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Transform your Thanksgiving Leftovers into a delicious pasta dinner, soup, appetizer, or just a snack! Use your remaining turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberries, and squash to cook up some of our favorite comfort foods.
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Thanksgiving dinner is truly the meal that keeps on giving—and thank goodness for that! With these Thanksgiving leftovers recipes, you can turn mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and roast turkey into some of the most delicious dishes imaginable.
I’m planning on three days of Thanksgiving leftovers! I live for this! 😄 If you’ve got other creative ideas for using up leftovers, or if you need help with anything else, drop me a comment. With the thousands of recipes I’ve shared over the past 12+ years, I’m pretty sure we can find something perfect for you.
Have an amazing weekend, don’t spend all your money on Black Friday, and most importantly—remember to enjoy all the goodness below. It’s the holidays, so grab your stretchy pants and dig in! XO
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Turkey Noodle Soup
This Turkey Noodle Soup is the best way to warm up and fill up on a chilly day. It's loaded with veggies, egg noodles, and protein-packed turkey.
A hearty leftover turkey soup recipe loaded with tomatoes, spinach, orzo pasta, and leftover turkey meat. It's the best way to use up Thanksgiving leftovers!
This is our favorite ground turkey enchiladas recipe! Packed with savory turkey and black beans, these cheesy enchiladas are delicious and easy to make.
Turkey Wild Rice Casserole, brimming with creamy, hearty flavors, perfectly combines leftover turkey, tender veggies, mushrooms, and cheese for a cozy and delicious dish.
My simple leftover turkey frittata is packed with leafy spinach and light mozzarella. This egg frittata recipe is easy to make, gluten-free, and bursting with flavor!
Cranberry Turkey Quesadillas are a great way to use Thanksgiving leftovers! Sweet cranberry sauce, tender turkey, and provolone cheese melt inside warm tortillas, making them perfect for a quick lunch or snack!
These fat, fluffy pumpkin pancakes are the best fall breakfast! It's your favorite pancake mix jazzed up with canned pumpkin and spice, topped with an easy homemade cranberry maple syrup.
Baked Brie with Cranberry Sauce is absolutely delicious and the perfect easy appetizer dip for your holiday party. A warm, savory and gooey baked brie recipe with tart and sweet fresh cranberries is a great way to use up Thanksgiving or Christmas leftovers!
These potato croquettes are made of mashed potatoes loaded with bacon, chives, and cheddar cheese. The mashed potatoes are formed into balls, coated with breadcrumbs, fried to golden brown, and served with smokey garlic aioli.
Mashed potato pancakes are the best way to reinvent leftover mashed potatoes! These potato pancakes are crispy outside and fluffy inside, packed with fresh spinach, garlic, and parmesan cheese.
Hearty sweet potato shepherd’s pie is family-friendly comfort food packed with savory ground beef and tender veggies, baked beneath a thick and fluffy sweet potato topping.
This amazing Roasted Butternut Squash Salad is packed with tender butternut squash, salad greens, pomegranate arils, goat cheese, walnuts, and pepitas, tossed with a tangy pomegranate dressing.
A delicious butternut squash and spinach pie filled with tender veggies and crumbly feta cheese nestled inside golden, buttery, and crispy phyllo sheets.
This is the best butternut squash soup recipe! It's a creamy, cozy blend of easy ingredients, with fresh and dried herbs and a touch of spice. Perfect for a chilly fall day!
This Pumpkin French Toast is made with thick slices of bread dipped in a rich pumpkin puree mixture, cooked to golden perfection in butter, and finished with a drizzle of maple syrup.
I want to make your turkey corn chowder but have only 1 cup of turkey! I ate turkey sandwiches before receiving this recipe!
What can I use to add to the recipe other than increase the corn or potatoes?
Help! Thanks!
Hi! Do you have any leftover chicken you could use? Diced thick-cut bacon would also work wonderfully—just cook it at the beginning for 4 to 5 minutes before adding the butter to build an even richer flavor base. If you don’t have those, you could also toss in some cubed ham.
Do the British thing (irony, I know) and make a turkey pot pie. Pieces of turkey, broth, cream, peas and carrots in a pie shell topped with a pastry sheet. And don’t forget garlic, salt and pepper. The absolute best.
We actually had a very peaceful Thanksgiving, thankfully. We kind of have a bit of a politically polarized family at the moment, but everyone behaved themselves. 😉
And these are all great recipe ideas for those Thanksgiving leftovers!
All of these ideas look delicious and have me ready to go grab all my leftovers and get to work in the kitchen! I hope you had a great Thanksgiving, Kate 🙂
I didn’t cook this year so I sadly have no leftovers. That said, I’m going to cook a turkey with all the trimmings in December and then I can use some of these recipes.
Love all the recipes posted. I wish my Thanksgiving turkey (Canadian so it was in October) wasn’t long gone. The potato patties really caught my eye. And any soup with turkey is always a winner.
I want to make your turkey corn chowder but have only 1 cup of turkey! I ate turkey sandwiches before receiving this recipe!
What can I use to add to the recipe other than increase the corn or potatoes?
Help! Thanks!
Hi! Do you have any leftover chicken you could use? Diced thick-cut bacon would also work wonderfully—just cook it at the beginning for 4 to 5 minutes before adding the butter to build an even richer flavor base. If you don’t have those, you could also toss in some cubed ham.
Do the British thing (irony, I know) and make a turkey pot pie. Pieces of turkey, broth, cream, peas and carrots in a pie shell topped with a pastry sheet. And don’t forget garlic, salt and pepper. The absolute best.
I also put a layer of the stuffing just under the crust…delicious. It doesn’t do much for the waist band though.
Wonderful assortment of ‘leftovers’ that may be tastier/more fun that the original meal.
Leftovers are totally my jam. I live for this time of year!
We actually had a very peaceful Thanksgiving, thankfully. We kind of have a bit of a politically polarized family at the moment, but everyone behaved themselves. 😉
And these are all great recipe ideas for those Thanksgiving leftovers!
All of these ideas look delicious and have me ready to go grab all my leftovers and get to work in the kitchen! I hope you had a great Thanksgiving, Kate 🙂
I didn’t cook this year so I sadly have no leftovers. That said, I’m going to cook a turkey with all the trimmings in December and then I can use some of these recipes.
Love all the recipes posted. I wish my Thanksgiving turkey (Canadian so it was in October) wasn’t long gone. The potato patties really caught my eye. And any soup with turkey is always a winner.
Hiiiii A!!! Hope you have a wonderful Holiday Season! So nice to hear from you!! XO