This leftover turkey recipe is easy to make, baked it together with brown rice and all simple ingredients from the pantry, perfect for a healthy, dairy-free and gluten-free meal for the whole family.
Leftover Turkey With Rice Recipe
I always amazed by the size of the turkey for cooking. Like you know, how many left over we can get from just one turkey. In my place, the leftover will last up to three days. Of course, we use it for sandwich too, but there are lots of possibilities how to use up leftover turkey meat. From sandwiches, soup, casseroles, pasta, to salad, the choices are endless.
The Turkey Veggies Croquette is the most requested one here. It is perfect for meal prep, suitable for a freezer meal, and you can make it for individual serving size.
Since I always have canned bean in the pantry, so I go ahead make this baked rice with turkey leftover. It is a straightforward recipe, and there are not many things to do for preparation other than chopping carrots and onion before sautéing it, cut or shred the turkey meat that only takes a few minutes.
You probably have all ingredients to make this recipe already, so why don’t flip that leftover into a brand new homemade meal for the whole family.
This leftover turkey recipe is easy to make, baked it together with brown rice and all simple ingredients from the pantry, perfect for a healthy, dairy-free and gluten-free meal for the whole family.
- 2 cups brown rice
- 2 cups cubed turkey meat
- 1/2 cup purple onion
- 1 red pepper chopped
- 1 cup chopped carrot
- 1 can black bean
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper powder
- 1 tsp cumin powder
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tbsp oil
- 4 cups water
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Preheat the oven for 375° F. Prepare the casserole dish with a lid.
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Add oil in the pan, sauté carrot, pepper, and onion over medium heat for about 5 minutes. Saute it first bring up the flavor from veggies.
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Rinse the rice, put it on the casserole dish. Add all ingredients, mix it up with a spatula.
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Put the lid on, then bake it for 40-45 minutes until the rice absorbed all liquids.
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Fluff it with the spatula, put the lid back on, take it out of the oven and let it rest for about 10 minutes.
- I use casserole pan with lid, and you can also cover it with foil.
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This baked rice is perfect on its own, and you can also serve it as a side dish. If it lasts until next day, you can reheat it in the microwave for a minute. This meal is an easy leftover turkey recipe, and you can also use chicken meat if it is the one available.
You can also add any vegetables you like, like chopped broccoli, celery, mushroom. This dish is a meal to clean up all these leftover and sad looking veggies that sitting in the fridge for too long and almost past their prime times.
You can also use chicken broth for liquid. Bake it is better if you use uncooked rice, and the recipe is easy to convert into leftover turkey fried rice if you have cooked rice ready.
If you are up to a sheet pan cooking, try this Leftover Turkey With Roasted Veggies. Maybe you don’t have leftover turkey, well then not to worry. You can make this Turkey Meatball Soup. It is easy to cook and gluten-free!
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Yum! This sounds perfect for the day after Thanksgiving with all the leftover turkey!
Definitely, leftover turkey get upgrade into the next level!
Hi Ina! It won’t be to lang and I will be trying this recipe! hank you!
Thank you, yup soon enough for the yumminess!
This looks so easy and tasty! I love the addition of the black beans…yum 🙂 Pinned for reference when there is turkey in the house.
Thank you, black bean adds more fiber into this meal, and make it more delicious!
Looks like a great recipe!
Thank you, it is!
Glad to see you added black beans with your rice and turkey. Simple yet delicious meal to serve for the family.
Oh I love black bean, pair it with rice is my favorite too!
Oh I am definitely saving this one for after Thanksgiving! What a great recipe! Thanks for sharing
Thank you, let me know how it goes, I hope you like it too!
Oh yum am going to keep this in mind for the holidays, leftover Turkey meat is my favorite one to revamp.
Thank you, and no need meal plan when you have so many leftover turkey!
This looks amazing! We host Thanksgiving so I’m saving this to try the days after!!
Thank you, I love hosting dinner party, let me know how it goes!
This looks yummy! I pinned it for later, when I have turkey coming out my ears and don’t know what to do with it.
Thank you, it always something delicious when it come to leftover turkey remake!
Yummy! I can’t wait to try this with all of our turkey leftovers! My leftovers usually consist of sandwiches 😛
Thank you, sandwiches always better than no leftover at all, right? hehe
This looks good. It’s always so hard to come up with recipes to get rid of that leftover turkey. You can only have so many turkey sandwiches! This is quick and easy. Thanks!
Thank you, I can eat turkey sandwich over and over again, but turn it into something new always a great idea!
Yum! Thanksgiving leftovers are my favorites! I’ll definitely keep this recipe in mind this year
Thank you, yes mine too, there is so many possibilities to use up these leftover!
This looks really good
Thank you, and yes it is!
I know I am going to use this during the holidays!! Thank you!
Thank you, Holly, it is so easy and won’t take much of your time during holiday to make it.
Looks delicious Ina!
Thank you, Bryl, I appreciate it.
This was good but I felt needed a flavor bump, possibly using chicken broth instead of water to bake it. I used left over chicken instead of turkey and that probably was not as flavorful as turkey. It took longer to bake than directions said, for me. Next time I would increase the seasonings, too.
Using chicken broth is actually a really good idea, thank you for mention that.