50+ Thanksgiving Recipes {Plus a Thanksgiving Menu Planner!}
Need some Thanksgiving menu planning inspiration?
Below are over 50 of my favorite Thanksgiving recipes below, as well as a handy printable Thanksgiving menu planner.
Also, stay tuned, because next week, I’m posting a brand, new roll recipe (soft, fluffy, AMAZING) plus a holiday salad to knock your socks off. Save room in your menu for those recipes!
Now tell me this: what’s the Thanksgiving dish/recipe your family can’t live without?!? Mine would definitely say homemade rolls and this confetti corn!
Thanksgiving Leftover Recipes
- My Favorite Recipes for Thanksgiving Leftovers (2020)
- Best Recipes for Leftovers + Easy Meals to Save Your Sanity (2017)
- 20 Best Ways to Use Turkey Leftovers (2015)
**Special shout out to this LEFTOVER TURKEY SOUP that has more than 500 5-star reviews. It’s one of the best ways to use those turkey leftovers!
Thanksgiving Dinner Menu Planner
Link to full post here:
Free Printable Thanksgiving Dinner Planner
Links to downloadable files here:
50+ Thanksgiving Recipes
Turkey/Ham
Homemade Rolls
Stuffing
Veggie Sides
Fruit Sides
Potatoes
Drinks
Pies/Desserts
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43 Comments on “50+ Thanksgiving Recipes {Plus a Thanksgiving Menu Planner!}”
I can’t live without your coconut cream pie recipe at Thanksgiving! Love it!! Been dreaming about it for about a month just waiting for Thanksgiving so I can make it!! And I had to look through your dessert section twice to make sure I wasn’t missing it, and no it really wasn’t on the list! It’s seriously the best pie ever! I’m excited to try your new upside down apple pie recipe though, it seems like a combination of my hubs 2 favorite pies, apple and pecan! And of course homemade rolls are a must for Thanksgiving at our house as well! So I’m excited to check out your new roll recipe as well! Thanks for all this yumminess that makes our thanksgiving perfect!
Your Thanksgiving printables are so helpful!! I’ve used them the last two years, and they are the best!
The food we can’t have Thanksgiving without is carrot casserole (cooked carrot rounds in a basic white sauce 9×13 pan, topped with cheese and buttered breadcrumbs. So yummy!)
The tradition we can’t live without is pie night. The night before Thanksgiving is pie night. Family and friends gather and everyone brings 1-5 pies and we eat as much as we can 🙂 After the full Thanksgiving meal, everyone is too full for pie- or you wait and make room for at least a piece. Having pie night the night before fixes that!
I love, love, love your Apple Cranberry Pie! It’s beautiful and tastes so yummy the next morning for breakfast too. Can’t wait to try several of these ideas.
For any reader who has not yet tried Amazing Easy Fluffy Blender Rolls – try them! They are the best rolls I have ever tasted or made. In fact I had taken a many year break from making homemade rolls due to an unfortunate Christmas roll making experience, and this is the recipe that convinced me to try again, and I am so glad I did!
Your cream spinach gratin and parker house rolls are Thanksgiving staples ! I roll the Parker house rolls like regular rolls though.
Thank you so much for all the lovely recipes all year. You are always my go to site for any recipe I need & your never disappoint.
Happy Thanksgiving
No way!! This is sooo great to have all these fun Thanksgiving favorites in one place, right at the top of your site. Thank you! I just logged on this morning to decide what sides and desserts I’m bringing. You’ve given me so many options. Always just what I need, thankyouverymuch!
Ever since you posted them, I have made pumpkin cinnamon rolls for breakfast on Thanksgiving morning…and I think and hope it may be one of those things my kids look forward to/think fondly about into their adulthood.
Didn’t you use to have a recipe that was rolls shaped like pumpkins? I can’t find it anywhere.
No, I haven’t posted a recipe like that. Sorry!
I almost exclusively use your recipes for thanksgiving because I just trust your recipes so much. Made pumpkin cheesecake and apple cranberry pie last year and I can’t wait to again this year!
I spent all last year on Thanksgiving day making the traditional food that nobody really enjoyed and I thought to myself why am I doing this?! So this year everybody got to pick their favorite food that and we’re combining them to make our version of Thanksgiving! So we’ll have hash brown casserole for breakfast and then pork, mashed potatoes, and mac and cheese!
Mel! I used to make your overnight crescent rolls. So good, highly recommend. BUT last year I tried your fluffy blender rolls. Oh my goodness. We will never go back! So easy and so good! Thank you so much for all of your wonderful recipes. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
Pretty much everything I make for Thanksgiving comes from you! It’s all sooooo delicious. This year I’m not hosting, but I couldn’t decide which side I love the most, so I’m making 3 to take for dinner with my in-laws. My husband is so happy, too, because he LOVES all of your recipes. Thank you for sharing!
Shout-out to you for your article on BYU Today. I love how it starts with chickens, donkeys, and pigs! I come for your recipes but I stay longer for the pig videos!
Wow! You have some delicious looking recipes to try! This year we will be doing a turkey breast from R&R BBQ, made from scratch: pumpkin pie, sourdough sage stuffing, and mashed potatoes. I have no energy for more this year.
We’re having my husbands family over here for Thanksgiving. We cook the Turkey and then try to divide out other responsibilities, but this year I keep wanting to be in charge of everything so I can try all your recipes. I selfishly assigned myself dessert so I can make all the treats that have been calling my name from your site — hahaha!!
We are hosting and only immediate family due to covid. Menu is roast turkey, ham, fresh cranberry sauce, twice baked potatoes, cheesy potatoes ( I LOVE both versions of potatoes!), stuffing (I do not like the stuff and hubby likes stovetop GAG so he’s in charge of that), dinner rolls (hubby is very picky about these and only likes one store-bought brand which I will not touch yuck LOL), a fresh salad which I haven’t decided on yet, and homemade apple pie. Sorry Mel, I do not use any of your recipes for this dinner…I just love reading the recipes and seeing the comments!
Happy Thanksgiving – I am thankful for you and your blog. It’s my GO-TO to find a recipe for anything. Yesterday I made your New England clam chowder for the first time. My picky (again!) hubby loved it which is nothing short of a miracle! LOL
We had Thanksgiving a month ago. We did a turkey, roasted in a paper bag, stuffing, cranberry sauce (jellied from a can ♀️), mashed potatoes and gravy, candied yams, peas, pumpkin pie. All family recipes!
I am hosting our annual family thanksgiving with aunts and uncles and cousins and grandparents from both side of our family. We cook a lot of family recipes but your chocolate chip pie and apple cranberry pie have become favorites! One year my daughter got so deeply offended when she saw her aunt eat the last bite of chocolate chip pie that I now have to make a few extra pies just to keep a fight from breaking out. I hope your family has a sweet day!
Hey! Helping host a 60 person family reunion and have a question? How would you suggest doing the rolls/bread for the event? Make dough into rolls and freeze, then cook day of, make dough and refrigerate until day of, cook rolls fully then warm somehow? Make loaves? Up for suggestions!! Thanks!
Hey Rebecca, for that size of group, I’d definitely make, bake, cool and freeze. And then warm for the dinner.
Thank you so much!! Very helpful, as always, Mel!!
I think Thanksgiving Day is the only time I don’t follow your recipes. Oh wait – I do make your Roasted Chicken with ice cream salt – delicious!! It’s only the four of us – so I make a chicken instead of turkey (and secretly like the less gamey chicken over turkey!). I make my late mother’s dressing (not stuffing!) and her famous rolls (which is the only recipe I will never share). I also make green bean casserole without an recipe and my late father’s pumpkin pie. Wishing you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving!!
My sister and her husband are the best cooks in our family, and they know it So they volunteered/said they’d only come if they got to cook it all! We all graciously agreed to that! I know she’s using several of your recipes. One of my favorites is the pumpkin white chocolate mousse cheesecake!
How amazing is that?? Enjoy not having to cook!!
Your pumpkin cinnamon rolls have become our family breakfast tradition on Thanksgiving since you posted them! I’ll also be using a handful of your other recipes for our dinner.
That’s a great idea for Thanksgiving morning!
Your Thanksgiving menu planner saved me last year when we did Thanksgiving by ourselves at home. It was so handy and just perfect for organizing! Many years ago I tried making the turkey for the first time and failed miserably. I avoided it at all cost until fate put a free turkey in my lap just a few years ago. I used your “No-Fail” recipe with the greased brown paper bag (only using parchment paper instead of the bag), and baked the world’s most delicious turkey! I no longer fear turkey duty! I’ve made it several times and it is always perfection. Thank you!
Oh that’s awesome, Kat! I’m so proud of you! Once you conquer turkey, you can make anything! 🙂
We had “fakesgiving” last weekend since my son is a pilot and works on Thanksgiving and it’s cheaper for the other siblings to fly everyone home. As usual, it was a repeat of “Mel’s greatest hits”. Slow cooker turkey w/ no fuss gravy, parmesean cream corn, amazing instant pot potatoes, chocolate mousse cheesecake pie, and peanut butter cup cheesecake were all on the menu. Your recipes never disappoint! Thank you for sharing your talent for easy, delicious food with us.
I’m actually kind of jealous you’re done with the big meal!! Glad it went well and glad your family could be together.
Will celebrate it with friends this Saturday. In Europe, it’s not a thing (obviously) so there’s no holiday time off. We usually do the weekend before or after. I’ll be making my staple caramel walnut tart and I think I have to try to make your pumpkin rosemary rolls. They look divine!!
That caramel tart sounds divine, Elita! I hope you have an enjoyable holiday whenever you end up celebrating!
I’m headed to my sister’s house this year. Not too far to drive and she has the biggest yard for kids to run around if the weather is nice. I get to make grandma’s rolls and the mashed potatoes.
I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Oh, that sounds dreamy, Misti! I love it when the weather holds and the kids can run around outside, too. My boys are already planning their epic turkey bowl game the morning of Thanksgiving.
Your parmesan cream corn has become a holiday staple in our house! Can’t wait to make it again this Thanksgiving.
It’s a staple here, too!
I think I’m making Life Changing Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes and a pumpkin cheesecake. I may have to make a pumpkin pie for the purists in the family.
I think I’ll end up with a pumpkin pie, too, just for the few in the group who ask for it (it never gets eaten all the way, though!). I might go with the crustless pumpkin cupcakes, on second thought.
Thanks Mel! I love your recipes! We are hosting my brother’s family this year. Should be fun! And so much better than last year when we (and most people in the world) were alone. You didn’t say what you are doing??
I agree about this hopefully being a more fulfilling year for holidays than last year in terms of spending it with friends and family! Thanks for asking about what we’re doing. We’re staying home and hosting two of Brian’s sisters and their families and my sister and her family. Will be loud and fun!
Sounds fun! I actually tested positive for COVID yesterday so we will be alone after all. I can’t taste anything and I’m feeling pretty bummed about Thanksgiving now. 🙁 Trying to count my blessings and look for things to be grateful for.