Ground turkey casserole with cream of mushroom soup

If you are looking for the best Turkey Casserole recipe, you have come to the right place. This casserole features all your favorites from a classic turkey dinner in an easy-to-make casserole. This post has been sponsored by McCormick®. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This casserole is served with a delicious peppered herb turkey gravy and is scrumptious. McCormick® Turkey Gravy and McCormick® Pure Ground Black Pepper.

Homemade, buttery, creamy mashed potatoes, leftover turkey, and sweet corn are layered together to make a classic dish your family will love. This meal is like a Shepard’s pie, but instead of ground hamburger, you use leftover white meat turkey or chicken.

Delicious Turkey Casserole ingredients

To make this classic comfort dish that your family will love, you will need some ingredients to add to your shopping list that you can find at your local supermarket.

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Of course, if you are using leftovers you might even have them all on hand!

• 1 pouch McCormick® Turkey Gravy Mix
• 1/4 tsp McCormick® Pure Ground Black Pepper
• white meat turkey
• russet potatoes
• sweet corn
• large onion
• white mushrooms
• fresh garlic
• cream of mushroom soup
• black pepper
• sea salt
• milk
• cheddar
• sour cream
• parsley
• fresh thyme

Making Turkey Casserole

• Scrub, peel, wash, and cube your potatoes. Add them, and your garlic to a 6-quart stock pot of water, and boil until fork tender; about 20 minutes.

• Add olive oil to a medium skillet, seasoned mushrooms and onion with black pepper and salt to taste. Sauté veggies until translucent and slightly browned; set aside.
• Grate one 8-ounce block of cheddar. Divide cheese into two portions.
• Once potatoes are boiled, strain out any excess liquid.
• Add milk to the pan you used to boil the potatoes and warm it up, add in potatoes, garlic, and butter. Season potatoes with black pepper, salt, and add in sour cream.
• To get your potatoes to a nice whipped consistency, use a hand mixer to whip until fluffy.

Layering Turkey Casserole

• Add a corn as the base layer followed by mushrooms and onion mixture.
• Add shredded turkey and layer the top with cream of mushroom soup. Add in half of the grated cheese to the top.
• Using a rubber spatula, add mashed potatoes and smooth them over the top of the layers.
• Add a final layer of grated cheddar to the top of the casserole.

• Bake for 30 minutes at 350° f.
• Prepare turkey gravy. Add 1/2 tsp of fresh thyme, and 1/4 tsp of black pepper to the mixture as you prepare it according to the package instructions.

• Serve each portion with some turkey gravy, and fresh parsley; enjoy warm.

Recipe tips

McCormick® Turkey Gravy Mix really makes the flavors of this casserole POP! Made with a blend of spices, seasonings and starch designed to make a thick and savory gravy; this add the sparkle to this turkey casserole.

You will need 2 fully prepared packets for this entire casserole. Be sure to always have extra on-hand because this stuff is so delicious, and simple to prepare!

We added a pinch of McCormick® Pure Ground Black Pepper to it for flavor enhancement. I don’t know about you, but we always have this black pepper on-hand because it offers sharp, fiery flavors. Of course, you can adjust to taste, but this is always a staple here.

You can substitute the turkey meat for ground turkey (browned), rotisserie chicken, or leftover shredded chicken breast.

You can swap the cream of mushroom soup for cream of chicken soup.

If you don’t like cheese, you can skip that step, or swap in Parmesan cheese.

Don’t like garlic mashed potatoes? It is okay, you can skip the garlic in these homemade mashed potatoes.

You can use half & half or heavy cream for even creamier potatoes.

Softened butter should be used for a bolder, buttery taste. It also helps keep the potatoes warmer, and creamier. I suggest leaving the butter out at room temperature for at least 2 hours. Room temperature butter also tastes better on your freshly heated dinner rolls.

McCormick® Brown Gravy Mix prepared, also tastes delicious and can be doctored up with a 1/4 tsp. of McCormick® Pure Ground Black Pepper and a tsp. of fresh thyme.

Top 8 ground turkey casserole with cream of mushroom soup edited by Family Cuisine