Chicken (Or Turkey!) Pot Pie Noodles

Looking for a tasty, easy, veggie filled, kid-friendly meal that will use up a bunch of leftover turkey?

1 bag egg noodles 12 oz
2 cups chopped carrots
2 cups chopped celery
2 cups frozen peas
1 qt low sodium chicken broth, divided into 2 cup portions
1 onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 stick of butter (1/2 cup)
1/3 cup flour
1 cup milk
Poultry seasoning, pepper, Onion salt from Trader Joes
3 cups chopped cooked chicken (I usually use leftovers from rotisserie chicken or Thanksgiving turkey!)

Cook egg noodles according to package directions.
Put carrots, celery and peas in a saucepan.  Add 2 cups broth and add water if necessary to cover the vegetables. Bring to a boil and cook until desired tenderness. Drain.
While noodles and veggies cook, melt butter in a large skillet.  Saute chopped onion in the butter until it begins to turn translucent. Add garlic and cook 1-2 mins more, until fragrant.  Add flour and stir to make a roux.  Slowly add 2 cups broth and then 1 cup milk. Whisk together carefully until the sauce comes together. Let simmer, stirring occasionally, as sauce thickens (about 5-10 minutes).  Season as it simmers, adding poultry seasoning, pepper, onion salt or any other desired seasonings until the taste is as desired.  Add chicken and stir well, let cook 10 minutes more until chicken is heated through. 
In a large bowl or pot, combine egg noodles, sauce and drained vegetables. Mix well and serve.

Makes 6-8 servings. 

Meal Plan for Thanksgiving Week!

Our meal plan this week:
-Use up leftover Beef & rice soup from last week.
-Instant Pot mac & cheese with green veg

THANKSGIVING
-Turkey
-Stuffing (I use Bell’s stuffing, as did my mother, grandmother and great grandmother. It’s doctored up a bit, but it literally is Thanksgiving for me. Tradition!)
-Roasted butternut squash
-Peas
-In-laws will bring ham, rolls, pasta, salad, and spanakopita. And who knows what else.
-Dessert: Pumpkin chocolate chip bread pudding, whatever pie or cheesecake my in-laws bring.

(We’ll also have some cold apps out.)

Leftovers will be eaten likely for the rest of the week. I might make soup over the weekend, either ham and bean or turkey and wild rice.

Meal Plan Nov 17-23

This was a crazy busy weekend, and this week is no joke either. The pizza beans didn’t get made until Saturday so we are still eating them.

On the menu this week:

-Leftover pizza beans with warm rolls and green salad
-Creamy chicken noodles (aka chicken pot pie noodles)
-Mexican beef & rice soup
-Husband also had frozen pizza we needed to use up to make room for the Thanksgiving turkey in the freezer. I wasn’t a fan so he had it all himself!

Breakfasts: blueberry muffins, cereal, steel cut oats with fruit and nuts.

Meal Plan for Nov 10-16

I’ve declared it Italian week here! On the menu this week:

-Minestrone soup
-Pasta with homemade roasted vegetable sauce
-Smitten Kitchen’s Pizza Beans

Meal Plan Nov 3-9

Meals this week:

Breakfast: Apple Cinnamon oatmeal, toast, cereal for G

Lunches: Cilantro lime chicken quinoa burrito bowls (brown rice & quinoa blend, beans, peppers and onions, cilantro lime crockpot chicken, sour cream, salsa, queso fresco)


Dinners: Red beans and rice (instant pot) with some kinda veg- salad or carrots maybe.

I'm off on Thurs & Friday, so I might cook something else if need be.  What I don't know.