Thanksgiving Leftovers

Since we had such a small group this year, I have tons of leftovers.  Besides sandwiches and heating up, what are peoples favorite leftover recipes.  The lighter the better.

I was about to suggest fried mashed potatoes until I got to the last line of your post.

Thanks.  It's good to have two teenage boys.  When I went downstairs and opened the fridge there are many fewer leftovers.  It's a bit like locusts descended during the night.  Still interested in recipes, by tomorrow they'll be sick of just heating up what we have.

Mix two cups of any kind of cooked vegetables with about a cup and a half of milk, four eggs, some cooked rice if you have it, 3 ounces of grated gruyere. Sprinkle with parmesan and bake for 45 minutes at 375. Lunch!

You could probably put some stuffing in there for a savory bread pudding.

Turkey salad, made with celery and low fat mayo. 

 Cut up white meat turkey in a light tomato sauce with mushrooms, garlic and peas over pasta.

 Turkey soup--any dried soup mix with cut up turkey added.  

 Turkey tacos.  

Turkey pot pie--turkey, peas, celery potato mixed with mushroom soup and baked with refrigerator biscuit dough  topping.

Here is a page of recipes for leftovers. The turkey soup with lime and chilies sounds really appealing this morning.

our sequence is usually something like:

Reheated sliced turkey and sides

Sandwiches/sliders

Green bean casserole with turkey in it, topped with mashed potatoes (and of course, fried onions)

Turkey salad w/cranberry/yogurt dressing.  Looks alarming, but actually yummy

Turkey hash or pot pie

Turkey soup (Son 1's favorite, so sometimes it gets moved up).  Make stock with the carcass, strain and skim fat, add chopped turkey scraps, veg, and rice or noodles.

Tacos or enchiladas are also good, and many ground turkey recipes are even better with chopped leftover meat.

Does anyone have a turkey chile recipe that they like? An easy one?

breal said:

Does anyone have a turkey chile recipe that they like? An easy one?

We usually make this with ground turkey, but it's probably just as easy and good with chopped up roast turkey. We take one pound of ground turkey, 3 cans of various beans such as red beans or pinto beans, and one jar of whatever salsa we have in the house. Dump it all together in a pan and cook for a reasonable length of time. Serve with those Pillsbury biscuits in a can, and it's a hit every time.

sounds great, esp. like the level of effort!  thanks!

http://mobile.eatingwell.com/recipes/white_chili.html

All good recipes! My mother used to make turkey a la king with leftovers at holiday time. All she did was make a basic bechamel sauce and put in the cut up turkey, then serve it over toast, but you can make that a lot fancier with other additions (sauteed celery and onion, dried cranberries...) or you could serve it over mashed potatoes or biscuits instead of toast.

Holiday leftovers are a great way to exercise all kinds of creativity in the kitchen.

Bechamel sauce?

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/139987/basic-bechamel-sauce/

Thank you, chili compadres. Both of those recipes are my speed. That said, I can't face more turkey right now.  I'm letting the turkey lurk in my fridge another day or two.  As a countervailing measure, I made a black bean soup with double the amount of cumin called for in the recipe.  I am all about cumin these days.

mrincredible said:

Bechamel sauce?

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/139987/basic-bechamel-sauce/

Exactement.