Top 10 Shortcut Southern Thanksgiving Recipes

These Top 10 shortcut Southern Thanksgiving recipes will have you in and out of the kitchen sooner than later! I've got you covered with easy Thanksgiving recipes. Every dish is made with some kind of a shortcut!

Collage of four Southern Thanksgiving dishes: turkey cheeseball, sweet potatoes, dressing cups, sliced turkey.

Do you love the traditional Southern recipes you grew up with but don't have the time to make them like your Mom or Grandma did? Mine made everything from scratch starting with growing their own green beans and baking the turkey for hours.

I'm as Southern as they come and love homemade, from-scratch recipes but I also have a busy schedule just like you! So, I'm constantly finding shortcuts to my homemade recipes and I share them with you here on the blog.

From turkey to side dishes to dinner rolls, you'll find them here. Click on each picture below to get the recipes.

I've even added a couple of bonus recipes at the end so don't miss them!

Top 10 Shortcut Southern Recipes for Thanksgiving

1. Instant Pot Bone-In Turkey Breast

Slices of turkey breast with skin on overlapping each other on a white plate and garnished with fresh sage and gravy poured over the turkey slices

2. Candied Roasted Sweet Potatoes

Spoonful of candied sweet potatoes lifted from white casserole dish

3. Creamy Fresh Green Bean Casserole (Keto and GF)

Keto and Gluten Free Green Bean casserole being scooped out of the dish and focus is on the spoonful

4. No Knead Yeast Rolls

5. Sausage Cornbread Dressing Cups

Individual size sausage cornbread dressings baked in a muffin pan and served on a green platter

6. Air Fryer "Fried" Okra

7. Turkey Cheeseball

Turkey cheeseball covered in pecans, bell pepper strips and crackers.

8. Crockpot Chicken and Dressing

Overhead view of plated chicken and dressing with salad and broccoli

9. Air Fryer Brussels Sprouts with Molasses and Bacon

Cooked Brussels sprouts with bacon on a white plate.

10. Best Pecan Cream Pie

Slice of pecan cream pie on white plate in front of whole pie in background.

Three BONUS recipes! Because you can't have too many Southern shortcut recipes for Thanksgiving!

11. Instant Pot Pepper Jelly Ham

bone in ham with slices cut on the ham. jar of jelly

12. Baked Mac and Cheese (with shortcuts)

Macaroni and Cheese in a white rectangle dish with serving scooped out.

13. Sausage Squash Casserole

Zucchini Squash Casserole with Yellow squash in square dish.

I’d love to hear from you if you make this or any of my recipes for Thanksgiving or Christmas this year.

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