111 Great Gluten-Free Thanksgiving Recipes
Avoiding gluten doesn't mean that you have to avoid traditional Thanksgiving dishes. There are plenty of delicious options for those who eat gluten-free. Here we've rounded up our top 111 gluten-free Thanksgiving recipes, including ideas for turkey, appetizers, side dishes, desserts, and more.
Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Beatrice Chastka, Food Styling by Laura Rege1/112Turkey for Twenty
Roasting turkey in pieces is a great strategy when cooking for a large crowd. You can buy the turkey already cut up, separate two turkeys yourself, or ask your butcher to do the work for you.
Photo by Elizabeth Coetzee, Food Styling by Tiffany Schleigh2/112Gluten-Free Maple Pumpkin Pie
This maple-sweetened, wheat-free pumpkin pie is perfectly creamy with a toasty, comforting oat-flour crust.
Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Beatrice Chastka, Food Styling by Laura Rege3/112Spicy Cornbread Stuffing With Chorizo and Sweet Potatoes
This flavor-packed holiday side feeds a crowd of 20 and takes care of both the stuffing and the sweet potatoes. If you don’t like spicy dishes, reduce (or omit) the fresh chiles.
Knoxy4/112Gluten-Free Buttermilk Biscuits
Fill your Thanksgiving bread basket with these airy gluten-free biscuits and everyone will be happy. When you're kneading your dough, remember that less is more—a light touch always creates the most mouthwatering biscuits.
Photo by Elizabeth Coetzee, Food styling by Judy Haubert5/112Butternut Squash Soup
Go all-out autumnal with this easy soup recipe that combines roasted butternut squash with fresh ginger and cinnamon.
Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Anna Surbatovich, Food Styling by Olivia Mack Anderson6/112Creamed Dried Sweet Corn With Onion and Chives
Step aside, cornbread. In Pennsylvania Dutch country, dried sweet corn is an essential part of the Thanksgiving table. Soak it in milk and cream for at least 4 hours (or up to overnight), then simmer it with a bit of sautéed onion for a luscious side dish that's as sweet as summer corn—and even more irresistible.
Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Anna Billingskog7/112Roasted Sweet Potato and Delicata Squash With Cranberry Agrodolce
The cranberry sauce for this holiday-ready side does double duty: It looks gorgeous (and tastes great) drizzled over roasted squash and sweet potatoes, but it’s also an excellent turkey condiment.
Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Beatrice Chastka, Food Styling by Anna Stockwell8/112Cheesy Corn Spoon Bread
Serve this creamy and garlicky spoon bread hot out of the oven for a cozy cold-weather side that is a welcome addition to any holiday meal.
Photo by Elizabeth Coetzee, Food Styling by Tiffany Schleigh9/112Gluten-Free Pie Crust
Bake this easy recipe into pies and tarts, or use it as a gluten-free alternative to classic sugar cookies.
Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Anna Billingskog10/112Quick Thanksgiving Turkey With Lemon-Garlic Butter
What's the fastest way possible to roast a turkey for Thanksgiving? Skip the whole turkey: instead, roast bone-in breasts and legs. (If you don't want to butcher a turkey yourself, you can buy them in individual pieces or have your butcher break a whole bird down for you.) Once you put the pieces in the oven, they cook in about 1 hour and 15 minutes, and are so much faster and easier to carve and serve.
Photo by Alex Lau11/112Mashed Baked Potatoes with Chives
Baking the potatoes for this recipe is a completely hands-off cooking process that also reduces some of the water content in the spuds, resulting in the easiest and most flavorful mash of all time.
Photo by Alex Lau12/112Cranberry Chutney With Orange, Figs, and Mustard
If using frozen cranberries, which are just as good for this recipe, don’t bother thawing them first.
Photo by Alex Lau13/112Skillet Cornbread With Chives
A true Southerner wouldn’t dare add sugar to this cornbread recipe, but a Yankee might miss it. Do what you will; we don’t judge you.
Photo by Jonathan Lovekin14/112Roast Pumpkin With Dukkha and Pomegranate
Keep a jar of dukkha—a mix of spiced, salted seeds—in the pantry to add life to roasted winter squash or any other simply prepared vegetable.