Perky turkey
- Prepare
- less than 30 mins
- Cook
- 10 to 30 mins
- Serve
- Serves 4
Nigel Slater dresses leftover turkey up with a sweet-and-sour marinade and a zingy citrus salad.
Ingredients
- leftover turkey: 4-6 good handfuls leftover turkey meat
- garlic: 3 garlic cloves
- salt: salt
- honey: 2 tablespoons honey
- soy sauce: 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- chilli sauce: a tablespoon chilli sauce
- ketchup: a tablespoon tomato ketchup
- : a tablespoon grain mustard
- black pepper: black pepper
- oil: groundnut oil
For the salad
- oranges: 2 oranges
- grapefruit: a grapefruit
- watercress: 4 handfuls watercress
Method
Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
Strip the cooked meat from the turkey, keeping the pieces as large as you can. They will stay juicier that way.
Peel the garlic and add to a pestle and mortar along with a generous pinch of salt. Grind to a paste and transfer to a bowl. Stir in the honey, soy sauce, chilli sauce, ketchup, mustard and a drizzle of groundnut oil. Season with a little black pepper, then add the turkey meat. Toss gently then tip everything into a baking dish. Bake for 20 minutes, or until the meat is glistening.
Meanwhile make the salad. Peel the oranges and grapefruit with a sharp knife, then slice thinly. Toss with the watercress.
To serve, pile the hot turkey onto the salad and serve.
