Vegetarian Thanksgiving recipes are often overlooked but they really should be more appreciated. Even for meat enthusiasts, these recipes are going to be irresistible at your Thanksgiving table. And your veggie-loving friends and family will be extra thankful.
Mushroom Wellingtons with Spinach
This mushroom wellington with spinach is essentially a meaty portobello mushroom and spinach-walnut filling in flaky puff pastry. A spectacular vegan and vegetarian option, whether for Thanksgiving or any time of year. And you can easily assemble it ahead of time and bake it at the last moment.
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Sweet Potato and Golden Raisin Strudel
This sweet potato and cranberry strudel, made with sweet potato purée, dried cranberries, and brown butter in crisp phyllo pastry, is an impressive and crowd-pleasing Thanksgiving side dish.
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Southern Buttermilk Biscuits
These Southern buttermilk biscuits are easy as heck to toss together from just three ingredients—self-rising flour, buttermilk, and butter—and turn out flaky and fluffy and just like grandma's. Maybe even better. Here's how to make them.
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Roast Winter Squash With Blue Cheese
This roast winter squash with blue cheese combines tangy Gorgonzola cheese and tender roasted butternut squash for an easy, elegant vegetarian main dish.
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Chestnut Pasta, Wild Mushrooms, and Brussels Sprouts
These chestnut rags, or stracci di castagne, are mildly nutty in flavor. If you own a KitchenAid stand mixer, make the pasta using the dough hook attachment; this is what I do in the restaurant. You can vary the dish by omitting the butter, drizzling the pasta with truffle oil, and tossing with crushed, roasted hazelnuts for extra texture.
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Drunken Pumpkin Bourbon Tart
Drunken pumpkin bourbon tart. Exactly the sort of Thanksgiving dessert that will make the relatives a heck of a lot more tolerable.
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Three-Cheese Vegetarian Lasagna
Three-cheese vegetarian lasagna is easy and exceptional and even sorta elegant anytime of year BUT we especially welcome it at the Thanksgiving table when we need something vegetarian and lovely. Here’s exactly how to make it plus what kind of cheeses work best.
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Pumpkin Sweet Potato Pie
This pumpkin sweet potato pie takes the best parts of pie and sweet potato casserole and combines them into this magnificent side dish.
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Mushroom, Leek, and Gruyère Tart
This mushroom, leek, and Gruyère tart, made with puff pastry, topped with garlic and thyme-infused leeks and mushrooms and Gruyère cheese is an easy appetizer or light vegetarian entrée.
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Celery Root Soup with Caramelized Apples
For this celery root soup, caramelized apples top a puree of cooked celery root (aka celeriac), leeks, vegetable stock, and half and half. An excellent autumn dish.
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Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Sriracha and Lime
These roasted sweet potatoes with Sriracha and lime are an easy side dish that requires only 10 minutes of effort. You’re welcome.
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Pumpkin Spice Whoopie Pies with Cream Cheese Filling
We’re not sure if these pumpkin spice whoopie pies with cream cheese filling are more like a cake or a cookie. But we do know that they’re completely irresistible.
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Roasted Cauliflower with Tahini
This roasted cauliflower with tahini is an impressive side dish or vegetarian main made with a whole roasted cauliflower that’s painted with garlic-tahini paste and topped with a pistachio and parsley mixture.
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Maple Pecan Pie
This maple pecan pie takes classic pecan pie up a notch by using maple syrup in the filling and ground oats for a slight nuttiness in the crust.
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Roasted Delicata Squash and Kale Salad
This roasted Delicata squash and kale salad is a healthy side or meal that combines roasted winter squash, kale, ricotta salata, hazelnuts, and a Dijon vinaigrette. Bonus: it’s quick enough to throw together on a weeknight.
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Sweet Potato Cornbread
This sweet potato cornbread may upend all your notions about what cornbread ought to be. It’s easy, stealthily healthy, and turning heads and drawing raves wherever it’s made.
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Roasted Chickpea Salad
This roasted chickpea salad gets glammed up with the addition of a Moroccan spice blend as well as carrot, cucumber, and radish. And it’s ready in just half an hour.
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