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10 Elegant Thanksgiving Side Dishes

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These 10 elegant Thanksgiving side dishes are rich, bright, colorful and easy to create! With vegetarian options, as well as vegan, gluten free, lactose free and low-carb, you’ll have an easy time finding a perfect side-dish for every guest!

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These recipes make traditional favorites a little more special, a little more refined and perfectly elegant. Tailor-made sauces and simple decorative touches spruce up these Thanksgiving standards just so, without adding a lot of time to your preparation!

Help yourself to my favorite, elegant Thanksgiving sides!

1. Beautiful Vegan Squash Rosettes

8 squash rosettes on a wooden tray.
Beautiful Vegan Squash Rosettes
These little vegan squash rosettes are completely vegan, so easy to make and INCREDIBLY delicious!
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5 squash rosettes on a wooden tray.

2. Thanksgiving Salad with Beet, Pear & Apple Cider Vinaigrette

A salad with colorful vegetables, pears, berries and nuts on a lace table cloth with plates and forks in the background.
Thanksgiving Salad with Beet, Pear & Apple Cider Vinaigrette
This roasted beet and pear salad is a perfectly seasonal and colorful salad recipe for Thanksgiving! 
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A beet and pear salad on a plate, on a lace table cloth.

3. Instant Pot Pumpkin Risotto with Caramelized Onions

2 bowls of pumpkin risotto, garnished with sage leaves, on a lace table cloth with 3 small pumpkins in the background.
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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A bowl of pumpkin risotto, garnished with 2 sage leaves, on a lace table cloth beside another bowl and small pumpkin.

4. Sautéed Swiss Chard with Caramelized Shallots

A plate of Swiss chard on a lace table cloth.
Sautéed Swiss Chard with Caramelized Shallots
This delicious sautéed Swiss chard recipe is buttery, garlicky and with balsamic caramelized shallots, it makes for a perfectly fancy dinner party side dish or an elegant way to add more healthy winter greens to your diet.
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A plate of Swiss chard on a lace table cloth.

5. Baked Mashed Potatoes with Roasted Garlic and Herbed Goat Cheese

A bowl of baked mashed potatoes on a table with a lace tablecloth.
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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A bowl of baked mashed potatoes on a table with a lace tablecloth.

6. A Colorful Thanksgiving Crudités

A flower box crudités on a table in front of a pumpkin full of flowers.
A Colorful Thanksgiving Crudités
This colorful flower box Thanksgiving crudités will be the prettiest, and healthiest, display on your appetizer table! With an array of Autumn veggies, a simple flower-box and a little tin foil, this beautiful harvest garden will delight your guests – especially the ones watching their waist-lines.
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A flower box crudités on a table in front of a pumpkin full of flowers.

7. Roasted Brussels Sprouts Salad with Deviled Quail Eggs

A plate of Brussels sprouts salad topped with quail deviled eggs.
Roasted Brussels Sprouts Salad with Deviled Quail Eggs
This earthy, roasted Brussels sprouts salad includes diced green apple, frisée, shaved almonds, shaved parmesan, a dreamy sesame vinaigrette and simple, deviled quail eggs so precious, your dinner guests will swoon at the sight of them!  
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A plate of Brussels sprouts salad topped with quail deviled eggs.

8. Roasted Curry Butternut Squash Soup

A pumpkin gourd full of soup, garnished with almonds, surrounded by dry flowers and more pumpkin gourds on a black table.
Roasted Curry Butternut Squash Soup
You’ll require a medium size mixing bowl, blender or immersion blender and a pot that can hold at least 2 quarts.
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3 pumpkin gourds, one cut open with soup inside, garnished with shaved almonds, with some autumn flowers on the side.

9. Homemade Bread Stuffing with Anjou Pear and Mushroom

A plate of stuffing with a victorian-style fork on a black table with a lave table cloth and a few sprinkles of thyme.
Homemade Bread 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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A plate of stuffing with a victorian-style fork on a black table with a lave table cloth and a few sprinkles of thyme.

10. French Green Beans with Shallots and Sesame Ginger Sauce

A bowl of blistered French green beens and shallots.
French Green Beans with Shallots and Sesame Ginger Sauce
These blistered French green beans with shallots and sesame ginger sauce make a perfectly elevated Thanksgiving or Christmas side dish! 
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A bowl of french green beans with cooked shallots.

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