Best Holiday Side Dish Recipes
Try one or more of these Best Holiday Side Dish Recipes to shake up your menu! Get out of your rut with a delicious new dish!
Best Holiday Side Dish Recipes
There are a few times a year when it’s perfectly kosher to indulge. Thanksgiving, for example. What other day of the year would you have SO many carbs on the menu??? Stuffing, potatoes, corn casserole, dinner rolls, desserts? So it’s the perfect time to try new recipes, and that’s why I’m bringing you the best holiday side dish recipes from my blog and from some blogger friends. I also have some terrific Thanksgiving dessert recipes that would work for other holidays, too.
Fruit Salads
Let’s start with my favorite, Fruit Salads. Most are more like desserts with whipped cream and marshmallows. My oldest has been known to eat a huge bowl of leftovers for breakfast. You know that fruit =healthy, right? Well, maybe not.
Holiday Fruit Salad (this recipe has been in my family for 5 generations!)
Cranberry Fluff Salad (A classic that both my mom and mother-in-law loved to serve)
Green Salads
Green salads aren’t always on our holiday menu, but they do make you feel a little more virtuous when you go for seconds of this versus mashed potatoes and gravy!
Strawberry Spinach Pomegranate Feta Salad with my most favorite Balsamic Vinaigrette
Arugula Salad with Roasted Butternut Squash
Hot Holiday Side Dishes
Praline Topped Sweet Potato Casserole
Spinach Souffle (a MUST have dish for Katie)
Easy Sauteed Brussels Sprouts (My dad asked for leftovers for breakfast and he’s not even a fan of Brussels sprouts!)
Easy Asian Green Beans (My mom has been making these yummy beans since the ’70’s!)
Holiday Breads and Potatoes
Buttery Homemade Crescent Rolls
Moomies Buns {Yeast Knot Rolls}
French Potato Gratin (an exquisite version of scalloped potatoes!)
More Holiday Side Dishes You’ll Love:
Potatoes:
- Best Mashed Potatoes Recipe from A Spicy Perspective
- Perfect Mashed Potatoes from A Family Feast
- Loaded Twice Baked Potato Casserole from Dinners, Dishes & Desserts
- Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Casserole from Chelsea’s Messy Apron
- Quick and Easy Sweet Potato Biscuits from Bless This Mess
- Glazed Sweet Potatoes with Honey Whiskey Pecans from Well Plated
Vegetables:
- Green Bean Casserole Recipe (with No Canned Soup) from Rachel Cooks
- Fresh Green Beans with Bacon and Sliced Almonds from Boulder Locavore
- Old-Fashioned Creamed Corn Casserole from Wishes and Dishes
- Creamed Corn with Peppers and Bacon from Barefeet in the Kitchen
- Shredded Brussels Sprouts Recipe with Pistachios, Cranberries & Parmesan from Cookin’ Canuck
- Guaranteed Crispy BAKED Sweet Potato Fries from Foodie with Family
- Bourbon Maple Glazed Carrots
- Holiday Roasted Asparagus with Red Pepper and Gorgonzola from Kalyn’s Kitchen
- Haricot Verts with Grape Tomatoes
Salads:
- Best Fresh Cranberry Grape Walnut Salad from Reluctant Entertainer
- Fall Harvest Salad from A Beautiful Plate
- Wild Rice Salad with Cranberries and Nuts from The View from Great Island
- Cheesecake Apple Salad from Crazy for Crust
- Warm Brussels Sprout Salad with Crispy Goat Cheese from Fifteen Spatulas
- Apple Cherry Walnut Salad with Maple Dressing
Stuffings and Starches:
- Wild Rice Stuffing from TidyMom
- Crock Pot Stuffing from Spend with Pennies
- Best Sausage Stuffing Recipe with Cranberries from It’s Yummi
- How to Make Perfect Mashed Potatoes from A Mind “Full” Mom
- Gouda Bacon Macaroni and Cheese from Shugary Sweets
- The Perfect Dinner Rolls from Your Home Based Mom
- Favorite Dinner Rolls from Barbara Bakes
- Easy 90-Minute Rolls from Saving Room for Desserts
Cranberries and More:
- Best Ever Cranberry Sauce from Mom on Timeout
- Fresh Cranberry Orange Sauce from Two Peas and Their Pod
- 25 Delicious Thanksgiving Recipes from From Valerie’s Kitchen
I’ll have a hearty helping of every potato dish please:@) Everything sounds great-Happy Thanksgiving Liz-enjoy:@)
I need two plates please everything looks great I need to taste them all! 🙂 xo HTG!
Thank you Liz for a wonderful collection of all the must have Thanksgiving Dishes!!! And for including my mashed potatoes recipe 🙂
Great roundup of holiday inspiration! That spinach soufflé is calling my name 🙂
Wow, you know I love the sides more than anything else in a holiday meal, I’m in heaven!
This is such a wonderful collection of sides. I enjoy my sides, skip the main and go directly to desserts.
So good.
What a great round-up of sides. Love those retro “fluff” salads! 🙂 Happy Thanksgiving, Liz!
Wow, you did a beautiful job on this! So many good ideas, thanks for including me!
Scrolling through this post made me so hungry!! What a great line-up of sides. Sometimes I think the sides actually make the meal, don’t you? Great job Liz!
Sides are my favorite!!!
So many gorgeous holiday dishes in this post, Liz! All varieties of those homemade rolls made me drool!! Thanks for such a wonderful post!
Dear Lizzy, All delicious!
Wishing you a very Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving ! xoxo Catherine
These all look so good! This is my third thanksgiving in America – it’s quickly shaping up to be my fave holiday !
I love Thanksgiving, too! Hope you had a marvelous holiday, Erin!!!
Such a huge list and most of these are my favorite recipes anytime!
You’ve thought of everything dear friend and those fruit salads would satisfy anyone’s sweet tooth.
I’m all about the sides! And I do love ambrosia!
these are some great side dishes i’ve ever seen. i usually have appetizers and all for holidays but now i’m looking forward to make these side dishes in future for holidays.