Turkey Poppers Recipes

TURKEY JALAPENO POPPERS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Brown ground turkey in a medium skillet over medium heat, season with salt and pepper to taste, drain any fat off, and set aside.
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• Bring a big pot of water to a boil over medium-high heat
• Dump jalapenos into the water and boil for 2-3 minutes
• Remove from water, cut tops off, cut in half length-wise (see images) deseed, and set aside
• In a mixing bowl combine cream cheese and browned ground turkey, and stir to combine.
• Spoon cream cheese filling into the jalapenos.
• Wrap each one in turkey bacon, and place on a baking sheet.
• One other trick that I use is I line my baking sheets with a silicone baking mats They make clean up quick and easy.
• Bake at 350 for 12 minutes.
• Turn oven on to broil on high, and broil until bacon is crisp (5 mins)
• Dip in pepper jelly and enjoy!

BONNIE'S TURKEY POPPERS FROM LEFTOVERS

Steps:

• 1. Gather all your ingredients before you begin. Bake on a parchment lined pan in a 375 degree oven for about 20 minutes or until golden brown. The homemade biscuit recipe makes 9 biscuits.
• 2. FILLING Place turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce in small dishes. Use a flat plate to assemble poppers.
• 3. HOMEMADE BISCUITS (Skip this section if you are using canned biscuits and go to step 8 for instructions on rolling) Biscuit ingredients: You will need all purpose and bread flour, chilled Crisco, salt, baking powder, and chilled buttermilk. Whisk all ingredients well except the buttermilk.. (Yes, you can use the buttermilk blend if you wish.)
• 4. Cut the chilled Crisco into flour until it is the size of small peas.
• 5. Add about half of the chilled buttermilk to the flour mixture and then the rest a little at a time until you have enough to make a craggy dough. Handle it gently to get a nice flaky biscuit. You want dough that you can roll out and handle with your hands. But you must not overmix the dough.
• 6. Roll out the ball of dough, and roll it to 1/2 inch thickness. Cut with a medium size biscuit cutter.
• 7. Like this.
• 8. Roll each biscuit flat and lay on a flat plate to fill. It is easiest to roll and fill one popper at a time and then place the finished popper on the baking pan, seam side down. (It will look fine after it is baked)
• 9. Now for the fun part. The filling! This is easy. Just put 1 teaspoon of stuffing and one teaspoon of cranberry sauce and one teaspoon of diced turkey on a rolled out flat biscuit..
• 10. Gather edges to enclose the filling in the popper.
• 11. Pinch the edges together.
• 12. Form the filled dough into a round ball. Place the balls on a parchment lined, shallow baking pan.
• 13. Lightly beat an egg and brush the tops of the poppers.
• 14. Bake at 375 for about 20 minutes until golden brown. Store them in a ziplock bag in the fridge after they have cooled. Enjoy!
• 15. These Poppers are wonderful heated up in the microwave for 30 seconds as a quick meal.
• 16. Here is how it looks! Spoon hot turkey gravy on top and Serve and Enjoy!

CHICKEN OR TURKEY POPOVERS!

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• For the filling mix the turkey or chicken, cheese, mushrooms, green onion, mayonnaise, Salt, and Pepper until well blended If Using Crescent Rolls: Take dough out of tube.
• Flatten each triangle as much as possible, then spoon filling into center and fold over corners.
• Now skip to step 12
• Dough: Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt, then add the oil and cut it in until mixture is like a coarse meal.
• Add the milk all at once and stir until it forms a soft ball.
• Turn the dough out on a floured board and knead lightly 20-25 times.
• Roll the dough out until it is 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick.
• Cut into 4-inch squares or rounds and place about 2 1/2 T.
• of the filling in the center of each.
• Fold each square or round over and seal (a little water to moisten helps here).
• Place on ungreased cookie sheet and bake 10 to 15 minutes, or until turnovers are light brown at the edges.

TURKEY POPPERS

Steps:

• Turkey Poppers: Are you looking for a different snack to serve during the endless round of football games? Do you have some wild turkey breast from this year's hunting season still in your freezer? Or do you possibly have some turkey from the regular holiday feast that you are looking to turn into creative leftovers? You need wild turkey breast, jalapeno or banana peppers, bacon, cream cheese and toothpicks. Cut a dozen jalapeno peppers into halves and thoroughly clean them out so you won't inflame the sinuses and senses of your guests. You can substitute banana peppers if you wish so you won't have the game interrupted by smoke coming from the nostrils. Marinate one wild turkey breast in Italian dressing for 24 hours. Cut the turkey meat into pieces that will easily fit inside the pepper halves. Spread cream cheese inside pepper halves and place turkey strips on top of the cream cheese20and secure with a toothpick. Wrap a bacon strip around the outside as additional insurance policy. Place the peppers on the barbeque grill (or broiler) until the bacon is done. Let them cool before serving. The cream cheese gets very hot. From Bill Hilts, Jr.