I made turkey chimichanga's from the left over turkey from Thanksgiving. It is WONDERFUL!!
Okay my husbands comment when he ate his turkey chimichanga was "too bad I can't fix cars as well as you can cook!" Gotta love that! (He has been working on our car for two days, hoping to save money rather than taking it in for repair.)
STEP 1:
I took all of the meat off of our turkey and put the carcass in my GE roaster filled abut half way with water. I cooked this on 325 over night.
STEP 2:
When I got up this morning, I turned the cooker off and once it was cool enough to work with, I got the colander out and put it over a large pot. I poured a little at a time into the colander. I then took out the bones and shredded the meat. I repeated this until I was done. I ended up with about 4 pounds of meat that most people just throw away!
STEP 3:
I added green chili, chili powder, garlic, salt and pepper to the turkey and cooked it for about 20 minutes. I then rolled the mixture with cheddar cheese into a tortilla and fried it for about 4 minutes on each side. I only used 1/2 of the shredded turkey and put the rest away for later. This netted me 12 chimi's. NOT BAD: 24 CHIMI'S WITH MEAT THAT MOST PEOPLE THROW AWAY!
While the chimi's were frying I made my salsa (recipe on previous post), guacamole and sauce.
SAUCE:
1 can of tomato sauce
1/2 cup sour cream
1 can green chili
1/4 cup salsa
1 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
mix together and bring to a boil.
GUACAMOLE:
2 avocado's
salt & pepper to taste
1/4 cup salsa
1 tsp lime salt (or squeeze a fresh lime/lemon if you have it)
place in food processor for 1 minute on high.
The end result: delicious!!
