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, fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, green beans, candied yams, rolls, a baked ziti with sausage, peppers, and feta (not really traditional or southern, but it was delicious!), strawberry shortcake and banana pudding! It was such a beautiful day, and wonderful meal!
We also had:
Bake Ham with Brown Sugar & Mustard Glaze
Potato salad (warm, southern style)
Zucchini Casserole
Carrot Raisin Salad
Green peas
Applesauce
Cranberry Sauce
Deviled Eggs
Italian Bread with Butter (the real stuff, Christy)
Banana Pudding
My ham was so tender and moist cooking it in an oven bag. I would do that again. Clean up was a breeze since all the drippings were contained in the bag. Nice.
What a wonderful day spent with family.
The day started with our Sanctuary Choir presenting our Easter Musical where 5 people came to know Jesus as their personal Saviour, and 3 children coming to Jesus in Children’s church. Praise the Lord!
Linda
HEY CHRISTY,
WE HAD A HAM THAT I COOKED IN THE CROCK_POT,– SCALLOPED POTATOES, VEGGIE PASTA SALAD ,PEAS , RED BEET EGGS ( PA. DUTCH RECIPE) JORDON ROLLS &&&&& ICED SWEET , & FOR DESSERT WAS PEANUT BUTTER EGGS , HOME MADE OF COURSE,!!!!!
WAY TOO MUCH FOOD BUT SOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD !!!
Boston butt (on the grill), squash casserole, sweet & sour green beans, strawberry pie. Enjoyed the recipes. I finally broke down & bought the cookbook :~)
Two recipes that I have heard of, but never made myself, for leftover ham are ham and dumplings and ham pie. Do you do these? If not, I’d love you to develop recipes for them and post, particularly for the ham and dumplings. I remember eating them from the Sweet Sue can as a child and really liked them, so I know they would be much better homemade. Thanks!
We had pulled pork, vinegar slaw, Jordan rolls, steamed broccoli, fresh fruit and veggies, and lemon chess pie for dessert. Thank you for the recipes. This was the first time making the Southern Plate ones and they turned out great.
I cooked ham, chicken and dressing, giblet gravy, chicken spaghetti, macaroni and cheese, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, fried corn, five cup salad, strawberry shortcake, chocolate pie, and lemon ice box pies.