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Check out our 46 gluten-free Thanksgiving recipes to help get a delicious, safe, holiday meal served with minimal planning. You’ll find everything from stuffing to green bean casseroles, to yummy dessert ideas.
This recipe collection was created with the holiday season in mind. Each recipe filled with traditional flavors and simple gluten-free ingredients. There is absolutely no need to stress about cooking or baking when choosing any of these easy gluten free Thanksgiving dishes. It is just one thing to be thankful for this year!
Are you as ready as we are to start building a gluten-free Thanksgiving menu? Let this recipe list inspire you to create a Thanksgiving feast for everyone to enjoy. And always remember that just because you or a guest is following a gluten free lifestyle, doesn’t mean you should miss out on all the family favorites!
Gluten Free Cornbread Dressing
Gluten-free Cornbread stuffing is simple to make and tastes just as delicious as any other dressing recipe. Made with dried cornbread, chicken stock, onions, celery, butter, and hatch chilies, this recipe has a hint of sweetness along with spiciness that makes it extra addictive! Vegetarian and gluten free.
Gluten-Free Impossible Pumpkin Pie
Impossible pumpkin pie gets it's name from the fact that it's impossible to mess up! Made with gluten-free ingredients including pumpkin puree, baking mix, eggs, and sweetened condensed milk, blended together in a blender or food processor, then baked and topped with a homemade cinnamon cool whip. This will become a family favorite!
Gluten-Free Apple Cake
Gluten-Free Apple Cake is the best apple cake around! Made with fresh baked apples, this cake is layered in a bundt pan, baked, then served hot.
Cheesy Mashed Potatoes
Our Cheesy Mashed Potatoes recipe is the absolute BEST mashed potatoes around. These make-ahead mashed potatoes for a crowd can be reheated in your crockpot saving time and oven space. Gluten Free.
Healthy Cheesy Potatoes
Healthy cheesy potatoes are a delicious side dish recipe that is healthier than the traditional full fat version, yet just as tasty. Gluten-free.
Roasted Butternut Squash with Cranberries and Walnuts
Roasted butternut squash and cranberry casserole is a simple one-dish casserole perfect as a side dish or for your holiday table. Squash, cranberries, and walnuts are roasted with butter and brown sugar that caramelizes to perfection!
Sauteed Butternut Squash
Sautéed Butternut Squash is an easy stove top vegetable recipe that pairs well with most main dishes. It's prepared with olive oil, salt and pepper, and has a mild flavor that kids love.
Caramelized Butternut Squash
No onecan resist the combination of roasted butternut squash with brown sugar and butter that baked into a caramelized butternut squash recipe that not only smells amazing but has a flavor that's out of this world delicious.
Maple Cinnamon Roasted Butternut Squash
Roasted butternut squash is a great way to introduce butternut squash to your family. With just 4 ingredients it's super simple and the caramelized flavors are a kid favorite.
Green Beans For Kids
Green beans for kids start with sautéed green beans and are drizzled with a peanut butter satay that will have your whole family requesting green beans all the time. A healthy side dish perfect for kids!
Crockpot Green Bean Casserole (Fresh Green Beans)
Crockpot Green Bean Casserole is a midwestern staple on holiday tables. Free up your oven with this slow cooker version. Using fresh green beans make the dish even more mouthwatering and add a more crisp bite to the casserole.
Crockpot Green Bean Casserole Recipe
Crockpot Green Bean Casserole recipe is a traditional staple midwestern holiday dish. Make with canned green beans, cream soup, and French fried onions this simple crockpot recipe can be made ahead of time, then cooked the next day saving time and oven space.
Butternut Squash Casserole With Pecans
Butternut squash casserole with pecans is the perfect holiday side dish. With roasted pecans, brown sugar, and sweet squash, this thanksgiving side is quick and simple. Wow your guests with this gluten-free holiday recipe.
Sweet Potato Crunch
Sweet Potato Crunch is a traditional Midwest recipe. This Sweet potato casserole with canned yams and a pecan crunch topping is simple to make and is absolutely delicious!
Butternut Squash Sweet Potato Soup
Butternut squash sweet potato soup compliments any fall meal. Made in just 30 minutes this flavor packed soup is super creamy with a slight hint of heat. It features butternut squash, sweet potato, Honeycrisp apples, and coconut milk. It's a gluten-free and dairy-free soup that freezes well.
Gluten Free Scalloped Potatoes
Gluten free scalloped potatoes are worth the time spent and are best served as a dinner side or holiday dish to pass. Russet potatoes are sliced then combined with butter, fresh garlic, chicken stock, and lots of freshly grated parmesan cheese. A family favorite.
Butternut Squash Soup with Apple
Butternut Squash soup with apple is adelicious slow cooker recipe that combines squash, apples, carrots, and coconut milk into a creamy soup the whole family will love.
How to Microwave Butternut Squash
Learn how to make microwave butternut squash in a few simple steps. This steamed butternut squash can be used in many different ways.
Brussels Sprouts Recipe For Kids
Baked Brussels sprouts are a quick and easy oven roasted brussels sprout recipe that comes out of the oven crispy and delicious in just a couple of simple steps.
Brussels Sprout Apple Salad
Brussels Sprout Apple Salad is a delicious fall or winter salad filled with apples, pistachios, and feta cheese with a bright vinegar dressing. A gluten-free salad recipe.
Brussels Sprouts Soup (Instant Pot)
Brussels Sprout Soup made in the instant pot is a healthy, delicious soup recipe perfect for dinner tonight. This quick low-carb recipe needs to be on your meal plan today! Gluten-free and Dairy-free.
Gluten-Free Pumpkin Bars
These gluten-free pumpkin bars will be the star of your next potluck. Made in a large baking pan, these bars have a cake like texture with the added deliciousness of a sweet cream cheese mixture swirled throughout. The perfect fall dessert that kids love!
Brandy Slush (Wisconsin Version)
Brandy Slush is a Midwestern holiday staple - made with Brandy, lemonade and orange juice concentrates, tea, simple syrup frozen into an alcoholic slush recipe that gets topped with a touch of soda.
Crockpot Mulled Cider
Crockpot Mulled Cider, a spiced cider recipe perfect for any seasonal gathering. The combination of mulling spices and apple cider makes a delightful drink.
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Keto Bacon Wrapped Stuffed Mushrooms - Easy Snack or Appetizer Idea!
These bacon-wrapped stuffed mushrooms are a crowd-pleasing favorite. Mushrooms are stuffed with cream cheese and tasty herbs and then wrapped with bacon, so good!
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Instant Pot Mashed Sweet Potatoes
Instant Pot Mashed Sweet Potatoes recipe is an easy and quick side dish that is filling and full of nutrients. It’s a good variation from the classical potatoes mash, and goes well with any meal!
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Parsnip Puree - With Roasted Garlic
This parsnip puree really upstages mashed potatoes! Roasted parsnips and garlic give it a wonderful earthy flavor and silky texture. Naturally it's vegan - without a hint of cream!
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Thanksgiving Salad with Beet, Pear & Apple Cider Vinaigrette
This roasted beet and pear Thanksgiving salad is sprinkled with feta, cranberries, crushed walnuts and thinly sliced shallots. It’s also drizzled with a sensational sesame apple cider vinaigrette! A perfectly seasonal and colorful salad recipe for Thanksgiving!
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Pomegranate Cranberry Relish [Fresh Cranberry Pomegranate Sauce]
Pomegranate Cranberry Relish is a juicy, mouth-watering cranberry sauce that pops with pomegranate and SO much flavor. Serve as a holiday side or sandwich spread and watch it disappear!
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Harvest Salad with Wild Rice & Butternut Squash | The Rustic Foodie�
This Fall Harvest Wild Rice Salad recipe is easy and healthy. It's made with butternut squash and cranberries in a maple Dijon dressing.
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How To Make Fennel Salad With Orange
An Orange and Fennel Salad to refresh the palate. Great as an accompaniment to many foods. It's peppery, sweet and citrusy.
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Gluten-free Sausage & Apple Rice
This Gluten-free Sausage & Apple Rice with dehydrated/dried apples, sage, wild rice, spinach and pine nuts is a great fall dish and perfect for a Thanksgiving or holiday side dish
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Vegan Pumpkin Risotto
This creamy and cozy one-potVegan Pumpkin Risottois the ultimate comfort meal, but still healthy and family friendly. This 20 minute dish is sure to be a favorite entree, but also makes a fabulous side. Bonus points: it’s great for a holiday meal or just a quick weeknight favorite.
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Gluten-Free Crescent Rolls (The BEST Ever!)
Gluten-free crescent rolls that are literally the BEST you have ever tasted! Thanks to a special blend of gluten-free flour, they are flaky, fluffy and so delicious. Nobody would ever know they are gluten-free!
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Oven Roasted Beets
Easy oven roasted beets are a simple and sweet recipe. This recipe requires less than 15 minutes of prep time to create the perfect side dish.
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Oven Roasted Maple Brussels Sprouts Without Bacon (Gluten-free & Vegan)
A tasty side dish that will please everyone! These candied Brussels sprouts contain no bacon and are even a hit with kids! The maple-roasted Brussels sprouts contain only 5 ingredients, are simple to make and come out indulgent, slightly crispy, and far more like candy than a cruciferous vegetable.
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Golden Beet Salad (A Favorite Year Round Recipe)
This Golden Beet Salad recipe features beets that have been roasted, and are then marinated in orange juice and white balsamic vinegar. The marinated golden beets are tossed with golden raisins, toasted walnuts, goat cheese and finished with fresh tarragon and a drizzle of walnut oil.
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Sweet Pear Roasted Asparagus
I love combining fruits with bitter vegetables, and this combo has to be by far one of my favourites up-to-date. The bitterness of the asparagus and the sweetness of the balsamic reduction and pears makes this a deliciously balanced combination that brings roasted asparagus to the next level. Consider making this festive asparagus side dish for thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter dinner, a dinner party or gathering.
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Cranberry Sauce
This healthy, naturally sweetened, gluten-free cranberry sauce recipe is perfectly sweet, perfectly tart, and the perfect holiday side dish accompaniment.
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Zucchini Cheese Bread
This low-carb Zucchini Cheese Bread is so delicious and made with a few ingredients! This bread is keto friendly, gluten-free and made with freshly shredded zucchini!
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Harvest Squash Casserole {How To Cook Spaghetti Squash}
This colorful harvest squash side dish has three types of veggies, tossed with garlic, butter and Parmesan cheese.
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Cranberry Pecan Cauliflower Rice Stuffing
This Cranberry Pecan Cauliflower Rice Low Carb Stuffing is the perfect keto Thanksgiving side dish. You can stuff it inside the turkey in place of traditional stuffing, or you can just serve it on the side.
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Candied Sweet Potatoes
These 4 simple ingredients make the most delicious side dish and can be made ahead! Eating these potatoes is like eating dessert first!
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Gluten-free Pull-Apart Dinner Rolls {dairy-free option}
Gluten-free Dinner Rolls that taste like grandma’s holiday rolls! We enjoy these gluten-free rolls during the holidays and year-round!
Gluten-Free Pumpkin Roll
Our Gluten-Free pumpkin roll is a fall favorite. We always loved the Libbys pumpkin roll and needed to develop a gluten-free version so that we could continue to enjoy this delicious fall treat.
Gluten Free Cheesy Potatoes
Gluten free cheesy potatoes are packed with hash browns, cheese, milk, broth, and cream cheese. This version is super creamy and extra cheesy. It's a kid favorite.
Holiday Breakfast Recipes
It is a tradition in our house to start off Thanksgiving day spending time together while enjoying a batch of Gluten Free Pumpkin Pancakes drizzled with butter and syrup. This year, we are adding our Gluten-Free Apple Cider Donuts to the breakfast table too!
Does your family have any traditions around the holidays? If so, share below! We hope you and your family are able to spend time together this holiday season creating meals and making memories.
For more must-try holiday breakfast recipes, our Hash Brown Egg Cups, Cowboy Breakfast Skillet Recipe, Apple Cinnamon Pancake Recipe, Whole Wheat Pumpkin Pancakes, Gluten Free Pumpkin Muffins, Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread, Spiced Pumpkin Oatmeal Recipe, Vegetable Strata Recipe, Make Ahead French Toast Casserole, and French Toast Muffins are always crowd favorites. You can even pair any of these breakfast ideas with a steaming mug of Hot Cocoa made in the crockpot for a holiday surprise!
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