Leftover Turkey Tikka Masala-Great alternative to turkey sandwiches!

Like most of you, my diet has consisted of turkey, dressing, sweet potatoes and other Thanksgiving leftovers since Thursday.  This isn't an issue because I love all of the foods in our fridge, but I'm running out of time, and taste buds, to get it eaten.  So I started thinking-hey, chicken tikka masala is made with already cooked chicken, wouldn't leftover turkey work?

So of course I Google that "stuff" and sure enough, there are many returns for turkey tikka masala.  Most are full on recipes with a variety of homemade tikka masala sauces, different ways to cut/shred the turkey and all kinds of delicious sounding ideas.  But I also know I won't make sauce from scratch, so I run by the store, get some Saffron Road Tikka Masala Sauce and jasmine rice.  I get home, throw the rice in the rice cooker (two whole ingredients-rice and water) and get out the leftover turkey.  I strip down one drumstick and one thigh and grab some of the white meat.  The turkey gets chopped into about 1 inch cubes, some pretty square, others all kinds of shape.  Many recipes also called for shredded turkey-that may be next time!  Two tablespoons of butter go in a large pot (no ghee-said this was the quick and shortcut way to tikka masala) and once melted in goes the turkey. I brown/stir-fry the turkey for a few minutes, then dump the sauce all over it.  It doesn't look like much sauce, so I add water to the pouch and add the water.  This isn't recommended by Saffron Road on the package, but didn't weaken the sauces too much as it called for simmering the sauce and turkey.  So we're now up to three more ingredients-turkey, sauce, and butter, plus water but since I also used that with the rice, we're talking 5 whole ingredients.

I let the sauce and turkey simmer for about ten minutes. It could have gone longer and likely would have thickened everything up, but it was hot and I was hungry!

I split the leftovers into four lunch size servings.  2 or 3 would have been closer to my "real" serving sizes but I need to cut back on main course/rice and potatoes only or focused meals and add more variety into my diet.  So these will be good for that.

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