What to Do With Baked Sweet Potato Leftovers?

Holidays bring families and friends together to celebrate over sumptuous and extravagant dinners. While recovering on their couches, many are left wondering what they can possibly do with all of the leftovers. Baked sweet potato leftovers are a common staple of holiday meals, and alas so are the leftovers. Luckily, there are many creative ways to use baked sweet potato leftovers.

Breakfast Potatoes

  • Leftover baked sweet potatoes can be a tasty option for breakfast. They can be chopped up, fried and served as a different kind of hash brown. Adding some spices to the hash browns adds a new flavor. The leftovers can also be chopped up and mixed in with the eggs for an omelet.

Soups and Salads

  • Leftover baked sweet potatoes can be pureed to make a cream soup or used chunky style to make a chowder. They can also be chopped into a cold salad with mixed greens and a seared salmon. Another salad option is to warm the leftovers and use them in a warm roasted root vegetable salad.

Main Courses

  • The flavor of sweet potato blends well in curry dishes. The leftovers can be used in a vegetable curry dish served over rice or in a turkey and chickpea coconut curry. Another entree option is the quesadilla, chopping the leftovers into a cheese blend and melting it in a tortilla.

Sandwiches

  • Where there is leftover baked sweet potato, chances are there is also leftover turkey. Putting the two together on a sandwich bun kills two birds with one stone. Adding a bit of cranberry sauce makes it a delicious holiday leftover sandwich.