Thanksgiving Sloppy Joes

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Take some ground turkey and a few Thanksgiving leftovers and you’ve got the makings of delicious Thanksgiving Sloppy Joes!  It uses mashed potatoes, gravy, green bean casserole, and anything else you have on hand to make these delicious!

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Thanksgiving sloppy joes are a delicious and creative way to use up holiday leftovers. By combining turkey with stuffing and other leftover ingredients in a skillet, you can make a savory, sweet, and tangy filling that is perfect for piling onto toasted buns.  Another delicious way to use up leftovers is making some Thanksgiving grilled cheese sandwiches.

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Thanksgiving Sloppy Joes transforms classic Thanksgiving flavors into a fun dinner.  Depending on the number of leftovers you have you can easily feed your hungry guests or enjoy a quick lunch the day after.  They’re really great if you made a delicious smoked turkey breast.

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I have a bunch of recipes for sloppy joes on my blog.

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And that’s not including the sloppy Eds which are made with eggplant for a meatless version of the fun sandwich. I thought they tasted good, but the hubs was the on the fence. You’ll just have to try them yourself to see what you think.

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Every Thanksgiving there’s just the two of us. And, well, it’s not easy making things like green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, and stuffing with just enough for a meal and one or two meals of leftovers. So, we always have LOTS of leftovers.

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Repurposing your Thanksgiving Leftovers

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Well, one year I was thinking of interesting and different ways to use them and serve them up for dinner. I can’t really remember how I came up with this idea. I might have seen something similar and put my own spin on it. Seriously, who doesn’t love a fun and delicious sandwich that’s made with a mashed potato waffle base, topped with stuffing, ground turkey swimming in gravy, green bean casserole and topped with either more gravy or another waffle for a sandwich? Yes, I realize that is a super long sentence.

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This post was not written when I published it. With all this COVID-19 insanity that is going on, I have been completely exhausted. Not from lack of sleep or worrying about it, but all the damned meetings about it. I think half of my day is spent in meetings with different groups talking about the plan should work go mission critical personnel only; which they did Tuesday.

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This leads to an impromptu two days off and a telework list of tasks I can work on next week. Don’t ask my what happens after next week. Hopefully, things will calm down a bit and we can get back in there to do quarter close prep work. I have one GL report to create for last month. There’s things to work on and do.

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Seriously. Just look at that goodness right there!

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Ground turkey sautéed with poultry seasoning and simmer in gravy makes it taste like roasted turkey. That’s sitting on the left-over green bean casserole and dressing. We make dressing and not stuffing. And all this is sitting on top of waffles I make with the leftover mashed potatoes. You can dress these up with some chives or cheese to kick these sloppy joes up. And, by the way, they’re delicious on their own, too!

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And, if you’re on the fence, I’m here to tell you that if you repurpose Thanksgiving leftovers into toppings for sloppy joes you will not be sorry! It’s like having Thanksgiving dinner all over again, but in a such a fun way. All the kids, big and little, will love them!

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Besides, you must admit that it’s one of the most fun and creative Thanksgiving leftover recipes I’ve shared. I have a few of those on my blog, too. Not only is it creative but you can easily make it a healthy sloppy joe recipe especially if you control the ingredients in the gravy, stuffing, mashed potatoes, etc.

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I’m drooling. I might have to whip up another batch of these before Thanksgiving. Which isn’t impossible to do even this time of year. There’s always turkey breast, wings, tenders etc. out there to whip up some delicious gravy. Everything else can be made throughout the year. So, you don’t have to until Thanksgiving to make this Thanksgiving sloppy joes recipe.

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Serving Thanksgiving Sloppy Joes

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Being on the mashed potato waffles, they’re a healthy sloppy joe no bun recipe anyone can make. You can swap out the mashed potatoes for some cauliflower in the recipe to make them lower in carbs for those following a keto diet. Just throwing that out there for a great way to fit this into your diet.

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And since they’re made with lean ground turkey, they are hearty healthy sloppy joes! Yes, I know it seems strange to say that. But I’m an advocate for controlling some of the ingredient in my food. Yes, we use the canned mushroom soup in the green bean casserole, but I check the fat content on the cans. I use alternate butter flavored items to keep cholesterol in check.

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So, if you’re trying to figure out what to make after Thanksgiving, try these delicious Thanksgiving sloppy joes. Skip the typical Manwich version and whip up this super easy sloppy joe recipe made with leftovers. It’s a great way to use them and serve your family a fun Thanksgiving leftover sandwich.

Celebrating National Sloppy Joe Day!