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10 Easy Thanksgiving Potato Recipes

Thanksgiving is one of the few times a year where family and friends get together and enjoy each other's company and delicious food. While the turkey is always the star of the dinner show, the potatoes are an amazing supporting cast. We put together our 10 favorite mashed potato and sweet potato recipes that are sure to get you a standing ovation during the holidays. 

Whether your gang loves traditional mashed potato recipes like our Award Winning Mashed Potatoes or they like a little kick in their spuds with our Cheesy Herbed Mashed Potatoes recipe, we can bet you won't be wrapping up any left overs. These simple mashed potato recipes and easy sweet potato recipes really take the cake!

Mashed Potato Recipes

These potatoes are absolutely smashing! Because they're baked, there's no water to boil. So they're not only garlic-delicious, they're easy to make, too! This Thanksgiving side dish is sure to be one of your family favorites this November. 

This Award Winning Mashed Potatoes recipe is sure to make you feel like a winner anytime you serve them. Whether for a holiday or any day you'll always end up with a creamy, fluffy result, making it one of our most popular easy Thanksgiving potato recipes.

Who wouldn't love this easy recipe for mashed potatoes? With lots of cheese and fresh-tasting herbs, Cheesy Herbed Mashed Potatoes are loaded with your favorite tastes, so it's a perfect side dish for holiday or regular-day dinners.

Our diabetes-friendly version of Homestyle Smashed Potatoes doesn't sacrifice any flavor or hearty texture. The creaminess comes from our secret ingredient—greek yogurt—which makes a delicious, and healthy substitute for sour cream.

If you love the creamy comfort of classic mashed potatoes, we think you'll agree that these are the Best Mashed Potatoes Ever. We start with Idaho baking potatoes and end with a go-along sure to earn you raves. Don't you love easy Thanksgiving potato recipes like these?!

Why are our Classic Mashed Potatoes the best ever? Simple, extra-creamy and easy, they cook up fresh in a snap and team with all your favorite comforting and easy Thanksgiving potato recipes.

Sweet Potato Recipes

Our Test Kitchen uses a convenient pantry staple as its secret ingredient for these melt-in-your-mouth Farmstyle Sweet Potato Biscuits. Don't miss this tasty bread basket recipe for company or for anytime.

They taste delicious, so why not treat your gang royally with our Sweet Potato Crowns? If you're looking for a change-of-pace go-along that teams with lots of your favorite main dishes, this is a must-try and happens to be one of our favorite sweet potato recipes.

Our Sweet Potato Spoon Bread is a holiday twist on an all-American classic but it's so yummy and easy to make, you'll probably want to whip up this side dish throughout the year. Who said that sweet potatoes are only for the holidays, anyway? 

There couldn't be an easier way to make an elegant sweet potato side dish. Canned sweet potatoes are a huge time-saver, and when they're mixed and baked with a few ingredients and topped with pecans, it makes this Sweet Potato Casserole hard to resist. 

Serve up a holiday classic this year with Sherry Gore's recipe for Sweet Potato Pie. This homemade pie recipe comes from her cookbook, "Me, Myself, and Pie," and we're pretty sure this pie recipe can make a sweet potato lover out of anyone.

Sweet potato casseroles with marshmallows on top are a classic Thanksgiving side dish, and this recipe is a shortcut way of making it. We bake canned sweet potatoes before topping 'em off with marshmallows to make this one of your best sweet potato recipes.

Get the best of both worlds with our easy potato recipe for Patchwork Potatoes.

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