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Canadian Holiday Basic: Turkey on a Bun with Cranberry Sauce

March 31, 2016 by Valerie Lugonja 3 Comments

Turkey on a Bun with Cranberry Sauce: Homemade bun and sauce, that is!

1 Turkey and Cranberry Bun

The Quintessential Canadian Hamburger yesterday and The Canadian Classic: Leftover Turkey on a Canadian Prairie Dinner Bun with Cranberry Sauce today! Homemade cranberry sauce, that is super easy to make, I will exuberantly add. How many of my fellow Canadians are with me here? Hands up. Come on!

2 Turkey and Cranberry Bun

In our family, the day after Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving, it is the leftover turkey on one of mom’s famous homemade buns that have the family circled ’round the carcass at the end of the big meal to get enough turkey and buns in their take-home package for the following day. Better than that, they show up for leftovers the entire week until we’re completely cleaned out.

3 Turkey and Cranberry Bun

What’s better than Leftover Turkey on a Bun with Homemade Cranberry Sauce? Eating Leftover Turkey on a Homemade Bun with Homemade Cranberry Sauce with your entire family the following day. I’m telling you, we are one enthusiastic bunch.

Turkey on a Bun with Cranberry Sauce: Start with the Homemade Prairie Dinner Buns

4 Helen McKinney's Buns

It starts with one (or more) of mom’s homemade Canadian Prairie Buns . This recipe has been in the family for years, and I thought was just an extended family thing, until at one of RGE RD’s Farm to Table summer dinners at Nature’s Green Acres Farm in 2011. The buns served were made by Danny Ruzicka’s mom and they tasted identical to my mom’s homemade buns.

Canadian Prairie Buns

We had a good chat that day when I learned that this was the recipe used by many families through the Alberta Prairies well over the past 100 years for special occasions. Certainly, it was our family special occasion bun. It is not crusty or crunchy. It is yeasty and chewy, and light, yet dense. Butter is required and nothing more is needed unless it is the day after any turkey dinner.

5 Helen McKinney's Buns

Mom, even now, at 86 in April 2016, arrives with her largest Tupperware container filled with her homemade buns.

6 Helen McKinney's Buns

Everyone gathers ’round the lid for the first opening and swoons as the yeasty aroma rises. Every festive holiday dinner finds these buns on our table. They are as integral to the basic meal as the turkey. Even more, the day after.

Turkey on a Bun with Cranberry Sauce: Building the Bun

7 Helen McKinney's Buns

Required: Let’s start with a Canadian Prairie Dinner Bun.

8 Turkey and Cranberry Bun

Gorgeous.

9 Turkey and Cranberry Bun

Required: The best quality of creamy, rich, butter slathered generously on each side.

10 Turkey and Cranberry Bun

Required: Thinly sliced white turkey meat. Lots of it, but not so much that the bun is lost. A good balance between bun and turkey is key. Dark meat is almost too luxurious and is the favourite of all, so we usually preserve it for the main evening meal, reheated with all the fixin’s, or there just isn’t any leftover. The taste memory of our Turkey on a Bun with Cranberry Sauce is with the white meat.

12 Turkey and Cranberry Bun

Required: Lots of salt and pepper. This sandwich requires much more seasoning than one might expect. Be heavy handed.

13 Turkey and Cranberry Bun

Required: Tart, juicy homemade cranberry sauce. Oh. My. The pillow of the yeasty bun coupled with the velvety rich butter holding the lean, flavourful well-seasoned turkey mounded with the tangy sweet sauce builds the perfect bite.

Turkey on a Bun with Cranberry Sauce: Ready for Service

14 Turkey and Cranberry Bun

Required: Breath. Behold the glory.

15 Turkey and Cranberry Bun

Required: Close it up.

16 Turkey and Cranberry Bun

Not Required: Slice it…

Required:  …open wide, and indulge. Prepare for rapture. Only in Canada, I say? You tell me. But, certainly, most certainly, in Canada.

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Filed Under: Canadian Food Main, Chicken/Duck/Goose/Turkey, Holiday, Wraps Pizzas Casual Food Tagged With: Bun, Butter, Cranberry Sauce, Turkey

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  1. Helen McKinney says

    March 31, 2016 at 8:30 pm

    Well my mouth is watering for just that , turkey & bun with cranberries , now – so the car washing that I said I was going to do will have to wait for anothert day now. :). Another great post.

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    • Valerie Lugonja says

      April 2, 2016 at 9:56 am

      SO, did you go and make yourself a turkey bun with homemade cranberries?
      XOOXOX

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