50 Vegan & Vegetarian Thanksgiving Recipes for the bestThanksgiving Dayever! We’ve got you covered from breakfast to mains to sides to desserts to even drinks!
The roundup you’ve been waiting for is FINALLY here!! 50 Vegan & Vegetarian Thanksgiving Recipes for your Thanksgiving Day! Happy Thanksgiving friends! When it comes, of course. I’ve got everything you’ll need for the big day – breakfasts, sides, mains, salads, desserts and even drinks. You can prepare a lot of them the day or even two days before to lighten the load. If you want a proper guide on that, let me know and I’ll add it in for sure, but general guideline is that you can pretty prep everything on this list before handing, and then add their relative toppings/toppers and then bake! I wanted to make it as easy as possible for you. Enjoy and eat up!
P.S. even though it says “vegan and vegetarian” everything has been updating to vegan recipes!
BREAKFAST
Pumpkin Spice Granola
Pumpkin Waffles
Overnight Baked French Toast Casserole
Pumpkin French Toast
Pumpkin Pancakes
Apple Pie Pancakes
MAINS
Vegan Meatloaf
Pot Pies (Vegan)
Vegan Shepherd’s Pie
Probably the best reaction I’ve ever gotten for this pie was from my aunt who was so shocked there was no meat, and then wanted seconds!!
Butternut Squash Casserole
This pasta bake is more of a casserole, and is loaded with roasted butternut squash, tomatoes, mushrooms and onions. They’re all roasted to perfection, then the butternut squash is turned into a puree to pour over the pasta with some cheese. Add in some kale and it’s a complete creamy meal!
Stuffed Bell Peppers
Coconut Chickpea Curry
I never thought of my Coconut Chickpea Curry as a main dish for Thanksgiving until a lot of readers last year let me know that they made it and absolutely loved it for their Thanksgiving meal! It makes perfect sense because it has a lot of sauce too that would be beautifully over mashed potatoes.
SALADS
Cashew Thai Quinoa Salad with Peanut Ginger Sauce
Chickpea Panzanella Salad
Roasted Beet Feta Salad with Honey Mustard Vinaigrette
Shaved Brussels Sprouts, Quinoa and Apple Salad with Sweet Orange Vinaigrette
15-Minute Mediterranean Chickpea Salad
Kale Apple and Chickpea Salad with Vegan Feta
SIDES
Easy Stovetop Candied Pecans
Green Bean Casserole
What’s Thanksgiving without Green Bean Casserole though?! I loved this casserole so much because it’s made 100% from scratch and is so creamy. You’re going to love the oven fried onions on top too!
Sweet Potato Casserole with Maple Pecan Topping
This recipe has always been my #1 thanksgiving side dish recipe amongst readers! It’s perfect for enjoying sweet potato casserole with SO much flavour and without all those extra calories. That maple pecan topping is out of this world.
Best Garlic Mashed Potatoes with Caramelised Onions
I love love love these mashed potatoes!! They are so incredibly creamy, and well, mashed potatoes always goes perfectly with basically about every single thing. Also, you need to make it with the caramelised onions – it is GOLDEN.
Fluffy Biscuits
These biscuits are also gluten free! Actually all these recipes are :). You can make them with regular flour too, but the point is BISCUITS!! They are so good and so easy to whip up!! Add all the butter!
Cornbread Stuffing
When I made this cornbread stuffing it made my whole week. It’s made with homemade cornbread (or you can buy some) and has so much amazing flavours in it. It’s just like your traditional cornbread stuffing for sure.
Loaded Sweet Potato Skins
If you’re a regular here then you know I LOVE these sweet potato skins! If you’re new, you NEED to make this!! The sweet potato skins are stuffed back with the sweet potato filling plus a tex mex filling and topped with coconut bacon too! So. Good.
Easy Cheesy Cornbread Skillet
Uh, YUM!! This cheesy cornbread skillet is just like your favourite cornbread except THAT CRUST THO. The melted butter + got cast iron skillet + the cornbread batter makes the crust so much more uh, crusty, and so buttery. I also added cheese, corn and and jalapeños in the cornbread so it’s extra amazing. Prepare to wow your guests.
This is an oldie but a REAL goodie! If you love Brussels sprouts you’ll LOVE this, and anyone you know who doesn’t love Brussels sprouts will love them after this for sure. The roasted apples and onions go so perfectly with it too.
Cranberry Orange Sauce
Okay, so not technically a side but it goes perfectly on every thing for Thanksgiving that this is an ESSENTIAL. I make mine with orange juice which adds so much flavour too.
Jalapeño Cornbread Muffins
Cornbread in muffin portion? Perfect. Great for sharing with your guests and it’s the perfect excuse to take more.
Stuffed Mushrooms with Coconut Bacon
LOVE this recipe! It’s loaded with everything in traditional mushrooms, and are perfect for even appetisers! That coconut bacon on top is so essential, by the way. You’ll def put it on everything when you make it.
Garlic Butter Roasted Potatoes
Butter + garlic + potatoes? Yesssss. No need to see much more for this – they are crispy, buttery and come together so quickly!!
Maple Garlic Roasted Carrots
Oh I need to make these this Thanksgiving again!! These carrots are maple glazed, with garlic so they have a sweet, caramel-y flavour and are so soft. They’re then topped with a carrot greens chimichurri that is out of this world. If you can find multi-coloured carrots then they would be even prettier.
Vegan Mushroom Gravy
Also not a technical side dish, but kind of and sooo necessary. This gravy is so creamy and has SO MUCH FLAVOUR. Perfect on mashed potatoes of course and you can make it ahead of time!
Baked Mac and Cheese
Finally, you neeeed a baked mac and cheese at your thanksgiving dinner for sure! This one is SO good (how many times have I said that so far?). I love the flavour the sauce gives this and the topping works so well with it.
DESSERTS
Pumpkin Pie
Cranberry Apple Crisp
Apple Pie Bars
Vegan Pumpkin Cheesecake Swirl Brownies
