Turkey Cheesecake
I was looking for something else when I found an old recipe for Thanksgiving leftovers. I have made this is it's is really good and something entirety different than the usual suggestions of how to use up the left overs.
Here is the recipe
Turkey Cheesecake
Ingredients
· 1 cup leftover stuffing
1 tablespoon leftover turkey gravy
· 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
· 4 ounces ricotta cheese/or cottage cheese
· 2 eggs
· 3 tablespoons leftover turkey gravy
1 1/2 cups leftover roast turkey, white and/or dark meat, diced
· 1 cup cranberry sauce
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Combine stuffing and 1 tablespoon gravy in a bowl. Press the stuffing into the bottom of a 9-inch pie pan.
2. Beat the cream cheese, ricotta cheese, eggs, and 3 tablespoons gravy with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth. Fold in the diced turkey. Spoon the filling into the pie pan. Bake in a preheated oven for 35 minutes. Remove from oven and cover the top of the cheesecake with the cranberry sauce.
This is a great recipe to keep on hand to use with other meats. It works well with chicken, pork, or even beef.
If you do use these other meats then you would want to use the appropriate gravy. For example beef gravy is easy to make from onion soup added to a rue. Pork the same way after you cooked the pork use the drippings added to a rue.
We don't always have left over stuffing as we do now but that again is an easy and affordable solution You can use Stove Top or the generic version from Aldis or the dollar store. If I am making this cheesecake using chicken I like to use cornbread stuffing and add a little bite with jalapeno peppers if you don't like this much heat use banana peppers. Both available at the dollar store.
Cream cheese and ricotta are both the most expensive items in this recipe. I found both at good prices at the discount grocery store. In my case Aldies. If ricotta is just too expensive then get cottage cheese. Yes it really works just as well if you need to save money. Usually you can get cottage cheese for about a dollar at a discount grocery store.
Both are good to keep on hand for other recipes.
Of course you can eliminate the cranberries from the recipe if your making pork or beef and you really don't like that combination.
Think outside the box and add what ever appeals to you. You can't go wrong if its to your own taste.
For now though give this a try with those leftovers. I think you will find that this is really good and easy to make.
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