Day After Thanksgiving Recipes (2024)

FAQs

What should I eat for dinner the day after Thanksgiving? ›

Try a cozy turkey soup recipe, leftover turkey pot pie, or Ree's take on turkey tetrazzini. There are also tons of recipes for reusing your leftover cranberry sauce, extra mashed potatoes, or even the green bean casserole.

The answer is simple: leftovers can be kept in the refrigerator for three to four days. This means you have until the Monday after Thanksgiving to eat all those delicious leftovers or place them in the freezer to enjoy later. If you store leftovers in the freezer, they will be of best quality within 2-6 months.

The day following Thanksgiving—commonly referred to as Black Friday—has become one of the busiest shopping days of the year in the United States.

Add a dash of liquid—gravy, chicken stock, butter or even water in a pinch. Covering the turkey also keeps it moist. To reheat turkey in the oven: heat sliced turkey with a dash of gravy in a covered dish at 350ºF for about 30 minutes. You can also microwave sliced turkey: heat, covered, on low or medium power.

To not dry out a turkey, you need to add moisture when you reheat the meat. You'll see in our reheating methods that we add homemade gravy, chicken stock or butter to the turkey before heating it up low and slow. This ensures that juices in the turkey won't escape as steam when they're exposed to heat.

The flavor compounds – the herbs, the spices, the reactions that take place during cooking, sort of cool back and depending on how you have cooled and refrigerated your food, actually get back into the food and get trapped into the starches and the proteins.

That's why each year, on the Friday following Thanksgiving, instead of shopping Black Friday deals, the Martinsons get dozens of people together to celebrate 'Fry-Day,' an hours-long feast featuring fried food of many kinds.

What should I cook for next day? ›

Millions of people across the United States will sit down to a traditional Thanksgiving meal, including turkey, potatoes, squash, corn, and cranberries.

USDA recommends using cooked turkey within 3 to 4 days, kept refrigerated (40°F or less). Refrigeration slows but does not stop bacterial growth. Turkey can be frozen for 3 to 4 months. Although safe indefinitely, frozen leftovers can lose moisture and flavor when stored for longer times in the freezer.

As a general guideline, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services recommends eating or freezing turkey and other leftovers within three to four days.

How Many Times Can You Reheat Leftover Turkey? Technically, as long as the leftover turkey reaches 165°F every time, it should be safe to eat. But we don't advise reheating turkey more than once.

Before you even think about depriving yourself, take a minute to browse this list of lighter, fresher but still-filling recipes to enjoy after you indulge. Our post-holiday recipe picks include shrimp pasta, chicken curry, chicken cacciatore, soups, and stuffed bell peppers.

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