Turkey Stuffing Divan

What do you do when you have extra turkey and a husband who likes broccoli above all other vegetables? Why, you use the ingredient search tool on allrecipes.com of course. The result of my search was Turkey Stuffing Divan.

The ingredients are simple.... diced cooked turkey, broccoli, cream of celery soup, butter, boxed stuffing, cheddar, and milk.

We start by putting 1/4 cup of butter in a bowl. Adding some boiling water helps to melt the better.

The packaged stuffing mix gets tossed with the butter/water combination....

... and spooned into a casserole dish. At this point I figured I needed a larger casserole dish but I decided to live dangerously and keep working with this smaller one.

Top the stuffing with steamed broccoli and diced turkey.

Top the turkey with a mixture of the canned soup, milk, and grated cheddar.

More cheddar on top and the whole shebang gets baked at 350 for 30 minutes.

Here are all the layers. It was quite good. My only real complaint about the dish was the carb to veggie ratio. 2 boxes of stuffing in future incarnations of this recipe will be cut down to one. And so many veggie options can be added here... I'm thinking a can of corn and/or some frozen veggie mix (peas, carrots, and green beans). Chicken could be substituted for turkey of course.

But the real joy of this dish is how fast it was to put together. It was assembled in just a few minutes and once it was put in the oven it left me free to do other things for 30 minutes. Then I just pulled it out and it was ready to serve :)