Southern Plate Favorite Recipes to Use Up Leftover Ham
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Is your fridge overflowing with leftover ham following Easter dinner or a holiday feast? Well, from sensational salads to comforting bowls of soup and appetizing lunch ideas, here are some great recipes with ham leftovers as the main ingredient.
I’d love to hear what you had for Easter dinner in the comments section below!
I hope you had a wonderful Easter holiday. We had a great day spent together as a family complete with decorating Easter Eggs, a lovely walk in nature, and a beautiful church service. Oh and of course we finished it off with a wonderful Easter meal (starring ham, of course!).
So here it is Monday and I have a half of a big ‘ol ham left in my fridge. What to do? In case you have the same bounty, here is my list of favorite recipes with ham leftovers. Just click on the link to be taken to the corresponding blog post. Have a WONDERFUL Monday!
P.S. If you’re in need of a ham recipe, check out my baked ham with glaze. The glaze is so easy to make and scrumptious if I do say so myself! Here are also 23 recipes for Easter if you’re in need of some inspiration. Okay, let’s get cooking with those ham leftovers!
Recipes with Ham Leftovers
Ham Salad
I love ham salad and this is my absolute favorite recipe for it! It’s so easy to make and is the perfect way to use leftover ham. What else do you need to make the perfect ham salad sandwich? Spicy brown mustard, sweet pickle relish, mayonnaise, boiled eggs, and some freshly cracked black pepper.
Ham and Cheese Sliders
Use leftover ham slices in this ham and swiss sliders recipe for lunch the next day. They’re covered in the most delicious and flavorful buttery mustard sauce.
Cheesy Garlic Mashed Potatoes
This cheesy garlic uses bacon, which you can easily swap with cubed ham leftovers for a delicious side dish.
Smoked Ham and Veggie Pasta Salad
I pretty much made a whole vat of this today! With pasta, shredded cheddar cheese, fresh and frozen vegetables, ranch dressing, and smoked ham leftovers, this salad is the perfect way to increase your veggie intake after one too many Easter chocolates!
Loaded Potato Soup
This loaded potato soup is so creamy, rich, and flavorful. What’s it loaded with? Well, besides lots of smoked meat and potatoes, you’ve got gooey cheese and cream.
Southern-Style Butter Beans
Leave some meat on your ham bone and make my Southern-style butter beans recipe. The combination of tender and creamy beans with smoked ham makes the most flavorful comfort meal.
Fried Brown Rice
Substitute the chicken in this fried rice recipe with ham and you have yourself a quick and easy ham fried rice dinner.
Hoppin’ John
This may be a vegetarian version of Hoppin’ John, another Southern classic. But I’ve included notes where you can add either the ham bone, , or pieces of ham to the black eyed peas.
Easy Omelet Baked in the Oven
Use the baked ham leftovers instead of the turkey sausage to make this easy baked omelet. Because breakfast for dinner is always a good idea, as is a .
Shortcut Senate Bean Soup
Love this stuff and my bean and makes it super easy. It calls for a smoked turkey leg, but substitute that for the ham bone and you’re good to go.
Loaded Twice-Baked Potatoes
These loaded potatoes are great to keep in the freezer as a last-minute heat-and-eat side or a quick lunch! Substitute the turkey bacon for leftover ham and load your potatoes with green onion and cheddar cheese for an unbeatable lunch.
Pintos and Ham
A Southern classic :). This recipe features a step-by-step guide to how to make dried beans too.
We had ham, accompanied by MeMe’s Mashed Potatoes, Jordan Rolls, homemade macaroni & cheese, and a delicious green bean casserole. Your rolls were a huge hit! I will keep the recipe and will be using it again. I’m even enjoying a ham sandwich on one of the leftover rolls for lunch today! Thanks for all the great recipes!
I made your sweet and sour green beans, chessy hash browns and manderin orange cake. Everything was a hit, especially the green beans. This is the first time that I have ever liked frozen green beans.
We had turkey, wild rice stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, asparagus, and pineapple upside down cake. YUM…..tonight is open faced hot turkey sandwiches and Wednesday is turkey soup with stuffing dumplings…the leftovers should be done!!
WE HAD A WONDERFUL DAY, AT MY HOUSE, 16 OF US, ME(GRANDMOTHER, MOTHER AND GR. GRANDMA
WE HAD HAM(OF COURSE) BONLESS PORK LOIN CHEESE POTATOES, CORN PUDDING, SWEET POTATO CASSEROLE, GREEN BEANS AND CARROT MEDLEY. HOT B ISCUITS
DESERT, ITALIAN EASTER BREAD, RICCOTA PIE, CINNAMON PULL APART BREAD, WHITE CAKE WITH CHOCOLATE FROSTING AND ASSORTED CANDIES. TRUFFLES AND YOUR CAFETER IA, PEANUT BUTTER BARS
EASTER EGG HUNT MOSTLY INDOORS. WEATHER WAS NICE BUT WE HAD LITTLE ONES.
OH YES AND DIET DR. PEPPER LOL PERFECT DAY
We had deviled eggs, dumplins, dressing, gravy, corn on the cob, HAM, and cranberry sauce. For dessert, peanut butter pie, banana pudding, and I brought the Strawberry Punch Bowl Cake!!! 😉
I made your Jordan rolls . They turned out good and were delicious and wil make that my standby recipe for rolls.
We had a fully Southern Plate Easter – made almost all the recipes you listed in your Easter menu. It was delicious and everyone loved it – especially the cheesy hash browns!