How would you like to save time, money, and your hair, day after Thanksgiving?
You know how busy the week of Thanksgiving can be. All the excitement of November can really weigh you down.
The pressure of planning a family gathering.
Shopping for the perfect turkey and making sure you have all of the right ingredients for a delicious Thanksgiving meal.
The to do list can add up.
When everything finally comes together and your family is at the table smiling and having a good time. You can look back at the work and be proud of what you’ve done.
Everyone is full and getting ready to leave, if you invited company. Typically, yourself, your daughter, and all the aunties help clean up while the boys watch TV. At least that’s how it is in my house.
Taking a quick look at the table you notice that there are a lot of leftovers. Enough for the next couple of days.
The scariest sight is the amount of Turkey leftover.
Your mind starts to race and you even try to look over the tired old turkey recipes you’ve used in the past. Nothing feels right to you.
You want to try something different and something that your family will actually eat.
Does this sound like something that happens to your family more often than not after Thanksgiving?
For us, it happened a few times and how many times can you have turkey sandwiches before you start throwing the plate across the table yelling and pulling your hair out.
Turkey sandwiches are out and other tasty things are in, take a look at the leftover thanksgiving turkey recipes below.
5 Easy Leftover Thanksgiving Turkey Recipes
Without having to slave away in your kitchen and spending any more money here are 5 recipes you can use that will help save you time, money, and the best part, your family will love.
Turkey Fried Rice from iamafoodblog.com.
A non traditional fried rice dish easy to prepare and takes 30 minutes to cook.
Turkey Corn Enchilada from realsimple.com
The recipe is not only great for leftover turkey but also for chicken.
Very tasty recipe that your family will love with a prep time of 10 minutes and cook time of 30 minutes.
Turkey Couscous from parenting.com.
This recipe is lite and tasty.
Dish can be eaten cold or warm full of flavor, a family favorite with a prep time of 10 minutes and a cook time of 22 minutes.
Dinner Mac and Cheese with Turkey from myrecipes.com.
If your kids love mac and cheese they will love this version of it.
One of the longer prep and cook times of and hour but well worth the work and wait.
3 Cheese Turkey Cranberry Quesadilla from thecookierookie.com.
This recipe is hands down the fastest and easiest out of the five listed.
Very easy and quick dish to prepare with a total 15 minutes of prep and cook time.
No matter what your day after Thanksgiving looks like I’m sure you can find a recipe to use. With a little planning and imagination your leftover turkey can become the main attraction once again.
What are your favorite leftover Thanksgiving turkey recipes? Leave us a comment below.
