Leftovers Love them or leave Them

Leftovers, love them or hate them but they are a part of the holiday season.  My refrigerator looked like Leftover city.  I knew my family would not be happy with turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy again.  So I did reconnaissance in my fridge and found some, onion, celery and carrots and decided to make turkey croquettes .  If you want to get fancy, this combination of vegetables is known as mirepoix to the French.  They dice these three ingredients, sauté them in butter and use it as a base for soups and stews.  If you don't want to make mirepoix, Trader Joe's sells it as well as many of your local grocery stores.  Anyway I made mine with my handy dandy Kuhn Rikon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Technically the vegetables are diced but my family is kind of funny when it comes to veggies so I chopped them a little finer so they would blend in better. I also added some green onions because if I did not use them quickly they would go bad. I had a box of unmade stuffing that I combined with the mirepoix and the turkey (cubed) and then I added two eggs lightly beaten. I also put about 1/4th of a cup of flour.  Every year when I attempt to make these they fall apart when you go to cook them. They look like a mess and my family looks at me like why are you serving this to me?  I think it is because I usually only use bread crumbs.  That is why I used the stuffing and some flour to hold the croquette together better.  By George I think I got it. 

Aside from the seasonings in the stuffing, I added garlic powder, pepper, cumin and coriander to taste.  Flavoring with herbs is very personal.  Some like more herbs some less.  I will let you decide.  I did not add more salt because the stuffing had enough in it for my family.  I try to lightly with the salt shaker. I put the mix in the refrigerator until I was ready to make the croquettes.  I then put some canola oil in a skillet and cooked the croquettes and served them.  My family liked them.  Success!