30 Thanksgiving Side Dish Recipes

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From classic stuffing and creamy mashed potatoes to tangy cranberry sauce, this collection of Thanksgiving side dishes has it all. Discover exciting twists on traditional favorites and sample delicious new recipes that will wow your holiday table!

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The BIG food day is just around the corner, and I’ve rounded up something for everyone in this amazing collection of 30 Thanksgiving side dish recipes! Whether you’re hosting or bringing a dish to share, these recipes will make your holiday prep a breeze.

From classic Thanksgiving sides like sweet potatoes and Brussels sprouts to new and exciting dishes that are sure to impress, this list has it all. Each recipe is easy to make and guaranteed to please, so you can focus on enjoying the holiday without the stress of complicated cooking. Let’s make this Thanksgiving the tastiest one yet!

If you are looking for more inspiration, check out my Thanksgiving menu for a full spread of holiday favorites. And don’t forget to take care of those leftovers with my delicious Thanksgiving leftovers recipes—perfect for keeping the holiday flavors going!

Instant Pot Loaded Mashed Cauliflower - Cheesy, garlicky, flavor loaded mashed cauliflower prepared in the Instant Pot! This is the perfect, most delicious low-carb swap for mashed potatoes!
5 from 2 votes

Instant Pot Loaded Mashed Cauliflower

Cheesy, garlicky, flavor loaded mashed cauliflower prepared in the Instant Pot! This is the perfect, most delicious low-carb swap for mashed potatoes!
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Garlicky and Cheesy Cauliflower Broccoli Bake - A lighter version of everyone's favorite rich and cheesy cauliflower broccoli bake! Or is it casserole? Gratin? Whatevs, it's still so darn good!
4.92 from 23 votes

Cauliflower Broccoli Bake

This Cauliflower Broccoli Bake is a veggie-loaded cheesy classic packed with bold flavors and plenty of comfort! Loaded with cheese and garlic, it’s the ultimate side dish for any meal.
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Cheesy Brussels Sprouts with Bacon title card featuring a close up of roasted Brussels sprouts covered in cheese sauce.
4.86 from 27 votes

Brussel Sprouts with Bacon

Creamy and cheesy Brussel Sprouts with Bacon are roasted to perfection and dressed to impress in a delicious, garlicky parmesan cream sauce.
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Honey Garlic Butter Roasted Carrots Recipe - Easy, simple, wonderfully delicious roasted carrots prepared with the most incredible garlic butter and sweet honey sauce.
4.73 from 118 votes

Honey Garlic Butter Roasted Carrots

Easy and wonderfully delicious glazed roasted carrots prepared with the most incredible garlic butter and sweet honey sauce.
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Creamed Spinach in a skillet
4.93 from 13 votes

Creamed Spinach Recipe

Creamy, cheesy, delicious, and easy Creamed Spinach Recipe prepared with cream cheese and spinach! It’s the perfect side dish and goes great with any main course.
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Garlic Butter Cauliflower Rice with Spinach - Easy, crunchy, incredibly flavorful Garlic Butter Cauliflower Rice is simple, healthy, and so surprisingly GOOD! 
4.70 from 13 votes

Garlic Butter Cauliflower Rice with Spinach

Easy, crunchy, incredibly flavorful Garlic Butter Cauliflower Rice is simple, healthy, and so surprisingly GOOD!
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Bacon-Wrapped Green Beans | www.diethood.com | Fresh green beans wrapped in bacon, sprinkled with brown sugar and a drizzle of balsamic vinegar.
5 from 2 votes

Bacon Wrapped Green Beans

These bacon wrapped green beans are sweet, smoky, salty, and the perfect side dish for any holiday spread. The beans are tender, the bacon is crispy, and they're super easy to make.
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Sweet potatoes fanned out in a baking dish and topped with parsley pesto.
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Sweet Potato Roast

Sweet Potato Roast features tender, delicious roasted sweet potatoes flavored with butter, spices, and a drizzle of homemade parsley pesto.
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Garlic Brown Butter Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Carrots - Incredible Holiday side dish with brussels sprouts and carrots tossed in garlic brown butter and roasted to a delicious perfection!
4.84 from 6 votes

Garlic Brown Butter Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Carrots

These Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Carrots are an incredible holiday side dish recipe. Tossed in garlic brown butter and roasted to a delicious perfection, these veggies are always a hit!
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Garlic Parmesan Roasted Vegetables - Butternut squash, potatoes, peppers, and onions tossed in the best garlic parmesan dressing prepared with balsamic vinegar, herbs, seasonings, garlic, and olive oil.
5 from 6 votes

Garlic Parmesan Roasted Vegetables

Butternut squash, potatoes, peppers, and onions tossed in the best garlic parmesan dressing prepared with balsamic vinegar, herbs, seasonings, garlic, and olive oil.
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Creamy Broccoli and Cheese with Bacon - Cheesy broccoli and crispy bacon baked in a creamy, deliciously flavorful cheese sauce!
5 from 1 vote

Creamy Broccoli and Cheese with Bacon

Cheesy broccoli and crispy bacon baked in a creamy, deliciously flavorful cheese sauce!
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Slow Cooker Cranberry sauce in a serving dish with a spoon.
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Slow Cooker Spiced Cranberry Sauce

Slow Cooker Spiced Cranberry Sauce is made with tart fresh cranberries, bright citrus flavors, and warm fall spices! This easy Cranberry Sauce is the perfect Thanksgiving side.
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Overhead view of a pumpkin bread loaf cut into slices on a wire rack.
5 from 4 votes

Pumpkin Bread

This easy pumpkin bread recipe is a fluffy, flavorful quick bread filled with pumpkin, cozy fall spices, and crunchy pecans.
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Close up view of oven roasted Brussels sprouts tossed in honey balsamic glaze.
5 from 12 votes

Oven Roasted Brussels Sprouts

Crispy oven roasted Brussels sprouts are the ultimate veggie side dish! This is an easy method for flavorful Brussels sprouts with perfectly caramelized edges.
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Close-up image of Maple Glazed Roasted Butternut Squash with Brussels Sprouts served in a white dish.
4.95 from 17 votes

Roasted Butternut Squash with Brussels Sprouts

A perfect side dish for your Holiday meals featuring Roasted Butternut Squash with Brussels Sprouts coated with a delicious maple glaze.
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Overhead image of cornbread muffins served on a round plate.
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Cranberry Orange Corn Muffins

Infused with a fresh orange flavor and studded with cranberries, these Corn Muffins are great for breakfast, a snack, or a holiday feast!
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Mashed Sweet Potatoes served in a large white bowl with a spoon in the potato mash.
5 from 13 votes

Mashed Sweet Potatoes

Sweet potatoes and Yukon potatoes are mashed with butter, sour cream, cayenne pepper, and a sprinkle of light brown sugar to make the best and tastiest Mashed Sweet Potatoes.
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Overhead image of stirring green bean casserole with a wooden spoon.
5 from 9 votes

Green Bean Casserole Recipe

This easy Green Bean Casserole recipe is the best! Prepared with a rich mushroom gravy and made completely from scratch, this is the perfect no-fuss Thanksgiving side dish.
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Instant Pot Mashed Cauliflower | EASY & Flavorful Thanksgiving Side Dish
5 from 28 votes

Instant Pot Mashed Cauliflower

Creamy, buttery Instant Pot Mashed Cauliflower combined with plenty of garlic and chives makes for one quick and flavorful side dish! 
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Roasting Carrots
4.86 from 119 votes

Parmesan Garlic Roasted Carrots

An easy, family favorite roasted carrots recipe tossed with the most flavorful garlicky and buttery parmesan cheese coating.
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Sweet potato casserole with marshmallows served on a plate.
5 from 1 vote

Sweet Potato Casserole with Marshmallows

This Sweet Potato Casserole recipe features tender chunks of sweet potatoes baked in a rich orange sauce and topped with gooey marshmallows and crunchy pecans.
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Apple Stuffing served in a white bowl.
5 from 10 votes

Easy Apple Stuffing Recipe

The best homemade Easy Apple Stuffing recipe to serve at your Thanksgiving or holiday table! Deliciously savory and buttery stuffing made with hearty bread chunks, crisp apples, and fresh herbs.
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Crock Pot Butternut Squash with Apples, Walnuts and Raisins - This easy, delicious, and simple holiday side dish combines butternut squash, fresh apples, crunchy walnuts and sweet raisins cooked simply in the crock pot.
5 from 3 votes

Crock Pot Butternut Squash

This crock pot butternut squash recipe is an easy and delicious holiday side dish, combining tender butternut squash, fresh apples, crunchy walnuts, and sweet raisins—all slow-cooked to perfection in the crock pot.
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Sweet Potato and Cranberry Stuffing in a skillet.
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Sweet Potato and Cranberry Stuffing

This Sweet Potato and Cranberry Stuffing recipe is a festive and delicious side dish perfect for Thanksgiving! Prepared with sweet potatoes, fresh cranberries, and bread cubes, you'll love this flavorful side dish.
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A slice of freshly baked cornbread coming away from the skillet
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Skillet Cornbread

This homemade cornbread is made from scratch and loaded with sharp cheddar cheese and fresh sweet corn. Delicious and cozy, it is the perfect side for your bowl of chili or soup!
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Creamed corn served in a bowl.
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Creamed Corn Recipe

Made with sweet corn, cream, shallots, garlic, and some sugar, this creamed corn is so rich and creamy and strikes the perfect balance between sweet and savory.
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Overhead image of cheesy sausage stuffing in a casserole dish.
5 from 13 votes

Sausage Stuffing Recipe

An incredible Thanksgiving stuffing prepared with Italian sausage, kale, and provolone cheese! A wonderful combination of savory, hearty, and cheesy, all in one bite.
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Lemon Butter Green Beans - Steamed fresh green beans tossed with butter and parmesan cheese.
5 from 1 vote

Lemon Butter Green Beans

This simple Lemon Butter Green Beans recipe is a delicious and healthy side dish. Made with steamed fresh green beans tossed in lemon juice, butter, and parmesan cheese.
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Roasted butternut squash with pecans in a mixture of honey and cinnamon.
5 from 1 vote

Honey Roasted Butternut Squash

Honey Roasted Butternut Squash is a delicious and easy side dish for diced squash and crunchy pecans roasted to perfection with cinnamon and honey. This wonderful recipe for roasting butternut squash is perfect as a side or add-in for weeknight meals and holiday dishes!
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Fresh baked pumpkin muffins in a muffin tray
4.85 from 13 votes

Pumpkin Muffins

Packed with pumpkin and topped with cinnamon sugar, these pumpkin muffins are soft, fluffy, and so delicious!
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12 Comments

  1. Allyson Zea says:

    This is such a great list! I’ve added several of these recipes to my make list!

  2. carrie @ frugal foodie mama says:

    The side dishes are probably my favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner! Thanks for all of the tasty ideas. 🙂

  3. Toni | Boulder Locavore says:

    This is such an amazing list! Thank you so much for sharing.

  4. Melanie Bauer says:

    Oh my gosh, these are fabulous and so delicious! I’d really love to try these, tasty and flavorful recipes!

  5. A_Boleyn says:

    Delicious assortment of recipes.

  6. Chrissie Baker says:

    Wow is an impressive collection of recipes. I want to try all !!! I will definitely choose for myself something unique on the Thanksgiving from this list.

  7. Jen says:

    I try to have one or two new Thanksgiving side dishes every year! Thanks for gathering these great ideas!

  8. Allyson Zea says:

    This list is so helpful! They all look delicious!!!

  9. Kara says:

    They all look delicious, but I really want to try the cheesy broccoli cauliflower bake!

  10. Emily Hill says:

    Drooling over all these side dishes! Totally pinning!