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It's that time of the year when plenty of food is bought, cooked, eaten, and wasted. There are many ways you can turn your leftovers into a completely different dish. Here are 20 fantastic ways to use your leftovers, from salads to pastries, and popsicles to boot.
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Whether it's leftover prawns, turkey, ham or salad sticks, when served with a bed of cold soba noodles and Adam's special Asian salad dressing, you'd think these leftovers were meant to be!
Source: Adam Liaw
Breathe a new life into your leftover chicken with these tartlets. Use pre-made patty shells for an even faster turn around!
Chicken and asparagus tartlets Source: Alan Benson
This popular salad from Brazil is usually made with ham and chicken, but you can repurpose any leftover meat from your festive feasting. This particular recipe uses smoked chicken breast.
Source: SBS
Adam Liaw's method for clearing piled-up bread: a savoury bread pudding complete with ham, cheese and spinach for a tasty brekkie.
Put your leftover bread to work and make a bread and butter pudding - sweet or savoury like this ham, cheese and spinach meal. Source: Danielle Abou Karam
A prawn baguette on any given day be a little indulgent, but we're living a little. This season we give you all the permission in the world to use your leftover prawns from Boxing Day! Make sure you've got good-quality bread and plenty of butter.
Prawn baguette with minted cabbage and sumac Source: John Laurie
Turn leftover rice into a quick and satisfying, umami-rich meal by cooking it with butter, garlic and chicken stock powder, then serving it with a fried egg, kimchi and nori seaweed on top.
Garlic butter fried rice Source: Adam Liaw
Don't know what to do with leftover sausages and steaks from the barbeque? Toss them through Japanese curry, and give them a complete makeover!
Source: Adam Liaw
We all love sourdough, but what do we do when it goes stale or we have offcuts? This is a great warming dessert or sliced and served with tea. Rich, flavoursome and very economical to make.
Sourdough bread pudding Source: Peter Kuruvita's Coastal Kitchen
Leftover bread rolls? Cut them horizontally to create a pizza base, spread Silvia Colloca's marinara sauce, and top it with your leftover prawns, meat, veggies with plenty of cheese.
Stale bread “pizzette” Source: Cook like an Italian
This deceptively simple pie is a delicious way to use up the leftovers from a roast dinner. You can also make it vegetarian by using mushrooms instead of leftover roast meat.
Source: Mary Makes It Easy
Who can say no to warm bread-and-butter pudding straight out of the oven, served with vanilla ice-cream? And the beauty of it is that you can always use leftover bread in the pantry.
Osborne pudding Source: Kitti Gould
Got leftover roast vegetables? Jazz them up in this warm, citrusy salad with plenty of kale, walnuts and toasted pumpkin seeds.
Source: Mary's Kitchen Crush
Usually made with shredded cabbage, this take on the Japanese savoury pancake uses up your leftover roast vegetables, bound together with egg and cheese then topped with okonomiyaki's signature barbecue-style sauce and mayonnaise.
Bubble and squeak okonomiyaki Source: Adam Liaw
These bite-sized Indian-inspired samosas are a great way to use up leftover roasted turkey meat over the holiday entertaining period. You can roll them the day before and simply deep-fry them before serving.
Source: Benito Martin
Turn stale, dry bread into a decadent, moist cake that's almost pudding-like. Top it with fresh cherries to serve.
Left-over bread cake with chocolate and cherries (torta di pane e cioccolato) Source: Cook like an Italian
Quiche is a great vehicle to use up leftovers whether its roast vegetables, wilted greens in the fridge, or bits of salmon and cheese...and no one will know! This can be enjoyed warm or cold.
Source: Mary Makes It Easy
Leftover Christmas pudding? Yes, you heard it right. These icy poles were once a pudding, but now laden with brandy and spice, no one will know!
Source: China Squirrel
Looking for a holiday recovery recipe? Then this Mexican-inspired number is it. Nutty quinoa adds substance and it makes use of leftover roast turkey to boot.
Source: Benito Martin
Use up your leftover ham by rolling them into breakfast scrolls. You can roll these a day before and refrigerate (or freeze) them, pop them into the oven and bake them when you wake up.
Turn your leftover chicken into savoury pancakes. In the Netherlands, pancakes come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. In this recipe, the pancake is rolled, almost like a spring roll!
Source: Alan Benson
This American-Sicilian favourite showcases three types of sliced meats, provolone, roast capsicum and a tapenade-style olive salad, all encased in a hollowed-out cob.
Source: Chris Chen
This is quite an elaborate recipe, a riff on an Australian classic iced confection, a reflection on how to upcycle basic ingredients and a lament for wasted bread.
Texture is the name of the game with these breadcrumb-crusted popsicles. Source: Danielle Abou Karam
