Holiday Leftovers Pizza

Stop staring at your holiday leftovers and make this Leftovers Pizza recipe! Everything is better on a pizza, but you’ve never tasted holiday leftovers quite like this!

 

Why We Love Holiday Leftovers Pizza

So one of the best things about leftovers after Thanksgiving is they are super flexible. I’ve used my Thanksgiving leftovers in this pizza, but you can use whatever you made.

Add turkey, stuffing, green beans and squash all on top of cheese and an herby olive oil sauce. Skip the sandwich and make this Leftover Pizza!

Toppings To Try On Thanksgiving Leftovers Pizza That Work

Turkey– chopped into bite sized piece, a Thanksgiving Pizza is a great way to use turkey whether you roasted a whole turkey, use a turkey tenderloin or made my my slow cooker turkey breast with cranberry sauce! (you should also try these turkey tacos if you have a lot of turkey.) If your family made another kind of roast or ham for Thanksgiving like pork loin, ham or even roast beef you can try that too!

Bread Stuffing/Dressing- Sprinkle a little stuffing onto the pizza! This works with all types of bread style stuffing and is even tastier if your stuffing includes sausage. You could also use southern cornbread dressing if that’s more your style.

Pecans– I threw a few extra chopped pecans on top of my pizza at the end because my stuffing has pecans in it. Delicious!

Roasted Squash– If you have roasted squash, dice that up and put it on the pizza, yum! We like to make roasted butternut squash for the holidays

Cranberry Sauce– We added a drizzle of cranberry sauce on our pizza at the table. I wouldn’t recommend baking cranberry sauce onto the pizza but it is delicious drizzled on top! You can also use your leftover cranberry sauce in my cranberry vinaigrette dressing, which is delish on a side salad with this pizza.

Crispy Onions– I always feel like I have leftover cripsy onions after Thanksgiving that didn’t make it onto the green bean casserole. Throw extra crispy onions on at the end for maximum crunchiness.

Vegetable Tray– Don’t forget to raid any leftovers from the vegetable tray for other possible pizza toppings if you had a snacking tray. Broccoli, bell pepper and slices of olives are some of our family’s favorite toppings.

Thanksgiving Leftover Toppings That Are Trickier

Green Beans– Roasted green beans can be easily diced and added to the top of the pizza. If you have green bean casserole though, add only a little to the pizza. A little is ok for flavor, but too much and your pizza may become too soggy.

Mashed Potatoes- You can add a thin layer of mashed potatoes in place of the olive oil, but keep the layer thin or the pizza may end up soggy. This works best if your mashed potatoes have a lot of flavor, like garlic and onion!

Gravy- A thin layer of gravy can be used in place of the olive oil sauce on the pizza. Our family also found it was better to leave the cheese off the pizza if you are adding a turkey gravy like Thanksgiving Gravy.

Cheese Tray– Thanksgiving leftovers have so much flavor, you’ll want to keep the cheese flavor mild, Mozzarella and provolone work well. I wouldn’t suggest using stronger flavored cheeses though or it may overpower your leftovers

Thanksgiving Leftover Toppings I Haven’t Tried On Pizza Or Would Skip

Cornbread– Cornbread or cornbread dressing, I’m not sure how well this would work crumbled on pizza.

Sweet Potato Casserole– Sweet potato casserole is super sweet and is also pretty wet too. While I haven’t tried it on pizza, I would skip adding sweet potato casserole to pizza.

Pumpkin Pie– Just eat the pumpkin pie, I wouldn’t add it to pizza! Really I wouldn’t expect ANY pie to be good on top of the pizza, but it will sure be great for dessert!

What Kind Of Pizza Crust Should I Use?

You can use several different kinds of pizza crust! I used two cans of crescent dough because that’s what I had in my fridge, but don’t afraid to get creative.

• Crescent Dough– I rolled together two tubes
• Pizza dough– Homemade pizza dough (double the recipe) or store-bought refrigerated pizza dough works!
• Naan bread- Costco often has mini naan bread that’s perfect for personal size pizzas too!
• Pita- Pita can work as a pizza base in a pinch!
• Frozen Puff Pastry– Let it defrost then add the toppings. Puff pastry makes this pizza feel fancier!

I’d skip biscuit dough. Biscuits work a little better for more of a turkey pot pie style dish.