Recipes for Leftover Potatoes

Got leftover potatoes? Here are a few ideas on how to transform and re-purpose those leftover potatoes, whether they're leftover baked potatoes or leftover mashed, oven-roasted, boiled or sweet potatoes. Many of these recipes can be made with either, so browse them all!

Leftover Mashed Potatoes

• Shepherd's pie with vegetables: Broccoli, mushrooms, and cauliflower are baked in a creamy sauce and topped with mashed potatoes.
• Potato patties with Swiss chard: Vibrantly colorful and made with leftover mashed potatoes, these pan-fried are quick and easy to make and keep and freeze well. A great way to use up leftover mashed potatoes.
• Vegan breakfast potato patties: Combine your leftover mashed potatoes with a bit of flour and egg replacer for a basic fried potato patty. 
• Meatless shepherd's pie with lentils: Instead of meat, the vegetarian recipe uses lentils and can be made with leftover baked, boiled, or mashed potatoes.
• Shepherd's pie with mashed potatoes: Shepherd's pie is a great way to use up leftover Thanksgiving gravy as well as leftover mashed potatoes.
• Parmesan mashed potato patties: Another potato patty recipe, this one is made with leftover mashed potatoes and pan-fried until crispy.

Leftover Baked, Boiled, or Roasted Potatoes

• Traditional Potatoes O'Brien: With pre-cooked, leftover roasted or baked potatoes, this recipe will be super quick and easy.
• Potato and tempeh hash recipe: Sautee leftover boiled, baked, or roasted potatoes with tempeh for a high-protein breakfast hash.

Leftover Mashed Sweet Potatoes

• Sweet potato muffins: Turn your leftover mashed sweet potatoes into homemade muffins.
• Sweet Potato Muffin Cup Pies: A recipe for sweet potato pie, scaled down and cooked using a muffin tin. 
• Sweet potato biscuits: Homemade biscuits made with mashed sweet potatoes.

Roasted or Boiled Sweet Potatoes

• Sweet potato and quinoa veggie burgers: This unique recipe calls for mashed cooked sweet potatoes.
• Sweet potato risotto: Leftover, roasted sweet potatoes can be pureed to add to a saucy vegetarian risotto in this recipe. 
• Sweet potato lasagna: Use either cooked or mashed sweet potatoes in this vegetarian lasagna roll recipe.
• Sweet potato and black bean chili: Use pre-cooked sweet potatoes and reduce the simmering time.
• Pumpkin and sweet potato soup: Disguise your leftover sweet potatoes as a bowl of vibrant and colorful pumpkin soup.