The Best Easter Dinner Sides

Here you'll find a great collection of Easter dinner sides, including make-ahead recipes, cold side dishes, cheesy potatoes and veggies. Even gluten-free and healthy sides.

This list is a MUST for bookmarking. You'll find new favorite sides, and vegetables for Easter dinner. Spring will be more delicious with the best sides!

What is your main dish this year? Whether you're making a delicious ham like Roast Ham with Spiced Honey Glaze, or my Holiday Ham recipe, a pork roast, turkey, or going vegetarian, I've got the best make-ahead, cold, hot, and vegetable side dishes from some of my favorite blogs listed right here.

Side Dishes for Easter Dinner

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Classics

Potatoes for Easter dinner are a true classic. Whether you choose cheesy scalloped or roasted potatoes, you can't go wrong. Plus, any of these roasted carrots recipes are undeniably traditional Easter side dishes. Find a variety of these recipes here.

Brown Sugar Glazed Carrots for Spring

Brown Sugar Glazed Carrots are a quick and colorful side dish for your spring dinner.

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Roasted Carrots with Carrot Top Gremolata

Roasted Carrots With Carrot Top Gremolata, an easy vegetable recipe that’s fancy enough for entertaining and holidays.

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Orange Candied Carrots

The candied carrots make an easy and tasty veggie side dish for weeknight dinners or for a holiday meal. The carrots really scream Easter to me!

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Roasted Carrots

Not just for Easter or Passover brunch or dinner, these roasted carrots are going to be a side dish rotation for your weekly dinners throughout the year.

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Creamy Scalloped Potatoes

Delicious creamy scalloped potatoes are full of flavor and perfectly crisp on top.

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Golden Carrot and Potato Gratin

Golden Potato and Carrot Gratin is a warm, cheesy dish, spiced with thyme and nutmeg. The rich flavors of the vegetables and spices mixed with the gooey cheese will draw you back for seconds, and most likely thirds.

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Parmentier Potatoes with Rosemary and Garlic

You’ll love these 5-ingredient roasted Parmentier potatoes with rosemary and garlic. The classic French cubed, diced potatoes are quick, easy and tasty. Perfect for an Easter dinner side dish!

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Creamy Scalloped Potatoes

A creamy scalloped potatoes recipe with savory, luscious goodness! You’ll definitely want seconds!

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Simple Dill Scalloped Potatoes

Simple Dill Scalloped Potatoes are an easy to make side dish that’s made entirely from scratch. Thin sliced potatoes are coated in a creamy and flavorful sauce and baked in the oven.

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Smoked Gouda Scalloped Potatoes

Love cheesy scalloped potatoes? Love easy scalloped potatoes? Then you’re going to love these Smoked Gouda Scalloped Potatoes, so rich and creamy!

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Classic Scalloped Potatoes

Creamy and cheesy Classic Scalloped Potatoes are the king of decadent side dishes! They immediately add a whole lot of comfort to any plate.

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Chile Sweet Potatoes

Spicy roasted spuds are a fresh alternative to traditional mashed sweet potatoes.

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Candied Sweet Potatoes

An easy side dish recipe that tastes like a dessert. Tender sweet potato rounds are covered in a rich, buttery glaze.

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Vegetables for Easter Dinner

Vibrant, tender, crunchy, and perfectly seasoned vegetable recipes are here! Spring veggies, asparagus, and delicious root vegetables make easy Easter vegetable side dishes.

Asparagus with Lemon, Olives and Feta

Serve this side dish warm, cold or at room temperature. It’s the perfect make-ahead side with green asparagus, tangy lemon and lemon zest and salty sprinkles of olives and feta.

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Spicy Air Fryer Asparagus Recipe

This spicy air fryer asparagus recipe is the perfect plant based snack or side dish. My family and I love asparagus and it’s really healthy too.

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Buttered u0026 Charred Lettuce with Peas

Hearty and filling enough from the lentils and sweet potato it's still light enough for a Spring Easter meal! Bound to be a crowd pleaser.

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Roasted Root Vegetables

Oven-roasting adds so much depth of flavor to sweet carrots, nutty parsnips and fluffy red potatoes.

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Blistered Green Beans

Although these Blistered Green Beans are the ultimate in simplicity, they don’t taste simple at all. You’ll be surprised how complex and delicious they are, with deep, caramelized flavors thanks to the magic of oven-roasting.

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Green Beans and Mushrooms

This super easy Green Beans with Mushrooms recipe, with buttery garlic and onion flavors, is a traditional holiday side dish for my family. It's healthy, quick and adds a burst of color to your dinner plate!

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Classic Creamed Corn Recipe

This Classic Creamed Corn Recipe is the perfect side dish for just about any occasion. From a summer cookout with friends to a Holiday celebration with loved one, this easy side dish can be ready in just minutes!

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Quick Creamed Sweetcorn

This cream style corn will knock your socks off! No sugar needed, as the corn sweetness sneaks through all the other flavors to add just the right amount of sweetness to this creamed sweetcorn dish.

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Cheesy Cauliflower Casserole

Cheesy side dishes are all the rage, yet this one has a twist!
I swapped out potatoes and replaced it with cauliflower. Plus added bacon. Of course.

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Shredded Brussels Sprouts with Orange and Almond

This low-fat side dish is loaded with flavor, but also vitamins A and C (thanks, Brussels sprouts). The almonds provide a shot of protein and fiber and a delicious crunch. Plus it comes together in under 15 minutes!

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Easy Southern Squash Casserole

This Southern Squash Casserole is a fixture on any southern dining table during the Festive season. The buttery and flavorful yellow squash casserole is perfect for entertaining but easy enough to enjoy for a weeknight supper

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Balsamic Roasted Brussel Sprouts

These Brussels sprouts are oven-roasted in a maple-balsamic glaze until they are crispy and caramelized and SO delicious!

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Braised Red Cabbage

Braised Red Cabbage is my favourite easy, tasty traditional side dish! It’s perfect for Easter dinner. Cabbage, apples and spices all mingle together in this vibrant recipe.

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Artichokes With Lemon Mayo

Artichokes with Lemon Mayo is a fresh variation on a classic side. The simplicity of the artichokes mixed with the zesty dip make a fun dish for spring. 

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Easy Roasted Artichokes Recipe With Garlic u0026 Parmesan

The easiest, most delicious method for how to roast artichokes! These roasted artichoke halves are seasoned simply with lemon, garlic and olive oil, and finished with a layer of parmesan.

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Baby Broccoli with Hazelnut Butter

Take advantage of a delicious seasonal vegetable for this beautiful side dish.

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Healthy Sides

If you're feeding a crowd with different dietary needs, here are some Easter dinner side dish ideas to please everyone. Whether they are Keto, gluten-free, Paleo, Whole 30, or vegan, you'll find some healthy takes on classics.

Keto Cauliflower Au Gratin

This Keto Cauliflower Au Gratin is the perfect comfort food side dish. It goes perfectly with steak, chicken, pork and even seafood.

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Kale Salad with Granola, Avocado Green Goddess Dressing

This kale salad has earthy beets, juicy oranges, a creamy Green Goddess dressing and crunchy granola croutons! Plus a secret hack shows you how to tenderize kale using an easy, hands-off trick.

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Skillet Green Beans With Artichokes And Capers

This recipe keeps the oven free for the rest of dinner, and can be made in a matter of minutes, especially with the pre-trimmed green beans available at the store!

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Keto Maple Mustard Green Beans

This low carb side dish is to be enjoyed any time of year. These keto maple mustard green beans are simply fabulous. Green beans are roasted and tossed in sugar free maple syrup and mustard.

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Gluten-free Pull-Apart Dinner Rolls

Gluten-free Dinner Rolls that taste like grandma’s holiday rolls! We enjoy these gluten-free rolls at Easter and year-round!

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Vegan Scalloped Potatoes (Gluten-Free)

These Vegan Scalloped Potatoes are super rich and creamy, soft and tender and super comforting! It’s the best indulgent yet secretly healthy side dish! Also gluten-free.

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Twice Baked Potatoes Recipe {Gluten-free}

A holiday meal wouldn’t be the same at my house without these cheesy, creamy, flavorful twice baked potatoes that are naturally gluten-free.

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Gluten Free Cornbread Muffins Recipe (Dairy Free too!)

These Gluten Free Cornbread Muffins are easy to make from scratch and will give you the best homemade cornbread muffins. They’re dairy free too, and taste amazing – soft, slightly sweet, and moist. Plus they take less than 30 minutes to bake! You definitely want to add these muffins to your dinner table

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Make Ahead Easter Side Dishes

These are side dishes that can be made ahead, or cooked in the slow cooker hands-free, for Easter dinner.

Knotted Orange Sweet Rolls

Soft, buttery rolls made with orange zest and a citrus glaze make these Knotted Orange Sweet Rolls delicious.

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Dill Ricotta Biscuits

A perfect addition to serve with your favorite meal, winter-time soups or on spring buffets. They make delicious sandwiches with leftover roast ham.

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Lazy Day Crock Pot Baked Beans Recipe

This crock pot baked beans recipe is amazing! It is the best baked beans recipe in the crock pot you can make! Spicy and sweet you have to try it!

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Seed-Topped Dinner Rolls

Everyone loves rolls, and these half whole-wheat half white dinner rolls are addictive.

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Healthy Vegan Gluten-Free Cornbread

This healthy and vegan gluten-free cornbread only requires 6 basic ingredients and is so easy to make! Perfect for sweet or savory snacking, as a side during festivities or to be enjoyed as a fluffy and moist lunch to go. Try it with mango chutney!

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Best Crockpot Cheesy Potatoes

These Crockpot Cheesy Potatoes are the easiest and the best side dish or breakfast dish for any get-together!

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Make-Ahead Orange Rolls

Make-ahead orange rolls are melt-in-your-mouth delicious. Absolutely the best thing on your dinner table.

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Cold Side Dishes for Easter

The classics like Jello, potato or broccoli salad are ideal cold side dishes. And don't forget about the deviled eggs for the spread!

Deviled Eggs

Deviled eggs are pretty standard for Easter. They always make an appearance with our Easter dinner.

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Easy Potato Salad

This classic potato salad recipe includes tips for adding perfectly boiled eggs and is so easy to make ahead of time! (Plus, it’s topped with bacon.)

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Potato Salad

An easy classic American Potato Salad Recipe that tastes delicious and is too good. Made with a mayonnaise dressing with mildly sweet, tangy and pungent notes.

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Classic Potato Salad Recipe

It doesn’t get better than these tried and true flavors of starchy potato, chopped egg, and green onion tossed in a dill, celery, mayo, and mustard sauce in my Classic Potato Salad Recipe.

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Cottage Cheese Jello Salad

This creamy, dreamy Cottage Cheese Jello Salad is one of my favorite treats once the weather turns warm in the spring and summer. It’s perfect for potlucks, backyard barbecues, and family reunions!

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Retro 7Up Jello Salad

This Retro 7Up Jello Salad makes its appearance often during family potlucks and holiday dinners. Lime Jello, 7UP soda, along with mayo, cream cheese, marshmallows, whipped topping, marshmallows, cherries, pineapple, and pecans create a unique classic creamy salad.

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Shredded Carrot Salad with Apple and Lime

Shredded Carrot Salad with Apple and Lime has a touch of honey, and poppy green parsley to make for a fresh, healthy side dish.

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Frog Eye Salad

This cool and creamy salad is the perfect make ahead side dish. Always quick to disappear at BBQs and potlucks!

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Jello Cream Cheese Dessert

This Jello dessert is almost like an upside down, no-bake cheesecake. The bottom layer is a mixture of cherry gelatin and pie filling lightly gelled together with crushed pineapples. The second layer is a sweetened mixture of whipped cream cheese and Greek yogurt.

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Easy Southern Grape Salad

This family favorite Southern Grape Salad requires only 10 minutes of prep and a few ingredients to whip up! It is creamy, crunchy and a great side dish that doubles as dessert for Potlucks, BBQ, meal trains and summer evenings.

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Healthy Artichoke u0026 Roasted Red Pepper Coleslaw

A unique and tangy coleslaw, with apple cider vinegar, caraway, and broccoli slaw, is gluten-free and Weight Watchers friendly.

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Chopped Broccoli Bacon Salad

Tiny bite-sized pieces of broccoli are tossed with dates, sunflower seeds, red onion, and creamy homemade lemon garlic dressing.

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Broccoli Cranberry Salad

You won’t believe how easy it is to make this vegetarian broccoli cranberry salad recipe! It’s creamy, crunchy, healthy, and delicious!

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Easy Side Dishes

Let's not complicate matters! Make cooking more fun by including some truly easy sides for an Easter ham dinner.

Asparagus Puff Pastry Tart

A crowd-pleasing, quick asparagus puff pastry tart. Made with a creamy cracked pepper and cottage cheese filling, and pickled red onions and olives on top.

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Air Fryer Rutabaga Fries

So easy to make and the end result is tasty crispy rutabaga fries that you will want to eat over and over again.

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Asparagus Tart

Asparagus Tart with Ricotta and Lemon is an easy and crowd-pleasing recipe that requires little work and is so elegant. Great as an appetizer or side dish, don’t miss this delicious tart!

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Slow Cooker Herb Roasted Potatoes

Full of flavor and zest, these Slow Cooker Herb Roasted Garlic Potatoes are one of the most flavorful and easiest side dishes you will ever make!

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Instant Pot Garlic Mashed Potatoes

These garlic cheese mashed potatoes are so easy to make thanks to the Instant Pot. It's the best way to make garlic mashed potatoes.

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Wild Rice Cranberry Salad

A mixture of brown and wild rice that is pressure cooked in a lemon juice and orange zest dressing with flavor that is so intense it is out of this world!

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