Top-50 Vegan Thanksgiving Side Dishes to serve at your holiday dinner table! Veganized classic and non-traditional side dishes, as well as stuffing, potato dishes, bread and muffins and condiments. Everything you need for your foolproof vegan Thanksgiving menu!
Planning your vegan Thanksgiving menu can be so overwhelming! How do you replace the turkey? What about the stuffing? How to avoid dairy in your mashed potatoes and green bean casserole? How to veganize familiar dishes in THE BEST way? How to make meat eaters ask for an extra portion?
If you follow my blog, you probably know that I've recently published 10 best vegan main dishes, as well as appetizers, salads, soups and desserts. Today is the turn of vegan Thanksgiving sides!
So here is my ultimate list of vegan Thanksgiving sides, from macaroni and cheese to sweet potato casserole, delicious stuffing recipes, mashed potatoes, bread and rolls, condiments and so much more!
These recipes are carefully selected to make your Thanksgiving preparation FOOLPROOF and your menu gorgeous! Choose from 10 best recipes in each category: sides, stuffing, potato dishes, breads and muffins and condiments.
A huge thanks to my fellow blogger friends who have kindly submitted these amazing recipes! I can't wait to try some of them for Thanksgiving this year!
These recipes go beyond classics. I made sure to include veganized all-time favorites but if you are looking for something a little more special, I got you covered.
How about serving Georgian plum sauce instead of traditional cranberry sauce? Or potato croquettes instead of mashed potatoes? Sometimes WE are in charge of creating our family traditions, so why not make your vegan Thanksgiving a thing?
Now let me introduce you to the 50 best vegan Thanksgiving sides (perfect for Christmas as well!). You can scroll through a quick slideshow in this vegan Thanksgiving sides web story. And make sure to get ready for Christmas with these 50 best vegan Christmas recipes!
Let me know which recipes you plan to include to your Thanksgiving vegan menu this year in the comments down below 🙂
Vegan Thanksgiving Sides
Pan Seared Balsamic Glazed Brussels Sprouts
These quick balsamic glazed brussels sprouts are crispy, lightly sweet and utterly delicious. Perfect healthy and easy vegan side dish for your holiday menu ready in 20 minutes!
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Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Butternut Squash
The best balsamic-maple roasted Brussels sprouts with butternut squash, pecans, cranberries and avocado roasted garlic dressing. Ultimate healthy vegan Thanksgiving side dish ready in just 40 minutes!
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Dairy Free Vegan Green Bean Casserole
You’ll never believe this rich, creamy dairy free vegan green bean casserole is gluten free, paleo friendly and whole30 compliant! Perfect for a healthy Thanksgiving!
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Silky Vegan Mac and Cheese
Silky and cheesy Vegan Mac and Cheese: Delicious vegan take on an ultimate comfort food classic. Packed with veggies and plant-based protein, this easy 30-minute vegan mac ’n’ cheese recipe will become your family favorite!
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Maple Roasted Butternut Squash with Cranberries and Pecans
Vegan roasted maple cinnamon butternut squash! Loaded with cranberries and pecans. The perfect holiday side dish for your Thanksgiving table!
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Maple Butternut Puree
This easy butternut squash puree is subtly flavored with balsamic vinegar and maple syrup for a tasty, vegan side dish that’s great with any main course.
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Healthy Low Carb Keto Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe
This keto sweet potato casserole recipe is actually a butternut squash cauliflower casserole, but tastes like the real sweet potatoes! Making healthy low carb sweet potato casserole is quick and easy.
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5 Minute Vegan Creamed Corn
This 5 minute vegan creamed corn is the perfect side dish for your holiday feast. It's super quick to whip up with just 8 ingredients and will pair beautifully with Thanksgiving or Christmas dishes, or for any meal you like!
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Cranberry Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
Cranberry Stuffed Sweet Potatoes combine two holiday side dishes in one! Baked sweet potatoes are topped with an easy to make cranberry sauce.
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Vegan Thanksgiving Stuffing
The Best Gluten-Free Vegan Stuffing
Thanksgiving is never complete without some of The Best Gluten-Free Vegan Stuffing! Impress your guests with this essential side dish recipe that's safe for all food allergies, loved by all, and may just become the new star of the show!
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Keto Cauliflower Stuffing
Easy keto cauliflower stuffing is flavorful, caramelized, herby and savory. With 10 minutes of prep, it's perfect for your Thanksgiving table!
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Mushroom Farrotto with Leeks and Chestnuts
This festive make-ahead farro with leeks, mushrooms and chestnuts makes for a satisfying vegan stuffing that your guests would love!
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Cranberry Apple Freekeh
Wholesome cranberry apple freekeh stuffing makes for a hearty vegan dish that anyone will enjoy.
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Vegan Southern-Style Cornbread Dressing
This savory vegan cornbread dressing is rich with the flavors of fall: mushrooms, sage, rosemary, and thyme. It’s oil-free (of course) and gluten-free options are included.
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Vegan Sourdough Bread Stuffing
This Vegan Sourdough Bread Stuffing tastes just like a classic stuffing recipe, but with a subtle zing in every bite.
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Apple Cranberry Stuffing
This Apple Cranberry Stuffing is a healthier version of a Thanksgiving favorite recipe - who knew a vegan gluten-free stuffing could taste so good?
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Vegan Mushroom Stuffing
This Vegan Mushroom Stuffing is a definite must for your Thanksgiving table! Traditional bread stuffing with mushrooms, celery, and lots of herbs. Soft, moist, and fluffy.
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Individual Vegan Thanksgiving Stuffing Muffins
These Individual Vegan Thanksgiving Stuffing Muffins are the perfect Thanksgiving side dish. A savory cornbread mixture in a small package.
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Vegan Thanksgiving Potato Dishes
Easy Baked Potato Wedges
Easy and perfectly crispy oven Baked Potato Wedges will become your go-to side dish or appetizer. Much healthier than french fries and the tastiest potatoes you’ll ever taste!
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Instant Pot Vegan Mashed Potatoes
Vegan Mashed Potatoes made in the Instant Pot (with a stovetop option)! These potatoes are SO creamy and fluffy without any butter, milk or even vegan butter. 25 minutes from start to finish!
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Vegan Potato Dauphinoise Gratin
This Vegan Potato Dauphinoise Gratin is the perfect rich and indulgent yet surprisingly healthy side dish.
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Warm German Potato Salad
Warm authentic German potato salad from Bavaria. The recipe is fairly simple and comes together really quickly too. Enjoy this simple but delicious salad as a salad side dish with various meals.
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Vegan Potato Croquettes
Recipe for vegan Potato Croquettes – the perfect side dish for festive Thanksgiving or Christmas dinners! Crispy on the outside and soft on the inside – just like they should be!
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Very Best Dairy Free Mashed Potatoes
Dairy free mashed potatoes are light, fluffy, creamy, buttery, with no dairy products. These fluffy spuds are sure to become a classic in your family’s holiday tradition.
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Vegan Scalloped Potatoes
My favorite recipe for vegan scalloped potatoes- ultra creamy, cheesy, garlicky and comforting. Absolutely NO dairy!
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Creamy Dairy Free Mashed Potatoes
These Creamy Garlic Dairy Free Mashed Potatoes recipe uses broth and olive oil instead of milk! Perfect for everyday dinner or Thanksgiving – you won’t believe how good and healthy these are!
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Avocado Mashed Potatoes
The best vegan avocado mashed potatoes of your dreams made with smooth olive oil and avocados! No cream, no cheese, no butter, 100% dairy free, but still out of this world fluffy and creamy.
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Vegan Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes
These Vegan Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes recipe is easy, creamy, healthy, and delicious! It's a dairy-free recipe, and only you'll know. Smother them with our savory Porcini Mushroom Gravy to take the flavor to a whole other level.
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Vegan Thanksgiving Breads and Muffins
Healthy Pumpkin Bread with Walnuts
Easy and Healthy Pumpkin Bread recipe, made with whole grain flour, chia seeds, maple syrup, walnuts, beer and malt. Delicious, vegan and packed with nutrients!
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Soft Whole Wheat Dinner Rolls
These soft whole wheat dinner rolls are made with 100% whole wheat flour and bake up so pillowy and tender. They are perfect for serving alongside soup, salad, light meals or your holiday meals!
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Easy Beer Bread
Easy and crusty no-knead 5-ingredient beer bread recipe. Sweet, delicious, healthy and nutritious bread with a little prickliness.
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The Best Vegan Cornbread
Light and fluffy vegan cornbread is perfect when smeared with vegan buttery spread. Serve this alongside your favorite chili recipe!
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Vegan Garlic Chive Muffins
These garlic and chive dinner muffins have an incredible texture that is really light, soft and fluffy. They are delicious on their own or great served with soup or stews. These would even be delicious served with a lentil loaf!
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Vegan Pumpkin Bread
The best Vegan Pumpkin Bread is made with simple ingredients from your pantry and bakes up perfectly moist and flavorful! It uses 1 whole can of pumpkin puree, is healthy, dairy-free, and eggless – but most importantly, it’s delicious!
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The Best Vegan Cornbread
Just the best vegan cornbread, perfect for serving with chili. It’s wonderfully moist, perfectly sweet and only requires one bowl!
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Vegan Pumpkin Cornbread
1 Bowl Vegan Pumpkin Cornbread with a few ingredients. Spiced, lightly sweet and great with soups, chilis or on its own with vegan butter and maple syrup or make sandwiches with it.
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Easy One Hour Pull-Apart Garlic Rolls
Here’s the recipe for the fluffiest and softest Easy One Hour Pull-Apart Garlic Rolls that is perfectly baked to golden brown and slathered in garlic herb butter for the most intimidating flavors and aroma that will leave you drooling for more.
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Vegan Sweet Potato Rolls
Vegan Sweet Potato Rolls - Soft Herb Dinner Rolls. 7 Ingredients! 1 Bowl, Almost no Knead, No added Sugar Freezer friendly. Melt in your mouth sweet potato bread rolls.
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Vegan Thanksgiving Condiments
Easy Homemade Cranberry Sauce Recipe
When it comes to preparing the traditional holiday meal, Homemade Cranberry Sauce has got to be the easiest, if not most colorful, dish to prepare.
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Tkemali – Georgian Plum Sauce Recipe
Why not try something a little different this year and make this flavorful and nutrient-dense Georgian plum sauce (tkemali) that is a great healthier alternative to ketchup or cranberry sauce. Use this sweet-sour vibrant condiment for almost about everything: grilled food, roasted veggies, burgers, potato wedges, any kind of protein, in salad dressings, as a bread spread and so much more!
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Super Simple Vegan Gravy
Pour it on your mashed potatoes. Pour it on everything! This vegan gravy is super simple, super delicious, and requires only seven ingredients to make.
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Ginger Orange Cranberry Sauce
A quick and simple way to upgrade your holiday meal, this Ginger Orange Cranberry Sauce is packed full of flavor. Ready in just 10 minutes, this sauce will become a staple at Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and your other holiday dinners.
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Cranberry and Dried Cherry Sauce
Cranberry and Dried Cherry Sauce is my all time favorite way to eat cranberries! It’s the perfect balance of sweet and tart with Dried Tart Cherries, fresh cranberries, allspice, a cinnamon stick, and cranberry concentrate.
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Spiced Orange Cranberry Sauce
Sweet with maple and cinnamon spice and tangy with juicy orange, this easy Spiced Orange Cranberry Sauce will have you hooked from the first bite! It’s so quick and easy to make, you will never go back to the gelatinous canned stuff again!
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Whole Berry Cranberry Sauce
Homemade whole berry cranberry sauce made with fresh cranberries. This delicious sauce is made with fresh cranberries, sugar, orange and cinnamon.
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Instant Pot Maple Cranberry Sauce
This Instant Pot Maple Cranberry Sauce is lightly sweetened and beautifully tart. It’s a delicious accompaniment to Thanksgiving turkey, cheese platter, or even your morning toast. Easily made in electric pressure cooker and very versatile.
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Vegan Porcini Mushroom Gravy
Smother mashed potatoes with mouthwatering vegan porcini mushroom gravy. It's so silky, rich and savory that even meat eaters love it! Made with just 10 ingredients, it's dairy-free, meat-free, and has a gluten-free option.
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Cranberry Sauce with Apples
Update your Cranberry Sauce with apples for a simple and sweet twist on the classic Thanksgiving side. Tasty without getting too crazy!
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Make sure to check my other posts for your Thanksgiving menu: vegan appetizers, salads and soups, main courses and desserts (see links above).
What are some of your favorite Thanksgiving sides? Which recipes do you plan to include in your Thanksgiving menu this year? Please leave a comment below and share your menu!
Helene
Thursday 15th of November 2018
Love the addition of bread and roll recipes, especially because they are vegan. So many amazing dishes to try! :)
Elena Szeliga
Thursday 15th of November 2018
Thank you so much Helene!
Bintu | Recipes From A Pantry
Tuesday 13th of November 2018
So many delicious side dishes here - thanks for including mine!
Elena Szeliga
Wednesday 14th of November 2018
Thank you for your submission Bintu! These green beans look so good! ;)
Holly
Tuesday 13th of November 2018
There's so many delicious recipes here! That gravy has me drooling all over myself!
Elena Szeliga
Tuesday 13th of November 2018
Haha and I'm not judging you :) Thank you Holly!
Jenn
Tuesday 13th of November 2018
To me, the sides are the best part! These all look so delicious! Where to start? Thank you for including several of mine! Sharing!
Elena Szeliga
Tuesday 13th of November 2018
Thank you so much for your fantastic recipes Jenn! Sides are indeed the best part!