A great use for leftover turkey, this Turkey Salad Sandwich with Honey Mustard Recipe is great for lunch or an easy dinner. You can also substitute cooked, shredded chicken for the turkey.

Give me all the leftover turkey, especially when it means making this Turkey Salad Sandwich, White Turkey Chili, or Turkey Noodle Soup!

Every Thanksgiving, I look forward to that day after Thanksgiving turkey sandwich. The one that has to be made on soft, white bread, with nothing but mayonnaise, turkey, salt and pepper. But once I’ve had my turkey sandwich, it’s time to get creative with those turkey leftovers!

Enter this Turkey Salad Sandwich. It’s like your favorite chicken salad sandwich, but loaded with lots of fall flavors. Plus leftover turkey!

This is a great day after Thanksgiving meal. Nice and easy and crowd pleasing!

Ingredients for this Turkey Salad Sandwich with Honey Mustard

For the sauce, you’ll need mayonnaise, Dijon mustard and honey. Feel free to use low fat mayonnaise or regular mustard – you can really make this how you like it!
Then of course you’ll need the turkey. You can dice it or shred it – whichever is easiest for you!
Then come the fall flavors – diced apples, dried cranberries, and pumpkin seeds. Feel free to peel the apple or keep the peel on and use whatever kind of apple you have on hand. I have also thrown in some halved grapes before, too – and that was delicious.
Last Ingredient is the bread. Again, this is all preference. I have them here with a sturdy wheat bread, but white bread works, multigrain is delicious, and for a real indulgence, you can use croissants.

Tips and Tricks

Cut all of your ingredients similar sizes. If not similar, then at least cut them small. Otherwise, the sandwich is just really hard to eat.
If you don’t have leftover turkey, cooked, shredded chicken works just as well!
Pumpkin seeds are usually fairly easy to find – especially in the fall. The shelled seeds are usually called pepitas. You can often find them next to the sunflower seeds or in the bulk section.
This is easy to make ahead. Make the turkey salad mixture and store in the refrigerator until needed. You could make the whole sandwich, but I wouldn’t do that unless you are going to be eating it within a few hours.
Store any leftover turkey salad covered in the refrigerator for 3-5 days.

two half turkey salad sandwiches stacked on top of each other

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