Thanksgiving Leftovers Pasta

             

I saw this recipe in Instagram a few days ago. It looked delicious! and I needed a good use of the left over turkey that I shredded from the soup. 

It's very simple and very very tasty. I altered mine a bit, but basically followed this lady called Thedaleyplate, if you want to look up her Instagram account.

INGREDIENTS

-300 grams of pasta (aprox)
-250 grams of shredded left over turkey (aprox).

-1 small onion.

-2 cloves of garlic.

-1 spoonful of butter.

-200 ml of single cream (nata liquida para cocinar).

-1 cube of chicken stock dissolved in 125 ml water.

-A good bunch of spinach.

-50 grams of corn (if you have it).

-1/2 teaspoon of onion powder.

-1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder.

-1 teaspoon of chilli flakes.

STEPS

1. Get the pasta going first of all in a pot while you assemble the sauce.

2. In the meantime, dice up onion and sautee with the butter (not oil) in low fire.

3. Add garlic in small thin bits for another 5 minutes. DO NOT LET IT BURN.

4. Now add the fresh corn if you have it. This is a good addition because it will add a crunchy element to the dish. Sautee for another 5 minutes.

5. Now add the turkey that has already been shredded and cook a little, like 2 minutes, adding now all your spices, which are the garlic powder, the onion powder, and the chilli flakes as well as some black pepper. This will all give it a great colour.

6. Now add the chicken stock and let it soak a little, like 5 minutes to low fire. 

7. After this add the single cream and at the same time add the handful of spinach, so that it wilts. 

8. Give it all a good toss and let it come together for about 5 minutes until it is all cooked and mixed. VERY IMPORTANT: heat it all up with the cream, but do NOT let the single cream get so hot that it boils because guess what will happen: it will curdle.

9. Now add this wonderful turkey sauce to the pasta that should be ready by now and mix together. No need of cheese in this recipe.

10. Add more chilli flakes and decorate with sweet potatoes here and there or onion flakes, it gives a great touch of orangy color.

SO SO SO good.  

A couple of pics of where the corn came from, was just decoration.