7 Thanksgiving Recipes in 7 Ingredients or Less

In all the years I’ve been developing Thanksgiving recipes, no one has ever demanded, “Give me a fancy menu with hard-to-find ingredients that will really show off what a sophisticated cook I am.” There are people who treat their holiday meal as a tour de force, but most of us are looking for a delicious menu that’s familiar enough and interesting enough and won’t drive us crazy in the making. That’s what I offer here.

I also limited the number of ingredients in any dish to seven (except for salt and pepper, which are so ubiquitous they hardly count, right?). Despite the fact that supply chains have been restored and inflation has eased a bit, supermarket food prices have stayed stubbornly high. But as these recipes demonstrate, you don’t need a lot of ingredients to deliver a lot of flavor.

So remember: It’s the holidays! A time for merriment and good cheer. May your feast be abundant and your cooking serene, and may all your loved ones be happy and healthy, now and in the coming year.

7 Easy Thanksgiving Recipes

Spicy Feta and Red Pepper Dip

Easy Cranberry-Orange Sauce

Creamy Green Beans and Mushrooms with Crispy Garlic

Dry-Brined Turkey

Easy Turkey Gravy

Sausage and Onion Dressing

Impossible Pumpkin Pie

Amy Traverso

Amy Traverso is the senior food editor at Yankee magazine and co-host of the public television series Weekends with Yankee, a coproduction with WGBH. Previously, she was food editor at Boston magazine and an associate food editor at Sunset magazine. Her work has also been published in The Boston Globe, Saveur, and Travel & Leisure, and she has appeared on Hallmark Home & Family, The Martha Stewart Show, Throwdown with Bobby Flay, and Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. Amy is the author of The Apple Lover’s Cookbook, which was a finalist for the Julia Child Award for best first-time author and won an IACP Cookbook Award in the “American” category.

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