Copycat Turkey O’Toole
I have an amazing turkey sandwich to share with you today! It’s a copycat recipe of my favorite restaurant sandwich. It’s an oven-roasted turkey sandwich on homemade pretzel roll! Yum!
Do you guys remember a restaurant named Bennigans? If you do, you definitely remember Turkey O’Toole. If you don’t, that’s too bad, it was a nice restaurant. I actually worked there while I was going to college, me and my hubby both worked there. Out of all the restaurants where I worked, Bennigans was the best one. It was like a big family…until it started to sink and eventually went out of business. No happy ending there, just happy memories.
It really is too bad that it closed because the food was really good! I had quite a few favorites on the menu. The most popular item was Monte Cristo sandwich, for sure. I never tried it because deep fried sandwich that’s also covered in powder sugar was not something that was appealing to me. Turkey O’Toole and Baked Potato Soup were definitely tied for second most popular and my favorites I loved Turkey O’Toole and I’ve been craving it for the longest time.
Finally, I decided to make it. I used my Homemade Soft Pretzels recipe , without rosemary. I definitely recommend that you get oven roasted turkey from your deli when making this sandwich. The sandwich was originally served with Honey Dijon but I also like Honey Mustard for it.
(Click the above image to take you to the pretzel recipe)
Copycat Turkey O’Toole
Ingredients
- 1 Pretzel Roll
- 4-6 oz Oven Roasted Deli Turkey
- 1 tbsp Honey Mustard
- 1 slice Swiss cheese
- 1 tsp olive oil to saute the turkey
Instructions
- Heat up a medium sized pan and add the oil.
- Rip the oven roasted turkey in pieces and saute for a few minutes.
- Cut the pretzel roll in half and spread the honey mustard on the bottom.
- Gather the turkey into one pile and top it off with cheese. Wait until the cheese is melted and add the turkey/cheese to the pretzel roll.
- Enjoy!!
Nutrition
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Where oh where can I find a pretzel roll like that?
I made them myself, but you can find pretzel buns in the bread aisle or the bakery section of most grocery stores. If you want to make them yourself, here is the link to the recipe.
https://www.willcookforsmiles.com/rosemary-soft-pretzels/
I actually made those pretzels myself and cut them in half to use as rolls. You can also find pretzel rolls at most grocery stores now, either in the bread aisle or bakery section. But if you’d like to make them from scratch, here’s my recipe: https://www.willcookforsmiles.com/rosemary-soft-pretzels/
Cannot find or make pretzel rolls? I made this with :everything bagels” and it was delish!
Hi Gerri,
I am so sorry I am just now seeing your comment it somehow got lost. Here is the link for the pretzel rolls and I am glad it was still good with everything bagels! 🙂
https://www.willcookforsmiles.com/rosemary-soft-pretzels
You literally just blew my mind, my forever friends worked at Bennigan’s also. We were a “very” close family of amazing friends and will never forget Bennigan’s. Sharing this recipe brought back a lot of memories for us regardless and the good ol’ Monte!! We have stories for days ~ perhaps we should all put together a trip to the lost land of Bennigan’s where we can all meet up and share stories. We’ve all talked about it amongst our group previously, but just another awesome outsider with connections makes it that much greater 💚 thoughts?
I was literally just saying ‘what was that turkey and pretzel sandwich from Bennigan’s? Those were the best!” Im so happy this was the first ting to pop up when i did a search. Cant wait to make it!
I hope you enjoyed it, Megan!
Close, but you’re missing the seasoning (and don’t use Djion, our honey mustard was very sweet with no spice or tang) Worked the downtown Chicago location for a few years up until it closed.
We used a sort of “Creol” seasoning. Garlic powder, onion powder, salt, black pepper, white pepper, cayenne (just a touch) and paprika . I don’t recall them using basil or oregano though. It was a a spicy mix dusted on the turkey lightly, and rubbed a bit heavier on the Chicken O’Toole.
Oh, and those pretzel buns look bomb!
You can easily buy pretzels buns at any shops instead of making them at home. For those who cannot be arsed to bake bread, or suck at it too. LOL.
When we lived in Texas we ate at Bennigan’s many times, but my favorite there was the Mont Cristo sandwich. I’ll have to give this a try. 🙂 We are living in E. Tennessee now, no Bennigan’s here.
We don’t have any Bennigans left anymore either. I believe there are only a few franchises left. I remember Monte Christos well, they were the most popular on the menu.
I hope you’ll give this one a try. It’s great 🙂
Hello there, You’ve done a fantastic job. I will certainly digg it and personally recommend to my
friends. I’m confident they will be benefited from this website.
What a beautiful sandwich, Lyuba! I’ll bet it’s delicious!
I remember Bennigans! I was so sad when they went out of business. The turkey o’tool was definitely my husband and I’s favorite. We once went to their restaurant and asked if we could buy some of their pretzel rolls and they let us buy 6 packages for a very cheap price! We made them at home a lot. I also have a Bennigans cook book but sadly they didn’t have the turkey o’tool in it. Actually making them tonight and that is how I ran across your post. This time I’m using pretzel rolls I found at Publix. Also using thick cut turkey and homemade honey mustard. Can’t wait! Thanks for sharing.
I was sad when they closed too, Ginny. Even though I was leaving them because I graduated college, I still enjoyed the food. I miss their country salad so much!
Thank you, Ginny! Hope you enjoyed your sandwiches!