Favorite Easy Thanksgiving Recipes

All in one place, our absolute favorite Thanksgiving recipes, including what to do with your Thanksgiving leftovers! If you'd like even more inspo, here's our entire Thanksgiving category of recipes. YUM.

White plate of Thanksgiving foods on fancy set table.

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There are SO many recipes that I love for Thanksgiving, and every year admittedly we have a really hard time figuring out what to make without making way too much food. It's a really good problem to have.

I start with the protein, picking smoked turkey breast or Honeybaked ham copycat almost every year because they're both just SO good.

That said, here are some of my absolute favorite, year in and year out, recipes for Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving Cocktails and Appetizers

Holiday Mules
Apple Cider Bourbon Cocktail
Dutch Oven Bread for cheese plates all week long!
Marinated mushrooms (vegan and seriously delicious)
Jalapeno corn dip
Pimento Cheese
Pimento Cheese Sausage Balls (make a double batch of pimento cheese, please!)

Other Favorite Recipes

Are you a bread family? We don't do bread or rolls at holidays, but if we did I'd demand quick + buttery biscuits.
The oyster stuffing is fabulous,
This slow cooker stuffing, is out of this world with flavor.
Baked Cheesy Rice is my favorite starchy side dish.
Healthy green bean casserole is a fan fav in our house, especially with the super flavorful shiitake mushrooms thrown in.
Spicy green beans! Spicy pickled peppers and cream, YES PLEASE.
My mom's fluffy, healthy pumpkin chiffon pie.
Easy Homemade Apple pie! Easy and classic.
Cheez-It mac (without the chicken) makes an appearance at every single family gathering we have these days....
Unless we change it up with blue cheese mac...
...or squash casserole mac and cheese because vegetables!
If you need an actual vegetable, these baked tomatoes are easy and so delicious.
I'm making these braised brussels to take to my mother-in-law's this week! They are topped with bacon so duh.