Looking for some delicious Canadian Thanksgiving dinner recipes? Look no further! Here are some of our favorite Canadian Thanksgiving dinner ideas, from traditional turkey dinners to sweet treats and everything in between.
What is a Canadian Thanksgiving?
Canadian Thanksgiving is a holiday that occurs in October, and it is often celebrated with a large family feast. Traditional Canadian Thanksgiving dinner recipes typically include turkey or chicken, seasonal vegetables, stuffing, and mashed potatoes.
There are many different delicious Canadian Thanksgiving dinner ideas to choose from, but some of our favorites include traditional turkey dinners, sweet treats like pumpkin pie and apple crisp, and other dishes like mashed potatoes or roasted vegetables.
How do Canadian and American Thanksgiving differ?
There are many differences between Canadian and American Thanksgiving, but perhaps the most noticeable difference is that Canadian Thanksgiving occurs in October, while American Thanksgiving typically takes place in November.
Additionally, US celebrations tend to be larger and more extravagant than those in Canada, with families often gathering for huge feasts and other special events.
Another key difference is that Canadian Thanksgiving is primarily celebrated by families and friends, while US Thanksgiving often features public holiday celebrations with parades, festivals, and other community events.
Regardless of the differences between these two holidays, however, they are both wonderful opportunities to come together with loved ones and celebrate all that we have to be thankful for.
Canadian Thanksgiving Dinner Recipes
While Canadian and American Thanksgiving have differences, one thing that is similar is the dishes that are served. In fact, you can't really tell the difference between American Thanksgiving dishes and these Canadian Thanksgiving dinner ideas.
Every family has their traditional family recipes that are served every year. It is also fun sometimes to mix it up and try something new.
Perhaps you are out on your own for the first time and looking to create your own traditions. Or, you could be hosting for the first time. No matter the case, the following recipes are great to use as Canadian Thanksgiving recipes. Our family loves these recipes and we are sure your family will love them as well.
Cranberry Balsamic Sauce
Cranberry Balsamic Sauce is easy to make, and this sweet and tangy sauce is amazing on beef, turkey or even chicken! This balsamic cranberry sauce recipe can liven up any dinner night, there's no need to wait for the holidays.
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Easy Instant Pot Cranberry Sauce
Make easy homemade cranberry sauce in just minutes using your pressure cooker. This easy Instant Pot cranberry sauce recipe is exactly what you need to add that finishing touch to your holiday table.
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Leftover Cranberry Sauce Muffins (Cruffins)
If you haven’t sampled our leftover cranberry sauce muffins before then you’re in for a treat! This delectable mashup of croissant-meets-muffin is so delicious.
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The Best Oven Roasted Turkey
The Best Oven Roasted Turkey is perfect for any celebration! This moist, flavorful turkey and crispy turkey skin makes perfect gravy!
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Turkey Pot Pie with Stuffing Crust
Turkey pot pie with stuffing crust is a delicious dish that's perfect for using up leftover Thanksgiving turkey. This turkey stuffing casserole is also delicious with rotisserie chicken, so you can make it any time of year!
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Air Fryer Turkey Legs
Air Fryer Turkey Legs are easy to make, flavorful and crispy on the outside. This fair food can be made at home and tastes just as delicious.
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Slow Cooker Turkey Breast
Slow Cooker Turkey Breast is juicy, tender and flavorful turkey breast. Using the slow cooker takes all the work out of this tasty meal.
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Turkey and Stuffing Casserole
Turkey and Stuffing Casserole is easy to make, and makes for a great weeknight dinner. Great Thanksgiving taste any day of the year!
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Instant Pot Spiral Ham
If you've ever wondered how to cook ham in an instant pot, I have the best instant pot spiral ham recipe for you. Whether you're preparing a scrumptious dinner feast or a busy weeknight meal, ham in the instant pot is ideal.
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Air Fryer Ham with Pineapple Glaze
Air Fryer Spiral Ham is juicy, sweet, and takes very little time to make. This delicious air fryer ham is flavored with pineapple, brown sugar, and Coca Cola. Cooking ham in the air fryer saves all the mess and heat of traditional preparation, and it frees up the oven for other dishes.
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Cream Cheese Corn Casserole with Bacon and Ham
Cream Cheese Corn Casserole is a filling and decadent side dish made with cheese, ham, and bacon. This savory, cheesy corn casserole recipe is loaded with flavor, and is a popular holiday side dish that can be enjoyed anytime.
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Dr Pepper Glazed Ham (Crockpot or Oven)
Want to know the secret to make the best crockpot ham? Add some soda pop!! Cooking ham in the crockpot has never been better than this Dr. Pepper ham recipe.
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Honey Mustard Glazed Ham
Honey Mustard Glazed Ham is sweet, tangy, and undeniably good. This honey and mustard baked ham recipe has all the smoky saltiness we all love in a ham. Plus the honey mustard ham glaze turns into the most mouth-watering sauce you’ll ever come across.
Brown Sugar Ham with Teriyaki Glaze
This brown sugar ham recipe with teriyaki glaze will delight the taste buds and impress your guests. With a combination of sweet and tangy, this brown sugar-glazed teriyaki ham is bursting at the seams with flavor!
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Dijon Maple Glazed Spiral Ham
This Dijon Maple Glazed Spiral Ham recipe is so delicious and perfect for entertaining or when you want an easy meal with great leftovers. The Dijon and maple glaze is sweet, tangy and so full of flavor. Plus, the ease of preparation you get with a boneless spiral ham can’t be beat!
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Candied Sweet Potato Casserole Two Ways
Get ready for the best sweet potato casserole recipe you've ever tasted! Or rather, the best TWO recipes since we're showing you two ways to make candied sweet potato casserole! We keep it classic with marshmallows or you can choose a pecan streusel topping!
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How to Make Candied Sweet Potatoes
How to Make Candied Sweet Potatoes recipe is the way to making the best, old-fashioned, southern candied maple sweet potatoes on the planet!
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Sweet Potato Sheet Pan
Sweet Potato Sheet Pan dinners are flavorful, healthy and easy to prepare with minimal cleanup. This versatile, vibrant dish is a wonderful blend of sweet and savory flavors. Add sausage or chicken and you have an awesome well-rounded dinner!
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Baked Easy Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes
Baked Easy Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes is a simple dish with sliced potatoes, onions and cheese baked in the most flavorful, creamy cheese sauce ever!
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Supreme Mashed Potato Casserole
Our Supreme Mashed Potato Casserole is truly amazing! It starts with sour cream, butter and cheese. Add fantastic ingredients like, bacon, crispy fried onions, Ranch dressing and more and you end up with a truly magnificent potato casserole!
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Cheesy Mexican Corn Casserole
This Mexican Corn Casserole has all the bright flavors of Mexican street corn, right off the cob! It is easy-to-make and incredibly delicious. Of all the Mexican street corn recipes out there, I am confident this will be your favorite.
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Scalloped Corn Casserole
This creamy scalloped corn casserole with a buttery Ritz cracker topping requires just a few ingredients and comes together quickly. The savory, versatile corn side dish goes well with holiday dinners, and alongside practically any meal. It's a homey casserole that everyone will love.
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Slow Cooker Mexican Street Corn Casserole
Mexican street corn casserole is so tasty and is a breeze to make. A convenient way of making Elote corn casserole or slow cooker corn casserole, this Mexican corn with cream cheese is perfect all by itself, or as a side to any main.
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Delicious Glazed Carrots
This Buttery Glazed Carrots recipe is a delicious, budget-friendly, and simple-to-make vegetable side dish. Every cook should have a good glazed carrots recipe in their kitchen repertoire. Delicious glazed carrots go well with just about any protein.
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Sweet Balsamic Roasted Carrots and Onions
This recipe for Roasted Carrots and Onions is so easy and super delicious! Fresh carrots are cooked with onions in a balsamic vinegar, brown sugar, and garlic sauce. We make this easy side dish all of the time! This is one of my carrot recipes that I love the most!
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Carrots Lyonnaise
Carrots Lyonnaise is so tasty. Sliced carrots, onions and peppers, cooked in a delicious sauce makes one very delicious side! Perfect for any day of the week!
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Baked Garlic Butter Carrots
Garlic Butter Carrots are easy and delicious, roasted at 350 degrees, cut or sliced in your favorite shape or using baby carrots, this dish doesn't disappoint.
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The Best Baked Honey Maple Roasted Carrots
The Best Baked Honey Maple Carrots are a definite favorite around here. The right amount of flavor and seasoning make this recipe a definite keeper!
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Green Beans with Bacon and Brown Sugar
Warning: these green beans can be addictive! Made with bacon, brown sugar, onion, garlic, soy sauce and simmered in broth for hours, you can easily see why.
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Sweet and Sour Green Beans and Corn
Corn and green beans are an often overlooked vegetable combination! Yet, this sweet and tangy green beans and corn recipe makes it sing! It makes a delicious vegetable side that can be served hot or cold with a wide variety of meals.
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Easy Sweet Green Beans
This easy sweet green beans recipe is quick, simple, and delicious making it perfect for busy weeknights. Brown sugar and soy sauce give green beans a sweet and tangy combo everyone will love.
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Quick and Easy Balsamic Green Beans
This Sweet Garlic Balsamic Green Beans recipe is made with fresh green beans that are sauteed to perfection! It's the perfect answer to a quick and easy side for all types of meals.
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Homemade Pumpkin Praline Pie
This homemade pumpkin praline pie recipe has the best of everything! It's a creamy spiced pumpkin pie with a sweet, crunchy pecan topping. No need to choose between pecan pie or pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving, make this one instead! It's the best of both worlds.
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Pumpkin Mousse Pie
No-bake Pumpkin Mousse Pie is a decadent, smooth, creamy treat packed with fall spices and flavors perfect for any occasion. This dessert does not disappoint.
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Pumpkin Pie Twist
These crescent roll pumpkin pie twists are full of delicious pumpkin pie flavor, a simple glaze, and flaky, golden brown crescent dough.
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Grandma Old Fashioned Sweet Potato Pie Recipe
This grandma old fashioned sweet potato pie recipe really is just like grandma used to make. Every bite is sweet nostalgia!
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Perfect Bar Pumpkin Pie
Perfect Bar Pumpkin Pie sweet pumpkin pie bars that have a soft doughy crust. This delicious pumpkin bars make for a great fall dessert.
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Pumpkin Pie with Graham Cracker Crust Recipe
This pumpkin pie with graham cracker crust recipe is a new, delicious twist on a classic. The graham cracker and pumpkin are the perfect pair.
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Smoked Apple Pie
This smoked apple pie recipe gives a new twist to an old favorite. Sweet apple filling in a buttery crust is smoked to delicious perfection.
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Smoked Pumpkin Pie
A creamy pumpkin pie recipe that's cooked in a smoker with maple wood to enhance the pumpkin flavor with a smokiness that tastes amazing.
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Smoked Pecan Pie
A perfectly flaky and buttery crust is filled with a maple sweetened pecan pie filling. Cooking the pie in the smoker adds a layer of smokiness to the sweet flavor of the pie.
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Muffin Tin Apple Pies
Muffin Tin Apple Pies are the perfect handheld dessert, are soft baked and stuffed with flavorful apple pie filling cooked in less than 30 minutes.
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Our Favorite Caramel Apple Crisp
Our Favorite Caramel Apple Crisp is full of flavor and tender apples, caramel, pecans and raisins! With or without ice cream, absolutely delicious!
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Old Fashioned Apple Turnover Recipe
Old Fashioned Apple Turnover Recipe makes sweet apple filled pastries that are flaky and crisp on the outside and soft and sweet in the middle. Just like my grandma used to make.
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Apple or Blueberry Hand Pies
Apple or Blueberry Hand Pies, also Mini Pocket Pies, make fruit, berry or apple turnovers, made with a homemade pie filling and crust or store bought.
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Apple Cheesecake Crescent Ring
This apple cream cheese crescent ring is so easy and delicious! Try this fruity crescent ring dessert, and you'll be in love in no time.
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The Best Old Fashioned Fresh Apple Cake
The Best Old Fashioned Fresh Apple Cake recipe is so easy, moist, full of fresh apples, nuts, raisins, cinnamon and is the best recipe ever!
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The Best Caramel Apple Upside Down Cake
The Best Caramel Apple Upside Down Cake recipe is so easy, super moist, and the most flavorful caramel apple cake, with or without ice cream!
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Whether you are looking for traditional recipes or something a little more unique, there are many delicious Canadian Thanksgiving dinner recipes to choose from.
Some of our favorites include turkey dinners, pumpkin pie, apple crisp, and other classic dishes. So whether you're cooking for a small gathering or a large feast, we hope that these recipes help make your celebration a delicious and memorable one!
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