The best unique Thanksgiving Side Dishes ideas for a crowd: these easy Asian sides recipes are perfect to bring for potluck or add to an Asian dinner party menu. The list includes potatoes dishes, vegetarian, roasted veggies, and no oven recipes.
Bread Rolls
Japanese Cheese Balls
Cheese Mochi Bread
This delicious Cheese Mochi Bread Recipe is crisp on the outside and soft and oozy on the inside! It's also a super easy recipe: you just mix everything and bake. Plus no sugar is used so you don't have to feel guilty about snacking! (Baked) (Air Fried)
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Matcha Rolls
Easy Matcha Buns (1-rise Mantou)
An easy matcha bun (Chinese mantou bao) recipe which only requires 1 proof (1 rise), along with a mantou FAQ section on how to use a metal steamer (instead of the traditional bamboo steamer) and why your naturally vegan matcha buns aren't smooth.
Click here for the green tea bread recipe.
Pandan Bread Rolls
Spiral Pandan Mantou (Steamed Chinese Buns)
Click here for the easy mantou recipe.
Veggie Sides
Gochujang Aubergine
Gochujang Aubergine (Baked)
This Easy Gochujang Aubergine is a tasty Asian aubergine recipe baked in the oven. A low carb Korean aubergine recipe that is full of flavor and super delicious as a side with rice!
Click here for the Korean aubergine side dish.
Potato Salad
Korean Mashed Potato Salad with Egg
This easy Korean mashed potato salad with egg and apple is soft, savory with hints of sweetness, and so creamy and delicious, this homemade Korean side dish (banchan) is a staple in our weeknight dinner rotation. It's the perfect simple Asian side dish for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or a normal family dinner. (Corn and cucumber optional)
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Soy Sauce Mushrooms
Easy Teriyaki Mushrooms (10 Minutes)
These easy Teriyaki Mushrooms are coated in a sweet and savory sauce. On the dinner table in 10 minutes and perfect with a bowl of white rice!
Click here for the stir fried Japanese mushrooms.
Sautéed Mushrooms
Quick Eryngii Mushrooms (3-ingredients)
A 25-minute, easy to make and delicious eryngii mushroom recipe. These have a nice meaty texture which make them great meat substitutes for vegan meals.
Click here for the butter soy mushrooms.
Butternut Squash
Roasted Gochujang Butternut Squash recipe
This easy 5-ingredient Gochujang Butternut Squash recipe is 1 of my favorite savory roast butternut squash oven half recipes. Bursting with flavor, it's a sweet and spicy Korean squash side dish (banchan) perfect for everything from Christmas or Thanksgiving to family dinner. (The original recipe involved cutting the squash into fries, but who has time for that!? I updated it to using butternut halves but the original fried recipe is still in the notes if you want it.) (No added sugar.)
Click here for the Korean squash recipe.
Meatballs
Pork Balls
Asian Pork Meatballs
This delicious Asian Pork Meatballs recipe makes it so easy to whip up a weekday dinner. The meatballs are so versatile, you can pan-fry them, cook them in soup, or add them to a tomato pasta sauce!
Click here for the Chinese meatballs recipe.
Japanese Meatballs
Teriyaki Meatballs 照り焼き豆腐ハンバーグ
This Easy Teriyaki Meatballs recipe 照り焼き豆腐ハンバーグ is a popular Japanese side dish. The juicy and fluffy chicken meatballs coated in the umamilicious savory sauce will taste just as good-or even better- than what you get at your favorite Japanese restaurant! (No breadcrumbs used.)
Click here for the Japanese chicken meatballs.
Rice
Turmeric Rice
Easy Turmeric Rice (One Pot, Rice Cooker)
This delicious and easy Turmeric Rice is a one-pot recipe that is made in the rice cooker. It has a tinge of sweetness from the raisins, crunch from the cashews and a gorgeous golden color from the turmeric! Plus all the main ingredients are from the pantry!
Click here for the golden rice recipe.
Pumpkin Rice
Chinese Pumpkin Rice
This Chinese Pumpkin rice is a super easy and flavorful rice cooker recipe: the soft pumpkin cubes melt in your mouth, contrasting with the firm bite of the white rice grains. Moreover, it only takes 10 minutes to prepare and the rest of the work is up to your rice cooker!
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Claypot Rice
Chinese Claypot Rice (Rice Cooker)
This easy Chinese Claypot Rice is a restaurant quality Hong Kong dish made in a Rice Cooker with Chinese mushrooms and Chinese sausage- better than takeout! (For lazy days when you want to cook last-minute, I've included a no chicken version.)
Click here for the Cantonese street food recipe.
Cilantro Rice
EASY Cilantro Lime Rice (Rice Cooker)
Click here for the cilantro rice recipe.
Kimchi Fried Rice
Kimchi Bokkeumbap (Fried Rice)
Kimchi Bokkeumbap, or Korean fried rice with kimchi, is so easy and delicious, it's often whipped up as a hangover meal in a Korean household and can be made perfectly the first time. Plus, it's done in 15 minutes if you have leftover rice around!
Click here for the Korean fried rice recipe.
Tuna Fried Rice
EASY Canned Tuna Fried rice (30 min)
This easy Canned Tuna Fried Rice recipe is simple, nutritious, and delicious. Done in 30 minutes, it's a great pantry meal for a quick weeknight dinner. (I also show you how to make it spicy, or non-spicy.)
Click here for the canned tuna recipe.
Shrimp Fried Rice
Thai Basil Fried Rice with Shrimp (Khao Pad Goong)
This Thai Basil Fried Rice with Shrimp (Khao Pad Goong) is quick easy and delicious: it's on the table in under 30 minutes if you have leftover rice. Plus making it at home means you can save money and custmise it to your desired spice level!
Click here for the spicy Thai fried rice.
Spicy Vegetarian Fried Rice
Thai Basil Fried Rice (Vegetarian) (20 min)
This Vegan/ Vegetarian Thai Basil Fried Rice is a deliciously easy dish on the dinner table in under 20 minutes. It's the ultimate Asian comfort food: sweet, salty, savory, and budget-friendly! (Not including rice cooking time, if not using leftover rice.)
Click here for the vegetarian fried rice.
Any questions about this list of unique sides for a Thanksgiving dinner party? Let me know in the comments!
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