What's better than using left over turkey or chicken to make a comforting pot pie? Nothing's better really! Using already cooked turkey or chicken makes this an easy meal to prepare. Making it ahead and freezing it, even better in my opinion. Especially wonderful on a busy weeknight to have in your freezer a ready made, unprocessed, healthy dinner for the family.
Although the title says pot pie here, to make it healthier the bottom crust is eliminated. You could always include it back in there if your family would prefer and I have to admit mine do. BUT I specifically made it without to see how they liked it anyway. It was picky kid and hubby approved!
So if you're new to making a pot pie with just a top crust, you should think of it more like a turkey stew or soup with the added bonus of crust on top!
Also, you could make this without any crust at all and serve it as stew! In case you decide to do that, I've given you the nutrition info with an without the crust.
You're welcome. 🙂
Nutrition Info [without top crust]
Servings: 8* Calories per serving: 197* Fat: 3g* Cholesterol: 37mg* Sodium: 973mg* Carbs: 24g* Fiber: 4g* Sugars: 8g* Protein: 20g* Points+: 5*
For the crust I used my Healthier Whole Wheat Pie Crust recipe since I actually had one in my freezer already. Either prepare your own or purchase one you can roll out and place on top. Nutrition info is using my recipe though.
Healthier Turkey Pot Pie
Ingredients
- 2 cups diced russet potatoes
- 3 cups diced carrots
- 5 cups chicken broth
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 cup diced onion
- 3 tablespoons whole wheat flour
- ⅓ cup milk 1 %
- 1 ½ cups diced celery
- 3 cups cooked chopped turkey breast
- 1 cup frozen peas
- ½ cup fresh chopped parsley
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 prepared pie crust
- optional: 1 egg white
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- In a large pot pour broth, add potatoes and carrots and bring to a boil.
- Cover and simmer over medium heat until vegetables are tender. Keep warm. In a large saute pan heat oil and cook onion until soft.
- Sprinkle flour over onion and stir until toasted.
- Add milk, celery, carrots, potatoes and broth.
- Simmer until mixture thickens, about 15 minutes.
- Remove from heat and stir in turkey, peas and parsley.
- Season with sat and pepper.
- Transfer filling to a 2 quart casserole dish.
- Lay prepared pie crust over filling.
- If desired, brush egg white over the crust and season crust with salt and pepper.
- Bake 20 -25 minutes until crust is golden brown.
Notes
Nutrition
About Brenda
Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.
Kyle
Need larger print size we cannot read it Can you make available larger text size
Easton
This came out absolutely perfect.... I was shocked at how amazing the flavours were. I made this after thanks giving dinner. The stock I made from the bones of our turkey and I picked up a spelt pie crust from Whole Foods to save me time. THANK YOU FOR THIS AMAZING RECIPE!! My family loved it!
Jon
This sounds like a great meal! I think it will be "what's for dinner" tonight. Sounds perfect for a cold and rainy day in Texas. This will be my first time making a pie crust so I am looking forward to the challenge 🙂 Thank you for all of your great recipes and ideas!
Brenda
Thank you!
Jon
Just wanted to let you know I did make this for dinner last night and it was SUPER! Wound up making 2 at the same time so we would have one to eat and another to give to some friends who are taking care of some foster children. The pie crust was very easy to make and work with. The new recipe pleased our 5 year-old and had things in it that we could feed our 1 year-old. Thanks again for the great recipe!
Brenda
That's awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Katie
I love turkey pot pie, and it just hits the spot at this time of year after a day spent outdoors in the cold, skiing and sledding with the kiddos. I love how you've made this comfort-food classic more healthy, naturally. This is totally my cup of tea. Thank you for the inspiration.
Brenda
thank you Katie!
Delilah
Love your website and recipes but was disappointed that the print setup was changed. the recipes no longer print on one page.