Ultimate Thanksgiving Recipe Round-Up (2024)

FAQs

What is the key ingredient to a perfect Thanksgiving day dinner? ›

I think if we're all honest, we know that Thanksgiving is mostly about the starches. Mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, fresh-baked rolls – these are the true heroes of the meal, and there will be a lot of them on the table, which is totally fine.

Traditional Thanksgiving dinner includes Roast turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, stuffing (or “dressing”), and some kind of pie for dessert, typically pumpkin, apple, or pecan. Common sides are green bean casserole, scalloped corn, and roasted sweet potatoes.

Pie, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce the day before. Day of I just have to roast the turkey, do the veg and make gravy. Anything that reheats nicely, mashed potatoes, sweet potato, stuffing I do in the crockpot in the morning, cut veggies for salads, potato salad.

Since it's the main event, the turkey should be the first dish you start cooking in the morning. "The resting process is an absolutely imperative part of the cooking process," Holzman said. Many people overcook their turkeys in the oven and overlook letting them rest, rendering the final product dry and rubbery.

If you don't plan on stuffing the bird, but preparing the dressing as a side dish, you can prepare uncooked stuffing ahead of time as long as you freeze the stuffing immediately after mixing the wet and dry ingredients. USDA recommends that you never refrigerate uncooked stuffing.

Why can't you make stuffing ahead of time? ›

You haven't said whether you are going to cook the stuffing inside the bird or out, but it's fine to make almost any stuffing a few hours before you'll need it. The important thing is to keep it properly chilled so that bacteria won't have a chance to grow in it.

Southern-cuisine expert and cookbook author Diana Rattray has created more than 5,000 recipes and articles in her 20 years as a food writer. The classic Thanksgiving dinner includes old-time favorites that never change: turkey, gravy, stuffing, potatoes, veggies, and pie.

IF you mean a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner: roast turkey, gravy, stuffing, mashed potatoes, string beans, rolls, cranberry sauce; mushroom dish, maybe a salad or 2, maybe wild rice; pumpkin pie and/or apple pie.

There's no doubt that a big, roasted Thanksgiving turkey is the centerpiece of any holiday dinner. But that doesn't mean there isn't room at the table for other main courses, too.

America's different regions can favor different local cuisines, and Thanksgiving dinner provides no exception. While turkey is the top selection in every region, side-dish challenger mashed potatoes are tied for first place in the Midwest (both winning 85% of matchups) and West (both winning 79%).

I watched Mayor Mori's ingredients video and the ingredients are manila clams, all colors of pumpkins, scallops, oysters, sea bass, barred knifejaw, mushrooms, dungeoness crab, and depending on your hemisphere you will need sea urchin, red snapper, squid, olive flounder, and dab.

A typical Thanksgiving dinner consists of roast turkey and stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, corn, bread, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. Though most prefer to have a Thanksgiving dinner with these traditional dishes, there are still countless ways to spice up the recipes.