Easy Side Dish Recipes

You can find our easy side dish recipes here:

Potatoes

Ginger & Carrot Mash Parsnip & Potato Bake Recipe

Mashed Potatoes with Caramelized Onion Hasselback Potatoes

German Potato Salad Recipe Potato Pancake Recipe (Rösti) Best Mashed Potatoes with Green Olives Lemon Potatoes

Roasted Potatoes Recipe Au Gratin Potato Recipe

Cheesy Potato Casserole with Bacon & Beer Classic Potato Salad Recipe

Oven Bakes & Roasts

Leeks Au Gratin with Beer Baked Beans Recipe

Roasted Salsify Baked Sweet Onions

Roasted Red Cabbage Oven Baked Turnip Recipe with Cheese

Easy Baked Apple Recipe Roasted Carrots Recipe

Mediterranean Salad Recipe Grilled Green Onions

Roasted Tomatoes Recipe  Baked Leeks

Salads

Peas And Bacon Salad Red Cabbage Slaw

French Lentil Salad Shredded Brussel Sprouts Slaw

Cabbage And Bacon Moroccan Carrot Salad

Orange Salad Recipe Carrot & Parsnip Salad

French Peas Brussel Sprouts with Bacon

Turkish Couscous Salad Recipe (Kisir) Roasted Brussel Sprouts Salad

Moroccan Couscous Salad Easy Green Bean Salad

Quinoa Salad Recipe Bacon & Lentil Salad Recipe

Recipe for Pea Salad with Apple Egg & Chickpea Salad Recipe

Orange & Fennel Salad Celeriac Remoulade

Celery Salad Recipe with Apple Wheat Salad

Recipe for Broccoli Salad Tabbouleh Recipe

Vegetables

Braised Fennel Braised Endives

Hong Kong Green Beans Recipe Braised Red Cabbage Recipe

Grilled Romain Lettuce Chinese Style Steamed Eggplant

Brussels Sprout Stir Fry Fennel Escabeche Recipe

Miscellaneous

How To Make Polenta Indian Chapati Bread

How To Cook Couscous How To Make Gnocchi

I could make a website on easy side dish recipes alone! There’s so much stuff and ingredients around and available. The only thing you have to do is start thinking outside your comfort box of the weekly boiled potatoes on Monday, steam bags of broccoli on Lazy Day or cooked peas to go by the Sunday roast. Get creative!

Here’s how we do it: pick one type of fresh vegetable or fruit and stick to it. The variety and choice is huge: capsicum, spring onion, cauliflower, turnips, eggplant, apples, fennel, lettuce, beetroot, celeriac, sugar snaps, pears, asparagus, kale, carrots, parsnip… Anything you want! Now take a look at what you chose and start storming your brain about how you could prepare it. Or browse the internet for extra inspiration. You would be surprised of what you can do with it! Boil, steam, grill, barbecue, stirfry, oven roast, broil, braise, fry… Ways enough to turn your easy side dish recipes into an exciting piece of art! Just keep it simple: your veg or fruit of choice should be the king of your dish. Bring out the maximum amount of flavor and maybe you’ll start appreciating things you were not very fond of before. This will increase your healthy appetite and love for cooking but also decrease your supermarket bill.

We shouldn’t only talk about fruits or vegetable sides but also think of interesting meal ideas to replace the daily pile of boiled potatoes on our plate. Very easy substitute: bread! Grill it with a little sprinkle of olive oil, make garlic bread or my personal favorite: rub the grilled bread with fresh tomato just like the Spanish do their pan con tomato. If you can’t step away from your daily dose of boiled potatoes, try to think of other ways to prepare them: oven roasted, in a gratin, steamed, mashed, grated rösti style, stuffed, fried… But why not try to replace them by for instance a creamy polenta, pasta, wheat, couscous or even pulses such as chickpeas or lentils.

So get creative! Cooking should be pure fun! Develop or revive your love food and cooking by only a few changes without breaking your budget!

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