20 Best Recipes to Make in November
Published: Nov 01, 2026
🍂🥬🍠🍎🍐 My 20 Best Recipes to Make in November is not just a Thanksgiving recipe guide. It’s a roundup of seasonally driven recipes to enjoy all month long! November seasonal recipes include fresh fall salads featuring apples and pears, roasted side dishes with sweet potatoes and Brussels sprouts, comforting main dishes with hearty root veggies like broccoli and cauliflower, and my favorite apple and cranberry desserts!
What’s In Season in November
November is all about hearty produce that peaks during cool weather.
- For veggies, look for squash of all kinds: butternut, acorn, kabocha, delicata, or spaghetti squash.
- Root vegetables including sweet potatoes, carrots, beets, parsnips, and turnips are seasonal.
- Brassicas like cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, and kale thrive and taste less bitter during the cooler autumn months.
- Fruits include late season apples, pears of all types, persimmons, cranberries, and pomegranates. Citrus fruits like oranges and clementines are just beginning.
All of these ingredients make it easy to pull together cozy weeknight dinners, fresh salads, and simple sides. My apple and cranberry desserts are just as welcome on a regular weeknight as they are on the holiday table.
Salads, Sides & Soups in Season in November
Cranberry, Apple, and Blue Cheese Salad with Cranberry-Apple Cider Dressing
🍎🥗🙌 All the flavors of Fall in one gorgeous, hearty, and healthy salad! The easy, tart-and-sweet dressing is just bursting with flavor!
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Fall Harvest Salad with Apples and Pears
Complete with crisp apples, tender juicy pears, pomegranate seeds, nuts, crumbled feta, and a tangy homemade honey maple balsamic vinaigrette! 🍎🍐🥗Note that the ingredients are very flexible. Please read through the notes for various swaps, substitutions, and tips.
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Balsamic Glazed Brussels Sprouts with Pomegranate Seeds
❤️💚😍 Balsamic Glazed Brussels Sprouts with Pomegranate Seeds – An easy side dish that's perfect for not only the holidays but anytime you're in the mood for CRISPY roasted Brussels sprouts! The homemade balsamic glaze seeps into every inch of the spouts and adds so much tangy-sweet flavor!
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Roasted Brussels Sprouts Salad
🍂🧡🥗 A HEARTY salad that celebrates the flavors of fall including roasted Brussels sprouts and dried cranberries along with quinoa, chickpeas, spinach, and goat cheese! Perfect for lunch, a meatless main, or a HEALTHY side dish on your holiday table!
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Mashed Cauliflower
💛🎉 Creamy cauliflower mash with garlic butter is the low carb side dish to keep you from missing mashed potatoes! You can doctor it up with sour cream, Parmesan cheese, or chives for richer flavor. Serve it at Thanksgiving, holiday celebrations, or at weeknight dinners because it's EASY and ready in 25 minutes! Serves 4 to 6 but you can easily double the recipe.
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Roasted Balsamic Broccoli with Parmesan
🥦🧀😍 Even people who don't like to eat their veggies will LOVE broccoli prepared this way! Easy, healthy, and full of flavor from the balsamic and Parmesan!
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Crockpot Cabbage Soup
A hearty comfort food soup recipe the whole family will love. If you think that soup can’t be a meal, guess again! This slow cooker soup is chock full of bacon, ground beef, green cabbage, rice, carrots, fire roasted tomatoes, and more! Perfect for chilly weather, busy weeknights, and the leftovers freeze gr
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Comforting Main Dishes To Make in November
Slow Cooker Cranberry Pork Tenderloin
🐷🍴🙌🏻 Pork tenderloin is coated in a sweet and tart cranberry glaze before being slow cooked to TENDER and JUICY perfection! The whole berry cranberry sauce in the glaze adds so much texture and FLAVOR! Serve this EASY Crockpot recipe for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or for an elegant tasting meal during the holiday season. Tip – This is a great recipe to use up leftover cranberry sauce you have on hand!
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Cabbage Roll Casserole
👏🏻🥬🧀 Take the work out of traditional cabbage rolls and make this EASY comfort food cabbage roll casserole instead! Layers of seasoned ground beef and rice, tender cabbage, and oodles of melted cheese in every bite. A family FAVORITE recipe that’s ready in 1 hour. Can be made in advance and freezes well!
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Baked Cranberry Orange Chicken
🎉🍊🍗 Want to get in the holiday spirit without making a turkey? This EASY one-pan recipe for baked chicken breasts coated in a homemade cranberry-orange sauce made with Dijon mustard, honey, rosemary, and more is PERFECT! It's wonderfully festive to serve it for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or for holiday entertaining! Tip – It's also a GREAT recipe to use leftover cranberry sauce from the holidays!
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French Onion Chicken Casserole
🧅🙌🏻🧀 This chicken casserole is creamy, cheesy, and sprinkled with crispy French fried onions on top! Just 5 minutes of prep time is all you need for this EASY comfort food chicken casserole. Timesaving Bonus: Use leftover shredded chicken or store bought rotisserie chicken for a fuss-free busy weeknight dinner!
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Weeknight Healthier Entrees To Make During the Holiday Months
Jeweled Honey Balsamic Chicken and Brussels Sprouts
🍯🍗😍 EASY, one-skillet, healthy, ready in 15 minutes, and loaded with FALL FLAVORS! Juicy chicken, crisp-tender sprouts, tangy balsamic, sweet honey, and seasoned to perfection!
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Cauliflower Chicken Fried Rice
🍚 Even people who don't like cauliflower will be amazed at how authentic and DELICIOUS this healthier version of chicken fried rice tastes! High protein, high fiber, low carb perfection. Easy, ready in 15 minutes, and so much HEALTHIER than calling for takeout!
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Skinny 15-Minute Sesame Chicken and Broccoli
🍗🥦🎉 Skip takeout and make this Asian favorite at home in just minutes! So EASY and HEALTHIER than what you’d get in a restaurant but tastes just as AWESOME!
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Cauliflower, Chickpea, and Chicken Coconut Curry
🧡💚 An EASY, one-skillet curry that’s ready in 20 minutes and tastes BETTER than a restaurant! Loaded with protein from tender chicken and chickpeas along with cauliflower, carrots, and spinach for incredible texture in every bite! The Thai-inspired coconut milk broth makes this healthy comfort food taste AMAZING!
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Kung Pao Cauliflower
🌶️😍🙌 An EASY recipe that has salty-sweet-tangy-spicy flavors all in one! Don’t call for takeout when you can make this HEALTHY dish at home in 20 minutes! You won’t believe how AUTHENTIC it tastes!
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Seasonal November Desserts
Best Homemade Apple Pie
🍎🍏🥧 This fabulous apple pie is a specialty of my grandma's. The sauce for the apples is slowly poured over the lattice crust until it fills the shell. When it bakes, the top has a nice crispy coating over the flaky crust. The center is full of sweet and tart tender apples with just the right amount of cinnamon and sugar. This really is the BEST apple pie!
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Caramel Apple Cheesecake Bars
🍎🍁🍂 These layered caramel apple cheesecake bars feature a buttery crust that's topped with a cheesecake layer, spiced apples, and the BEST crumble topping! After baking, these INCREDIBLE cheesecake bars are drizzled with salted caramel sauce to truly make them next-level! The PERFECT fall dessert for entertaining or Thanksgiving!
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Crustless Cranberry Pie
This crustless cranberry pie is a cross between pie, cake, and blondies! It's a fast, easy, no-mixer dessert that's perfect for holiday entertaining!
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Cranberry Bliss Bars
❤️😍🙌 For anyone who loves the Starbucks version, these can be made year-round at home for pennies on the dollar and taste every bit as fabulous and then some!
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