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Thanksgiving Leftovers Recipes You Need (& a Giveaway)

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As delicious as Thanksgiving is, there are more exciting things to do with leftovers than just replating the feast. These Thanksgiving Leftovers Recipes each use a few of your leftovers to reinvent the Thanksgiving dinner into dishes you won’t want to wait a year to make again!Thanksgiving Leftovers Recipes gluten-free BoulderLocavore.com

If you are in the United States you most likely are celebrating Thanksgiving today. Regardless of how you mark the holiday, it’s often the leftovers that we all look forward to; the reincarnation of the Thanksgiving meal to enjoy over again. That second plate of dinner leftovers late on Thanksgiving Day, after the initial over stuffed sensation has subsided, kicks off the following days of enjoying all the holiday favorites in one form or another.

Each family enjoys similar dishes for Thanksgiving (or now Friendsgiving). Usually turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, stuffing/dressing, cranberry sauce and pie. Over the years we’ve created some after holiday recipes using the delicious leftovers, that admittedly, I look forward to almost more than the original feast (shhhh). I’m sharing some of our family favorites with you today. I’ve also rounded up some gluten-free Thanksgiving leftovers recipes from some talented bloggers to give you a collection of great choices to keep your next post feast days as delicious as today!

Thanksgiving Leftovers Recipes You Need:

Turkey Holiday Hash: this easy skillet recipe is a long time favorite of my family. In fact when I purchased the few ingredients that aren’t leftovers from your Thanksgiving dinner, my kids clapped. Leftover turkey, stuffing, and gravy are combined with slivered almonds, red pepper and other ingredients to create a morning after breakfast skillet that will make it hard for diners to sleep in anticipation.

Turkey Holiday Hash (Thanksgiving Leftovers recipe). A savory recipes using turkey, dressing, gravy and fresh ingredients to create a leftovers recipe you'll love. BoulderLocavore.com

Bacon Provolone Pita Pockets: this recipe was born out of sheer excitement upon finding gluten-free pita pockets. Turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce from Thanksgiving are stuffed with bacon, cheese and lettuce for a fresh spin on leftovers.

Thanksgiving Leftovers Bacon Provolone Pita Pockets. A fun way to use turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and more in a pita sandwich (gluten-free or regular) BoulderLocavore.com

Southwestern Turkey Sheperd’s Pie: A mix of southwestern vegetables mixed with leftover turkey and topped with mashed potatoes and cheese make a hearty, easy comfort food recipe to feed a crowd.

Helping of Southwestern Turkey Shepherd's Pie - BoulderLocavore.comTurkey Tacos with Chipotle Salsa {Nosh and Nourish}: these colorful Turkey Tacos with Chipotle Salsa are as beautiful as they are delicious. Leftover turkey is great for all sorts of Mexican food recipes such as these Turkey Cranberry-Chipotle Quesadillas.

Turkey Tacos Nosh and NourishLow Carb Leftover Turkey Jalapeno Popper Casserole {An Edible Mosiac}:   A good casserole is easy to make and this one screams flavor. A great option to keep leftover turkey moist and exciting with the accompanying flavors.

Low-Carb-Cheesy-Leftover-Turkey-or-Chicken-Jalapeno-Popper-Casserole-Gluten-Free- Edible MosaicTurkey Corn Chowder {Diethood}: Soup is always a great choice to use leftover turkey especially since being a lean meat is can dry out easily. This Turkey Corn Chowder is rich and filling, perfect to take the chill of a winter’s day. I also love making Coconut Curry Turkey Rice Soup, Jalapeno Turkey Noodle Soup and don’t forget to save the turkey carcass to make Slow Cooker Homemade Turkey Stock!

Turkey Corn Chowder Diethood

30-Minute Leftover Sweet Potato & Turkey Enchilada Skillet {Ambitious Kitchen}: I love a good skillet meal and this 30-Minute Leftover Sweet Potato & Turkey Enchilada Skillet has my mouth salivating. Great to use up those sweet potatoes and turkey as well as dazzle with the spicy new flavors.

Turkey Enchilada Skillet Ambitious KitchenThanksgiving Stuffed Acorn Squash {Lexie’s Clean Kitchen}: This recipe looks so pretty and also uses turkey, dressing/stuffing and leftover vegetables! What a delicious reincarnation!

Stuffed Acorn Squash Lexies Clean Kitchen

We on the Boulder Locavore team have much to be thankful for this year and you, our beloved readers, are at the heart of that. We appreciate your time and letting us into your kitchens. In this spirit and with an eye toward holiday shopping we have hosting an Amazon.com Gift Card Giveaway!

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  3. Thanks for a very generous giveaway! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. I love these awesome thanksgiving leftover ideas.

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  9. Many good recommendations so far, but I was checking out lexis clean kitchen and that what I liked most out of all in this post.

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  12. Such a nice selection of recipes you put together! The corn chowder looks amazing. Thank you for the chance to win!

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  15. These dishes all look amazing and mouthwatering – and I’m writing this while SUPER full from Thanksgiving dinner!

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  22. Boulder Locavore has been one of my favorite blogs for years now. This seems like a great time to say thank–thanks for all of your interesting posts, beautiful photos, and tempting recipes. Thanks for your generosity in sponsoring your own giveaways like this one, too. Happy Thanksgiving!

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  23. I will be using a few of these leftover thanksgiving recipes. Leftovers are one of the best parts of the holiday for me.

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  25. What to do with leftover Sweet potato casserole? I make delicious pancakes with them! Scrape off the marshmallows, then take out your favorite baking mix, use 2 cups mix per one cup of mashed yam or sweet potato, then continue with rest of ingredients. I like adding a healthy teaspoon of pumpkin spice, but that’s entirely optional.

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  26. Thanks for the chance to win…..my son and daughter-in-law both put “pots and pans” on their Christmas list. If I win this, guess I can start shopping for those!

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  32. Wow, beautiful turkey Tori! The perfect brown! So generous of you – so very sweet! Will definitely have to try out the acorn squash recipe! xo

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  33. That Sweet Potato and Turkey Enchilada Skillet! Yum! Happy Thanksgiving and Best Wishes for the Holiday Season!

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  37. Happy Thanksgiving to all! Appreciate the ideas for leftovers, I am always looking for good ways to repurpose them. Recipes look interesting and fun to try.

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  39. We just did dinner for two for Thanksgiving, so all we have left over is some butternut squash and gravy, and 1 small serving of turkey (we kept it very simple this year, which was very nice). I like that you’ve come up with good recipes for leftovers, because the same thing over and over does get boring.

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  66. Love your leftover recipe ideas! Definitely trying the turkey corn chowder. This will be out first year doing ‘Thankful Tacos’ (turkey, corn, greens, stuffing, sweet potato and cranberry sauce) and I honestly can’t wait for the first meal of leftovers 😀 Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Holidays!!!

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  75. Hopefully everyone had a fantastic and relaxing holiday! Crossing my fingers on this giveaway. I will have to try some of these out.

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  80. Just love all you ideas for leftovers.Thank You for all you do for us year round blogs like your have taught me to cook and not be afraid of the kitchen!!!

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  83. All of these recipes sound amazing! My hubby was just asking me to find a good turkey soup recipe and the Turkey Corn Chowder {Diethood} is exactly what we are looking for, thanks!

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  97. Yummy ideas for left over Turkey.
    Our favorite way is cold sandwich on white, Dukes mayo salt and pepper..the best.
    And, turkey rice soup is another favorite..
    I cooking dip own my carcass
    now.

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  103. We usually eat turkey leftovers for a few days really helps out too because we go black Friday shopping were trying to get some good deals on clothes a 2 tvs one for my daughter and one for my sons bedroom

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  104. Oh those look like such great ideas! I have leftover turkey to use…I am going to try the Turkey Corn Chowder and the Turkey Shepherds Pie! YUM

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  105. Thank you so much for the opportunity to win and I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season. Can’t wait to see all my extended family.

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  111. These look like some delicious recipe ideas. I can’t wait to try the Turkey Corn Chowder or even the Skillet Enchiladas. I’d use leftover chicken so I could make these even after the holidays are over.

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  118. This all looks so delicious! Im really excited about the enchilada casserole and the jalapeño popper casserole. I can’t wait to give these a try!

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  123. Wow, these are some amazing recipe suggestions for Thanksgiving leftovers!! Thank you so much for sharing, so many of them sound delicious. 🙂

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  124. OK, the 30-Minute Leftover Sweet Potato & Turkey Enchilada Skillet looks so good, and something I could totally make. My husband would LOVE this, and I’m sure my kids would both actually eat this too!

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  183. We never have Thanksgiving leftovers! I always want to try new recipes like these, but there’s never enough turkey left over

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  188. mmm these all look so good! I think my favorite would be the Bacon Provolone Pita Pockets! They seriously look so good!

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  189. I’ve seen stuff acorn squash all over the internet here lately, and it’s making me want to give it a try! It’d be my first time and I just hope it ends well. HAHAH

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  195. These recipes sound amazing! Definitely going to use some of these. Thank you for the ideas as well as the giveaway entry.

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  199. These look absolutely delicious and hubby and I were just trying to figure out what to do with our turkey leftovers. Here’s the answer! So glad I found this post and giveaway! Thanks!

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  202. We love leftover turkey ,hot turkey sandwiches ,soup,you can use it in almost anything. Your recipe for the Sheperds pie looks good, Im going to try that one!

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  204. wow, they ALL look delicious, and since I’m the adventurous kind of cook, I’d say I’d be up to trying the 30-Minute Leftover Sweet Potato & Turkey Enchilada Skillet. Add a little spiced up cranberries to the side and it would be amazing I bet!

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  205. All of these leftovers ideas look so good.I hope my son cooks our turkey soon so I can try some of them. I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving.

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  210. All of these recipes look and sound so delicious! Thank you for sharing them and for this awesome giveaway opportunity. Happy Thanksgiving!

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  222. The acorns look gorgeous and look just as delicious, must try these as they are my husband’s favorite vegetable.

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  227. I know I have so very much that I’m thankful for. I know this fact everyday however there are days I do not feel the gratitude. I’m thankful today and the last several days I do feel much gratitude. Thank you for this generous opportunity.

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  231. I am looking forward to trying new recipes for our leftovers. I am particularly loving the Low-Carb Cheesy Leftover Turkey Jalapeno Popper Casserole. I’d love to try the turkey and jalapeno combo!

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  235. Those sweet potato and turkey enchiladas look so good. I wish we actually had leftovers to bring home with us. We had a big group at Thanksgiving this year so there were very few leftovers. 🙁

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  239. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Thanks for all the great recipes for holiday leftovers and for the chance at this generous prize. 🙂

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  254. I have signed up twice for the email entry, however, I have never received a follow up email, so I did not accept this entry.

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  273. Ironically, we didn’t have a lot of leftovers even though it was a 23 pound turkey. We eat with another family and split the leftovers. Typically, we try to save 2 cups of turkey for turkey tetrazini but didn’t even have that.

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  277. These recipes would be great to use if I ever had any Thanksgiving meal left. No matter how large or small our group is there are never any leftovers!

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  280. Thanksgiving leftovers about my favorite part of the holiday. Shamelessly eating the remnants of the feast from the day before while watching A Christmas Story and occasionally sipping on a hot cup of apple cider.

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  287. The Turkey Tacos with Chipotle Salsa look scrumptious. Plus, I love the textured plate the tacos are displayed on.

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  292. I’m always looking for recipes that are flexible enough to make with leftovers! and Thanksgiving is definitely one of those times when you can almost guarantee there will be lots of food left so this is great 🙂

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  296. I love the leftover recipes here. I sometimes think that the leftovers are better than the dinner. Thanks for the chance to win. I could use the extra gift giving money.

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  299. Happy Thanksgiving! My computer froze when I submitted this so I want to make sure it worked. I love the leftovers from thanksgiving almost more than the main meal!

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  301. These Thanksgiving leftovers recipes are next level, especially compared to my turkey sandwiches. I would love to try the Thanksgiving Stuffed Acorn Squash recipe with my Christmas dinner leftovers!

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  302. I love the stuffed acorn squash! SO unique and looks so good. I’ll share with my mom too as I think she’d love this!

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  304. Word to the wise and also to me, don’t look at a recipe blog post while you’re hungry! Seriously though – these recipes look amazing and I cannot wait to try them! 🙂 Yay for Thanksgiving leftovers!

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  307. Thanks for sharing all these great Thanksgiving leftovers recipes. I especially want to try the Turkey Corn Chowder. Thank you also for the giveaway!

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  308. Turkey Corn Chowder is the one of rheae delicious Thanksgiving leftovers recipes that I want to try the most! Thank you dor sharing these recipes. Thank you for the giveaway as well!

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  309. Turkey Corn Chowder sounds amazing, I am going to make it with the rest of the leftover turkey. Thanks for sharing so many great recipes.

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  321. So many great ides! I would love to try the 30-Minute Leftover Sweet Potato & Turkey Enchilada Skillet. Looks delicious!

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  334. Thanks for sharing all of these wonderful recipes. I am a terrible cook, but I have printed out these recipes so that I can try them all before next Thanksgiving

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  335. Those recipes look great! Especially the southwestern turkey shepherds pie! I will definitely have to try that one.

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  340. All of this recipes look so delicious, but the Low Carb Leftover Turkey Jalapeno Popper Casserole has my name written all over it. I love jalapeno poppers so I have no doubt I will love this casserole. I will definitely have to give it a whirl. Thank you for sharing and the amazing giveaway! Happy Holidays!

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  345. We ate turkey 4 days in a row and loved it! We also shared some with friends who couldn’t cook for themselves this year, and the rest is in the freezer waiting to become a turkey pot pie.

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  351. These are great left over ideas! I really like the Sweet Potato & Turkey Enchilada Skillet idea, looks and sounds delicious!

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  352. Very nice way to use leftovers. Sadly we don’t have many leftovers to use. Everyone likes to dig in again a few hours later, so by the next morning there’s not much.

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  358. I wouldn’t mind trying the delicious Southwestern Turkey Sheperd’s Pie. It looks really good. I don’t remember the last time I had a good looking Shepherd’s Pie.

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  375. Love these! I actually turned most of our leftover turkey into either a turkey-cranberry wrap for lunches or a sort of pot pie with turkey, buffalo sauce, and provolone cheese.

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  378. I might be in the small group that does not like leftovers from Thanksgiving. With that said, your leftovers look good, not a cook so mine might look like something that came out of a can. 🙂

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