Thanksgiving Leftovers Recipes

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Thanksgiving Leftovers Recipes – Transform your Thanksgiving Leftovers into a delicious pasta dinner, soup, appetizer, or just a snack! Use your remaining turkey, mashed potatoes, and squash to cook up some of our favorite comfort foods.

Thanksgiving Leftovers Recipes

Thanksgiving dinner is the meal that keeps on giving, day after day. (Thank goodness!!) For that reason, my advice is to take these leftover recipes and use up your mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and turkey, in the most delicious ways.

By the way, HELLO and Happy Black Fridaaaaay! How was your Thanksgiving? Any arguments, hugs, proposals?! DO tell! AND, yes, I AM shouting. I am excited for all of us because, A) we’re shopping and B) we’re about to enjoy Thanksgiving Leftovers for 3 days! I live for this.

First, let’s start with taking care of that leftover TURKEY.

Turkey Corn Chowder - One pot and 30 minutes is all you will need to make this delicious and hearty, quick-cooking chowder, loaded with turkey and corn.

Turkey Corn Chowder

This is just a one-pot, 30-minute-deal meal, with rave reviews. Make this delicious and hearty, quick-cooking chowder, loaded with turkey and corn, asap. 

Leftover Turkey Soup Recipe with Orzo | Thanksgiving Leftovers Idea

Leftover Turkey Soup Recipe with Orzo and Spinach

Delicious and hearty soup loaded with tomatoes, spinach, orzo pasta, and turkey meat. Make a pot of this healthy and easy soup with your Thanksgiving leftovers.

Turkey salad served with a croissant.

Leftover Turkey Salad Sandwiches

Make these crunchy and delicious turkey salad sandwiches with leftover Thanksgiving turkey, dried cranberries, and celery.

Ground Turkey Black Bean Enchiladas - Loaded with ground turkey and black beans, these saucy, cheesy enchiladas are super easy to make and always everyone's favorite!

Ground Turkey Black Bean Enchiladas

Loaded with turkey and black beans, these saucy, cheesy enchiladas are super easy to make and are always everyone’s favorite! Use shredded turkey meat in place of ground turkey.

Turkey Tetrazzini with Fetuccine | www.diethood.com | Leftover turkey meat tossed in a delicious creamy sauce and served over fettuccine.

Turkey Tetrazzini with Fettuccine

This is my husband’s favorite. The dude couldn’t care less for turkey meat, but toss it in with some creamy pasta, and he’s all in, head first.

Baked turkey and rice casserole.

Turkey Casserole and Wild Rice Casserole

Hearty and flavorful Turkey Casserole prepared with a wild rice blend, mushrooms, cream, and melty cheese. It’s easy, it’s delicious, and it’s one of the best meals to create with those Thanksgiving leftovers.

Leftover Turkey Frittata

Turkey Frittata 

This simple Leftover Turkey Frittata with spinach and mozzarella is easy to make, is gluten-free, and bursting with an abundance of flavors.

Moving on along to our super favorite side dish: leftover CRANBERRY SAUCE

Cranberry Turkey Quesadillas - Sweet, tart cranberry sauce and tender turkey meat tucked inside melty, cheesy quesadillas.

Cranberry Turkey Quesadillas

This recipe combines both, sweet, tart cranberry sauce and tender turkey meat tucked inside melty, cheesy quesadillas. Kids love ’em!

Pumpkin Pancakes with Cranberry Maple Syrup @diethood

Pumpkin Pancakes with Cranberry Maple Syrup

What do you think about having some Pumpkin Pancakes topped with an awesome Cranberry Maple Syrup?? They are SO GOOD!

Cranberry Sauce Topped Baked Brie - Warm, cheesy and gooey baked brie topped with cranberry sauce!

Also, here’s a perfect appetizer to serve with some of that cranberry sauce:

Cranberry Sauce Topped Baked Brie!

In fact, I served this yesterday right after dinner with the few tablespoons of sauce that was left-over. Honestly, it was gone a minute or two after I set it on the table.

Finally, what are we going to do with those leftover MASHED POTATOES?!

Cheesy Potato Waffles - Delicious, cheesy, and savory waffles prepared with leftover mashed potatoes and cheddar cheese. Crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside, these potato waffles not only taste amazing, but they are a super fun meal to serve to your family. 

Cheesy Potato Waffles

Delicious, cheesy, and savory waffles prepared with Thanksgiving leftover mashed potatoes and cheddar cheese.

Spinach and Garlic Potato Patties | www.diethood.com | Delicious and flavorful Patties made with a mixture of potatoes, spinach and garlic.

Spinach and Garlic Potato Patties

Made with a mixture of mashed potatoes, spinach, and garlic, I bet you these patties will make it to your weekly meal rotation, scouts Honor.

Sweet Potato Shepherd's Pie + Giveaway | www.diethood.com

Got some Mashed Sweet Potatoes to take care of?! I’m looking at this Sweet Potato Shepherd’s Pie

This will be tomorrow’s din din, and I am really looking forward to it. It’s just layers of meat and veggies topped with sweet potato mash. In.credible!

Butternut Squash and Spinach Pie | www.diethood.com

Are you dealing with a surplus of butternut squash?!

You need to try this Crock Pot Butternut Squash with Apples side dish! OR, this Butternut Squash and Spinach Pie

Butternut Squash Soup - Simple, the BEST EVER Butternut Squash Soup! You're just a few ingredients from this incredibly delicious, comforting, healthy soup. 

Butternut Squash Soup

Simply the BEST EVER Butternut Squash Soup! With just a tad bit of tweaking – adding your leftover cooked squash at the end of the sauté part instead of the beginning – you’ll be just a few ingredients away from this incredibly delicious, comforting, and healthy soup.

I think that should just about cover it. Right? If you have any other ideas OR if you need help with anything else, please leave me a comment! I’m pretty sure we can find something in the thousand recipes that I’ve shared with you these past 6+ years. 😀

Have a great weekend ahead, don’t spend all your money, and remember to eat all of the above. It’s the Holidays – wear your stretchy pants. XO

ENJOY!

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9 Comments

  1. Lanna Lane says:

    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.

    1. Pauline says:

      I also put a layer of the stuffing just under the crust…delicious. It doesn’t do much for the waist band though.

  2. A_Boleyn says:

    Wonderful assortment of ‘leftovers’ that may be tastier/more fun that the original meal.

  3. Brandy | Nutmeg Nanny says:

    Leftovers are totally my jam. I live for this time of year!

  4. carrie @ frugal foodie mama says:

    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. ๐Ÿ˜‰

    And these are all great recipe ideas for those Thanksgiving leftovers!

  5. Valerie | From Valerie's Kitchen says:

    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 ๐Ÿ™‚

  6. Renee - Kudos Kitchen says:

    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.

  7. A_Boleyn says:

    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.

    1. Katerina Petrovska says:

      Hiiiii A!!! Hope you have a wonderful Holiday Season! So nice to hear from you!! XO