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Easy Thanksgiving Menu

Collage of a Thanksgiving meal with roast turkey, salad, pie, and cranberry sauce beneath an orange Easy Thanksgiving Menus title panel.
A collage of dishes for a Thanksgiving menu.

Plan an easy Thanksgiving menu with turkey, cranberry sauce, potato sides, salads, bread, and pumpkin cake, plus make-ahead and serving-day tips.

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  • Total: 11 hours 30 minutes
  • Servings: 8 servings

Recipe

Easy Thanksgiving Menu

Plan an easy Thanksgiving menu with turkey, cranberry sauce, potato sides, salads, bread, and pumpkin cake, plus make-ahead and serving-day tips.

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Prep
1 hour 30 minutes
Cook
10 hours
Total
11 hours 30 minutes
Servings
8

Ingredients

8 servings

For 8 servings

Menu selections

Instructions

Make-ahead options

  1. Step 1: Serve the cranberry sauce at room temperature.

  2. Step 2: Store the pumpkin cake at room temperature.

  3. Step 3: Make and rise the dinner-roll dough, then shape it into balls. Let the shaped rolls rise a second time in the baking pan in the refrigerator overnight. Bake just before serving; baking takes 20 minutes.

  4. Step 4: Reheat the creamy corn casserole, Skillet Corn Bread, or Corn Bread Muffins in the microwave.

  5. Step 5: Reheat the Easy Cheesy Potato Bake, or make it fresh if you have oven time.

  6. Step 6: Make the mashed potatoes ahead and reheat them in the microwave.

On the day

  1. Step 7: In the morning, prepare the turkey and place it in the slow cooker. Start cooking based on your serving time. Serve the turkey fresh for optimum juiciness.

  2. Step 8: Prepare the salads, keeping the components separate, including the dressing. Toss just before serving.

About this recipe

Plan a Thanksgiving spread with slow-cooker turkey and gravy, cranberry sauce, potato sides, salads, bread, and pumpkin cake. Make some dishes ahead, then keep salad components separate until just before serving.

Thanksgiving table with roast turkey, cranberry sauce, gravy, and side dishes.
A Thanksgiving table with turkey and traditional sides.
Glossy cranberry sauce with whole cranberries in a white bowl and a spoon.
Cranberry sauce for the Thanksgiving table.

  • Choose either Easy Cheesy Potato Bake or Make Ahead Mashed Potato.

  • For the fresh salad, choose the Brussels sprout salad or a simple garden or leafy salad with dressing.

  • Choose Creamy Corn Casserole, Skillet Corn Bread, or Corn Bread Muffins.

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