Here you'll find a great collection of Easter dinner side dish recipes, including make-ahead recipes, cheesy potatoes and veggies. Even gluten-free and healthy sides.
This list is a MUST for bookmarking. You'll find new favorites for your holiday menu. 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 side dishes from some of my favorite blogs listed right here.
Easter dinner side dish recipes
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Classics
Those cheesy, scalloped potatoes and glazed carrots recipes are undeniable favorites for an Easter meal. Find a variety of those classic recipes here.
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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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Vegetable Sides
Vibrant, tender, crunchy, and perfectly seasoned vegetable recipes are here! Spring veggies, asparagus, and delicious root vegetables, make easy Easter side dishes.
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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 & 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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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 & 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 side dishes 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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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
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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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 Sides
The classics like Jello, potato or broccoli salad are ideal cold side dishes for Easter. 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 & Roasted Red Pepper Coleslaw
This quick and easy Healthy Artichoke & Roasted Red Pepper coleslaw, a unique and tangy coleslaw, with apple cider vinegar, caraway and broccoli slaw, is gluten-free and Weight Watchers friendly (@ only 2 freestyle smart points per serving) and is sure to spruce up your plate!
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Broccoli Bacon Salad (Whole30)
Tiny bite-sized pieces of broccoli are tossed with dates, sunflower seeds, red onion, and creamy homemade lemon garlic dressing. We love it as a holiday side dish or to bring along to cookouts!
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Broccoli Cranberry Salad Recipe
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 Easter ham dinner.
Garlic Parmesan Zucchini
Super easy dish when the rest of the meal can get complicated. Spiralized zucchini, grape tomatoes, and a ridiculously simple sauce come together in just a few minutes
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Air Fryer Rutabaga Fries
Air Fryer Rutabaga Fries. How to cook delicious Paleo rutabaga fries in the air fryer. 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 with Ricotta and Lemon
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 Garlic 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! These are perfect for any weeknight dinner and your family will enjoy the tenderness in every bite with these potatoes!
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Instant Pot Garlic Mashed Potatoes
These garlic cheese mashed potatoes are so easy to make thanks to the Instant Pot. Making Instant Pot mashed potatoes could not be easier, it's the best way to make garlic mashed potatoes.
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Instant Pot Wild Rice with Dried Cranberries and Pecans
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! Topped with scallion, this is the perfect side dish for any occasion!
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Moriah Garnett says
So many delicious choices. I want to make them all. 🙂
Julie says
Wow! This is a massive list of fantastic ideas. It will take me years to try them all! Thanks for putting this together for us.