Explore our complete guide to delicious, easy, and family-friendly Thanksgiving side dishes, included mashed potatoes, stuffing, green beans, sweet potatoes, and more!
While most people anticipate the delicious turkey and stuffing each year for Thanksgiving dinner, I am usually anticipating the mashed potatoes, and our moms delicious green bean casserole. Here are a few of our favorite Thanksgiving side dishes that are present each year at our feast, and a few others. Get a jump on the holidays with these easy and inexpensive side dishes that the whole family will love.
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Stuffings and Dressings
Apple, Onion & Celery Stuffing Recipe
The apples, celery and onion in this stuffing make it absolutely delicious!
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Chicken and Broccoli Stuffing Casserole Recipe
Broccoli and Chicken in a creamy cheese sauce with toasted stuffing and cheese on top. My family loves this recipe!
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Easy Homemade Sausage Stuffing Recipe
By the end of the season, you will be stuffed with stuffing, including this easy homemade sausage stuffing recipe, if you’re lucky. Make sure to add this delightful Thanksgiving stuffing recipe to your menu this year!
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Grandma’s Thanksgiving Dressing Recipe
We love our Grandma's Thanksgiving Dressing. You don't need to stuff it in the bird, just mix the ingredients and stick it in the oven. So many happy memories with this holiday dressing.
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Homemade Corn Bread Dressing Recipe
Have you ever tried our Homemade Corn Bread Dressing Recipe? You may never have boxed dressing mix again! It is so delicious!
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Instant Pot Dressing Recipe
This Instant Pot Dressing recipe is the perfect side dish to any turkey dinner!
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Slow Cooker Stuffing Recipe
While your oven will be quite busy during this holiday season, take advantage of your crock pot with this amazingly flavorful and moist slow cooker stuffing.
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Mashed Potatoes
Air Fryer Roasted Potatoes Recipe
This amazingly delicious Air Fryer Roasted Potatoes recipe is the best you’ll find!
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Au Gratin Cheesy Potato Bake Recipe
Sliced potatoes topped in a light cheesy sauce – this is the perfect side dish!
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Cheesy Ranch Potatoes Recipe
This cheesy ranch potatoes recipe is the best potato recipe! It has everything you could dream to be in them; ranch, cheese, and bacon!
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Garlic Parmesan Mashed Potatoes Recipe
These mashed potatoes are so easy to throw together and will work with many main dishes!
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Garlic Roasted Potatoes Recipe
I love easy side dishes that taste amazing! These potatoes would be great with just about any meal and will only take you a few minutes to make.
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Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes Recipe
These Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes are an easy side dish for any holiday or weeknight dinner. They are creamy, flavorful, and come together so quickly.
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Make-Ahead Mashed Potatoes Recipe
These Make-ahead mashed potatoes will make your Thanksgiving preparations a lot easier. They are creamy and delicious.
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Mom’s Cheese Potatoes Recipe
Mom's Cheese Potatoes were a Sunday staple at our house. It's not hard to see why. They are so yummy, quick and easy to make, and are very inexpensive. You will love this recipe.
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Pesto Potatoes Recipe
With three simple ingredients, these pesto potatoes are a crispy, flavorful side dish that the whole family will enjoy.
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Roasted Baby Potatoes Recipe
These Roasted Baby Potatoes are so easy to make, and come together in minutes.
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Roasted Parmesan Potatoes Recipe
Our roasted parmesan potatoes recipe is the perfect side dish addition to any meal. They are an extremely easy yet flavorful potato side dish!
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Skillet Red Potatoes Recipe
This easy Skillet Potatoes recipe is one of my favorites because it comes together so quickly! My kids love it with a little bit of cheese on top . . . but these red potatoes are delicious and flavorful without it.
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Slow Cooker Bacon Cheese Potatoes Recipe
This is the best crock pot recipe you will find! These slow cooker bacon cheese potatoes have everything we love in every bite.
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Slow Cooker Cheesy Potatoes
Our favorite potato side dish just got easier- now you can make it in the slow cooker!
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Slow Cooker Creamy Mashed Potatoes Recipe
These Slow Cooker Creamy Mashed Potatoes are so simple to make and have the best flavor. If you need a Thanksgiving side dish, this is one we highly recommend.
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Slow Cooker Parmesan Ranch Potatoes Recipe
Throw these potatoes in your slow cooker and you will have the perfect side dish for any dinner!
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Slow Cooker Scalloped Potatoes Recipe
These potatoes can bake away while you prepare the rest of the dinner. They only take a few minutes to assemble and taste amazing.
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Smashed Cheesy Potatoes Recipe
You will love these cheesy smashed baby Yukon Gold potatoes. They are so easy to make and ready in no time at all!
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Smashed Italian Red Potatoes Recipe
These delicious potatoes make a delicious appetizer or side dish!
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Sweet Potato Side Dishes
Air Fryer Roasted Sweet Potatoes Recipe
Take your sweet potatoes up a notch with this Air Fryer Roasted Sweet Potatoes recipe! The air fryer makes these potatoes perfectly crispy!
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Baked Sweet Potato Fries Recipe
These Baked Sweet Potato Fries are on the healthier side, and the salty-sweet-savory flavor of sweet potato fries just can't be beat.
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Coconut Pecan Sweet Potatoes Recipe
Our coconut pecan sweet potatoes recipe is absolutely divine! It has the tender sweet potatoes mixed with the refreshing flavors of coconut and a slight crunch from the pecans.
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Cranberry Pecan Sweet Potato Bake Recipe
One of my favorite dishes to make is sweet potatoes. Everyone loves them, and they all love them even more now, because of this easy and delicious Cranberry Pecan Sweet Potato Bake.
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Instant Pot Baked Sweet Potatoes Recipe
Baked potatoes have never been easier, or more healthy! We used sweet potatoes in our Instant Pot for this savory dish and we will never cook them in the oven again! You can use this method on any kind of potato.
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Instant Pot Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe
This Sweet Potato Casserole has a mashed sweet potato base and is topped with a buttery, brown sugar and pecan topping. The perfect Thanksgiving side dish!
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Maple Bacon Sweet Potatoes Recipe
The sweet taste from the maple and potatoes, combine with the savory taste of bacon, to create something truly magical and delicious.
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Mashed Sweet Potato Recipe
You can’t have anything better than this mashed sweet potato recipe with brown sugar. Talk about YUM! They are perfectly sweet and buttery, keep you coming back for more.
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Mom’s Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe
Our Mom’s sweet potato casserole is what you need to be making this Thanksgiving!
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Mom’s Sweet Potatoes Recipe
Deliciously baked sweet potatoes with a sugary glaze and perfectly crunchy marshmallows on top, make for the perfect side dish.
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Roasted Parmesan Sweet Potato Recipe
A perfect side dish, our roasted Parmesan sweet potato recipe will be great for Thanksgiving.
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Slow Cooker Candied Sweet Potatoes Recipe (with Marshmallows)
Slow Cooker Sweet Potatoes are so simple and delicious. Throw them in the crock pot in the morning and let them slowly cook all day long while you prepare your other dishes.
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Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Mash Recipe
This Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Mash is so simple and tastes absolutely amazing. It only requires a few simple ingredients and is the perfect fall side dish.
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Instant Pot Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe
This Sweet Potato Casserole has a mashed sweet potato base and is topped with a buttery, brown sugar and pecan topping. The perfect Thanksgiving side dish!
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The Best Candied Yams (Without Corn Syrup) Recipe
One of those wonderful Thanksgiving side dish recipes everyone will love is our candied yams without corn syrup!
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Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes Recipe
We love these Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes with just about any meal during the fall!
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Green Bean Side Dishes
Brown Sugar and Bacon Green Beans Recipe
These Brown Sugar and Bacon Green Beans are my favorite vegetable. They might actually be the only vegetable I like. I think I'll start adding brown sugared bacon to all my veggies. This recipe is simple and full of flavor.
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Cheesy Garlic Green Beans Recipe
Who doesn't love vegetables covered in melted cheese? These Cheesy Garlic Green Beans are made in one pan and make a delicious side dish to any of your favorite meals!
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Classic Green Bean Casserole Recipe
Make this classic green bean casserole recipe your whole family can enjoy. This dish is super quick and easy to make, it'll have you making it time and time again!
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Green Beans with Candied Pecans Recipe
The perfect side dish for any special dinner!
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Instant Pot Green Beans Recipe
The best Instant Pot Green Beans perfectly steamed, crunchy but still tender, and ready to eat in less than 15 minutes.
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Oven-Roasted Green Beans Recipe
Oven-Roasted Green Beans make the perfect side dish for any meal. Drizzled in olive oil and simply seasoned with salt and pepper, these beans turn out flavorful and perfect every time.
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Slow Cooker Green Beans Recipe
The perfect way to cook fresh green beans is in the slow cooker! Full of flavor and so delicious – while your crock pot does all the work.
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Corn Side Dishes
Grandma’s Corn Pudding Casserole Recipe
If you love cornbread, then you are going to like this corn pudding casserole recipe.
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Parmesan Ranch Corn Recipe
This Parmesan Ranch Corn is so easy to make and full of flavor. It only requires a few simple ingredients, and is absolutely delicious. It is our new favorite side dish recipe.
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Slow Cooker Creamed Corn Recipe
You'll never go back to canned creamed corn after you try this Slow Cooker Creamed Corn. Throw this simple creamed corn recipe together in a matter of minutes.
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Zucchini Corn Parmesan Bake Recipe
This Zucchini Parmesan Bake is so easy to make and tastes delicious! Even my picky eaters ate it!
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