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33 of the best recipes for Christmas leftovers

Otherwise known as delicious ways to minimise post-Christmas food waste.
Prawn and sesame toasts
Prawn and sesame toasts.
Alicia Taylor

The presents are unwrapped, the good tableware put away and the in-laws are out the door. Breathe a sigh of relief — Christmas is over for another year. But what about all the bits that didn’t get eaten? Don’t let them go waste – we have recipes to give those leftovers a delicious encore (and minimise food waste at the same time). These are 33 of the best Christmas leftover recipes to see you through Boxing Day.

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Yabby jaffles

Yabby jaffles

Recipe for yabby jaffles by Sean McConnell from Canberra restaurant Monster.
Three prawns on lemongrass skewers with strips of mango and coconut topped with chillies, mint, and shallots on a white plate.

Lemongrass prawns with gỏi xoài

Gỏi xoài is a traditional Vietnamese green mango salad with a zesty dressing. In this recipe, we used ripe sweet mangoes to balance the sharp green mango and tart salad dressing.
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Bloody Mary prawn rolls

Bloody Mary prawn rolls

Vodka-pickled prawns, soft pull-apart rolls and a generous slather of mayonnaise. It’s the sandwich of summer.
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Cuban sandwiches

Cuban sandwiches

The Cubano, or Cuban sandwich, is like a ham and cheese sandwich on steroids, made with roast pork as well as ham, and pickles and mustard.
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The Hawaiian

The Hawaiian

Is Hawaiian pizza your guilty pleasure? If so, this one’s for you. Inspired by Bar Brosé’s “late-night sandwich”, this is all about tangy pineapple pickle and excellent leg ham and Gruyère.
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