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Home / Recipes / Main Dishes / Thanksgiving Turkey Stack

Thanksgiving Turkey Stack

Friday, November 20, 2020

Turkey Stack

This is a spectacular way to serve Thanksgiving leftovers, or if you’re just fixing a turkey dinner for 1, 2, or a small group, it’s a great way to present it, particularly if you’ve grabbed the ingredients from the local deli or have just fixed a turkey breast, rather than a whole bird.

Turkey Stack Step 1
I let some low carb bread sit out and get hard for about 3 days. I cut the bread into cubes, picked some fresh herbs (thyme, parsley, sage) from the garden (they survived the frost — yea!).

Turkey Stack Step 2
Since I was just making the dressing for 3 or 4 people, I started with 4 cups of bread cubes and 2 Tbsp. melted butter and a big handful of herbs.

Turkey Stack Step 3
This herb mincing device from Microplane is fabulous. Stuff them in, screw it back and forth and look what you get!

Turkey Stack Step 4
Once the herbs were done, I used the Genius Nicer Dicer to chop the celery.

Turkey Stack Step 5
Celery is done. Time for onion!

Turkey Stack Step 6
Mix together with the bread. Add a couple of eggs and a cup or more of chicken broth.

Turkey Stack Step 7
Don’t forget the salt and pepper. Mix well, load into casserole dish and bake.

Turkey Stack Step 8
Here’s the cool part. Load the cooked stuffing into a round open-ended mold. This one has a cheater underneath that you can remove when it’s done. A tin can with both ends works well, too. Tamp down the stuffing mixture so it is compacted and stable.

Turkey Stack Step 9
This particular device had its own tamper with it, but you can do a workaround. On top of the dressing, I loaded cauliflower puree (the low carb equivalent of mashed potatoes), followed by baked mashed acorn squash. (On the one pictured at the bottom of this page, I did the opposite.

Turkey Stack Step 10
Then I decided my plate was going to need a little more color, so I took some carrot sticks from a relish tray I had and put them in a microwavable dish with a little Brown Sugar Diabetisweet, Splenda, water, and butter. I microwaved them with a paper towel on top until they were tender.

Turkey Stack Step 11
Once the carrots were cooked, I put them through the tiniest part of the Nicer Dicer and ended up with perfect little squares of very flavorful cooked carrots.

Turkey Stack
Diced cooked turkey tops the stack. I had some homemade cranberry jalapeño sauce (no, it wasn’t hot — darn it!), so I surrounded my stack with a circle of that, threw on a little green for contrast, and scattered the carrots around the plate.

This was a huge hit. It’s like a complete Thanksgiving dinner in every bite. I highly recommend it!

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