When you’re planning your Thanksgiving dinner menu, make veggies shine in everything from the side dishes to the mains. Including vegetarian (and even vegan) favorites is sure to please everyone at the table. Fill your spread with classics like stuffing and corn, but also add in a few surprises, perhaps a kale casserole and these bubbly vegan spuds? Nutritional yeast, which is grown on molasses and then dried out, adds a nutty cheesiness (plus an extra helping of vitamin B12) to the hearty dish. Silken tofu and tender new potatoes add creaminess without dairy, and browned onions give the dish a deep savoriness.

Giada combines fluffy quinoa and roasted eggplant, then tops the salad with cranberries, walnuts and thinly sliced apple, and tosses it all in her homemade cumin vinaigrette.  

Make the most of the fall harvest by including butternut squash in your Thanksgiving spread. Roasting the squash with brown sugar and butter in the oven creates a toasted, caramelized flavor.

All the usual suspects are here (minus the butter and eggs) to recreate the comforting flavors of traditional stuffing. Although green tea may seem like an oddball ingredient, the earthy flavor makes it a better replacement for chicken stock than vegetable stock, which can be too sweet and high in sodium.