Thanksgiving Stuffed Potato Skins
Thanksgiving Stuffed Potato Skins are the perfect recipe for holiday leftovers. These twice-baked potatoes are filled with turkey, stuffing, cheese, and cranberry sauce and take leftovers to an entirely different level.
We love turkey sandwiches as much as the next couple, but it’s nice to do something unexpected with Thanksgiving and Christmas leftovers sometimes. That’s why we love these stuffed potatoes. They’re loaded with all the best flavors of the holidays, and they’re so easy to make!
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❤️ Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Easy Ingredients: Leftovers from even the most basic holiday meal will be enough to make these.
- Easy to Make: It only takes a few minutes of prep and a little baking to make these potatoes.
- Delicious Holiday Flavor: These potatoes are stuffed with classic holiday flavor.
🛒Ingredients
Everything you need to make these twice-baked potatoes is probably in your kitchen the day after Thanksgiving. We’ve listed all the ingredients here, but you can find their exact amounts in the recipe card at the end of the post.
- Baked potatoes
- Salt and pepper
- Leftover mashed potatoes or the meat from the baked potatoes
- Leftover turkey
- Leftover stuffing
- Shredded sharp white cheddar cheese
- Cranberry sauce
- Scallions
🔪 How to Make Thanksgiving Stuffed Potato Skins
This is a very straightforward recipe. It’s simply a holiday-themed version of twice-baked potatoes, so anyone can make them!
Step 1: Prep
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and cut each baked potato in half lengthwise. Scoop out the insides of the potato halves, leaving enough in place so the skins are stable.
Step 2: Season the Skins
Place the skins on a baking sheet and sprinkle the insides with salt and pepper.
Step 3: Make the Filling
Combine the mashed potatoes, stuffing, and turkey in a large mixing bowl.
Step 4: Fill
Divide the turkey mixture evenly between the six potato skins and sprinkle with cheese.
Step 5: Bake
Bake the potatoes for 15 minutes or until golden brown.
Step 6: Serve
Top the potatoes with cranberry sauce and scallions and enjoy!
📝Variations
Do you want to change up this recipe and make it your own? Here are some ways that you can do that!
- Spicy: Add some red pepper flakes for more flavor and a kick of heat.
- Dressing: If you make dressing for the holidays, that will work just as well as stuffing.
- Turkey: You can use leftover ham or prime rib, as well.
- Sweet Potatoes: For even more holiday flavor, use sweet potatoes.
Check out these bacon cheddar smashed potatoes for even more cheesy, delicious potato goodness.
🥄 Equipment
- Mixing bowl
- Baking sheet
- Knife
- Spoon
🥫 Storage
Refrigerate these potatoes for up to 3 days in an air-tight container.
To reheat the potatoes, microwave them at 30-second intervals until heated through, or bake them covered at 350 until heated through.
What to Serve with Thanksgiving Stuffed Potato Skins
If you have other holiday leftovers, these stuffed potato skins will work well with them. Try serving them alongside green bean casserole, corn casserole, mac and cheese, or any of your other holiday leftover sides.
💭 Tips
- Be sure to leave an edge of potatoes along the skins so they won’t collapse or break apart under the weight of the filling.
- Using a small cookie scoop is the easiest way to remove the potato from the skin with as much control and precision as possible.
- Remove the potatoes as soon as they’re golden brown. You only need to heat them through and melt the cheese.
⁉️ FAQ
Do you have questions about this recipe? Here are the answers to the most commonly asked questions.
Thanksgiving stuffed potato skins are a variation of twice-baked potatoes made with Thanksgiving leftovers.
Although the terms are sometimes used interchangeably, stuffing and dressing are not the same. Stuffing is made with breadcrumbs, while dressing is usually made with cornbread. They can be used interchangeably in this recipe, however.
Russet potatoes are best for stuffed potatoes. They have a classic texture, and their skin is thick enough to stand up to the stuffing and baking process.
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🧾Recipe Card
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Thanksgiving Stuffed Potato Skins
Equipment
- Knife
- baking sheet
- large bowl
Ingredients
- 6 baking potatoes
- Salt and pepper
- 1 ½ cups leftover mashed potatoes or potatoes from the baked potatoes
- 1 ½ cups leftover turkey
- 1 ½ cups leftover stuffing
- ½ cup shredded sharp white cheddar
- ½ cup cranberry sauce
- Scallions
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Cut each potato in half lengthwise.
- Scoop out the inside of the potato but leave a little so it’s stable.
- Place the potato skins on a baking tray.
- Sprinkle the potatoes with salt and pepper.
- In a large mixing bowl combine the mashed potatoes, stuffing and turkey.
- Spoon the turkey mixture evenly into the 6 skins.
- Sprinkle with the cheese.
- Bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown.
- Top with the cranberry sauce.
- Sprinkle with the scallions.
- Serve!
