Okay. So the turkey’s been roasted, completely carved, and served. Everybody has dug into our stylish and traditional inexperienced bean casserole, smooth-as-silk mashed potatoes, and, effectively…you get the thought.
So now the actual consuming begins! As a result of there’s nothing higher than Thanksgiving leftovers. And never simply reheated leftovers however reinvented, re-imagined leftovers.
Considered one of The One’s and my favourite leftover dishes is Thanksgiving-dinner pot pie. It’s easy to make.
Layer a deep-dish pie plate with chunks of turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, chopped-up green-bean casserole, cranberry sauce, and extra turkey and gravy. (After all, you may tailor your pie utilizing no matter you’ve made.)
Roll out an easy-peasy pie dough, cowl the entire thing, and bake it in a 425°F (220°C) till the crust is golden brown and the filling is bubbly.
Favor one thing else? I dare you to withstand the dishes beneath. Yup, I dare you!
Blissful Leftover Day!
This turkey cranberry sandwich with stuffing is a traditional post-Thanksgiving should. Slices of sturdy bread, mayo, cranberry sauce, turkey, stuffing, and gravy. The most effective a part of Thanksgiving…apart from the individuals on the desk.
These Thanksgiving leftovers turnovers are full of chilly turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing or dressing, cranberry sauce, no matter leftovers are lurking in your fridge. A simple supper answer that’ll earn you accolades.
A sizzling brown sandwich is a simple and iconic excuse to smother leftover turkey with bacon and a effervescent sizzling cheese sauce. Possibly Thanksgiving ought to come greater than annually.
A easy coating of panko and some minutes in a sizzling pan transforms these candy potato patties into a wonderful facet dish or vegetarian essential. It is also an effective way to make use of up leftover mashed candy potatoes.
These Thanksgiving leftovers muffins make magnificent use of your entire vacation extras by layering stuffing, gravy, turkey, and mashed potatoes in a muffin tin for a savory and stunning day-after nosh.
These crispy mashed potato tacos, full of crunchy cabbage, creamy mashed potatoes, recent pico de gallo, and cilantro, are unconventional but completely scrumptious.
I make these each time my daughter comes for lunch. I normally grill them and generally add avocado to make them even moister.
These floor lamb and potato patties from Nik Sharma encapsulate spiced floor meat in a fluffy mashed potato shell that’s coated with bread crumbs and pan-fried till golden brown.
FAQs
We suggest that you simply use or freeze your leftovers inside 4 days of cooking. Leftovers needs to be refrigerated inside 2 hours of preparation and saved refrigerated in sealed containers.
Cooked turkey, mashed potatoes, leftover cranberry sauce, and gravy all freeze very effectively. Cooked vegetable sides are inclined to change into mushy after freezing, so we’d suggest utilizing them up and skipping freezing.
You’ll be able to safely feed your canine cooked turkey meat, pumpkin, or candy potato. Don’t share the turkey carcass, desserts, or fatty meals along with your furry good friend.
When you’re nonetheless on the lookout for methods to make use of up these leftovers and may’t bear the considered one other turkey sandwich, give one in every of these Thanksgiving leftovers recipes a whirl.
- Swap hen for turkey in these straightforward hen enchiladas.
- Pile your leftovers on high of tater tots for a Thanksgiving-inspired plate of totchos.
- Substitute turkey in your favourite butter hen recipe.
- Put that turkey carcass to good use on this straightforward soup.
- Toss your leftover turkey into this carrot soup.
- Spoon cranberry sauce over cheesecake or swirl it into yogurt and high with granola.
- Expend leftover gravy in your favourite poutine recipe.
- Pile all of your leftovers right into a pie plate, high with a pie crust, and bake till golden. Voilà! Thanksgiving turkey pot pie.
- Stuff peppers with turkey, stuffing, and greens. High with cheese and bake till tender.
- Reinvent the leftover mashed potatoes into stuffing for borekitas.
- Leftover dessert? You don’t want our assist in determining what to do with that.
