Thanksgiving
2220 recipes found
Amana Stuffing
Pomegranate-Orange Relish With Walnuts
Oyster Stuffing
Banana Upside-Down Cake
Like a cross between bananas Foster and pineapple upside-down cake, this homey dessert is topped with caramelized banana slices and crunchy walnuts. Cooking the brown sugar in a skillet before adding the fruit gives you a particularly deep, complex flavor. Because of the moisture in the topping, you’ll need to bake this cake a little longer than other, similar butter cakes. Underbaked cake will be soggy and apt to fall apart, but an ideal result will have a well-browned surface and dark, slightly crunchy edges.
Sausage Stuffing
Mushroom and Kasha Stuffing
Turkey Pie With Potatoes, Squash, Chard and Cheddar
This layered savory pie is basically a complete dinner encased in pastry, and quite an elegant way to have Thanksgiving leftovers (though it can be made any time of year). Serve it with gravy and cranberry sauce, or keep it light with a refreshing green salad.
Barley ‘Risotto’ With Turkey and Mushrooms
Cranberry Crumb Cake
With their pleasant tang and gorgeous color, cranberries take this brunch staple to the next level. Here, they're nestled in a sour cream cake batter that's topped with a butter crumb, and cook down to add the perfect burst of sour. You can use fresh cranberries or berries that have been frozen and thawed, but note that the cooking time will vary depending on which you use. Lastly, while cranberries make this cake especially nice for fall and winter, blueberries, raspberries or blackberries would be excellent in the summer.
Creamed Corn
This is a sweetly comforting dish, and it's remarkably simple to make. Fresh corn is best for this, but frozen corn would work as well. If using the latter, add a bit of water when cooking before you add the milk.
Savory Dutch Baby
This savory Dutch baby is like Yorkshire pudding meets a popover meets a gougère, flavored with browned butter, Parmesan and thyme. You can serve it for brunch, pancake style. Or try it as an hors d’oeuvre. Bring the whole thing out to your guests and let them tear it apart with their hands. Salty, cheesy and delicious.
Sous-Vide Turkey Breast With Maple and Rosemary
Cooking a turkey breast using sous vide makes for especially tender meat that’s never dried out. You’ll want to bring the meat to 145 degrees, which leaves it delicately pink, very juicy and perfectly safe because the long, steady heat of the sous vide machine pasteurizes the meat. That said, if you like your turkey slightly firmer and well done — more like a traditional roast bird — cook it to 152 degrees. Lastly, make sure to take the skin off the meat before cooking; the moist environment of the sous-vide bag makes it irreversibly soggy. Fans of crisp, golden skin can bake it separately instead.
Cranberry Herringbone Pie
This pie is both sweet and slightly tart, with deep flavors of citrus and warm spices to complement the cranberries, and a showstopper of a lattice on top. The process for weaving the herringbone pattern looks quite long below, but if you follow the instructions and watch the video here (or check out this photo album), you’ll get the hang of it quickly — and you’ll have a seriously impressive end result. The filling, which comes together easily, can be made up to 2 days ahead, but the pie is best served the day it is baked.
Rich Cornbread Dressing
This luxurious Thanksgiving dressing is almost a bread pudding, with cornbread, eggs, celery, onion, a pint of oysters and lots of butter and heavy cream. If the oysters prove to be too controversial for your family, simply leave them out.
Tamarind Spiced Nuts With Mint
The addition of tamarind and mint to what might otherwise be simply sweet and spicy cashews elevates these nuts beyond simple bar snacks designed to encourage thirst. They're sophisticated and exciting, while remaining quite simple to make.
Savory Pecan Cookies
These little cookies are packed with savory flavors — black pepper, fresh sage and Parmesan — and are studded with chopped pecans. An ideal nibble with a glass of dry sherry or a cocktail, they are also welcome on a cheese board.
Roasted Cauliflower Gratin With Tomatoes and Goat Cheese
Roasting is one of my favorite ways to prepare cauliflower, and I have always loved preparations that pair the vegetable with coriander seeds. I use coriander seeds and cinnamon to season the tomato sauce that I toss with the roasted cauliflower and sautéed red onions, then add a couple of eggs beaten with goat cheese.
Refried Bean, Zucchini and Corn Gratin
This is my own interpretation of a traditional Southwestern dish (that has many interpretations) called Three Sisters Casserole. Three Sisters refers to the Native American practice of growing corn, beans and squash in the same field. I’ve seen many different recipes for Three Sisters Casserole and Three Sisters Gratin, some using winter squash, more using summer squash. Sometimes the vegetables are combined and topped with a layer of polenta. In this version, each element gets its own flavorful layer. Although you can use canned beans for the dish, I urge you to use simmered beans because the refried beans will taste best if you reduce them in their flavorful broth.
Collard Greens Stuffed With Quinoa and Turkey
It takes some time, but I love filling collard greens. Bigger than grape leaves (so you don’t have to make as many), the large flat leaves are great stuffers. I used a combination of quinoa and leftover turkey for this slightly sweet Middle Eastern filling spiced with cinnamon and allspice; rice would work just as well.
Bread Stuffing
Mark Bittman writes that this bread stuffing, based on a James Beard recipe, has been a staple on his Thanksgiving table for decades. First you make fresh bread crumbs: just whiz a few cups of slightly stale cubes of decent bread (crust and all, unless it’s super-hard) in a food processor. Keep the crumbs very, very coarse. Cook them with plenty of butter (yes, you can use olive oil) and good seasonings. Baked in a pan, this is delicious, with or without gravy. You could use it to stuff the turkey if you’d like — but once you've tried it cooked on its own, you won't look back.
Citrus Custard Pie
This citrus custard in this pie is undeniably creamy, but it’s made more luxurious with a layer of whipped cream on top. It’s finished with raw strips of citrus zest — you can candy them in simple syrup, if you like, though it’s not necessary — which create an exuberant design to finish the pie. It can be baked a day ahead, but the raw citrus zest will begin to curl within an hour or two, so it’s best to apply it just before serving.
Spicy Red Pepper Cranberry Relish
A kicky condiment, usually made with cranberries, can offset the neutral (read: bland) yet rich nature of the Thanksgiving meal. This hot red-pepper cranberry relish with jalapeños and cayenne fits the bill. You can keep the seasoning somewhat tame, or ramp up the heat to taste. It will keep for 2 weeks or so; make it in advance, as soon as cranberries are available, and have it on hand in the fridge through the holiday season.
Creamy Cashew Butternut Squash Soup
Growing up, I spent a lot of time in vegetarian restaurants even though I was not vegetarian, just on a quest to discover delicious, healthy foods that would help my dad to lose weight and feel good. I was already a fan of butternut squash soup when I was introduced to using cashews as a substitute for cream. This soup is loaded with flavor, fiber and protein. One of my favorite things to do is to ask my guests to figure out the mystery ingredient; nobody ever guesses that I have swapped out the heavy cream for the healthy, raw cashews. This soup is perfect for your vegetarian and vegan guests.
Pumpkin Pie
Here is a no-fuss pumpkin pie that can be made using fresh or canned pumpkin purée, homemade or store-bought pie crust and fresh or ground ginger. No matter how you assemble it, you won't be disappointed in the outcome. Finish each slice with a dollop of whipped cream.