Marion Beaney's Blue Cheese & Turkey

"I make a simple blue cheese sauce add the leftover turkey to it and serve over pasta of your choice or along side savoury rice."
Marion Beaney

Sauce

• 3 ozs. butter
• 1 heaped tbl. plain flour
• fresh ground nutmeg
• 3/4 pt warmed milk
• pinch salt
• fresh ground black pepper
• 4 ozs.creamy stilton

(sorry I still work in ounces)

METHOD

1. Fry onion, garlic, leeks & bacon until soft.
2. Melt the butter, warm the milk. Add nutmeg, salt & pepper.
3. Whisk in flour beating all the time, for 3-4 mins.
4. Add the warm milk gradually, beating all the time if to thick add a little extra milk.
5. Crumble the stilton into the mixture allowing it to melt.
6. Add the cooked turkey, serve over pasta, a little fresh parmesan on the top.

Savory Rice

I use American long grain rice.

• 1 small onion chopped
• 4 ozs. butter
• 2 rashers bacon (optional) chopped
• pinch of salt
• fresh ground black pepper
• handful frozen peas
• handful frozen sweetcorn

METHOD

1. Melt the butter in a saucepan
2. lightly fry onion & bacon
3. add the rice coating it in the butter, cover completely with boiling water, occasionally topping up the water
4. Simmer for about 12 mins.
5. Add the peas & sweet corn, for a further 5 mins.
6. Check rice is not still hard, drain any excess water.

The blue cheese & turkey mixture can also be put into a pie.

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