Totally Awesome? Sure why not! My inner Valley Girl is telling me to tell you that these are completely genius ways to use up those Thanksgiving Leftovers.
We look forward with great anticipation for turkey day. When it finally rolls around we feast in gratitude. We eat until our bellies are full. Leftovers are great the first time around. After that tastebuds can tire from the monotony.
I have sourced these Thanksgiving Leftovers Recipes from around the web ~ curated just for you so you know what to do with all of that food after the big day….
Appetizers/Lite Bites
No bite is too small to pack in a boost of Thanksgiving.
- Thanksgiving Sushi and Crostini Taste for Adventure
- Turkey Rosemary Squares Taste and Tell
Breakfast
Start the day with Thanksgiving!
- Cranberry Tartlets Martha Stewart
- Harvest Sandwich Bread Bakeaholic Mama
- Sweet Potato Casserole Oatmeal Examiner
- Leftover Cranberry Sauce Muffins Two Peas and Their Pod
- Sweet Potato and Cranberry Muffins Daily Unadventures in Cooking
- Thanksgiving Eggs Benedict Closet Cooking
- Whole Wheat French Toast with Cranberries and Walnuts Keep Your Diet Real
Pizza
What’s totally awesome about pizza is that you can layer on all kinds of toppings ~ even your Thanksgiving leftovers.
- Thanksgiving Leftovers Pizza MarlaMeridith.com
- Thanksgiving Pizza Duff Goldman/Food Network
Burgers
A basic turkey burger becomes way more fabulous with Thanksgiving toppings.
- Thanksgiving Leftovers Sliders Will Cook for Smiles
- The Cranburger Foodie Bride
Casseroles and Pies
Use up many ingredients at one time with a hearty, comfort food pie or casserole.
- Turkey Chow Mein Casserole Foodess
- Turkey Pot Pie with Cranberry Pecan Crust From Brazil to You
- Turkey Shepherd’s Pie Pham Fatale
- Turkey (or Chicken) Tetrazzini Daily Waffle
Pasta
Classic meets fabulous ~ pasta mingles perfectly with leftovers.
- Baked Brussels Sprouts Mac ‘n Cheese Yummy Mummy Kitchen
- Baked Tortellini with Turkey, Butternut Squash and Chard Cookin’ Canuck
- Turkey Bolognese Babble.com
- Turkey Goulash Mommie Cooks!
Sandwiches & Wraps
All kinds of fillings, spreads and fun in these wraps, sandwiches and pitas.
- Curried Turkey Pita Eat at Allie’s
- Nutty Bird Sandwich Phoo-d
- Pulled Turkey Sandwiches with Cranberry Sauce Pink Parsley
- Rosemary Hummus Turkey Cranberry Wraps Wears Many Hats
- Thanksgiving Monte Cristo MarlaMeridith.com
- Turkey Cranberry Green Chile Sandwich Use Real Butter
- Thanksgiving Turkey Reuben Panini Happy
- Turkey Caesar Sandwich TidyMom
- Turkey Panini Williams Sonoma
Salad
Serve for brunch, lunch or dinner.
- Sweet Potato Bacon & Pomegranate Salad MarlaMeridith.com
- Turkey Cobb Salad What’s Cookin, Chicago?
Soup & Chili
Classic, warm & comforting bowls of soup with a splash of  Thanksgiving thrown in.
- Black Bean and Pumpkin Chili Real Mom Kitchen
- Leftovers Turkey Chili Cheap Recipe Blog
- Sweet and Spicy Turkey Curry Soup Good Life Eats
- Turkey Barley Soup Eating Richly Even When You’re Broke
- Turkey Noodle Soup Wishful Chef
- Turkey Pho Healthy Green Kitchen
Southwest/Mexican
Fun, playful twists with Southwest & Mexican flair.
- Green Chili Turkey Enchiladas Muy Bueno
- Southwest Thanksgiving Panini and Chowder Panini Happy
- Tostadas Two Ways MarlaMeridith.com
- Turkey Arepas Muy Bueno
- Turkey Cheese Tamales 5 Star Foodie Culinary Adventures
- Turkey Enchilada Stack Nestle USA
- Turkey Vegetable Hash An Edible Mosaic
Dessert
All kinds of sweet treats can be made with sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce and more! Dig in.
- Cranberry Cheesecake Brownies Not Your Momma’s Cookie
- Cranberry Orange Bread Pudding Sugarhero!
- Cranberry Sauce Brownies Foodie Bride
- Cranberry Sauce Shake Scoop Adventures
- Orange Cranberry Parfait Sweet Remedy
- Sweet Potato Casserole with Crispy Corn Flakes Topping MarlaMeridith.com (great for breakfast too!)
What a fabulous round up! Now I’m looking forward to Thanksgiving being over!! haha
Very cute Katrina 🙂
ahhh, love all this Thanksgiving food in one place!!!
Thanks for the turkey love on my sandwiches Marla!
Have a great Turkey day!
You too Cheryl….love the look of your Caesar sandwiches. Great idea!
What a great round-up, this actually makes me look forward to leftovers!
Fabulous roundup! Will be linking this up with a post of mine going live in the a.m.
Hope you’re doing great and a very Happy TG to you and the fam! 🙂
Oh great Averie! Can’t wait to see your post tomorrow. Hope you are all doing great too. Can’t wait to read up on your Barbados adventures 🙂
Great post, Marla! Thank you for including my French toast recipe. Happy Thanksgiving!
Corrine, you are so welcome. Your french toast looks amazing!
I’ve bookmarked this post to refer to again and again. I’m such a leftover fan, I appreciate all your work ferreting out the good stuff! Thank you!
Thanks Kirsten. I had a great time gathering all of these creative recipes for all of us!
Hi, Marla! Thanks for having included my Turkey Pot Pie among your 50 totally awesome Thanksgiving leftovers recipes.
You have a beautiful blog full of yummy recipes. I am glad that one of mine is here. Have a very happy Thaksgiving!!!
You are so welcome Denise. Your pot pie looks wonderful, my pleasure to include it here. Have a great Thanksgiving!
This is such a great list! I’m going to keep it handy for all those TG leftovers next week. Thanks for adding my bread pudding!
Turkey Pho- why haven’t I thought of that?!
I don’t know Liz ~ I had never thought of that either. Now I need Turkey Pho in my life asap…
What a great round up of leftover recipes ideas. LOVED this post. Also huge thanks for sharing my Harvest Bread! XO -Carrie
Thanks! Great list of some creative ideas for our leftovers! 🙂
Thanks for this! We ALWAYS get a lot of leftovers, and it’s great to just have a list to check on what to do with them.
Great round up! Thanks for including our muffins!
Great collection of creative ideas!
You can bet that I will be coming here on Friday!
After reading that, I am hungry!
Makes me wish I was hosting Thanksgiving after all! I’m going to have to try some of them anyways…I’m craving that Monte Cristo of yours!
That is a totally awesome list! Thanks so much for including my tortellini recipe.
You are so welcome Dara ~ your tortellini looks great!
Wow what a list! I love this and your photography!! And that chalkboard graphic of yours…so cute!!
Thanks Julie! I had fun with that chalkboard 🙂
I really love all your round up of recipes! You really put a lot of work into them. I know how hard they can be. But it is so great to get all of these ideas of what you can do 🙂 Cant wait to make some of these with the leftovers!!
Marla, this is totally amazing. Pinning this immediately.
Thanks for the pin love Jackie!
That Monte Cristo looks incredible! That’s what I am going to do with my leftovers! 🙂
Wow, Marla! This is a totally awesome way to “share the love”! Thanks for all of the inspiring ideas. I look forward to trying all of them at some point! Great job!
Thanks so much ~ glad you like the round up Carole.
The leftovers are one of my favorite parts about Thanksgiving! Love this round up and have found many recipes I want to make. And thanks for the link love!
These recipes look like much more fun (and delicious) than a turkey sandwich. Thanks for sharing!