Ah, Thanksgiving…2 days worth of cooking for about 30 minutes of eating time. And then there’s leftovers. How do you keep serving the same things again and again without getting complaints? Here’s an idea…get creative with those Thanksgiving leftovers and make Thanksgiving Pizza!
(NOTE: Thanks for your patience with my lack of photos of the real thing. I literally need Thanksgiving to happen so I can have leftovers for the photos! HAHAHAHA!!)
Before Thanksgiving 2011, my son’s Latin class began discussing the possibilities for how to make a Thanksgiving pizza. This really got us thinking at home, too…and the more we thought, the more we knew we had to DO this. We were amazed that you couldn’t taste the individual ingredients as much, but it all tasted really good together.
“Yeast Roll” Crust Dough
- ½ c milk
- ¼ c water
- 2 Tbsp butter
- 2 c flour
- 1 Tbsp poultry seasoning
- 2 Tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 egg
- 1 packet Fast Rise Yeast
Combine milk, water, and margarine and heat to 115-125 degrees. Place 1 c flour, pountry seasoning, sugar, salt, egg, and dry yeast in a large bowl. Add heated liquid and beat at medium speed for 2 minutes with an electric mixer. Slowly stir in remaining 1 c flour.
On a floured surface, knead the dough until firm and smooth and all flour is incorporated…about 10 minutes. (This portion of recipe came from the back of a packet of Kroger Fast Rise Yeast.)
Thanksgiving Pizza
- Crust Dough
- 1 c thickened gravy
- 1-2 c cooked sweet potato chunks (lightly rinsed and drained if they had a sugary sauce on ‘em)
- 1-2 c cooked green beans (cut in half if they are long)
- 1 c cooked, chopped or shredded turkey or chicken
- ¼ c French-fried onions
- 1 c shredded Mozzarella
Roll out dough on 15-inch pizza stone. Spread thickened gravy over the dough as the pizza sauce. Turn up edges of “crust” a little if it seems like the gravy is going to run off.
Top with sweet potatoes, green beans, meat, and French-fried onions. Cover all with cheese. Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes. Watch closely as the sweet potatoes might try to burn.
A frugal way to use up Thanksgiving leftovers
Of course, your Thanksgiving leftovers may be different than what I have left. But I think you could adjust and make your own new pizza creation based on what I’ve done here. In fast, as I writing this, I’m thinking I’d rather make my crust out of leftover dressing (gonna have to do some testing on that!)
Lemme know what you come up with! Send me a pic and you just might get featured on my InstaGram feed!
Wanna see what sweet potatoes I’ll be using on this? Check that out here…
