2 hours before it needs to be stored. Unbaked Turkey Pot Pie should be kept refrigerated until you are ready to bake.
  • Store: Cool Turkey Pot Pie completely before covering tightly with plastic wrap or aluminum foil, or transfer to an airtight container. Refrigerate Turkey Pot Pie for up to 3 days and reheat in the oven until hot.
  • Freeze: Freeze baked Turkey Pot Pie for up to 4 months covered tightly with plastic wrap and then aluminum foil. Reheat from frozen, or thaw overnight first, in the oven at 350 degrees covered with foil until the last 5 minutes so the crust doesn’t burn.
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Turkey Pot Pie

Turkey Pot Pie is the best dinner recipe for leftover turkey! Flavorful creamy filling loaded with turkey and vegetables in a flaky crust.
Yield 8 servings
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Course Dinner
Cuisine American
Author Sabrina Snyder
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Ingredients
 

  • 2 pie crusts , 9-inch, unbaked
  • 1/3 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup celery , sliced
  • 1/3 cup onion , chopped
  • 1/3 cup flour
  • 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon celery seed
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
  • 1 cup whole milk
  • 2 cups turkey stock , or chicken stock
  • 2 cups turkey breast , cooked and cut into ½ inch cubes
  • 3 carrots , diced
  • 1 cup green peas , frozen
  • 1/2 cup corn
  • 1 large egg
  • 2 tablespoons water

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees and add the pie crust to your pie pan.
  • In a large skillet add the butter, celery and onions and cook on medium heat for 4-5 minutes until the onions are translucent before adding in the flour and whisking well for 1 minute.
  • Season with salt, pepper, celery seed, and thyme before adding in the milk and turkey stock slowly while mixing very well keeping the mixture smooth, simmering until thickened, about 6-8 minutes.
  • Add the turkey, carrots, corn and peas to the saucepan and mix well with the milk mixture before pouring into the pie dish and topping with the second pie crust, sealing the edges.
  • Cut small slits in the top of the pie crust. Mix the egg and 2 tablespoons of water and brush top crust and edges with egg wash.
  • Bake for 45 minutes, or until pastry is golden brown and filling is bubbly.

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Nutrition

Calories: 420kcal | Carbohydrates: 36g | Protein: 21g | Fat: 22g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 76mg | Sodium: 709mg | Potassium: 474mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 4355IU | Vitamin C: 10mg | Calcium: 81mg | Iron: 2mg

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Turkey Pot Pie collage of pie crust with filling and covered pie before baking

About the Author: Sabrina Snyder

Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon.

Sabrina Snyder is a professionally trained personal and private chef of over 10 years who is the creator and developer of all the recipes on Dinner, then Dessert.

She is also the author of the cookbook Dinner, then Dessert – Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5 or 7 Ingredients, published by Harper Collins.

She started Dinner, then Dessert as a business in her office as a lunch service for her coworkers who admired her lunches before going to culinary school and becoming a full time personal chef and private chef.

As a personal chef Sabrina would cook for families one day a week and cook their entire week of dinners. All grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning was done along with instructions on reheating. As a private chef she cooked for private parties and cooked in family homes in the evenings for families on a nightly basis after working as a personal chef during the day.

Sabrina has been certified as a ServSafe Manager since 2007 and was a longstanding member of the USPCA Personal Chef Association including being on the board of the Washington DC Chapter of Chefs in the US Personal Chef Association when they won Chapter of the year.

As a member of the community of food website creators Sabrina Snyder has spoken at many conferences regarding her experiences as a food writer including the Indulge Food Conference, Everything Food Conference, Haven Food Conference and IACP Annual Food Professionals Conference.

Sabrina lives with her family in sunny California.

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    1. Hi Cathy, I’m reluctant to say as I haven’t tested this recipe using frozen peas and carrots. If you use the recipe as a guideline, 1 cup of “peas and carrots” would take care of the 1 cup of peas maybe and 3 medium diced carrots is approximately 1 1/4 cup. Let us know how it turned out!

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  2. My hubby and kiddos are begging me to make this delicious comfort meal again, our pie tin was scrapped clean! I have always been the biggest fan of pot pies however, nothing I’ve had has even been close to this tasty! I can’t wait to make this again!

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  3. I am a huge fan of turkey pot pie and this recipe is spot on. It is comfort food at its finest. Super easy to make too!

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  5. This turkey pot pie recipe is a must try! It was so easy and simple yet it makes a great dinner. It was packed with flavors and so filling!

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  7. I made this with my husband’s leftover smoked turkey, which was amazing! Such a great way to use up all the leftover turkey! I have even used leftover grilled chicken!

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  11. This is the exact same recipe as your classic chicken pot pie recipe (sub turkey for chicken). Why bother putting the same recipe twice?

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    1. So that people who want turkey pot pie will be able to make it. If I didn’t add it then when people search for a turkey pot pir recipe they wouldn’t be able to find one.

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