Rustic Turkey Tart

Name: Rustic Turkey Tart
Yield: Serves 6 to 8
Ingredients: 1 , (9-inch) round prepared pie dough (see headnote); 1 1/2 cups, leftover turkey meat, cut into bite-sized pieces; 3/4 cup, crumbled blue cheese; 2 firm, pears, peeled, cored, and diced; 1/4 cup, pecans, toasted and chopped; 1/4 cup, dried cranberries; 1 cup, sour cream; 3 tablespoons, heavy cream; 1 tablespoon, minced fresh thyme; , Salt and pepper

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Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2008

Turkey leftovers don't have to be limited to tetrazzini and sandwiches. This imaginative turkey tart is flavored with creamy blue cheese, pears, toasted pecans, and sweet-tart dried cranberries.

SERVES6 to 8

TIME1¼ hours, plus 50 minutes cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Tasters loved the interplay of flavors among the blue cheese, pears, pecans, and cranberries in this Rustic Turkey Tart recipe. We found firm pears worked best, as soft pears were too watery and mushy. Precrumbled blue cheese tasted bland a...

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