From Stuffing to Dessert, These Vegan Thanksgiving Recipes Will Delight Everyone at Your Table (2024)

16 Vegetarian Thanksgiving Recipes Your Meat-Free Guests Will Love

Crispy Brussels-Sprout Rösti

Whether you serve it as an appetizer or a side at your vegan Thanksgiving feast, this crispy, crunchy on the outside but soft within potato and Brussels sprout pancake is a winner.

Vegan Mashed Potatoes

Extra-virgin olive oil makes these potatoes smooth and rich. Using a ricer yields mashed potatoes with an especially light, fluffy texture. Alternatively, potatoes can be mashed with a potato masher or fork.

Cannellini and Kale Soup

Kale is the iron-rich cool weather star in this satisfying and simple soup where crisp garlic adds a powerful crunch.

Vegan Stuffing

A simple sourdough stuffing that everyone at the table will want to try. It has all of the traditional stuffing flavors—without the traditional poultry broth, dairy, or eggs.

Red Pepper and Pomegranate Dip

Ruby pomegranate, roasted peppers, and creamy walnuts are whizzed up with chile for this zesty and arrestingly bright dip. It's a perfect welcome for arriving guests.

Persimmon with Roasted Chicories

When chicories are roasted they take on a deep nuttiness, complemented in this luxuriously textured salad by fresh slices of Fuyu persimmon, pomegranate seeds, and succulent oil-cured olives.

Curried Lentil Soup with Dried Cherries and Cilantro

An assertively spiced soup of creamed lentils combines the sweetness of coconut milk with pungency of garlic, ginger, and curry powder, with fresh cilantro and dried cherries adding layers of rewarding complexity towards the end.

Beet Salad with Citrus Mint Dressing

Mellow roasted beets are invigorated by winter citrus and refreshing mint to make an appealingly simple and striking salad.

Whole Roasted Cauliflower

A spectacular vegan entrée, give this dish the center of the table it deserves. Roasting turns the cauliflower brown, nutty, and very tender. It’s served with an easy stir-it-together green herb sauce.

Sweet Potato-Cauliflower Curry

A creamy (but dairy free) sauce made with garlic, onion, coconut milk, and red curry paste envelopes hunks of sweet potato, cauliflower, baby spinach, edamame, and zucchini in this colorful vegan main.

Roasted Squash with Shallots Grapes and Sage

Real grapes are ripe in fall, and their caramelized sweetness is offset by musky roast sage—perfect for this nutty roasted squash and grain entrée.

Roasted Carrots with Red Quinoa and Spinach

A hearty dish with a color palette so right for the Thanksgiving table. The secret weapon in this warm salad is shiro miso, the fermented soy paste that seems made for honeyed quality of roast carrots.

Pumpkin Pasta

This baked pasta dish is a novel use for canned pumpkin puree at the Thanksgiving table. Kale and jarred sun-dried tomato pesto bring extra flavor and color to the pumpkin sauce, and sliced almonds add crunch.

Vegan Lentil Soup

Broccoli rabe's mineral depth adds complexity to a warming lentil soup spiced with fragrant cumin, toasted coriander, and a last-minute dash of red wine vinegar.

Stuffed Onions

An irresistible option for a main course, these stuffed onions are filled with creamy potatoes and a powerhouse combination of mushrooms.

Stewed White Beans with Tomatoes and Rosemary

Comforting beans are perfumed with rosemary, bay, and onion before cooking in the rich juices of hearty tomatoes.

Braised Green Beans and Tomatoes

The savory depth of canned tomatoes turns the classic side dish of green beans into a bowlful of goodness whose juices you'll want to spoon up.

Cranberry-Apple Chutney

Most cranberry sauce recipes are vegan. This mouth-watering chutney goes a step further than the simple sauce. It matches assertive vinegar with brown sugar. Enjoy it with roasted squash, stuffed onions, sweet potatoes, carrots, or parsnips.

Cippolini

Try not to inhale these luscious little mouthfuls of sweet-and-sour glazed onions. Cooked low and slow they are a meltingly good side dish for substantial fare like slow-cooked beans and lentils.

Vegan Spiced Red Fruit Tarts

These luscious little tarts have a decadent chocolate crust, are stuffed with fresh cranberries and frozen raspberries and cherries, and are perfumed with warming spices.

Cranberry-Port Sorbet

The luscious flavor of port together with the tart complex flavor of cranberries makes a gorgeous ruby-hued sorbet. It's just the right way to end a hearty Thanksgiving meal.

Vegan Apple Pie

The delectable crust for this pie uses safflower oil rather than butter.

Cranberry-Vanilla Compote

Refreshing, pretty, and featuring the best fruits of the season, these delightful compotes are a refreshing end to a very filling meal.

Poached Red Wine Pears

Pepper is the surprisingly effective aromatic in this classic dessert, where red wine turns pears sumptuous.