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Side Dish Recipes

Top view of a smashed (flattened) potato with sour cream and chives. On a white plate with black rim.

Side dishes might not seem very glorious, as they typically play a supporting role for the main dish they are paired with, but often it's the side that actually makes the meal.

Add some pizazz to your dinner and look below for my favorite recipes with mushrooms, potatoes, rice, cabbage, or pan fried zucchini recipes:

  • yukon gold potato recipes - Oven roasted Yukon Gold Potatoes , Crispy Smashed Potatoes, Easy Roasted Whole Baby Potatoes, Potato Salad
  • Red / purple cabbage recipes - Simple Sautéed Red Cabbage , Easy Cole Slaw Dip, Kale and Red Cabbage Salad, Roasted Cabbage Wedges
  • Mushroom recipes - Tamari Oyster Mushrooms , Easy Chanterelle Mushrooms, Easy Shiitake Mushrooms with Black Pepper
  • yellow Spanish rice recipe
  • Mashed Recipes: Ricer Mashed Potatoes, Mashed Sweet Potatoes, Mashed Celeriac.
Top view of 3 black bowls of edamame with ginger and soy sauce on a wood cutting board with 3 sets of chopsticks.

Easy Shelled Edamame with Soy Sauce

White plate of romaine lettuce, chunked beets and chopped pecans with a white dressing and orange zest garnish. Wine glass filled with water in the back. Outside table.

Roasted Beet and Romaine Salad with Pecans

Close up. Bowl of sliced sugar snap peas, orange peppers, red cabbage, and candy stripe beet . Large White bowl with a wooden spoon.

Sugar Snap Pea Slaw w/ Ume Plum Vinegar

2 white plates with thin sliced fennel, chunks of avocado and quartered cherry tomato salad

Fennel Salad with Tomatoes and Avocado

Bowl of Tzatziki (yogurt, cucumbers, lemon) sauce. falafels in background.

Easy Chunky Tzatziki Sauce (No Garlic)

Falafels on a wood cutting board with a side plate of 2 falafels and a bowl of white cucumber tzatziki. side view.

Pan Fried Falafels with Canned Chickpeas

Top down view of white oval bowl filled with cooked mushrooms with pistachios and chopped basil. Close up.

Sautéed Mushrooms with Pistachios and Basil

Bowl of cooked bright green fava (broad) beans with salt and pepper in a white bowl with a spoon.

Fresh Fava Beans / Broad Beans with Butter

Top view of a raw artichoke sitting in a steaming basket of a large stainless steel pot. Top view.

Steamed Artichoke with Lemon Butter Dipping Sauce

Diced and roasted Kabocha Squash with Peppers and leeks on a big white plate with a wood spoon. side view.

Kabocha Squash Breakfast Hash

Cooked Soft boiled Egg Wrapped in Turkey, Coated With Panko, Baked And Cut In half on a plate.

Oven Baked Turkey Scotch Eggs

Cauliflower florets roasted brown on a wood cutting board with a white platter that says "let's eat" sitting behind it.

Simple Oven Roasted Cauliflower Florets

Sliced Roasted Sunchokes (Jerusalem Artichokes) On A White Plate With Green Onion Garnish

Roasted Sunchokes (Jerusalem Artichokes)

Close up of wood bowl filled with cooked cabbage slices and topped with sesame seeds with a fork in the bowl. Salt and pepper shakers in background.

Pan Fried Napa Cabbage with Sesame Seeds

Top down view of chunky cooked onions, zucchini, peppers on a brown plate with white napkin in background. Close up.

Chunky Pan Seared Onions, Peppers, Zucchini

Top view of three small white bowls of diced red beets. Two bowls with crumbled goat cheese and orange zest. One bowl with just orange zest is close up and in front.

Roasted Beets with Orange Balsamic Dressing

Blood Oranges & Roasted Yellow and Red Beets on a white plate with thyme and walnuts sprinkled over the top.

Blood Orange and Beet Salad

Mashed Cooked Sweet Potatoes in A white Bowl

Easy Mashed Sweet Potatoes

Top down view of white bowl with chopped greens and sauce in it. Small bowl of chili flakes on the side.

Simple Vegetarian Collard Greens

5 Roast Sweet Potato Slices on a white plate with a dollop of sour cream and chive garnish.

Roasted Sweet Potato Coins with Cumin

Browned whole head of cauliflower on an elevated rack above parchment paper. Side view.

Simple Whole Roasted Cauliflower

Baked Crispy Kale "Chips" On A white plate. Side View

Crispy Oven Baked Kale Chips

Yellow Spanish Rice With Peas and Carrots In a Brown Bowl With a spoon On a Dark Wood Table.

Easy Homemade Yellow Spanish Rice

White plate on white tablecloth. Plate has cooked chopped greens and onions and a fork on the side. Close up.

Easy and Simple Swiss Chard Recipe

4 roasted cabbage wedges seared brown sitting in brown broth on a white plate with wood bowls in the background. Top down view, close up.

Seared and Braised Cabbage Wedges

PInk grapefruit segments with black kalamata olives and fresh chopped rosemary in a wood bowl. close up. top view.

Grapefruit and Fried Olive RosemarySalad

Red purple sliced cooked cabbage in a stainless steel pan on a wood table. Close up.

Simple Sautéed Red Cabbage

Top view (close up) of 3 potato latkes on white plate with sour cream and chopped parsley and a small fork. Baking sheet with 3 latkes in the background.

Crispy Homemade Potato Latkes

Crispy roasted chunks of celery root on a brown platter with a wood spoon and a green garnish. Top down view.

Easy Oven Roasted Celeriac (Celery Root)

Oval baking dish of carmelized Roasted cubed butternut squash. Wood serving spoon in back. Side view.

Easy Roasted Butternut Squash Chunks

Brown Roasted Brussels Sprouts, cut in half, and on a white plate with pink roses on the edge and a silver spoon.

Easy Roasted Brussels Sprouts Halves

White plate with yellow flowers filled with a slaw like recipe with nuts. Wood spoon and white plates in the background. Close up.

Sliced Brussels Sprouts with Almonds and Balsamic

Side view of chunked carrots in a tan bowl with orange zest garnish and a spoon out the side..

Orange and Ginger Glazed Carrots

Roasted cauliflower half face down sprinkled with cranberries, pistachios, and chopped rosemary.

Whole Roasted Cauliflower with Pistachios and Cranberries

Scalloped Potatoes Cooked Golden Brown in Cast Iron Skillet with Thyme garnish.

Cast Iron Skillet Scalloped Potatoes

Mashed Carrots and Sliced Leeks in a cast iron pan with a wood spoon on a brown counter. side view

Mashed Carrots and Butter Leeks

Cooked Cranberry Orange Sauce & Orange Zest Garnish in White Bowl

Cooked Cranberry Orange Sauce (Relish)

Roasted Carrots & Radishes with Chevre On White Platter

Stovetop Cooked Carrots and Radishes

Top view of ¾ white deep plate with wild rice, chunks of roast sweet potatoes and chickpeas. Topped with cilantro and toasted coconut flakes.

Sweet Potatoes and Chickpeas In Coconut Milk Over Rice

Yellow Spaghetti Squash "pasta" with green kale and parmesan pesto with toasted squash seeds on top. Ona white plate with black rim.

Baked Spaghetti Squash with Kale Pesto

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