Thanksgiving Dinner For 10 with Recipes

If you need a few tried and true recipes or this is your first time hosting Thanksgiving or you want some new recipes to add to your menu, this is a great resource with all the Thanksgiving recipes you need! Everything from Roasted Turkey, Creamy Mashed Potatoes, Savory Gravy, Herbed Stuffing, and Pie! Make sure you have your Traditional Thanksgiving Menu planned and ready to go.

Feeding Your Thanksgiving House Guests

You may be hosting friends and family in your home for more than just Thanksgiving Day. Most likely they are staying for a couple nights over the long Holiday weekend.

You will obviously want to feed then while they are staying with you… to make that task as easy as possible check out this post Easy Meals for House Guests, it will help you feed everyone during their stay!

It includes 4 breakfast menus, 4 lunch menus, 12 dinner menus with recipes, store bought and make ahead items.

20+ Recipe for house guests

Use these menus and recipes to plan meals for your house guests. Everything you need from breakfast and lunch to dinner and drinks!

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Breakfast Before Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a day of EATING. Generally we start with a big breakfast and then don’t eat again until the main event, which tends to be mid-day. Here is an amazing breakfast menu to serve your crowd:

• Cranberry Orange Muffins or Morning Glory Muffins (can be made ahead and frozen!)
• Scrambled Eggs or Make Ahead Sausage Egg Cups
• Oven Cooked Bacon
• Fresh Fruit Bowl

Thanksgiving Dinner

Here is the main event, Thanksgiving Dinner… Below are all the recipes you need from turkey to dessert, and even some ideas for your leftovers!

Don’t forget to grab this FREE THANKSGIVING PRINTABLE for your place settings, asking everyone what they are thankful for on Thanksgiving!

Turkey

Choose one option for your turkey. If you are serving 10 people you will want to have a 10-12 lb. turkey. If you are buying a frozen turkey, make sure you set a reminder to take it out of the freezer about 3 days in advance and pop it in the fridge for thawing.

Rosemary & Orange Glazed Roast Turkey — Zestful Kitchen

This glazed roast turkey recipe is juicy, flavorful, and absolutely gorgeous. Brined, roasted, and glazed, it’s everything you love about the holidays.

Amazing Roast Turkey

Roast Turkey in Parts

Looking for a quick, no-fuss roast turkey recipe? This Roast Turkey in Parts recipe is SO simple, quick to make, moist and flavorful.

Roast Turkey In Parts

Oven Roasted Turkey Breast

A delicious and juicy turkey breast with golden skin and flavorful herbs. Plus a savory gravy from the pan drippings. Perfect for dinner or your holiday table.

Oven Roasted Turkey Breast

Mashed Potatoes

Some people like to have two potato options; mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes. You can choose to have both or choose to just have mashed potatoes.

The BEST Yukon Gold Mashed Potatoes Recipe + VIDEO

The creamiest and MOST FLAVORFUL Yukon Gold Mashed Potato recipe you will find!!! These are the mashed potatoes you want on your table! So delicious you don't even need gravy.

Plan on ½ lb. of raw potato per person.

Yukon Gold Mashed Potatoes

The Best Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes

This Instant Pot Mashed Potato recipe is one of the most flavorful (and easiest) mashed potato recipes you will ever make. Just 11 minutes and NO DRAINING! This will become your new go-to!

Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes

Roasted Garlic Mashed Potato Recipe

Super creamy mashed potatoes mixed with 2 heads of roasted garlic, sour cream, cream cheese, kosher salt and butter. No lack of flavor here!

Serve with or without gravy.

Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Red Skin Mashed Potatoes Recipe

Shallots and garlic are sauteed in butter, then red skin potatoes are boiled to tender perfection with the skins on. The two are blended together with sour cream and half and half added. These are SUPER FLAVORFUL mashed red skin potatoes.

Red Skinned Mashed Potatoes

Garlic Parmesan Mashed Potatoes Recipe

REALLY flavorful mashed potatoes made from Yukon Gold Potatoes mixed with garlic, parmesan, sour cream, butter and milk. They make an amazing side dish and don't need gravy!

Garlic Parm Mashed Potatoes

Savory Mashed Sweet Potatoes

A delicious mashed sweet potato side dish that is made of roasted sweet potatoes mixed with savory ingredients like roasted garlic and balsamic vinegar. It is a perfectly balanced sweet potato dish that isn't overly sweet!

Savory Mashed Sweet Potatoes

Sweet Potato Souffle Recipe

Sweet potatoes are boiled until fork tender and then blended with spices, butter, brown sugar, vanilla and eggs then poured into a 2 quart pan and baked. The texture of this Sweet Potato Souffle is soft and fluffy, yet substantial.

Sweet Potato Souffle Recipe

Instant Pot Mashed Sweet Potatoes

Instant Pot Mashed Sweet Potatoes are a great side dish and the perfect colorful alternative to traditional mashed potatoes. This recipe combines sweet, savory and a little hint of balsamic vinegar to round out the flavors!

Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes

Gravy

If you are having turkey, mashed potatoes and stuffing, there better be some gravy. Don’t worry about making sure you have enough drippings to make the gravy. I have easy (and super flavorful) gravy recipes that don’t need drippings.

Turkey Gravy Recipe without Drippings + Video

An over-the-top flavorful turkey gravy that won't have you waiting on the drippings from roast turkey! This is the stress free Thanksgiving gravy recipe you have been looking for.

Turkey Gravy Recipe

Super Flavorful Gravy Recipe without Drippings

Homemade gravy made without drippings. This is an easy gravy recipe that only requires a couple ingredients and a little time. It is perfect to serve over potatoes, stuffing, chicken, or turkey!

Gravy Without Drippings

Instant Pot Gravy Recipe + Video

Instant Pot Gravy is a great way to make a delicious savory gravy when you don't have drippings and when all your appliances are monopolized with other dishes. This gravy is perfect for any mashed potato!!

Instant Pot Gravy

Savory and Rich Mushroom Gravy Recipe

Really delicious and rich recipe for Mushroom Gravy. Perfect over mashed potatoes, pork chops, skillet chicken or country fried steak.

No drippings required, just ingredients from your pantry and fridge.

Mushroom Gravy Recipe

Brown Gravy Recipe

This is a super flavorful Brown Gravy recipe that starts by caramelizing onions and garlic and is seasoned with beef base and spices. Perfect for gravy or any beef recipe!

Brown Gravy Recipe

Stuffing or Dressing

Is it stuffing or dressing?! Whatever you call it, make sure you have at least one variety on your holiday table.

Homemade Stuffing Recipe + Video

A traditional recipe for Homemade Stuffing made with dried bread cubes mixed with onions and celery sauteed in plenty of butter then mixed with herbs and broth (and more butter) and baked until golden and delicious!

It is the perfect stuffing recipe for your Thanksgiving table! Can easily be doubled for a crowd.

The Best Homemade Stuffing

Savory Bacon and Apple Stuffing Recipe

A super flavorful stuffing recipe filled with buttery bread cubes, granny smith apples, salty bacon, fresh herbs and plenty of butter. Perfect for your holiday menu!

Apple Stuffing Recipe

Sausage and Herb Stuffing Recipe

A delicious savory side dish perfect for your holiday table. The inside of this sausage stuffing is buttery and soft, filled with herbs, sausage, and cranberries, and the top is crispy and golden.

Sausage Stuffing Recipe

Savory Cornbread Stuffing Recipe

Homemade cornbread is cubed and mixed with onions, celery, garlic, fresh herbs and plenty of butter. It is baked to perfection. The middle is buttery and moist and the top is golden and slightly crisp around the edges of the cornbread pieces.

Cornbread Stuffing Recipe

Stove Top Stuffing Homemade

Take 2 boxes of Stove Top Stuffing and turn it into the most amazing Stuffing that tastes like it is homemade. You'll just add lots of butter, some onions, celery, herbs and more butter! Perfect for Thanksgiving and the Holidays.

Stove Top Stuffing Recipe

Cranberries

We are mildly obsessed with cranberries here at Mom’s Dinner. Choose one of these cranberry recipes for your Thanksgiving table. 1 recipe will be plenty for 10 people.

Canned Cranberry Sauce Recipe

A recipe to turn your canned cranberry sauce into a spectacular side dish for your Holiday feast! They will taste just like homemade, no one will ever know they started in a can!

Amazing Canned Cranberry Recipe

Simple Cranberry Sauce Recipe

A really simple recipe for Cranberry Sauce made with simmered cranberries, sugar, orange and spices. Perfect tart-sweet cranberry sauce for your holiday table.

Simple Cranberry Recipe

Fresh Cranberry Jell-O Salad

This Cranberry Jell-O Salad is the perfect cranberry side dish for your Holiday table. It is a wonderful blend of raspberry Jell-O, cranberries, lemon yogurt (secret ingredient), and orange zest.

Cranberry Jell-O Salad

Cranberry Relish Recipe + VIDEO

Blend up whole fresh cranberries and a granny smith apple together with orange and spices for an amazing Cranberry Relish. No need to boil your cranberries, this recipe uses them raw.

Cranberry Relish Recipe

Instant Pot Cranberry Sauce Recipe

An amazing Cranberry Sauce recipe that is made in the Instant Pot! Full of sweet crushed pineapple, whole fresh cranberries, orange zest, and a dash of cinnamon. This is the perfect sweet and tart Holiday side dish.

Instant Pot Cranberries

Vegetable

Choose one veggie to have as a side dish.

Oven Roasted Carrot Recipe + Video

A great vegetable side dish of Roasted Carrots that only requires 3 ingredients and 25 minutes.

Roasted Carrot Recipe

Four Ways to Cook Haricot Verts

Learn four different ways to cook Haricot Verts, the thin French green bean. It makes a great side dish for just about any dinner.

Choose the method below that is right for you.

Green Bean Recipe

Extra Side Dish

Isn’t abundance the name of the season. Choose one or two extra side dishes to add to your Thanksgiving menu.

Easy Jiffy Corn Casserole

Jiffy Corn Casserole is an easy side dish that can be made ahead. Sweet corn is mixed with cheese, sour cream, onions, green peppers, and Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix. This makes a great side dish for barbecues, holidays, or Sunday family dinner.

Corn Casserole Recipe

Classic Green Bean Casserole Recipe

This is the classic recipe for Green Bean Casserole that will complete your holiday table. It is the old fashioned recipe with cream of mushroom soup and canned green beans, all topped with those delicious crispy fried onions.

Green Bean Casserole Recipe

Sweet Potato Casserole with Canned Yams

Sweet Potato Casserole made with canned yams, mashed up and mixed with butter, eggs, brown sugar and spices/seasonings. The topping is a pecan and brown sugar crumble that is SO delicious.

Sweet Potato Casserole with Pecans

Raspberry Jello Salad Recipe

Raspberry Jello Salad is a delicious classic Jello salad recipe. It is easy to make and only requires 4 ingredients! This is a great Jello side dish for large savory dinners. It is a staple on our table for 4th of July, Easter, and Christmas.

JellO Salad Recipe

Broccoli Bacon Salad Recipe

A classic Broccoli Bacon Salad recipe that has raw broccoli, crispy bacon, sweet raisins and sunflower seeds with a sweet and tangy dressing. Makes a great side dish for any holiday or barbecue.

Can also be prepped a day ahead!

Broccoli Bacon Salad Recipe

CLASSIC DEVILED EGGS

A traditional recipe for classic deviled eggs using mayonnaise and mustard . A super easy recipe with tips for piping the filling into the eggs.

Deviled Egg Recipe

Bread & Rolls

If you love to bake, by all means make some homemade rolls! But store bought or bakery rolls are also great, this is a great place to save some time and energy in the kitchen.

Homemade Dinner Roll Recipe + Video

This is an over-the-top delicious dinner roll made with simple ingredients like; dry active yeast, milk, sugar, kosher salt, butter and oil. All the tips and tricks (plus a video) are included to make your rolls turn out pillowy soft, golden and buttery.

Dinner Roll Recipe

Pumpkin Sage Challah Rolls

These delicious pumpkin sage challah rolls, made partially with whole-wheat flour, are a wholesome and flavorful twist on classic challah. Light and tender, these knot-like rolls are great as a side dish (especially at Thanksgiving!) or used as buns for your favorite sandwich.

Check out this recipe

Dessert

Some say this is the part of the mean anyone remembers, so make it really really good! Pumpkin Pie with whipped cream and Pecan Pie are traditional, but here are some other options:

Thanksgiving Pumpkin Trifle Recipe

A delicious trifle recipe that is perfect for Thanksgiving or fall time. It is a beautiful layered dessert with crushed Biscoff Cookies, Pumpkin Cream Cheese Mousse, and Whipped Cream, all topped with toffee bits.

Pumpkin Trifle Recipe

Easy Pecan Pie Bar Recipe

Pecan Pie Bars start with a buttery shortbread crust that is baked and then topped with a caramel-like pecan filling. They're the perfect handheld version of a classic pecan pie.

Check out this recipe

Apple Crostata with Caramel Sauce

Apple Crostata is a rustic version of a apple pie or apple tart. Flaky pastry is filled with tart apples that are sweetened with brown sugar and cinnamon. Serve slices topped with a homemade caramel sauce and a scoop of ice cream!

Apple Crostata Recipe

Pumpkin Bar Recipe with Cream Cheese Frosting

Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting are the perfect moist cake bar that has delicious spiced pumpkin flavor, it is topped with the best Cream Cheese Frosting recipe I have ever had (my Grandma's recipe!).

Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Icing

Grandma’s Carrot Cake with Pineapple & Cream Cheese Buttercream

An Old Fashioned Carrot Cake recipe that is tried and true from my Grandma’s recipe box. It is super moist carrot cake made from scratch. A little pineapple is added to keep the cake moist and sweet. The icing is a perfectly flavored 4 ingredient Cream Cheese Buttercream. This is the Carrot Cake recipe you will add to your recipe box!

Carrot Cake Recipe

Drinks

We love a good cocktail, especially at the holidays. These drinks are prefect for the winter weather and flavored for the holidays.

• Tequila Hot Toddy
• Cranberry Punch
• Christmas Punch
• Blood Orange Margarita
• Pomegranate Martini

Thanksgiving Leftover Recipes

Our very favorite leftover turkey recipe is Turkey Pot Pie, hands down!

Homemade Turkey Pot Pie

A delicious double crust, savory pot pie loaded with turkey, veggies, and herbs all in a creamy sauce. This is a great dish to make with leftover roasted turkey.

Turkey Pot Pie Recipe

Or you can swap out the chicken for shredded turkey in any of these recipes:

• Chicken Enchiladas or Cream Cheese Chicken Enchiladas
• Chicken Poblano Soup
• Creamy Chicken and Noodles
• Tetrazzini
• Chicken Noodle Soup
• Hot Chicken and Artichoke Salad

Leftover mashed potatoes can be dressed up to make Twice Baked Potato Casserole.

Your leftover cranberry sauce can be turned into these AMAZING Easy Crockpot Cranberry Meatballs, which would go great with the potato casserole linked above!

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