Delicious Christmas leftover ideas!

I thought you might like a couple of recipes to help you use up your turkey and Christmas pudding leftovers!  A modern day Turkey Coronation and homemade vanilla and Christmas Pudding ice cream (topped with Amarula!).  Happy Christmas! 

MODERN DAY CORONATION TURKEY

½ tablespoon of Elianto oil

½ onion, chopped

1 garlic clove, finely chopped

1 tablespoon curry powder

½ teaspoon each ground cumin, ground coriander and turmeric

125ml coconut milk

125ml chicken stock

200g mayonnaise

425g leftover turkey – shredded or cut into cubes

2 tablespoons desiccated coconut, dry toasted

a handful chopped coriander, to serve

chopped tomato, sliced onion and lettuce leaves, to serve

1. To make the curried mayonnaise: Heat a saucepan and add a little elianto oil.
2. Fry the onion and garlic until both are lightly browned.
3. Add all the spices and let them sizzle for 1 minute, then add the coconut milk and the stock. Allow this to reduce until you have a thick, rich, creamy, spicy onion mixture in the pan.
4. Pour into a bowl, leave to cool, then stir through the mayonnaise. Can be kept in the fridge for up to a week. 

When ready to serve, mix the curried mayonnaise with the shredded turkey.

Toast the desiccated coconut in a dry pan until golden. Sprinkle over the turkey along with some freshly chopped coriander.

Delicious served with thin chapati or those tortillas and made into wraps.  Or make a meal of it and add some mango chunks to the mayonnaise and turkey mixture and serve with hot rice and a mixed salad.

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HOMEMADE CHRISTMAS PUDDING AND VANILLA ICE-CREAM

Ingredients:

200gm of left over Christmas pudding (if you have less then reduce the below ingredients)

400mls of condensed milk

500mls double cream (buy good thick creamy one)

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

seeds of 1 vanilla pod (cut down the middle of a pod and use a sharp knife to scrape out the seeds) THIS IS OPTIONAL BUT MAKES IT LOOK PROFESSIONALLY HOMEMADE!

Instructions:

1.  Put all the ingredients together in a big bowl and stir well – using an electric hand-whisk if you have one (or a balloon whisk if not) to fully mix the ingredients
2. When mixed, pour the ingredients into a plastic container and put into the freezer (coldest part if possible)
3. After 3 hours, or when the edges are starting to freeze, roughly mix the broken up pudding into the mixture with a fork and mix well enough for not fully diluted – you want the pudding to be rather like chunks in the vanilla ice cream (think rocky road ice cream!)
4. Repeat step 3. after another 3 hours – it will be much firmer
5. Return it to the freezer and it will be ready in 8 hours.

To be really decadent, serve with a splash of Amarula over the top! Mmmmmm…. !