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THE THANKSGIVING LEFTOVER RECIPE WE WAIT ALL YEAR TO MAKE

You’ll want to make double the mashed potatoes just to have leftovers.

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Mashed potatoes have long been an essential part of traditional Thanksgiving
dinner. Making too much food (sometimes on purpose) is another. If you’re going
to go to all the work of putting together a feast, you might as well have
leftovers to enjoy in the days following. 



There are many ways to repurpose leftover mashed potatoes. You can use them as a
topping for shepherd’s pie, make tender potato biscuits, or fill pierogi with
them. One of our favorite leftover mashed potato recipes is mashed potato
pancakes. We particularly love this Crispy Mashed Potato Pancake recipe because
it’s simple and customizable. 




WHAT IS A MASHED POTATO PANCAKE?

Making mashed potato pancakes is easy. Mix mashed potatoes with eggs, flour, and
seasoning, form them into one big pancake (or several small pancakes), and fry
it in a skillet. The outside gets crispy, and the inside is warm and fluffy. 



If you choose to make one big mashed potato pancake, here’s a tip for flipping
it without falling apart. After cooking the first side, slide the pancake onto a
large plate. Put another large plate upside-down on top and flip the whole thing
over. The uncooked side will now be on the bottom of the second plate, and you
can slide it back into the pan unbroken.



You can serve these Crispy Mashed Potato Pancakes as a breakfast dish, a side
dish with dinner, or—our favorite way—as a snack on the Friday after
Thanksgiving as you're sitting on your couch binging holiday movies. 



The recipe creates a tasty but plain mashed potato pancake, and our readers have
many suggestions for jazzing it up. 



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WHAT TO ADD TO MASHED POTATO PANCAKES

Think of this mashed potato pancake as a clean slate. You can add any of your
favorite seasonings, fresh herbs, cheese, vegetables, or proteins—whatever
sounds good!



Allrecipes readers had plenty of suggestions for customizing this dish and a few
tips for success: 


 * Member SherryBerry1 wanted to add some green veggies to her potato pancake,
   so she added chopped leftover French-style green beans.
 * One anonymous commenter added seasoned salt, minced garlic, chopped green
   onions, and shredded cheese.
 * Another unnamed reader added cooked bacon and shredded mozzarella. 
 * One reader added fried bacon and grated sharp cheddar before cooking and
   topped the hot potato pancake with sour cream, saying it tasted “just like a
   twice-baked potato.” 
 * According to Allrecipes member Tana Johnson, the recipe works with mashed
   potatoes that are already jazzed up, like cheesy, garlic mashed potatoes.
 * Toppings can jazz up the recipe, too. Member Missi K tops hers with ranch
   dip, and her dad pours on maple syrup. Member Benjamin Davis covers his in
   salsa.
 * Member Rodney Jones was precise with how he changed up the recipe. He doubled
   the garlic, added salt and pepper, a few dashes of Tabasco sauce, two dashes
   of cayenne pepper, 1/8 cup of good Parmigiano Reggiano, 1/8 cup of finely
   grated cheddar, and about half a teaspoon of parsley. He rolled them into
   balls, coated them in flour, and fried them in light extra virgin olive oil
   and one tablespoon of butter. 
   
 * Finally, member donnellyk kept a helpful tip for making smaller potato
   pancakes in batches. Keep all the potato pancakes in the refrigerator, and
   don’t take them out until you’re ready to fry them. While frying the first
   batch, the following sets should remain in the fridge. Starting with cold
   pancakes helps them keep their shape and not break when you flip them.
   

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