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Home » Thanksgiving Inspiration » 20 Easy Thanksgiving Recipes

20 Easy Thanksgiving Recipes

Published: Oct 31, 2023 by Genevieve Morrison · This post may contain affiliate links

These Thanksgiving recipes are simple, elegant, and delicious! You’ll find easy, pumpkin-spiced, cozy, colorful, sweet, savory, and seasonal appetizers, cocktails, sides, and desserts that your friends and family will love!

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No one wants to be stuck in the kitchen while friends and family laugh and enjoy each other’s company in the living room. Many of these recipes can be made ahead and reheated just before serving, so you can do the prepping ahead of time and join in the fun!

Sides and desserts can be made the day before, cocktails can be easily made in a batch and salads can be sliced and diced the morning of the party! Enjoy these 20 easy Thanksgiving recipes!

1. Thanksgiving Salad with Beet, Pear, and Apple Cider Vinaigrette

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Thanksgiving Salad with Beet, Pear and Apple Cider Vinaigrette
This roasted beet and pear salad is a perfectly seasonal and colorful salad recipe for Thanksgiving! 
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2. Masala Chai Pumpkin Pie

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Masala Chai Pumpkin Pie
This masala-spiced pumpkin pie has a gingersnap crust that will make your chilly-weather party guests swoon. It's a perfect recipe for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or any cozy party where you really want to impress your guests!
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3. Thanksgiving Deviled Eggs

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Thanksgiving Deviled Eggs
These deviled eggs have a surprising spice that adds a delightful fall flavor: nutmeg. Not a typical deviled egg spice, which makes it just as interesting as delicious!
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4. Mulled Apple Cider Mimosas

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Mulled Apple Cider Mimosas
These sparkly apple cider mimosas taste like bright, autumn sunshine! Simmer your favorite farmer’s market apple cider, a few cinnamon sticks, fresh ginger, tangerine and lemon with a tea infuser of mulling spices to create this elegantly seasonal brunch cocktail!
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5. Massaged Kale Salad with Apple

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Massaged Kale Salad with Apple
This massaged kale salad recipe is such a beautiful, nutritious side dish! With cherry tomatoes, seared asparagus, radicchio, cranberries, pepitas, crumbled blue cheese, and pretty fanned apples, your guests will be so delighted with this crunchy, sweet and savory salad!
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6. Pumpkin Polenta with Mushrooms and Sausage

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Pumpkin Polenta with Mushrooms and Sausage
This creamy, cheesy pumpkin polenta with mixed mushrooms is such a delicious fall brunch or Thanksgiving dinner side dish! With shallots, sausage, herbs, and spices, this simple recipe feeds a crowd and takes just 30 minutes to make!
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Pumpkin polenta with mushrooms in a bowl.

7. Maple Butternut Squash Crostini with Mushrooms

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Maple Butternut Squash Crostini with Mushrooms
These maple butternut squash crostini include perfectly sautéd mushrooms and shallots, fresh herbs and whipped goat cheese! They also include a divine blackberry balsamic glaze that’s so easy to make and so fun to drizzle!
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8. Pumpkin Rice with Fall Vegetables

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Pumpkin Rice with Fall Vegetables
This creamy pumpkin rice recipe includes roasted cauliflower, sautéed zucchini and red onion. Made with wild rice, canned pumpkin puree and a little parmesan to make it creamy, this exquisite Fall side dish will impress every guest at Thanksgiving or the Halloween dinner party! 
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9. Brussels Sprouts with Bacon, Cranberries and Pecans

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Brussels Sprouts with Bacon, Cranberries and Pecans
These Brussels sprouts with bacon, cranberries and smoked, candied pecans are the ultimate Thanksgiving or Christmas side dish! They’re baked in bacon fat till crispy, then mixed with cranberries and candied pecans, spiced with smoked paprika and cayenne pepper! 
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10. Elegant Apricot and Goat Cheese Appetizers

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Elegant Apricot and Goat Cheese Appetizers
These elegant apricot appetizers are topped with goat cheese, walnuts and a drizzle of honey. With only 4 ingredients they’re the simplest appetizers that make a big, tasty impression!
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11. Thanksgiving Hot Toddy

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Thanksgiving Hot Toddy
This Thanksgiving hot toddy is made with orange-spiced Constant Comment tea and flavored with just a few cinnamon sticks and cloves.
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12. Parmesan & Garlic Mashed Cauliflower

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Parmesan & Garlic Mashed Cauliflower
This creamy mashed cauliflower recipe is slightly textured, rustic, requires just 6 main ingredients and takes only 25 minutes to make! It’s keto, cheesy, easy made vegan and healthy! A perfect side dish for a simple family meal or fancy dinner party!
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13. Spiced Cabernet Cranberry Sauce

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Spiced Cabernet Cranberry Sauce
This cranberry sauce is an absolutely perfect complement for Thanksgiving turkey or Christmas goose! It’s bright, complex, so simple to prepare and such an elegant alternative to jiggly, canned cranberry sauce.
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14. Instant Pot Pumpkin Risotto with Caramelized Onions

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Instant Pot Pumpkin Risotto with Caramelized Onions
This pumpkin risotto with balsamic caramelized onions is a creamy, delicately autumn-spiced masterpiece! The easiest, and tastiest autumn side dish for Thanksgiving or any decadent autumn dinner party!
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15. Pumpkin Spice Carrot Cupcakes

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Pumpkin Spice Carrot Cupcakes
These pumpkin spiced carrot cupcakes are full of plump, rum-soaked raisins and are topped with a dreamy salted caramel cream cheese frosting! 
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16. Baked Mashed Potatoes with Roasted Garlic and Herbed Goat Cheese

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Baked Mashed Potatoes with Roasted Garlic and Herbed Goat Cheese
These roasted garlic mashed potatoes are baked to perfection! Heavenly soft and fluffy on the inside, perfectly crispy on the outside – this extra special potato side-dish will deliciously complete a cozy dinner party spread, or be one of the tastiest stars of your Thanksgiving or Christmas menus! 
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17. A Colorful Thanksgiving Crudités

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18. Crispy Roasted Cauliflower with Cheddar & Parmesan

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Crispy Roasted Cauliflower with Cheddar & Parmesan
Roasted cauliflower with crispy, sharp white cheddar and freshly grated parmesan is one of my favorite side dishes for cozy, Autumn dinner parties and Thanksgiving! 
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19. Cranberry Apple Crisp with Maple Granola

Cranberry apple crisp on a plate, topped with whipped cream and sprinkled with marigold flower petals.
Cranberry Apple Crisp with Maple Granola
This delightful cranberry apple crisp recipe is sweet, tart, crispy, chewy and crunchy! It’s so easy to make and can be made without oats and vegan, too!
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Cranberry apple crisp on a plate, topped with whipped cream and sprinkled with marigold flower petals.

20. Homemade Thanksgiving Stuffing with Anjou Pear and Mushroom

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Homemade Thanksgiving Stuffing with Anjou Pear and Mushroom
This traditional homemade bread stuffing recipe is moist and crunchy, flavorful and packed with earthy herbs and spices. The very best stuffing for turkey, duck, chicken or Cornish game hen!
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  1. Stella

    November 13, 2023 at 12:57 pm

    I am from Canada, but will be spending thanksgiving in Houston, Texas this year with my youngest sons family (25 people). We are all contributing to the meal, but I will personally be making 5 of your thanksgiving recipes. I’m so excited. Thank you for the recipes and inspiration!

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    • Genevieve Morrison

      November 14, 2023 at 1:32 am

      Oh how lovely! I hope you and your family enjoy every single one! xox

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  2. Mary

    November 01, 2023 at 5:25 pm

    I would like to tell you how much I enjoy your emails. We are a very county-fied household and eat quite plainly but I absolutely love your dog and all your pictures and the stories that accompany them. Thank you so much for sharing the finer side of life!

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    • Genevieve Morrison

      November 01, 2023 at 6:21 pm

      Oh, you’re just so sweet! This really means a lot to me. When I send off an email, I don’t know what folks think of them. I hope they enjoy what I share (especially photos of little Toby), and I hope I can bring some creative inspiration to people. It makes me so happy to share, so again, it means a lot to know it’s happily received. Thank you, Mary!

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