10 easy-to-make pasta dishes with your Thanksgiving leftovers

• Use your Thanksgiving leftovers in a pasta dish for a unique way to make sure they don’t go to waste.
• Thanksgiving turkey and sides are arguably even more delicious after Thanksgiving Day.
• But there are only a limited number of turkey and cranberry sandwiches that can be eaten on the following days.
• From mashed potato gnocchi to cranberry cream sauce, you can brighten up the way you use your Thanksgiving leftovers with these 10 pasta recipes.
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After spending hours – if not days – in the kitchen preparing an elaborate Thanksgiving meal, the last thing anyone wants to do after the holidays is cook more complex meals.

This is one of the reasons the Thanksgiving turkey sandwich is so popular. You just jam all the leftovers between two slices of bread and enjoy.

But there’s another, perhaps unexpected, carb that serves as the perfect container for all of your Thanksgiving leftovers: pasta.

Here are 10 pasta recipes to cook with leftover Thanksgiving.