Thanksgiving Side Dishes
The best Thanksgiving side dishes are here! From salads, to mashed potatoes, vegetable side dishes, to cranberry sauce and gravy, these healthy vegan side dish recipes are perfect for Thanksgiving or any day.
Whether you’re making a turkey or serving a meatless vegetarian/vegan main dish like our Lentil Loaf, Mushroom Wellington, Wild Mushroom Farro Risotto, or Quinoa Stuffed Acorn Squash, Thanksgiving wouldn’t be the same without the side dishes!
Continue below for our favorite healthy vegan side dishes from our site, and some of our friends’ – just don’t forget the Pumpkin, Pecan, or Apple Pie!
Thanksgiving Side Dishes
The best healthy vegan Thanksgiving or Christmas side dishes! From vegetable sides to stuffing to wild mushroom gravy and cranberry sauce, here are your must-have holiday sides!
How to make roasted Brussels sprouts in the oven. Roasted balsamic Brussels sprouts are a delicious and easy vegetarian, gluten-free side dish for holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, or everyday dinners.
Oven roasted whole carrots are an easy vegetable side dish for the holidays or any day. Maple glazed carrots require just a few ingredients and are beautiful with orange or rainbow carrots.
This warm farro salad with cranberries is a hearty fall into winter side dish that's quick and easy to make.
These Moroccan Carrots are the spiced just right and are the perfect easy side dish for every day, but great for special occasions too. Seasoned with cumin, coriander, parsley, in a warm vinaigrette, they're a lovely colorful vegetable side that the whole family will love.
Homemade cranberry orange sauce bursting with whole fresh cranberries! This homemade fresh cranberry sauce is perfect for special occasions like Thanksgiving or Christmas, but is super easy to make. You can even make it in your Instant Pot! Sugar free & keto cranberry sauce options included below.
This Cranberry Orange Walnut Relish is so easy to make and will definitely become a staple at your Thanksgiving table.
This easy cranberry chutney recipe is made with orange, apple, and warm spices. Cranberry chutney is delicious on all your holiday dishes, cheese platters, and makes a lovely homemade gift.
The best dairy-free vegan mashed potatoes infused with truffle and olive oil flavor. Make these easy vegan mashed potatoes on the stovetop or Instant Pot pressure cooker. They are perfect for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or any day!
Mashed cauliflower! Cauliflower "mashed potatoes" are a creamy and cozy healthier side dish perfect for the holidays or any day. This garlic cauliflower mash recipe is keto and vegan friendly.
This delicious vegan mushroom gravy rich, hearty, and packed with umami. It’s the best vegetarian/vegan gravy for Thanksgiving. We love it over garlic mashed cauliflower!
Classic rustic baked stuffing is filled with sourdough baguette cubes, leeks, celery, fresh herbs, cranberries and walnuts. This vegan baked stuffing recipe is perfect for Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Creamy and nourishing curried butternut squash pumpkin soup made with warm flavors like fresh ginger, curry powder, and turmeric is a beautiful autumn soup. Make this easy curried butternut squash soup on the stovetop or in the Instant Pot pressure cooker.
A simple risotto made in the Instant Pot pressure cooker and topped with roasted mushrooms, butternut squash, and Brussels sprouts. Instant Pot Risotto makes a beautiful vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free dinner.
Winter salad of roasted or steamed beets, arugula, orange segments, walnuts, and goat cheese with homemade beet salad dressing. You'll love this beet salad.
Kids comiFind out how to make perfectly steamed Instant Pot corn on the cob with fresh or frozen corn. This easy corn on the cob recipe in the Instant Pot is a quick and simple side dish.
A more elegant and rich relative to broccoli, rapini is perfect as a side dish on Thanksgiving!
Roasted Radishes caramelized oven roasted with seasonings. Excellent low carb side dish option!
A delightful autumn salad with baby spinach, persimmons, apples, pepitas, and pomegranate. The perfect balance of sweet, salty, creamy and crunchy.
This elegant and delicious fall to winter salad is made with arugula topped with pear slices, candied walnuts, and goat cheese. It's the perfect salad for holidays, dinner parties, even Thanksgiving.
Wonderful array of choices for THanksgiving sides all in one place! THanks so much for putting this together and for including my Rapini Recipe! Happy Thanksgiving!