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 a very special day. We ate Ham, mac n cheese,sweet peas,asparagus,deviled eggs,potato salad,rolls and my sons special dirty rice We all went to my Sons house..My parents lived in the house 47 years. My Mom passed there in 1997 and my Dad in 2010. My son just bought the house from my Dads estate. It was their first Easter to cook and Host on their own. They did a great job. It was sad and yet happy at the same time. That house as you can imagine holds alot of memories for us all. My son hid eggs for his son in the same yard he hunted them in as a child. Life goes on.
We had pork tenderloin, Pioneer Woman’s mashed potatoes, corn casserole, green beans, Cherry Coke Jello salad, my husband made his mother’s hot rolls, peach tea and Coconut Cream Cheese Cheesecake Dessert. Still have leftovers. Want to try the Jordan rolls.
There was 25 of us, so we had a ton of food and everyone had a take home plate, I fixed your ham with easy glaze, but added pineapple juice and mountain dew, everyone said it was the best Ham ever. sweet & sour green beans,also a big hit and made 2 fresh strawberry pies ( your recipe ) but I think I cooked the glaze for the pies to long ,the glaze was tough Ha, but they ate it anyway. rest of menu – deviled eggs, pickled beets, cucumber&onions, fresh fruit ambroisia, potato salad, brocoli salad, sweet potato casserole, mac&cheese, rolls, peanut butter pie, banana pudding. We had a beautiful day to celebrate our Lord, HE Is RISEN !!! Also the Blessing of a new Grand Baby born on the 20th. Thank-You Christy, for the good recipes I used .
CCHRISTY
DO YOU MAKE SPLIT PEA SOUP WITH LEFT OVER HAM
DO YOU HAVE A GOOD, EASY RECEIPE OR IS THAT JUST A NORTHERN DISH? ITS COLD ENOUGH FOR SOUP TODAY SAD TO SAY
THANK ;YOU
Hey Christy, I made your ham with that wonderful glaze; candied sweet potatoes; green bean casserole; scalloped potatoes; deviled eggs; corn casserole; Jordan rolls. For dessert my daughter in law made a pineapple upside down cake and I made my Mama’s banana pudding! It was all so good, sent most of the leftovers home with my son and his wife, LOL, but saved some ham to make “samiches” (that’s what my Mom calls them) with the leftover rolls!! Glad you had a great Easter also!! <3
My husband and myself, 2 daughters, 2 sons-in-law and 3 grandchildren had a wonderful Easter dinner together. We cooked ham, potato salad, macaroni and cheese, butter beans, broccoli casserole, pineapple casserole, yeast rolls, fresh strawberry cake with strawberry cream cheese frosting, sour cream banana pudding and iced tea. We had a glorious day celebrating the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!!
We were guests for the egg search and for a marvelous meal of boiled shrimp (in the shell) with a horseradish tomato sauce, deviled eggs on a relish tray, a mixed green salad with blue cheese, roasted herbed potatoes, and grilled tri tip beef. For dessert, a choice of mixed fresh fruit and bars made of semi-sweet chocolate, pastel mini-marshmallows and graham cracker pieces.
Very little traditional, but we loved it it all.