Healthy Vegan Thanksgiving Recipes

Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful and enjoy good health. A healthy lower fat meal is a good start.

I'm making 5 plant based recipes (all gluten free of course) that can accompany the turkey or be eaten as the vegan meal.

Dazzling Thanksgiving Salad

Dazzle your guests with this beautiful healthy salad that I made for Thanksgiving with greens, red onions, pomegranate seeds, and slivers of roasted acorn squash.

I recently tasted this fabulous salad at a friends' house. It looked like a side dish, but she called it a salad! Maybe because it served at room temperature which is great for freeing up the host from last minute heating. I enjoyed all the flavors of fall in this one salad.

Roasted Garlic Bulbs For Taste and Health

Have you ever had roasted garlic in an Italian restaurant? Amazing Right?

Unlike raw garlic, roasted garlic is soft, mild tasting, and creamy. It is delicious eaten alone, spread on bread ( gluten free of course), added to pasta ( gluten free) or vegetable dishes.

It's really easy to make and makes a beautiful interesting presentation when served as a bulb!

Creamy Parsnip Soup- Instant Pot or Not

Are you familiar with the parsnip? It is a root vegetable that looks like a carrot but is white.
It's loaded with nutrients and tastes mild and delicious especially in soup. It is sold in a bag in the produce isle of the supermarket.

I but them in the supermarket in a bag

I frequently add a parsnip to soup recipes to give a soup a little extra sweetness, but this is the first time I actually made a parsnip soup. It's a nice soothing comforting creamy soup.

Honey Or Maple Glazed Brussels Sprouts

Brussels Sprouts with honey or maple syrup glaze? 
Yes, and they taste amazing.




 It's a great way to roast Brussels sprouts in the oven without oil.  But they are just as tasty, since the honey or maple syrup and the sprouts caramelize in the heat.

Brussels sprouts are perfect on the Thanksgiving table and these come out crunchy on the outside, soft and creamy on the inside. Most guests will enjoy them!

The honey or maple syrup is mixed with freshly squeezed orange juice for a hint of citrus flavor as well. Go light on the drizzle-


Ingredients:
20 brussels sprouts
1/4 cup of honey or maple syrup
2 tablespoons freshly squeezed orange juice.

Directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Mix honey and orange juice or maple syrup and orange juice.
Wash and remove the end of the sprout if needed.
Lay sprouts on a piece of parchment paper on a cookie sheet. Drizzle with honey or maple syrup mixture..
Bake for about  25-30 minutes or until the sprouts begin to caramelize and are soft inside.
Remove from oven and enjoy.. It's that simple..