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10 Leftover Turkey Recipes

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Holiday leftovers are the best! Today, I am sharing a few of my favorite leftover turkey recipes.

10 Tasty recipes using leftover turkey. Try a few of these Leftover Turkey Recipes to use up your Thanksgiving leftovers. You can use leftover cooked turkey immediately or freeze your leftover turkey meat to use in future recipes

 

While I love a turkey sandwich, I have found that if I rely on turkey sandwiches to use up all of the leftover turkey, much of it will end up going to waste. So I create a plan for how I am going to use the leftovers before I even roast our turkey. My plan doesn't mean that I feed my family a different turkey recipe every night for a week after Thanksgiving. Instead, I include a few turkey recipes in my menu plan for the week after Thanksgiving and freeze the rest in the portion sizes I will need for the turkey recipes that I serve in December. Having precooked turkey in the freezer means I can create quick and easy dinners on the busy nights leading up to Christmas.

While I clean up the kitchen after our Thanksgiving dinner, my husband carves up the turkey. He divides the meat up into usable portions and places some in the refrigerator for our immediate use and some in the freezer for me to use in leftovers.

After all the meat has been removed, I use the turkey bones to create Turkey Broth in a Slow Cooker. Once I have the broth made, I am ready to use it as a base in many of the recipe below. If you don't have time to make broth shortly after Thanksgiving, you can always freeze the turkey carcass and make homemade turkey broth at a more convenient time.

10 Recipes Using Leftover Turkey

1. Turkey Salad Sandwiches with Apple and Cranberries

2. Turkey and Eggplant Parmagiana Casserole

3. Turkey Lasagna Soup

4. Turkey Chili Pot Pie

5. Turkey Tuscan Soup

6. Turkey Apple Salad Melt Panini

7. Turkey and Rice Soup

8. Turkey Vegetable Rice Bake

9. Curried Turkey Salad

10. Cranberry and Pecan Turkey Panini with Bacon Spread

How do you use up your Thanksgiving leftovers?

About Alea Milham

Alea Milham is the owner of Premeditated Leftovers and the author of Prep-Ahead Meals from Scatch. She shares her tips for saving money and time while reducing waste in her home. Her favorite hobby, gardening, is a frugal source of organic produce for her recipes. She believes it is possible to live fully and eat well while spending less.

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  1. Kitchen Belleicious says

    November 9, 2011 at 7:38 am

    great post because so many people including myself have so much leftover turkey and these are great ideas.

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Welcome. I'm Alea!

On Premeditated Leftovers I share simple recipes made with whole foods, practical shopping tips, time saving techniques, and meal planning strategies. I also share tips for minimizing food waste, so more of the food that is purchased ends up on the table.

While volunteering as a budget counselor, I realized that food is the element of most people’s budgets where they have the greatest control. I set out to develop low-cost recipes from scratch to prove it’s possible to create delicious meals on a limited budget. Eating well while spending less is about more than just creating recipes using inexpensive ingredients; it’s about creatively combining ingredients so you don’t feel deprived and are inspired to stick to your budget.