After every Thanksgiving, my refrigerator is usually jampacked full of delicious holiday leftovers. Whether it be turkey, or cheesy potatoes, or cranberry sauce, there’s enough leftovers to feed the block. While your fridge is packed for weeks leading up to Thanksgiving, it’s terrible that it’s still packed once it’s over.
I try to use as many leftover ingredients as possible to make recipes just to get rid of it all, however, after the soups, tetrazzinis, and pot pies, I’m tapped out. As much as I’m sick of eating turkey, I’m almost just as sick of eating the leftovers. Even in spite of that, I figured I would venture out a little bit and try to load up a sandwich that isn’t just mayonnaise and iceberg lettuce along with a few chunks of turkey.
I mean what on earth do you do with leftover cranberry sauce? You can always serve it in a salt rimmed glass with these Cranberry Sauce and Chile Margaritas or you can serve it up with turkey! Cranberry sauce is such a distinct flavor that works perfectly with turkey. If you don’t have a homemade cranberry sauce for your holiday table, then be sure to check out this recipe. Make it now so that you have some leftover to make this Turkey Brie Panini!
Sweet potatoes also go really well with turkey and if you have some leftover in the form of mashed sweet potatoes or even candied yams, don’t worry, it will still work. Instead of making little scalloped sweet potatoes like I did in the video, you can simply spread the mashed sweet potatoes or slightly mash the yams right on the bread and I promise you will get the exact same flavors.
I tried to use common Thanksgiving leftovers in this recipe so there are at least three things that you can put on this sandwich. The extra items I put on there were the baby spinach, brie, microgreens and a really simple garlic aioli. I wanted to add something with a little kick to help blend in the tanginess from the cranberry sauce and this aioli hit it right on the head.
If you’re like me and are running out of ideas on what to do with all the leftover Thanksgiving foods, then for sure try this Leftover Thanksgiving Turkey Brie and Cranberry Panini.
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