Sandra Lee's Thanksgiving in a Pot
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Whip Up a No Fuss Holiday Meal Anytime!
From the kitchen of Sandra Lee
[Would someone SERIOUSLY consider making this for thanksgiving dinner?
It sounds fowl!]
Servings: 6
Difficulty: Easy
Cook Time: Over 120 min
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Here is Lee's recipe for Thanskgiving in a Pot, excerpted from her
cookbook "Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade Slow Cooker Recipes 2."
Ingredients
# 1 box cornbread stuffing mix (6 ounces, Stove Top �)
# 1 cup low-sodium chicken broth (Swanson �)
# 4 tablespoons butter
# 2 bags trimmed fresh haricots verts (or French green beans, 8 ounces each Ready Pac �)
# 1 cup frozen pearl onions (C&W �)
# 1 teaspoon kosher salt
# 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
# 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning, McCormick �
# 1 whole boneless skinless turkey breast, rinsed and patted dry
# 2 cans cut sweet potatoes, drained (15 ounces each, Princella �)
# 1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup (10-ounce Campbell's �)
# 1/2 cup white wine, Chardonnay
# 1 packet turkey gravy mix (.95-ounce, Lawry's �)
Cooking Directions:
Combine stuffing mix, chicken broth, and butter in a microwave-safe bowl.
Cover and cook in microwave on HIGH for 5 minutes. Remove and set aside
to cool.
Place green beans and onions in the bottom of a 5-quart slow cooker.
In a small bowl, mix together salt, pepper, and poultry seasoning. Season
all sides of the turkey breast with mixture. Insert a pop-up thermometer
in the thickest part of the breast. Place in the slow cooker, and
surround the turkey breast with the sweet potatoes.
In a large bowl, stir together mushroom soup, white wine, and gravy mix.
Pour over turkey and sweet potatoes. Spoon stuffing mixture around the
turkey breast.
Cover and cook on LOW for 4 to 5 hours. Check to see that thermometer
has popped up before serving.
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Jude
This would actually be a good option for someone with limited cooking
facilities, or someone who's relying on the food bank this year. It
could be manageable without a kitchen. Although, I don't think that
was her intention!
none of your business
yes, that's true. For someone with only a crock pot to cook with... or
someone who is relying on the food bank, this is doable. We shouldn't
judge--you never know what someone's situation is.
The trouble with this "recipe" is that it uses several high -sodium
products (so many of her "recipes" do). Stove Top Stuffing is loaded
with sodium. Low Sodium chicken broth is only "low" relative to their
regular chicken broth. And Stove Top is tasty enough made with water--
the chicken broth powder is already in there. so the broth is just
adding needless sodium. Then you've got the canned yams, the cream of
mushroom soup AND the turkey gravy packet. And that turkey breast is
probably injected with a saline solution (so many are), so you don't
really need to add salt to it. I'm not familiar with McCormicks
poultry seasoning, is there salt in that? I use Bells. No salt and
tons of flavor.
It's almost as if she said "Ok, how many different packets and cans we
use in one meal?"
It would be healthier to eliminate the broth, eliminate the canned
soup and since you have to nuke the stuffing anyway, why not peel and
slice some fresh sweet potatoes and nuke them for 5 minutes to pre-
cook them. Then they can finish in the crock pot. I would use a jar
of Turkey Gravy and add the wine and some poultry sesoning to that,
rather than the cream of mushroom soup and packet of gravy mix.
Eliminating these extra ingredients and using a couple of fresh yams
vs. canned would save money, too.
Anim8rFSK
<2cccda85-4aa5-4e93...@c34g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
none of your business <cartg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not familiar with McCormicks
> poultry seasoning, is there salt in that? I use Bells. No salt and
> tons of flavor.
I have several McCormicks varieties here and 'salt' is the number 2
ingredient in all of them, except for the 'salt free chicken' variety.
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