We always have left overs. I like to repurpose left overs to make other meals. I don’t like to eat the same thing two days running. Sometimes I will make on extra on purpose. It is cheaper to cook extra for another meal, and saves on time as well. Left overs last 3 or 4 days in the fridge, but can also be frozen for use another day. Here are some things that we do to repurpose 3 classic meals that are on our meal plan most months.
Spaghetti bolognaise
Turn into a cottage pie by putting mashed potato on top
Put it on a pizza base with cheese on top
Use it to make a lasagne
Put it inside pastry to make a pie or pasty
Make savoury pancakes
Make cannelloni
Turn into a soup by adding mini pasta and a can of tomatoes or some tomato puree and water
Fill a baked potato
Eat it on toast
Turn it into a breakfast by heating it in a frying pan and adding eggs.
Fill a wrap and fry it in the air fryer
Cook slices of French stick made into garlic bread on top
Make a sloppy Joe
Chilli
Make into nachos by putting it in between layers of nacho type crisp and grated cheese
Make potato nachos in the same way but with thinly fried potatoes.
Put in a pasty or pie. It is nice with cheese in it too.
Put on pizza and add cheese on top
Make a spicy lasagne with tortillas
Make a toastie
Make a spicy lasagne with pasta
Put a cheesy potato topping on it and serve like a cottage pie
Turn into a soup and add mini pasta or rice.
Make savoury pancakes
Make it into a cobbler with cheese scones on top.
Eat it on toast
Make tacos
Make quesadillas
Make a toastie
Fill ravioli
Fill a jacket potato
Curry
Make pasties (I usually add a bit of mashed potato when making a pasty so that it doesn’t drip every where when you are eating it)
Put it on a pizza with a mild cheese on top
Make a galette
Have it on toast
Fill a jacket potato
Make a pie by adding cooked boiled potatoes to it to fill it out.
Fill a wrap and air fry
Make a curry Frittata with some fresh vegetables in it
Make a Quesadilla
Make a toastie
Make a soup
Add it to a pancake batter for a kind of Indian Yorkshire pudding
Make curried fried rice
Curry and rice stuffed peppers.
Add some curry sauce to hummus to make a curry hummus
Make curry flat breads with the sauce
What do you make with your left overs of these 3 classic meals?
Some great ideas.
I use left over bolognaise in soup, in a pancake, on Jacket potato and inside a spaghetti squash. I don’t like chilli so don’t make it. Curry we sometimes have on a jacket potato or I have put it into soup, or added to a casserole.
Inside a squash is a great idea, thanks
Thanks for you kind feedback
I like making leftover curry into dirty rice . But some great extra ideas . Thank you for sharing x
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Aww, that is so nice of you to say. Thank you. Enjoy your mobility car, and thanks for commenting
I have a leftover bolognese and chili mixed into a cottage pie in the oven as I type! Thanks for the inspiration!
No worries. I hope that you liked it