Mashed potatoes in pancakes?

You better believe it!

And we’re just getting started… Read on for a compilation of our favorite recipes with leftover mashed potatoes.

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Photo:Crystal Hughes

Trust us, you won’t miss it once you taste its fresh and flavorful veggies.

Top with your leftover mashed potatoes and pair with a rich red wine for easy dinner perfection.

Sweet Potato Buttermilk Pancakes

Leftover mashed sweet potatoes can be transformed, too!

Vegetarian Shepherd’s Pie served in a white dish.

Caitlin Bensel

Sweet potatoes add a delectable quality to this classic breakfast staple.

Ifpancakes from scratchintimidate you, don’t worry, this recipe is easy to follow.

While traditionally made with lamb, this recipe uses the more accessible and affordable ground beef.

Sweet Potato Buttermilk Pancake

Heami Lee

Either way, this simple version is a total treat.

Prepare the recipe as described, and then mix in your leftover mash to make even more loaded-potato snacks.

These lasagna rolls bake in marinara sauce for a leftover meal no one will roll their eyes at.

Easy Shepherd’s Pie

Marcus Nilsson

Their panko bread crumb coating adds a nice gentle crunch.

Skip it or use other leftovers like sandwich meat or Italian sausage.

Mashed Potato Fries

These crispy-creamy mashed potato fries are best eaten fresh out of the oven.

These two-bite taters are totally addictive, thanks to a cheesy, creamy interior surrounded by thin and crispy potato skin. Get the recipe for Mini Twice-Baked Loaded Potatoes.

Grace Elkus

Mashed Potato Waffles

As if the fact they’re waffles (yay!)

The recipe calls for cassava flour, but tapioca starch or almond flour make a good one-to-one substitute.

Warming spices and ingredients like curry, spinach, and fennel seed, work particularly well here.

Cheesy Potato Casserole

Alison Miksch

Icing sugar adds the finishing touch, but a cinnamon-sugar combo is great, too!

Feel free to add some sauteed leeks or chives in lieu of the recipe’s shallots.

They’re also great reheated for a grab-and-go lunch for work.

Cottage Pie

Jonny Valiant

Parmesan and Herb Potato Pancakes

Pancakes: They’re not just for breakfast anymore.

Serve these savory potato cakes with a dollop of sour cream for the ultimate comfort-food combo.

Enjoy them plain or use them in ourone-pot Italian sausage gnocchi soup recipe.

Simple Shepherd’s Pie in Baking Dish on Top of Blue Kitchen Towel and Served in Small White Bowl, with sprigs of fresh thyme on small black dish

Greg DuPree

Cheesy Mashed Potato Pancakes

Hold the maple syrup!

This recipe recommends topping these pancakes with sour cream and chives.

Potato Croquettes

Simple and classic, potato croquettes are a leftover mashed potato staple.

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Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner

These get a great crunch due to the recipe’s two-step egg-and-then-panko breadcrumb coating.

Use an ice cream scoop and muffin pan to create perfectly even portions.

Loaded Mashed Potato Balls

The Cooking Jar

Mashed Potato Fries

Cookie Named Desire

Mashed Potato Waffles

Do You Even Paleo

Loaded Mashed Potato Egg Rolls

Spend with Pennies

Spinach and Garlic Potato Patties

Diethood

Cheesy Mashed Potato Egg Skillet Casserole

Tbsp

Mashed Potato Doughnuts

Dinner with Julie

Potato Rolls

Spicy Southern Kitchen

Leftover Mashed Potato Cheese Soup

Noble Pig

Mashed Potato and Mushroom Quesadilla

Cooktoria

Potato Cakes From Leftover Mashed Potatoes

Natasha’s Kitchen

Mashed Potato Gnocchi

Macheesmo

Mashed Potato Pancakes

For the Love of Cooking

Potato Croquettes

Goodie Godmother

Cheesy Leftover Mashed Potato Muffins

Just a Taste