Here are a bunch of easy leftover ham recipes to use after the holidays. How to use your diced ham after Easter, Thanksgiving or Christmas. Thrown into hearty soups, a breakfast casserole, or make our Leftover ham turnovers!

Even before Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas arrive we are already looking for easy leftover ham recipes. We have used it in the best leftover turkey recipe with this meat instead, and all of these. We know we will need quite a few using cubed ham. (affiliate links present)

We always have oven baked ham leftovers and hate being wasteful. We've made several things ourselves but we thought about including a few more ideas this year from other bloggers. Enjoy your holidays and try something new this year with your leftover sliced ham from the big meal.

Leftover Ham Soup

Our Loaded Baked Potato Soup is something we make often. My daughter even asked for it for Christmas dinner this year! You can use diced meat from the day before or add a ham hocks into the middle so the meat falls off the bone when done.

How long is leftover ham good for?

It is not unlike any other food kept in the fridge, generally 3 days is recommended but you could stretch it to 5 typically. It is best if you only slice what you are going to eat then and there or it will dry out. Leaving it in a larger chunk will keep it moist.

This totally loaded baked potato soup in the crockpot is super easy recipe to make and so good! You only need a few ingredients and it only costs about $10 to feed up to 6 people. Stovetop and pressure cooker potato soup instructions included too so you can cook it any way you want. #potato #soup #loaded #crockpot #slowcooker #pressurecooker #cheese

We've got lots of suggestions if you want something thicker more like a casserole or side dish like our slow cooker ham and beans or Crockpot ham and potatoes dishes.

Are you sick of the regular old?? We're here with a few tweaks like air fryer sandwiches and ready to try other leftover ham recipes now too!

What can you make with leftover ham other than sandwiches?

Of course you can make some scrambled eggs, dice up what's left and throw that in. Use your air fryer and make an ninja foodi breakfast omelette of sorts. Or try ham and cheese roll ups that can be thrown together in no time for dinner! When it's cold outside and we have meat to use we love adding it into a hearty soup like Instant Pot lentil soup with ham.

What is the best recipe with leftover ham?

Your leftover Christmas ham has endless possibilities for breakfast, lunch or dinner. We hate to waste food in general but more so if it was once good and we know it would add a ton of flavor to other dishes the next day, or throughout the week. Think way beyond sandwiches, those are totally boring Ham Pot Pie is better.

If you love leftover ham soups we have a bunch of those. They're probably our favorite because you can throw in a bunch of ingredients, boil and serve it up with a few rolls.

Our Instant Pot potato cheese soup is great to throw leftover ham into. Then make a hash brown casseroleor air fryer hashbrowns in the morning for your crew. Added into scrambled ham and eggs with cheddar cheese is an easy one but that is the beginning.

Throw it into an Instant Pot casserole for a cheesy pasta dish if you like. We know not everyone is small appliance obsessed like we are so we'll include the “old fashioned” method of cooking in a Crock as well below. We still use that for sure but our go to is a pressure cooker nowadays.

Slow cooker scalloped potatoes are always better with diced ham
Green beans with ham and potatoes works well
Ham and cheese breakfast bites are solid when you're on the go
- These savory breakfast muffins are solid bites.

Crockpot split pea soup and/or Instant Pot split pea soup recipe are solid with ham thrown in. If you do you won't need any seasonings at the end. That is another plus because there is enough sodium in the meat, and flavor, that adds to the otherwise bland vegetable soup. So killer our husband who hates peas actually thinks this is good.

How to Use Ham Leftovers

This year we came up with a best leftover ham recipe that uses puff pastry and our kids loved them! Anything they can pick up and becomes finger food of sorts is always a huge winner to them, and makes us a hero for dinner.

Make our tetrazzini recipe with this precooked meat
You can make slow cooker cabbage and ham all diced up.
Baked macaroni & cheese with ham from Who Needs a Cape!
Major Hoff Takes A Wife makes cheesy ham & potato pie with her leftover ham!

What to make with a lot of ham

Make our creamy Crockpot ham and potato soup with a few cups of leftovers or a pork shank thrown in there to get tender all day.

Us Four has a killer ham and swiss cheese rollup lasagna recipe.
She also made a great looking ham and vegetable quinoa dish to try.

Our asparagus casserole recipe is yummy with leftover ham. We mean every time this veggie is in season we buy several bunches. It is our favorite and can be cooked multiple ways. Serve this as a unique brunch or breakfast idea when people come over.

Plate of a good egg asparagus casserole on a colorful tablecloth, solid for breakfast.

Slice thin and make a fun appetizer like our dill pickle roll ups! Here is one for cheesy ham rollups that is easy! You can make them in your oven or this way as air fryer chicken cordon bleu with it diced up small.

use Pillsbury crescent sheet, ham, swiss cheese, and put a bit of dill into mayo. to swipe on.

Best Leftover Ham Recipes

By Best leftover ham recipes to use after the holidays. Diced up and baked with cheese in crescent rolls and enjoy these ham turnovers. Prep: 10 minutes minsCook: 8 minutes minsServings: 4 Save Recipe Saved! Pin Recipe Comment Print Recipe

Equipment

Ingredients

1.5 – 2 c ham, diced small
1.5 c cheese, we use Swiss, diced small or shredded
1/2 c mayonnaiseor a bit more so everything is coated
1 pkg crescent rolls
1/4 tsp dill
salt and pepper, to taste

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 F. Spray holes in muffin tin with non stick spray.
In a bowl add all ingredients and toss together so everything is coated with mayo, if you need a bit more so it is all wet then add a bit more.
Open and unroll pkg. of crescent rolls. Put one roll in each muffin tin hole with the large part of the triangle in the bottom and the thinner part hanging over the side.
Add 1 heaping Tbsp of filling into the middle of each hole. Pull and fold over the top of the raw roll over the top and tuck under so the most of the top is covered as you can without ripping it.
Bake for 8-10 minutes or until the tops are golden browned.
Sit in pan when done for 5 minutes, scoop out with a spoon and serve.

Nutrition

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

Additional Info

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More great leftover ham recipes from other bloggers we love!

Here's tortellini alfredo with ham and peas to try from Cupcake Diaries. This cheesy scalloped potatoes with ham from Love Bakes Good Cakes…yum!! A Dish of Daily Life has a yummy creamy pasta with ham and peas dish to try!

Try these broccoli, ham and cheese bake from Serena Bakes from Scratch! Ham pinwheels by Mom on Timeout would be a great appetizer or meal. This Ham dip from Buns in our Oven looks good.

Take a look at our instant pot soup recipes for more ideas. Hope you gathered some great ideas on how to use leftover ham this year…do you have another recipe you love? If you have other leftover ham recipes let us know so we can add them to our list!