It doesn’t take much effort to turn your leftover cooked vegetables into a tempting new meal. In fact, there are plenty of recipes that need vegetables to be pre-cooked, so using leftover veggies will drastically cut down your cooking time. It’s a win-win!

 

So, when you have vegetables from last night (or a few nights ago) in the fridge calling out to be eaten, try one of these easy leftover vegetable ideas.

 

 

 

These are both classic ways to breathe new life into leftover veggies. Most of the ingredients you need will probably already be in your pantry or fridge, too, so there’s no need for another grocery run.

 

Try adding leftover veggies to one of these recipes:

 

 

Putting leftover veg in a pie does double duty, bulking up your pie and clearing out the fridge. The recipe for impossible pasta pie (pictured) is especially written for using up leftover roast vegetables. If you have a lot of leftover veggies, make sure there’s enough sauce and space for them in your pie shell.

 

Pie recipes: