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Last Updated on December 6, 2020
This year we celebrated Thanksgiving at my Sister-in-laws so we didn’t have to deal with a truck load of leftovers but I thought it would be helpful to share a couple of easy Thanksgiving leftover recipes and ideas for all those dishes ya’ll might have hanging around.
The Bird-
Now that you’ve picked all the meat clean you can throw the carcass in crock pot and make stock. An easy Paleo dish to repurpose some of your turkey meat and sides is a Sheppard’s pie. Dice an onion and add in some veggies sides, turkey meat and broth/water in a pie plate and cover with mashed sweet potatoes. Other ideas are take the turkey meat and make a Paleo turkey Chili or Turkey Meatloaf or make my Chicken Potpie and use turkey instead.
The Sides
Two great ideas for re-purposing those sides are 1) Take any starchy veg – i.e. sweet potatoes, butternut, etc and mix with an egg, some grated onion and make potato or squash patties. Yum! You can get even more creative with the squash and make pancakes!
It’s also crazy easy to throw leftover sides in pot with some broth and make soup. Don’t forget to use them also in omelets and salads.
Dessert
No ideas here but my absolute favorite thing to do is have pecan pie with a cup of hot coffee for breakfast – oh the delightful insanity. I’ll have to share my crust-less pecan pie recipe before Christmas.
I’d love to hear of any other Thanksgiving leftover recipes ya’ll love to make after this gastronomic holiday.
I didn’t make the turkey this year – but I took the turkey bones! Made the stock yesterday 🙂
Thanks for the tips. I’m getting a bit tired of turkey sandwiches at this point.
I am going to pass these on to my mom. She was left with all the leftovers this year.
I already ate all of the leftovers LOL
My husband loves to make a turkey pot pie too.
Great uses for leftovers. Thanks for sharing.
potato squash patties sound yummy! great idea!
I have been doing some mighty culinarily unholy things to my leftover turkey…lol.
I’ve never had a turkey meatloaf, but it sounds delicious.
Thanks for sharing!
Luckily, we have no leftovers left. I made sure we took very little so I wouldn’t be tempted to eat it all.
Can you believe we didn’t have any leftovers this year!! That turkey chili sounds delish!!
My favorite would be turkey sandwiches!
I visited my Mom’s for Thanksgiving, and I don’t think she had a single leftover. True story! 🙂
Great ideas! I always make a turkey casserole after Thanksgiving.
were lucky if we have left overs but sheppards pie does sound delicious
Ooh, I like the idea of a meatloaf or potpie!
I made crustless pecan for thansgiving! Oh, and use that turkey carcass to make bone broth, it is super healing to the gut.
My mom always made potato pancakes with leftover mashed potatoes. So good! But I’m boring and usually just eat the leftovers as-is, except for the cranberry sauce which I like to get a little more creative with. 🙂
Love these tips! Thankfully I pawned the rest of our ridiculous brownies off on my kids and have been doing well.
I didn’t even think to use the carcass to make a stock. I’ll have to do that at Christmas.