Classic Traditional Thanksgiving Meals
Impress your guests with these Typical Classic Traditional Thanksgiving meals recipes. Delicious food ideas, turkey, sides and dessert.
Classic Traditional Thanksgiving Meals
Sharing Classic Traditional Thanksgiving Meals Ideas for you to create. Oven Bakes and Roasts as well as No Bake stove top recipes. Roasted Turkey and a chicken with roasted potato as well as mashed potato or butternut mash. Pumpkin and veggie casserole with a side dish of mustard green beans as well as a baked sweet potato and a garlic potato casserole. Glazed carrots and green bean casserole with dinner rolls and a dessert of pumpkin pie and apple pies or turnovers and a creamy pumpkin parfait for individuals. Not forgetting the apple cheesecake dessert. Main meals for lunch or dinner and Desserts.
What dishes are in a traditional Thanksgiving dinner?
An idea of the favorite thanksgiving recipes served for lunch or dinner.
- roasted herb turkey.
- pumpkin pie or apple pie for dessert
- warm vegetable side dishes, pumpkin and carrots and beans
- cranberry sauce
- dinner rolls
- potato, mashed or roasted with gravy.
- salads
How many sides should a Thanksgiving dinner have?
For a family gathering of about 4 people, you can serve about 2 appetizers, 3 side dishes with one roasted turkey. For double the family guests also serve about 3 appetizers and 3 side dishes (includes potato) For more people add more side dishes and then serve dessert.
What is the perfect Thanksgiving menu?
A main course menu idea.
- appetizers (17 Easy Puff Pastry Appetizer Recipes)
- roast turkey, or chicken and starters. 30 Minute Dinner Rolls
- stuffing of apple and cranberries for the turkey
- side dishes, mashed potato, or casseroles of beans and squash.
- roasted vegetables of pumpkin or butternut squash, bacon and brussel sprouts, carrots and potato.
- Tasty Cranberry Sauce Recipe
- pumpkin spice pie or cakes, apple pie or pumpkin parfait.
- desserts of apple cheesecake and pecan pie bars.
- pumpkin pie martini.
Grab these to Impress your guests these Classic Traditional Thanksgiving Meal Ideas. From the turkey to the sides and desserts, these traditional dishes are sure to be a hit at your holiday table.
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MAIN ROAST MEAT
There are a few edible meats other than Turkey, that are eaten on thanksgiving. These include duck, roast leg of lamb, roast beef, turkey, chicken, ham or gammon, and seafood.
Grab this easy moist tender Roasted Turkey Breast Recipe with a marinade idea for Thanksgiving or any meal, for lunch or dinner with sides.
Herbs and Butter Roasted Turkey
Roasted Herbs and Butter Whole Turkey recipe idea. A thanksgiving oven roast for special seasonal meals, rubbed with herbs seasoning.
Sunday Roasted Chicken and Potato’s
Sunday Roasted Chicken and Potato’s recipe. Best family meal for lunch or dinner and Thanksgiving or Christmas with gravy and vegetables.
SIDE DISHES
Great tasty warm side dishes to add to the dinner table for thanksgiving. These are the popular dishes served on this day. Salads would be good to.
Easy Creamy Corn Casserole recipe ideas to create for a breakfast or brunch. Cheesy Mexican flavored side dish to serve for lunch or dinner.
Roasted Honey Garlic Glazed Carrots
Roasted Honey Garlic Glazed Carrots recipe idea to create for a delicious side dish. Easy Thanksgiving season tradition and Christmas meal.
Potato Salad Bacon Bits and Vinaigrette
A warm Potato Salad Bacon Bits and Vinaigrette recipe idea. Easy, no egg, no mayonnaise with a flavorful mustard, maple syrup, dressing.
How To Make Mashed Potato Grandma´s way. Homemade fluffy and buttery mashed potato made from scratch to serve as a side dish with gravy.
Loaded Baked Potatoes Grilled recipe. Easy homemade potato jackets filled with cream cheese and bacon bits topped with cheddar for a meal.
A healthy Butternut Mash Side Dish Recipe idea to create. Organic butternut squash cooked on the stove top with brown sugar and cinnamon.
Creamy Pumpkin & Vegetable Casserole
Creamy Pumpkin Vegetable Casserole dish recipe idea. Seasonal healthy oven baked dinner or lunch with mushroom soup and cheese on top.
Butternut Squash Stuffed and Roasted
Butternut Squash Stuffed and Roasted recipe with vegetables, rice, bacon and cheese. An oven roast that is a healthy side dish with a meal.
Mustard Curry Green Beans Salad recipe. A cold side dish or pickled salad, easily bottled for storage and served with braai or main meals.
A Recipe for 30 minute dinner rolls recipe. Easy homemade yeast buns served with a meal of soup and starters for dinner appetizer.
Foiled Sweet Potato on Coals or oven bake.
Foiled Sweet Potato on Coals or barbecue recipe. Easy warm side dish for a braai on coals that is wrapped in foil and cooked with your meats. Or Baked Potato in Foil on Coals.
Creamy Garlic Potato Casserole recipe. Best easy 3 ingredient warm side dish idea for a braai, dinner or lunch for a healthy versatile meal.
Tasty Cranberry Sauce Recipe as a side dish for turkey at a Thanksgiving Meal. An Easy homemade recipe that only requires 3 ingredients.
A homemade sour cream-based sauce adds just the right amount of tang to every bite. Try it for Thanksgiving.
You are going to fall in love with these Parmesan Roasted Carrots. They are a sure fire way to get the kids and grown-ups to eat their vegetables.
This quick and easy sweet potato casserole recipe is a great dish for holiday dinners and potlucks.
Roasted-butternut-squash-green-bean-casserole
Roasted butternut squash that’s incorporated with green beans and sprinkled sliced almonds on top.
Roasted-garlic-mashed-potatoes
Roasted garlic takes these creamy mashed potatoes over the top. Everyone raves about this simple dish. You may never make regular mashed potatoes again.
Green-bean-casserole-coconut-bacon
These days I’m all about more veggie, less other stuff, which led me to develop this lighter, dairy-free green bean casserole topped with crispy shallots and (surprise!) coconut bacon.
DESSERTS
Recipe ideas that families in the USA love to bake or make for Thanksgiving desserts.
Easy No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake
Easy No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake tart recipe idea. Makes two with biscuit or cookie base for a thanksgiving dessert pie for family to enjoy.
Bake this Mini Frosted Pumpkin Cakes recipe idea. Tasty moist pumpkin spiced, small cakes decorated with caramel buttercream, for dessert.
Best Pumpkin Cake recipe with salted caramel cream cheese frosting. A delicious dessert using pumpkin puree, pumpkin spices for fall treat.
These Mini Pumpkin Bundt Cakes recipe are spicy and made from scratch. An easy bake, with vanilla butter icing, makes a moist dessert.
This easy homemade pumpkin pie recipe has been in my family for generations. Thanksgiving dinner wouldn’t be the same without it.
Easy Pumpkin Cream Parfait Recipe
Easy Pumpkin Cream Parfait Recipe dessert for thanksgiving. Layered with crushed chocolate chip biscuit, with creamed pumpkin and cream.
Affordable Apple Pie and Cream
Affordable Apple Pie and Cream dessert recipe. This is a super easy and affordable apple pie to bake for a large family dessert. Also popular on Thanksgiving.
Mini Homemade Apple Pies recipes. Have some apples needing to be used. Make this apple pie fillings, with puff pastry dough. Another pie recipe is –> Puff Pastry Apple Turnovers
Easy Apple Puff Pastry Turnovers
Easy Apple Puff Pastry Turnovers recipe ideas. A simple mini dessert to bake with puff pastry and sweet apples with sugar, cinnamon.
Instant Pot Caramel Apple Cheesecake
Instant Pot Salted Caramel Apple Cheesecake tart recipe. A dessert cooked with apple cider vinegar, kraft caramel sweets and cream cheese.
Easy Shortbread Pecan Bars recipe. A shortbread crust topped with pecan nuts, honey, cream and brown sugar for a healthy snack bar.
Recommendations
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Sharing a few thanksgiving recipes that are eaten —-> 24 Easy Thanksgiving Appetizers Recipes and 11 Thanksgiving Turkey Recipes and 15 Simple Thanksgiving Appetizer Recipes and 28 Thanksgiving Side Dishes Recipes and 23 Thanksgiving Dessert Recipes
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