4 Last-Minute Dishes To Bring To A Thanksgiving Potluck Party
The key to stress-free home hosting lies in organising potluck parties. Here, one person, usually the host, is in charge of providing the setting, the cutlery and a few of the sides, but the guests are also roped in and assigned one (or a few dishes each) to cook and bring to the party.
Even though, more often than not, a host has a specific theme in mind for their soiree, a guest can always incorporate their cooking styles and signature dishes into the menu to offer a variety—both to the spread as well as the palate.
This is especially beneficial when the number of attendees at a party is significantly large, and everyone wants to bring one traditional item of their liking. Hence, assuming the food table is going to be stacked with traditional feasts, you can make recipes that go beyond pumpkin pies or green bean casseroles.
Here are a few recommendations for tasty last-minute Thanksgiving dishes that you can bring to the potluck party.
Sweet Potato Crescent Bites
Those who enjoy a healthy portion of the sweet potato casserole with marshmallows for their Thanksgiving dinner will especially enjoy this appetiser made with store-bought crescent roll dough.
To make these bite-sized appetisers, bake your sweet potatoes in the microwave for 15 minutes or until they are tender enough for a fork to pass through. Then, mash the potatoes and fold in brown sugar, cinnamon, heavy cream, vanilla essence and salt. Then slice your dough, stuff your muffin tins with the dough, and blind bake it for a few minutes before taking them out, adding the filling, and baking again for a few minutes.
Once the filling has become jammy, take the muffin tray out, place a marshmallow on top and use a torch to scorch the tops. Douse the bites in maple syrup to serve.
Turkey Leg Rice Krispies
Make a gooey, chocolatey turkey leg by using white chocolate to make cylindrical logs that you can mould to resemble turkey legs.
Next, cover one half of the log with melted marshmallows and rice crispies in a dome-like shape to look like drumsticks.
Partially coat the rice crispies in melted dark chocolate to give it the look of gravy.
Stuffed Mushrooms
These bite-sized savoury treats are made by stuffing baby mushrooms with a filling made with breadcrumbs, cheese and confit garlic.
Then, simply stash them into the oven for an hour in low heat so that the outside crispens up a little bit but the filling remains fleshy and moist.
You can prepare these a day in advance and only bake these on the day of the event with a generous portion of cheese crowned on the top.
Caramelised Onion and Cheese Bites
This is an incredibly simple recipe that requires only a handful of ingredients—puff pastry sheets sliced into squares and stacked on top of each other with layers of butter in between, onion that has been caramelised into a jam and liquid cheese to go on the top.
To make this dish, scoop a spoonful of the caramelised onion jam on top of the puff pastry squares, followed by the liquid cheese, and bake it in an oven for about 25 minutes until the edges have become crispy and brown.
