45 Delicious Thanksgiving Leftover Recipes

This loaded panini is one of the perfect ways to use up your leftover Thanksgiving turkey!

This simple pot pie can use leftover turkey, chicken, or ham. Be sure to throw in some leftover veggies as well.

Looking for a breakfast that not only tastes great but also helps to clear out some of the Thanksgiving leftovers in the fridge? These Savory Crepes with Turkey and Stuffing are fantastic additions to the menu!

Need an easy recipe to use up some of your Thanksgiving leftovers? These Thanksgiving Crescent Dough Bombs are the perfect baked lunch or appetizer recipe to use up leftover turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and sweet potato casserole.

Homemade pizza crust topped off with mashed potatoes, turkey, stuffing, and more!

This Leftover Turkey Pho Recipe is ready in under 15 minutes but you’d never know it. It has a huge depth of flavor, just like traditional Pho.

This Thanksgiving Leftovers Quiche recipe features cooked leftovers from a turkey holiday dinner. The addition of sweet potato casserole and cranberry sauce makes this quiche both sweet and savory.

Leftover turkey becomes next-level deliciousness with these Leftover Turkey-Cranberry Monte Cristo Sandwiches. 

Easy cheesy turkey and black bean enchiladas! Perfect for using up leftover turkey!

This crockpot turkey chili is a really easy way to use up some leftovers without much cooking involved.

This turkey corn chowder recipe is my family’s favorite leftovers recipe. It’s hearty, satisfying, and healthy.

Tired of turkey sandwiches or simply want to take it to a new level, try this Thanksgiving Monte Cristo. Add an apricot cranberry dipping sauce and you’ve got something truly special.

You can make these delicious waffles with ham, turkey, or chicken!

Your family will love this turkey tetrazzini recipe using up your leftover turkey.

You'll want to make extra mashed potatoes to be sure you have some leftovers to make this homemade gnocchi.

Transform spare spuds into this quick and easy recipe for Cheesy Leftover Mashed Potato Pancakes!

Mashed Potato Soup is a great way to use up leftover mashed potatoes. This quick-cooking soup comes together in 30 minutes with just 6 ingredients. Even better, your family will never know they are eating the leftover mashed potatoes!

Potato rolls are fluffy, soft, slightly sweet, and nearly perfect in every way! Plus, if you have leftover mashed potatoes, this is a great way to get rid of them!

These Fried Mashed Potato Balls are super creamy on the inside and crispy on the outside! A perfect appetizer recipe for using up leftover mashed potatoes!

Easy Shepherd's Pie is a one-pan skillet dinner loaded with savory ground beef and colorful veggies. And it's the perfect recipe for using up those leftover mashed potatoes!

A perfect sweet+savory use for leftover mashed potatoes. These cakes fry quickly and the apple syrup is done by the time the potatoes are!

This Loaded Mashed Potato Bake casserole is the most delicious way to use up leftover mashed potatoes. It’s loaded with bacon, cheese, and sour cream!

Lasagna rolls stuffed with mashed potatoes and cheese! Comfort food at its best.

Leftover mashed sweet potatoes are not easy to reheat and serve without turning them too dry or worse, scorching them on the bottom of a pan. Instead of trying, use them as the base for moist, tender, and delicious pancakes for breakfast.

Looking for Thanksgiving leftover recipes? This easy Sweet Potato Biscuits recipe uses leftover sweet potato casserole – even if you make it with marshmallows on top!

Shepherd’s pie gets a flavorful twist with whipped sweet potatoes scented with maple and orange zest. Comfort food you can feel good about eating.

Sweet Potato Spudnuts or Potato donuts are the lightest and fluffiest donuts you may ever eat. 

Make breakfast wonderful with this delicious sweet potato waffle recipe made with aromatic spices, cubed sweet potatoes, and nutty cornmeal. 

Crispy and flavorful, these sweet potato croquettes are a great way to enjoy this popular tuber. Kids love snacking on these! Think of them as a sweet potato hash brown. 

These rolls are a great way to use up old sweet potatoes or new sweet potatoes.

These Mashed Potato and Stuffing Patties are the perfect recipe to use up not only stuffing but also mashed potatoes.

These great little muffins are a super flexible way to combine your leftovers into a “new” meal and avoid Thanksgiving burnout.

Transform leftover stuffing into Leftover Stuffing Waffles! This favorite Thanksgiving side gets repurposed into a hot, crispy canvas perfect for topping with cranberry sauce, gravy or even a fried egg.

Turkey & Stuffing Turnovers are a delicious (and easy!) way to use your Thanksgiving dinner leftovers to create a second meal your family will love!

The perfect post-Thanksgiving brunch recipe.

Turkey, Stuffing and Cranberry Sausage Rolls are a great use of Thanksgiving & Christmas turkey leftovers all rolled up in flaky puff pastry.

These cranberry cream cheese danishes are made using crescent roll dough making them easy to whip up.

This vintage recipe makes a delicious and unique banana bread using leftover cranberry sauce.

Leftover cranberry sauce makes an amazing glaze for ham and is so easy to make.

If you do, these cranberry thumbprint cookies are perfect for that last bit of cranberry sauce that didn’t get gobbled up.  

This quick and easy recipe stars a simple crisp topping crumbled over green apple splices tossed with leftover cranberry sauce.

This delicious cake is an amazing way to use up any leftover cranberry sauce.

Snag some yummy leftover cranberry sauce to whip up this sweet + savory salmon! This Cranberry Pecan Crusted Salmon makes a perfect post-Thanksgiving lunch or dinner!

This delicious and light dessert uses leftover cranberry sauce and whipped cream.

Cranberry Balsamic Cauliflower Wings are great gluten-free appetizers for Thanksgiving or Christmas, or a tasty veggie side dish any time. 

This grilled cheese is like that brie en croûte appetizer everyone always loves, but you get your own entire sandwich.  Gooey, melty cheese, perfectly toasted bread, and sweet-tart cranberry sauce–it’s just so right.