Upgrade Those Thanksgiving Leftovers! 5 Different ways!

After the holidays, are you worried about having all these

leftovers

? Today I'm going to share with you how we could turn our

leftovers

into some new recipes. I love aprons, come on, let's make turkey and cranberry stuffing with puff pastry. pastry, my mouth is watering, already let the puff pastry sit for about 40 minutes to come to room temperature, so you will need four ounces of cold leftover turkey, chopped, break up some of the filling, you will need four ounces of that crumbled and this is cornbread stuffing, what kind of stuffing do you like to have during the holidays?

Hey, you're going to need four ounces, so half a cup of turkey gravy, um, then add four ounces of cranberry sauce in there too if you make your own. My own cranberry sauce would be so good in this. I'm going to take my puff pastry here and I'm going to cut out four squares. I can't find my pizza cutter or else I would have used it, is it okay in a bowl? I'm going to crack my egg, beat it and add a little bit of water, so I'm going to make an egg wash. Now I'm going to take my filling.

I'll put it right in the middle. This will end up making eight. I'm going to take my egg mixture and get the sides of these, okay. I'm going to bring one corner closer to the other and press it, press the sides down to seal them. When you've done that, take it to your baking sheet. We will take our egg mixture and spread each empanada with them. Make sure your oven is at 400 degrees. We're going to bake this for 15 to 25 minutes depends on your oven and then halfway through we'll rotate the pan so it cooks evenly let them cool on a wire rack that way they stay crispy underneath it smells so good let's dig in OMG, look this is definitely better than putting it all on a bun the cranberry gives it the sweetness it needs but it tastes like Thanksgiving and it's so good if you want to make more empanadas take the leftover ham, turkey, cheese, add it there with the cranberries, mmm, next we'll use our leftover green bean casserole to make some filling. mushrooms, so you're going to need your green bean casserole, any mushrooms, you can do white button mushrooms, these are Portobello, you're going to need some shredded cheese, any cheese of your choice.

Today I'm going to make cheddar cheese and then more fried onions. you topped your green bean casserole with this is what it will end up looking like oh my cuteness now if you have leftover green bean casserole from

thanksgiving

you can make them and then freeze them for christmas take your casserole put it in there and then i. I'm going to top it with some cheese and then top it with breadcrumbs as a crunchy panko topping or use a little more fried onions. These will go into a 400 degree oven for about 20 to 25 minutes, we'll keep an eye on them.

If you want to make another green bean casserole appetizer, take some phyllo dough, put it in a small muffin tin, then put some of the casserole in and do the same process with the cheese and onions, and that's another delicious one. appetizer for you. oh these are so good this is a really good way to use up your green bean casserole and make some appetizers for later yum next up is some leftover lasagna from

thanksgiving

and the base of this will be the leftover stuffing. I love the filling. I need three cups of your leftover mashed potatoes, what I did was I warmed up my potatoes because they were cold, you know, they're leftovers, so they were in the refrigerator and I put a hat of butter in there after I microwaved them and then a little bit of milk.

I don't want them to be runny or anything like that. I love a soft, creamy potato, but I just want it to be spreadable. Put it on top of that lasagna, mmm. You will need three cups of your leftover filling, okay, easily spread it evenly as you can get layer number one, now you can use the leftover cranberry sauce that you have or just open a can and spread it evenly over the layer of filler number two. You have shredded turkey, use it for this recipe, but if you have breast left, cut it into 1 4 inch slices and start layering the turkey.

I'm going to stuff this with more turkey, third layer, the turkey layer ready, take your mashed potatoes and get a top layer of your turkey, fourth layer, the potato layer, you need six ounces of shredded white cheddar cheese, oh, it's my favorite type of cheese, the last layer of white cheddar cheese, that's it, preheat your oven to 400 degrees and then I'll bake this for 20 minutes oh look, you can even put it under the broiler for about two minutes and leave it golden brown oh it smells so good in that cheese mmm look at that oh that cheese in the mashed potatoes mmm it's like celebrating Thanksgiving all over again, but in one bite let's make a comforting turkey pot pie soup.

I have some avocado oil in my pot. Let's sauté some onions, celery and carrots. The Holy Trinity and that's been a couple of minutes. I'm going to add a clove of garlic, oh this smells so good. I'm going to add about a tablespoon, half a tablespoon more of butter and then I'm going to add a few tablespoons of flour, this will help us thicken. all those good bits in the bottom layer the vegetables are cooked that flour tastes good once the flour is cooked you will add the chicken broth take about three and a half cups of chicken broth here I'm going to get all those good bits in the bottom of the pan too, oh yeah, and add that flour, then you're going to add a cup and a half of heavy cream, three and a half cups of chopped potatoes, I've got a half cup of frozen peas and a half cup. of frozen corn I'm going to add three to three and a half cups of our leftover ground turkey two bay leaves two and a half teaspoons of salt and don't be afraid that it's too much salt because you have those potatoes that are there They will suck it up and then a teaspoon of pepper ground black pepper and one and a half to one teaspoon of dried thyme.

After tasting it a little bit, I'll add some sage in about half a teaspoon, okay, that's it. to a boil, I'll open the lid and just lower the heat and it'll simmer until I like where the potatoes are oh my gosh this soup is amazing and Sage gave it exactly what it needed oh it's so good. and very filling, make this with chicken, if you already have chicken, do the same, look at that, oh, mmm, next is a delicious sweet potato pie, so take your sweet potatoes, peel them, cut them, put them in a pot of water , softens. cook them, you can also put them in your instant pot, all chopped with half a cup of water and press them on high pressure for about 12 minutes and you will have soft sweet potatoes on medium high heat, you will add the olive oil. and we're going to sauté some carrots with celery and onion, the Holy Trinity and we're going to do this until they're soft and translucent, add the ground turkey.

I just took my turkey and cut it up really nice, okay, I'll add. a little salt and pepper. I don't have fresh thyme, so I'll just use some dried. I'm just going to take some rosemary leaves, grind them up and stick them in there now. If you are using regular ground turkey, continue. this process of just cooking it until the turkey is browned, but we don't have to, we can skip that step because it's already cooked, you're going to add a whole can of tomato paste in your six ounce can so a quarter of a cup you can add two tablespoons of Worcestershire sauce, let's add a little bit of chicken broth, okay, you're going to bring this to a simmer.

I wanted to add a little bit of flour so I'm going to continue to cook this on low heat so once your sweet potatoes are cooked you can drain them two tablespoons of butter four ounces of softened cream cheese salt and pepper you can mash the sweet potatoes first stir this until everything is melted and combined well, you're going to take an egg, beat it now we're going to take a little bit of this sweet potato mixture and we put it in and we mix it because we're trying to temper the egg we don't want to make like a scrambled egg with the warm it is or how spicy it is, so we're just going to Temper it like this again in our saucepan and we're going to mix this together now in your pan.

You can add 12 ounces of frozen peas and then we're going to prep our casserole and we're going to put it in once the mixture is in your casserole, top it with the sweet potato, you have the oven preheated to 375 degrees and this is going to bake for 30 minutes, oh look at this pie shepherd's, oh my goodness, it's so beautiful, the colors are so autumnal, aren't they? Oh my God. okay, you've got your ground turkey, your frozen peas, those sweet potatoes, this is absolutely delicious, oh, they were good, so good, I'm full, but if you want to get ahead this holiday season, click this video here.

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