This meatless menu focuses on all the dishes everyone really loves.

Let’s be real: Nobody comes to Thanksgiving for the mains. It’s everything else on the table—appetizers! sides! desserts!—that gets us excited. So this year, we’re granting ourselves full permission to skip the turkey and focus on the things that really matter—things like luxurious potatoes, cheesy casseroles, and all the other dishes we've waited all year to devour. (And guess what? They're all vegetarian.) We promise, nobody will miss the bird.

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Figs-in-a-Blanket With Goat Cheese

Spicy, honey-glazed figs are balanced by creamy goat cheese and buttery puff pastry in this fun vegetarian play on pigs-in-a-blanket. Don’t like figs? Try these savory mushroom-parm palmiers instead.

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THE MEAL

A 13x9-inch white dish with sweet potato purée, baked with a pecan topping.

Mashed Sweet Potatoes With Brown Sugar and Pecans

Want to step up your mashed sweet potato game? Use a food processor to whip boiled sweet potatoes into a quick and creamy purée, then stir in eggs, maple syrup, vanilla, and lemon juice before baking into a comforting Thanksgiving casserole.

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Blistered Green Beans with Garlic and Miso

Forget the usual green bean casserole. This recipe captures the dynamic flavor of green beans when you let them take on a little char, balanced by the bite of garlic and umami-rich white miso.

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Cheesy butternut squash polenta in a white rectangular baking dish with two beverages and a serving spoon.

Cheesy Baked Butternut Squash Polenta

Butternut squash melts into the polenta as it cooks for this creamy make-ahead dish. Pressing chunks of creamy Fontina into the polenta ensures that once baked it will be full of gooey pockets of cheese throughout.

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DESSERT

Pumpkin Cheesecake with Bourbon–Sour Cream Topping

The caramelized flavor of bourbon and the tang of sour cream add balance to the rich, spiced filling of this cheesecake. Chopped pecans add a nutty dimension to the graham cracker crust.

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