15 Healthy Thanksgiving Recipes Your Guests Will Love
Don’t want to spend your Thanksgiving constantly loosening up your belt? Instead of worrying about bloat, or having a pumpkin pie destroy your weight loss goals, try to make these healthy and easy recipes! Here are some of the best healthy Thanksgiving recipes!
1. Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese
Mac and Cheese is a dish that everyone loves. But instead of filling yourself up with all that cheese, use butternut squash for the same texture. You won’t even notice that it is in there.
2. Corn, Edamame, and Quinoa Salad with Lemon-Dijon Vinaigrette
Start off with this super healthy, vegetarian appetizer. Also, if you have leftovers, you can also use this salad as a salsa. This is one of the best healthy Thanksgiving recipes!
3. Honey Roasted Baby Carrots
This recipe requires only a few, simple ingredients: baby carrots, honey, spices, and olive oil. You can also use a flavored honey like ginger honey if you want to spice things up..
4. Sauteed Zucchini with Mint, Basil, and Pine Nuts
This recipe may look like it is from the pages of Bon Appetit Magazine, but it is rather easy to make. You can serve it with ricotta cheese on the side, or if you want to get really fancy, you can also make homemade ricotta cheese.
5. Salad with Goat Cheese, Pears, Candied Pecans and Maple Balsamic Dressing
This recipe is so easy to make that even if you are the worse cook, there is no way you can possibly mess up making this delicious salad. This is one of the healthy Thanksgiving recipes we love!
6. Roasted Sweet Potatoes
Vegan, gluten-free, and paleo: the trifecta that constitutes an ultra healthy dish.
7. Maple Cinnamon Butternut Squash
We all love to have a variety, so pair the roasted sweet potatoes with maple-cinnamon butternut squash so there is plenty for you and your guest to choose from. Also, you can garnish this dish with pecans, walnuts, and cranberries if you desire.
8. Skinny Green Bean Casserole
No Thanksgiving table is complete without green bean casserole. But like everything nowadays, there is a “skinny” version of this all-time classic. The secret is to use greek yogurt for the creamy sauce.
9. Herb Roasted Turkey Breast
Instead of having people argue about white and dark meat at the table, roast parts of the turkey instead of the entire bird. Making roasted turkey breast comes in handy when people want lighter meat.
10. Herb and Apple Stuffing
Try this lighter version of a Thanksgiving classic.
11. Tart Cranberry Sauce
If you trying to lower your sugar intake, make this sugarless version of cranberry sauce. Just as a warning, it might be a bit more tart and less sweet than the canned versions. However, it is still absolutely delicious.
12. Butternut Squash Soup
All it takes is a few ingredients and thirty minutes of your time to make this delicious and healthy soup.
13. Paleo Pecan Pie
This ultra healthy version is as great as the original.
14. Maple Cupcakes with Pumpkin Pie Frosting
There is a possibility that you might become head over heels about these sweet cupcakes.
15. Pumpkin Pie Parfait with Coconut Whipped Cream
You will probably have a smug grin on your face when people compliment how delicious these parfaits taste and look. Oh, and they only take 20 minutes to make.
