Every Single Thanksgiving Recipe You Could Ever Need

The aroma of roasted chesnuts combined with cornbread, sage, thyme, and a hint of bay leaf is just as magical as it is delicious in this stuffed turkey from chef Alexander Smalls.

Spicy black pepper and sweet maple syrup mix together in a compound butter to flavor this easy roast turkey.

This spatchcock roast turkey recipe uses a chili crisp compound butter to keep the bird juicy and moist.

If you’re looking for something new and inspiring to flavor your turkey this year, it’s hiding in your liquor cabinet. Bourbon not only makes for a glistening glaze, it infuses the turkey with a touch of nutty, caramel, vanilla-like flavor.

This turkey is spatchcocked, flavored with a miso butter, then cooked on high heat for a flavorful Thanksgiving bird that's ready in an hour. A cremini mushroom gravy makes this turkey extra rich and flavorful.

Fried turkeys cook twice as fast as traditional roasted turkeys and also free up the oven for essential side dishes.

A citrus and fresh herb compound butter flavors this easy roast turkey and also turns the tasty drippings into gravy.

There are lots of advantages to smoking your turkey this holiday season: Smoking gives the mild-flavored bird a boost of flavor, the low cooking temperature keeps breast meat juicy, and smoking frees your oven up for other dishes.

Bacon-wrapped turkey makes a flavorful turkey and creates a stunning, crispy “skin”.

This brown sugar-infused glaze is subtle enough to satisfy nostalgic cravings without being cloying.

Are you hosting a small, intimate gathering for Thanksgiving this year? Then hear us out: You don’t have to bother with cooking a whole turkey. You can just roast a turkey breast. One half-breast or even a whole turkey breast makes more than enough for a small party of four to six. (And yes, you’ll still have plenty of pan drippings to make gravy.)

Juicy turkey breast swirled around sausage and herb cornbread stuffing packs the best fall flavors into a single bite. Use the broth and pan juices to make a quick homemade gravy to spoon over mashed potatoes.

Think of turkey tenderloin as a bigger version of chicken tenders. A dry rub is a great way to introduce tons of flavor to a lean cut like turkey tenderloin. This sweet and smoky version is packed full of smoked paprika and dried herbs that bloom in the heat of the oven.

Eating with your hands is encouraged! Roasted turkey legs are the perfect centerpiece to a friend-filled potluck.

Slow-cooking turkey breast gives the perennially dry white meat time to soak up a rich herb butter, making for a juicy, tender slice. And don’t let the flavorful cooking liquid and turkey drippings go to waste! Whisk in flour and broth to make silky gravy to drizzle over top.

The red chimichurri, made with Calabrian chili peppers, packs a bold punch that seriously upgrades roasted turkey thighs. Serve them with creamy mashed potatoes or crusty bread to soak up the mouthwatering drippings.

Inspired by classic BBQ chicken, lean turkey breast is infused with deep smoky flavors, slow-cooked until juicy, & finished with a slick of tangy sauce.

Cooked in a Dutch oven, this braise delivers both the main course and sides, plus a rich sauce that serves as your stand-in the for traditional gravy. Serve the braise in a wide bowl over a bed of creamy polenta.

This simple, sweet-and-savory, stuffed turkey breast with apples, pecan, and brie cheese is your answer to getting everything you love about the whole bird — without actually cooking an entire turkey.

This Thanksgiving sheet pan supper pairs roast turkey breast with crispy Brussels sprouts, delicata squash rings, and a velvety lemon sauce.

Is the biggest dispute at your holiday table about who gets the drumstick? The solution: Trade-in a full-sized turkey for simple oven-roasted turkey legs. Give your guests exactly what they want and, perhaps more importantly, make your life easier.

Cooking your turkey in the Instant Pot allows you to “set it and forget it” so you can focus more on preparing side dishes and desserts.

Learn how to stuff and bake a whole pumpkin with cornbread, mushrooms, and hearty kale to serve as a vegetarian entrée for Thanksgiving and beyond.

A vegetarian Thanksgiving lasagna is just that — luxurious layers of tender lasagna noodles, bathed in a creamy crème fraîche and pumpkin sauce, and studded with roasted butternut squash and warm cascades of melty Fontina cheese.

These cheesy stuffed poblano peppers on a bed of garlicky tomato sauce are sure to impress everyone at the table. Serve it with a side of Mexican rice for the perfect vegetarian Thanksgiving meal.

Stuffed butternut squash is the ultimate vegetarian showstopper. Served in roasted squash halves, its hearty filling of whole grains, leafy greens, mushrooms, and dried cherries will leave you feeling cozy and nourished.

It's not autumn until you've made freshly made pasta with a pumpkin cheese filling and sage butter sauce.

This creamy risotto is filled with tender butternut squash and flavored with fresh sage.

A cozy recipe for creamy polenta topped with a savory vegetarian mushroom ragu.

These easy but impressive vegetarian stuffed pumpkins with chanterelle mushrooms and Swiss chard are a festive Thanksgiving main dish.

Fresh pasta filled with butternut sqash that'll satisfy all of your autumn cravings.

An easy meatless pot pie filled with sweet potatoes, mushrooms, and hearty kale that's prepared and baked in a skillet.

Creamy and satisfying, savory and with just the mildest hint of sweetness, pumpkin risotto can and should be made and served like they do in Italy: at home.

Here you'll use the pan drippings for a deeply flavorful gravy that enhances everything on the plate with a touch of savory goodness.

This Southern classic is so good, it will become your go-to gravy. Giblet gravy isn’t so different from classic turkey gravy, but it has an edge with more depth of flavor, richness, and savoriness.

Here’s a weekend project for you: Make turkey gravy! It takes a few hours, but you’re left with a bounty of good food. There will be shredded turkey meat for sandwiches, extra turkey stock for your stuffing recipe or for slurping, and the golden stuff itself: thick, savory turkey gravy stashed in the freezer for Thanksgiving Day.

In a matter of minutes, you can whip up white gravy in a saucepan for the perfect creamy, savory topping for your favorite dishes. This basic sauce is prepared with ingredients you likely already have on hand: butter, flour, milk, salt, and pepper.

Skipping the turkey this year? This is how you can still make delicious gravy for all your sides.

This recipe makes a classic gravy that's perfect for gluten-free holiday tables.

This is the vegan gravy you'll be jazzed to drizzle over everything on your plate. Caramelized onions and earthy mushrooms are what give this plant-based gravy a deep color and rich, savory flavor.

If you're after classic creamy, butter mashed potatoes, this is the recipe for you. It makes enough to feed a crowd, comes with recommendations for potato type, dairy additions, and mashing methods.

Mash tender Yukon Gold or russet potatoes with garlic-infused milk and melted butter for the creamiest garlic mashed potatoes.

Traditional mashed potatoes get an extra dose of luxe flavor from sour cream.

Garlic confit improves just about everything, including these buttery mashed potatoes.

Mashed potatoes just got a bit more sophisticated with creamy buttermilk.

Stir onion soup mix and sour cream into mashed potatoes for an easy side dish that will outshine the main course.

Cream cheese upgrades classic mashed potatoes into the creamiest, dreamiest side.

These creamy baked mashed potatoes are loaded with two kinds of cheese and are make-ahead-friendly.

Inspired by potato stuffed pierogi, these sour cream and onion mashed potatoes deserve a spot at your Thanksgiving table.

The slow cooker does the heavy lifting, keeps these creamy potatoes warm until it's time to eat, and frees up a burner on the stovetop.

Fluffy meringue becomes a lusciously light cloud of sweetness atop tender mashed sweet potatoes swirled with butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg.

This easy, creamy mashed sweet potatoes are lightly sweetened with maple syrup.

The absolute easiest five-ingredient sweet potato casserole. In less than an hour (and with barely any dishes to wash), you’ll be rewarded with buttery mashed sweet potatoes piled under a layer of creamy, tender-crisp marshmallows.

The knock-out glaze for these sweet potatoes is made with butter, brown sugar, and pineapple juice. The added sugar in the juice helps this sauce to thicken up pretty quickly and lends an extra layer of flavor to this dish.

With a fluffy, just-sweet-enough filling and crackly streusel topping that'll remind you of candied nuts, this sweet potato casserole will become an instant classic on your Thanksgiving table. Bonus: it's make-ahead friendly!

Mixed with nutty brown butter and deeply savory miso paste, these fluffy potatoes will be the Thanksgiving MVP.

An elegant take on sweet potato casserole made with whole eggs, spices, and brown sugar, and baked until light and puffed.

Mashed sweet potato recipes generally start with roasting your sweet potatoes, but this can be a tricky proposition when oven space is limited. For a stovetop adaptation, simmer those sweet potatoes in a rich cooking liquid that gets blended right in at the end.

In this classic Southern side dish, par-cooked sweet potatoes are topped with a mixture of butter, sugar, and spices, then baked until tender and coated in a sweet sauce.

Crispy outside + ultra-creamy inside = your new signature sweet potato side dish.

These baked sweet potatoes are layered with flavor and texture thanks to a sweet and sour dressing, roasted peanuts, sliced scallions, and lots of chili flakes.

Expect the same rich experience of thin slices of potatoes gently cooked in a fragrant cream sauce, except this recipe features sweet potatoes, and the cream mixture is scented with garlic, thyme, and nutmeg.

Roasted turkey gets the magazine covers and the big platters, but stuffing is the real star of the show. It's just like your favorite boxed stuffing mix, but even better.

This bread stuffing recipe is made with crusty bread and sage sausage and seasoned with poultry seasoning is timeless for good reason.

You won't find an ounce of added sugar in this classic cornbread dressing! This cornbread dressing tastes of corn, butter, and a little tang from buttermilk.

This mushroom twist on the classic is guaranteed to please both the stuffing purists and those pulling for something a little more adventurous.

Whether you call it dressing or stuffing, this recipe — made with rustic bread, onions, and sage — is the perfect Thanksgiving side.

This buttery Southern-style stuffing has been passed down in my family for three generations (and we still fight over who gets seconds!).

This Southwest twist on the Thanksgiving favorite will have everyone at your table saying "Yeehaw!".

Most stuffing recipes begin by having you dry out cubes of bread in the oven, which allows them to soak in more of the flavor-packed broth. This recipe starts with store-bought croutons instead (often sold in the grocery store’s bakery section), so you can skip the step of drying out the bread entirely.

Savory sausage, toasted sourdough bread, and fresh herbs make this stuffing is the best part of the holiday meal.

Be the Friendsgiving hero who brings everything bagel stuffing to the table this year. Swap the classic bread cubes for chopped-up everything bagels and you will not regret it.

This sourdough bread stuffing is packed with sausage, sweet apples, aromatics, fennel, and herbs.

This 3-ingredient cranberry sauce will be the crown jewel of your holiday table. Cranberry sauce can be made up to two weeks in advance and refrigerated, or you can freeze the sauce for up to 1 month.

This homemade cranberry sauce is easy to make and bursting with flavor. Dried chopped figs add both texture and a touch of sweetness to balance the tart and slightly bitter flavor of cranberries. Fresh orange juice, zest, and maple syrup are stirred in to finish it off, leaving you with a sweet, textured side dish to spoon over your turkey.

Cranberry relish is the no-cook cousin of jammy cranberry sauce. It’s made with just three ingredients — fresh cranberries, orange, and sugar — and is ready in less than five minutes.

This is a rich, jammy cranberry sauce with dried figs, plenty of spices, and a splash of bourbon for good measure.

This subtly sweet slow cooker cranberry sauce is made to feed a crowd. It’s got just enough sugar to balance the puckering bite of the cranberries so they still serve as a bright spot on your holiday plate.

Learn how to make the classic Thanksgiving side with fresh or canned green beans. Homemade mushroom cream sauce and those store-bought crispy onions are a must!

Make these ridiculously delicious (and easy) sautéed green beans your go-to side for Thanksgiving.

Bundles of roasted green beans wrapped in candied bacon are a fun alternative to your standard green bean sides and a leveled-up version of green beans with bacon. It is also an excellent substitute for green bean casserole during the holidays, as you can prepare most of this dish on a baking sheet a day in advance.

Snappy blanched green beans are served with sautéed shallots and buttery sliced almonds for an easy, delicious Thanksgiving side.

Classic green bean casserole gets a new-school twist with lemony za’atar and nutty tahini.

This quick and simple way to cook green beans will become an instant favorite.

Adorned with toasty nuts, fried shallots, and radicchio, this green bean salad is a beautiful addition to your Thanksgiving table.

In our opinion, everything tastes better with bacon. There is something quite magical about the marriage of crisp green beans and nuggets of crispy bacon, tossed in bacon fat and a little butter. It's a great alternative to green bean casserole on Thanksgiving.

Old-school green bean casserole uses condensed mushroom soup (an ode to the marketing geniuses at Campbell’s and French’s who were responsible for popularizing the dish). Luckily, our homemade mushroom sauce is simple, more flavorful, and affordable.

Toasted breadcrumbs, or pangratto, which often lend crunch and flavor to pasta, have the same effect here. They’re combined with grated Parmesan and tossed and sprinkled all over the beans just before serving to make them much more interesting than your average green veg.

A drizzle of maple syrup gives it a sweet finishing touch.

Take roasted Brussels sprouts to a whole new level with smoky bacon and a glaze of maple syrup.

It's a 10-minute side dish that easy to serve alongside absolutely anything on Thanksgiving.

This vegetable side is a mash-up of cacio e pepe and crispy roasted Brussels sprouts.

Classic roasted Brussels sprouts are kicked up a notch with a sprinkling of Parmesan, a squeeze of lemon juice, and crunchy bites of bacon.

This salad takes a little more time to make than the usual shaved sprouts salad, but the extra work is worth the flavor and texture combination of brown butter vinaigrette, Brussels sprouts, apple, and hazelnuts.

If you’re not already a believer, this brown sugar Brussels sprouts recipe with bacon will make you one. The balance of smoky flavor from thick-cut bacon and sweetness provided by brown sugar turn this often-maligned brassica into a veggie anyone will want to eat.

In the heat of a hot oven, Brussels sprouts caramelize and crisp beautifully. Roasting them with honey means they get even more caramelized. But to keep everything from being too cloying, these Brussels sprouts are also roasted with a shake of red pepper flakes — think of it as an easy homemade alternative to using a bottle of hot honey.

Roasted Brussels sprouts get leveled up with chili crisp, Parmesan cheese, and panko breadcrumbs.

The sprouts are roasted until they’re ridiculously crispy, then tossed in a sweet and savory honey-balsamic glaze.

Halfway through roasting Brussels sprouts how you normally would — high heat and on a preheated baking sheet for optimal caramelization — you’ll shower the pan with a whole cup of Parmesan cheese.

Glazed carrots are a classic side dish that will never go out of style. This simple recipe comes together in 20 minutes or less and delivers a sweet and savory vegetable that pairs well with just about anything, from your Thanksgiving turkey to a honey baked ham.

Roasting carrots is one of the best ways to coax out the naturally sweet flavors of the vegetable. After a stint in a hot oven, the results are jammy, slightly caramelized, and delicious. What makes them even better? Roasting them on a bed of salty Parmesan cheese.

There are many ways to cook carrots, but roasting them is hands-down our favorite method. It’s one of the best vegetable side dishes that pairs well with anything for Thanksgiving dinner.

Buttery, brown sugar- and bourbon-glazed carrots are what you pair with your Thanksgiving dinner when you’re going for something easy, yet delicious.

Miso paste is a fantastic ingredient that makes simple roasted carrots into something magical.

It's just the right balance of spicy, sweet, and tangy, thanks to harissa paste and honey.

The combination of nutty brown butter, fragrant garlic, and sweet honey is basically the dream team for roasted carrots.

A delicious syrupy glaze helps to enhance the natural sweetness of carrots in this stunning, glossy, bejeweled vegetable side dish.

A generous sprinkle of smoky chili powder and sweet-bitter orange slices really jazz up basic carrots.

If you’re looking for a show-stopping dish to serve at Thanksgiving, look no further than this carrot soufflé. It has everything you love about soufflés: an airy, delicate texture that almost melts in your mouth, the creamy richness of milk and cheese set with eggs, and, of course, the sweetness and vivid color of carrots.

This easy Thanksgiving side dish makes the most of the carrots, roasting them to bring out their natural sugars and dressing them in nothing but a happy mix of fresh herbs and minced garlic.

No comfort food satisfies quite like homemade mac and cheese. This gooey and cozy casserole is an essential part of traditional holiday spreads.

Thanks to a box of Jiffy corn muffin mix, this corn casserole comes together quickly and is a perfect side dish for any meal.

Extra creamy and cheese, this is the French casserole of our dreams.

This classic broccoli casserole, made with canned cream of mushroom soup and Ritz crackers, is bound to be a family favorite.

This classic version uses just six ingredients and pairs it with an incredibly easy cooking method. The cozy casserole bakes up with a golden-brown top and super-tender sliced potatoes that are suspended in a creamy, thyme-flecked sauce.

Thin slices of Yukon gold potatoes are doused in a cheese-bolstered cream mixture and baked in a skillet until it becomes a crispy and tender gratin-like dish that everyone will love.

A comforting broccoli casserole with mozzarella and Parmesan cheese.

All the savory flavor of French onion soup — caramelized onions, rich beef broth, and melted Gruyère — layered between slices of tender golden potatoes.

Mac and cheese comes in many forms, each with its own charm — from quick stovetop and one-bowl microwave versions to the beloved boxed variety with powdered cheese. But there’s something undeniably satisfying about a classic baked mac and cheese, with its rich, creamy sauce nestled under a golden layer of buttery breadcrumbs.

Every bite of this twice-baked potato casserole is warm and comforting while overflowing with melty cheese and crisp bacon.

It goes with everything (we're looking at you, glazed baked ham!) on the Thanksgiving plate.

A make ahead-friendly recipe for creamy mashed potatoes baked in a casserole and topped with lots of Parmesan cheese.

Thinly sliced potatoes get tossed with a flavorful cream sauce, layered with plenty of Pecorino Romano, and baked until browned and bubbly.

Mashed cauliflower isn't just a replacement for mashed potatoes — try this hearty side with merits all its own.

This three-ingredient butternut squash side goes well with almost everything on Thanksgiving.

This cacio e pepe sautéed cabbage may sound simple enough, but each bite of silky, slightly sweet green cabbage is coated in melty cheese and bursts of black pepper.

Combine sautéed cremini mushrooms and onions with the slight acidity of lemon juice and white wine for a dish that bursts with umami.

The key to the very best cauliflower is to roast until golden before soaking it in a flavorful broth.

Whether you eat it warm, cold, or at room temperature, this butternut squash pasta salad is perfect for Thanksgiving (or any occasion!).

This holiday-worthy side gives basic roasted delicata squash a sweet and smoky twist.

Just 15 minutes and a handful of ingredients are all you need to bring these hearty Parmesan cremini mushrooms to the table.

Green cabbage, bacon, and a couple of spices join forces for a quick and easy, smoky-sweet side dish that will forever change the way you think about cabbage.

A quick recipe for sautéed hearty kale flavored with lots of lemon and garlic.

The base of this winter slaw is a mix of red cabbage and julienned sweet potato, bejeweled with orange segments and pomegranate.

These biscuits, from Vallery Lomas' cookbook Life Is What You Bake It, are stunningly tall and flaky.

Everything you love about classic pumpkin pie, just a bigger batch made to feed a crowd.