The day after Thanksgiving you know there will be a ton of leftovers! One of the challenges after Thanksgiving is to find creative ways to come up with tasty meals that use up all that turkey, gravy, and cranberries you have leftover. One popular way to use up those tasty leftovers is to make a gobbler sandwich.
A typical gobbler sandwich is made by topping toasted bread with mayonnaise, shredded turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce. I have come up with a variation on the typical gobbler sandwich that was inspired by one of my favorite episodes of Friends.
This my friends (pun intended), is the gobbler sandwich with a moist maker!
Thanksgiving Leftovers
After unloading my refrigerator and taking inventory, I found cranberry sauce, turkey, and gravy left over from Thanksgiving. I also found some bread, cheese, bacon, butter, and mayonnaise which are ingredients I always have on hand. All the components needed for my version of a gobbler sandwich with a moist maker.
To make the sandwich easy to eat, I used sliced turkey rather than shredded turkey and I didn’t use stuffing because it would fall off.
Building the Gobbler
For maximum enjoyment, this sandwich has to be stacked just right. It starts with a hearty piece of bread, one that can stand up this beast of a sandwich we’re about to create. I’m using one of my favorite breads for a toasted sandwich, which is sour dough.
For the perfect stack, begin with a piece of bread, buttered on the outside and smothered with mayonnaise on the inside. First, lay the bread down, mayonnaise side up, buttered side down. Spread some cranberries, add a layer of your favorite cheese and then some sliced turkey. Next, soak a piece of bread in hot gravy to create the “moist maker”. Top the turkey with the moist maker, then add more cheese and some cooked bacon. Top it off with another piece of bread spread with mayonnaise on the inside. Butter the top of your sandwich and bake at 350 degrees until the bread is golden brown, about 10-15 minutes.
The gobbler sandwich with a moist maker has to be the ultimate sandwich! It’s like a whole turkey dinner in one bite. That’s how to do Thanksgiving leftovers!
If you like this recipe, you might also like some of my other sandwich recipes
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Gobbler Sandwich with a Moist Maker
Ingredients
- 3 pieces sour dough bread
- 4 tbsp mayonnaise
- 4 tbsp butter
- 2 tbsp cranberry sauce
- 4 slices provologne cheese
- 2 slices leftover turkey
- 1/4 cup gravy hot
- 2 slices bacon cooked
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
- On two of the slices of the sour dough bread, spread one side with 2 Tbsp mayonnaise and the other side with 2 Tbsp butter
- Lay one slice of the bread down with the mayonnaise side up
- Spread the cranberry sauce on the bread
- Top the cranberry sauce with 2 slices of cheese
- Add the turkey
- Soak the 3rd slice of bread in the gravy and put on top of the turkey
- Add the last 2 slices of cheese
- Add the cooked bacon
- Top with bread buttered side up
- Bake 10-15 minutes or until golden brown
