Creamy Meat and Vegetable Pot Pie With Herbed Dumplings

evelyn/athens's Note:

Sometimes a whole turkey or chicken is too much of a good thing - here's a delicious way to use up the leftovers. Homey, wonderful, comforting.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 15 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 55 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 6

Meat Mixture

• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 onion , minced
• 4 carrots , cut into 2 inch julienne strips (about 2 cups)
• 2 celery ribs , cut into 2 inch julienne strips (about 1 cup)
• 1⁄3; cup dry white wine
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 3 cups broth (use broth suitable to meat you are using)
• ¾ cup heavy cream
• 2 large egg yolks
• 4 cups bite-size pieces cooked meat (chicken, turkey, beef, pork, all are good in this recipe)
• ½ teaspoon crumbled dried rosemary

Dumpling Batter

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon crumbled dried oregano
• 1 tablespoon minced fresh parsley
• ½ cup milk

Directions:

1. Make meat mixture: In a saucepan, melt butter over moderately-low heat and in it cook onions, carrots and celery, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are softened.
2. Add wine and cook mixture for 3 minutes.
3. Add flour and cook roux, stirring, for 3 minutes.
4. Add broth in a stream and bring to a boil, whisking.
5. In a bowl, whisk together the cream and the yolks.
6. Whisk about ½ cup of the sauce into the bowl to temper cream mixture and add the cream mixture, in a stream, to the sauce.
7. Cook over moderately-low heat, whisking, until it is thickened (do not let it boil) and stir in meat, rosemary and season to taste.
8. Make dumpling batter: In a bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, oregano, parsley and pepper to taste.
9. Add milk and stir until batter is just combined.
10. Drop by spoonfuls into 6 or 8 mounds onto the simmering meat mixture (do not let the liquid boil).
11. Simmer dumplings, uncovered, for 10 minutes and simmer them, covered, for 10 minutes more.

Reviews

[ellie_]

Delicious--this is the best way I've had turkey the second time around. Thanks Evelyn for posting this keeper.

[TTFN, Dorie]

This was great. I had some leftover sliced garlic pepper beef that I used. Left out the egg yokes and added some maggie seasoning. Great flavor, we loved it. I will definitly make this next time I have leftover meat. Thank you for saving me from a drab leftover night.

[Kaarin]

An appealing way to serve leftovers! We all thought this was wonderful, and especially enjoyed the dumplings. I used oregano in them as indicated in the ingredient list, although the directions say rosemary. I really liked it that way. Also, I used whole milk instead of cream; the broth was still rich and creamy. I will definitely make this again and purpose to have leftover chicken just for this recipe! Thank you!