20 easy leftover ham recipes after your big holiday dinner. The perfect way to create new life from ordinary leftovers!
Here are some of the best leftover ham recipes. Let’s face it, after spending days in the grocery store and kitchen, shopping, prepping and preparing for the holiday meal, the last thing you want to do for the rest of the week is to have to cook. This is why special occasions also call for easy and creative leftover recipes, which are a great addition to your holiday traditions.
For Easter dinner my family always makes a spiral ham, and we almost always end up with a lot of leftover ham. One of my favorite recipes to make our Easter ham is Crockpot Ham. Good news is that you can put that extra ham to good use, and it is a delicious way to repurpose holiday leftovers. From creamy ham casseroles, classic ham salad, ham hash to potato soup, some of my favorite things are made from holiday season leftovers.
Here is a list of the best leftover ham recipes that are perfect for creating new dishes with great flavor that doesn’t feel like leftovers!
Leftover Ham Recipes
20 easy leftover ham recipes after your big holiday dinner. Breathe new life into your leftovers and create meals your family can eat throughout the week.
Baked Ham and Cheese Sliders
Baked Ham and Cheese Sliders – Juicy ham and sliced cheese baked in soft brioche buns and topped with a buttery mustard, onion, and poppy seed sauce. Quick, easy, and a family-favourite!
The BEST Easy Slow Cooker Cheesy Potato Soup (great recipe for leftover ham!)
This rich, thick, and creamy soup is a great way to use up leftover holiday ham! Made in your slow cooker, and using shortcuts like frozen hash brown potatoes, this delicious soup requires very little effort on your part.
Classic Ham & White Bean Soup
This classic Ham and White Bean Soup is cozy, healthy, and absolutely delicious. It’s packed with lots of protein and healthy vegetables, and it’s a great way to repurpose leftover ham into something new and wonderful!
Ham Cheese and Cranberry Rollups
Ham Cheese and Cranberry Rollups are a festive appetizer for the holidays featuring ham, cheese and cranberry sauce rolled and baked in a crescent roll. These warm, savory rollups will be a big hit at your next get together!
Flaky & Buttery Ham Pot Pie
This flaky and buttery Ham Pot Pie has the same idea as Chicken Pot Pie, but it’s just as delicious. A creamy filling with ham and vegetables served piping hot with a buttery and flaky topping is a dinner that your whole family will enjoy.
Ham and Potato Soup (Without Milk)
This homemade old fashioned Healthy Ham and Potato Soup recipe is easy and a great way to use leftover ham! It's made without milk or dairy.
Easy Takeout-Style Pork Fried Rice Recipe
This Chinese restaurant takeout-style Pork Fried Rice recipe is a quick, easy, and delicious one-pot meal. It’s also the best way to use up leftover cooked rice.
Easy Ham & Potato Soup Recipe
An Easy Ham & Potato Soup Recipe everyone will love! Make it in your crockpot, instant pot or on the stove. Creamy & delicious!
Pasta with Ham and Peas
Easy and quick Pasta with Ham and Peas. Perfect for using up any leftover ham or if you need a dinner the entire family will love! This pasta recipe comes together super quick and uses bright flavours to transform this dish into a scrumptious family-approved meal.
Split Pea Soup with Ham
Yellow Split Pea Soup with Ham is the perfect use of the holiday ham bone to make a hearty, comforting and traditional soup. This delicious split pea soup recipe is simmered slowly to get the perfect thickness from the split peas and to let all the additional aromatics come together.
Easy Instant Pot Macaroni and Cheese with Ham
Making mac and cheese in the instant pot is such an easy dinner - and adding diced ham rounds out the meal!
Crockpot Ham and Cabbage
Make the most out of leftover ham with this crockpot ham and cabbage recipe! Vegetables paired with ham in a creamy broth make this stew the ultimate comfort food — plus it’s easy to prepare.
Jalapeno Ham Hash
Whether making this with ham fresh from the deli or leftover holiday ham, Jalapeno Ham Hash is a flavor-packed one skillet recipe that leaves you wanting more! Sweet, salty and spicy, it’s great on its own or as a side dish. So good with an over easy egg on top!
Ham, piccalilli and cucumber sandwich.
This ham sandwich recipe is so incredibly tasty, I just had to share it. I tasted it earlier this year at the Edwardian Kitchen at the Pollok House in Glasgow. The ham sandwich includes a delicious addition of piccalilli and cucumber!
Easy Potato Skillet Breakfast With Ham
Root around for a few potatoes, dice up some leftover ham and veggies, throw on an egg if you like and you’ve got yourself a yummy, easy potato skillet breakfast (or dinner).
Pasta alla Papalina; recipe from Rome.
Pasta alla papalina is a creamy pasta recipe from Rome named after Pope Pius XII, who was the inspiration behind its invention. Usually made with fettuccine, this dish is super simple to make and a great way to use up leftover ham!
Traditional Deviled Ham Salad
How to make deviled ham salad in just 10 minutes! This homemade ham salad recipe using leftover ham and hard boiled eggs can be served so many ways and makes a great lunch. Use it to top salads, on its own, or as deviled ham spread on bread. Use your leftover ham from Easter in this easy recipe!
Bunsteads: Traditional Hot Ham Salad Sandwiches
If you’ve never had hot ham salad sandwiches, you’re missing out. It’s the perfect flavor combination. Some links in this article are affiliate links that earn me a commission if you purchase through them.
Schinkennudeln (German Ham and Egg Pasta)
Schinkennudeln is a simple German pasta dish featuring pan-fried noodles with ham and scrambled eggs. A quick and easy dinner idea that the whole family will love – ready in under 30 minutes!
Hawaiian Chopped Ham Salad is a twist on traditional ham salad
A Ham Salad recipe is delicious any time but especially perfect when using up extra holiday ham. This Hawaiian Chopped Ham Salad is a fun twist on the traditional versions!
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