15 Quick and Easy Vegetable Side Dishes
These side dishes can match any main dish with just 10 min prep. They’re so easy, hearty and packed with flavor!
Say good-bye to those boring veggies – with these easy vegetable side dishes, you’ll want to skip the main entree and make a meal out of these instead!
1. Baked Parmesan Zucchini – Crisp, tender zucchini sticks oven-roasted to perfection. It’s healthy, nutritious and completely addictive. [GET THE RECIPE.]
2. Baked Parmesan Mushrooms – The easiest, most flavorful mushrooms you will ever make, baked with parmesan, thyme and lemon goodness. [GET THE RECIPE.]
3. Garlic Parmesan Roasted Potatoes – These buttery garlic potatoes are tossed with Parmesan and roasted to crisp-tender perfection. [GET THE RECIPE.]
4. Baked Green Bean Fries – Fries that you can eat guilt-free. And they’re baked to absolute crisp goodness. [GET THE RECIPE.]
5. Honey Glazed Baby Carrots – Honey brings in such a pleasant sweetness to these baby carrots in this easy 15-minute side dish. [GET THE RECIPE.]
6. Easy Creamy Mushrooms – So easy, so creamy, and just so darn good. Who needs a main dish anyway? [GET THE RECIPE.]
7. Roasted Vegetables – The easiest, simplest, and BEST way to roast vegetables – perfectly tender, crisp, and packed with tons of flavor. [GET THE RECIPE.]
8. Easy Ranch Baby Carrots – Made with homemade Ranch seasoning, and all you need is a single pan. Done and done. [GET THE RECIPE.]
9. Crispy Dijon Smashed Potatoes – With a Dijon-herb crust, you just can’t go wrong. [GET THE RECIPE.]
10. Easy Creamed Corn – Creamed corn should be consumed more often than just once a year, especially when it’s this easy to make. [GET THE RECIPE.]
11. Baked Zucchini Fries – No one would ever believe that these are completely baked. And they only have 135.4 calories per serving. [GET THE RECIPE.]
12. Apple and Poppy Seed Coleslaw – A winning combination of tangy-sweet flavors with every bite. [GET THE RECIPE.]
13. Parmesan Zucchini and Corn – So simple yet full of flavor. Sometimes simple is really best. [GET THE RECIPE.]
14. Garlic Roasted Carrots – 59.5 calories and just 5 min prep. What more do you need? [GET THE RECIPE.]
15. Garlic Parmesan Roasted Broccoli – Even the pickiest of eaters will be gobbling this up, no questions asked. [GET THE RECIPE.]
Excellent quick and easy recipes.
Thanks!
What great ideas for cooking regular vegetables in easy and tasty ways. Can’t wait to try these on my family!
Let us know how it goes!
Dang these look grate. I have 3 words for these look Damn Delicious!
All of my favorite veggies!!! This is an excellent list of ways to use so many of them! All sounds completely delicious would love to try some of your recipes, especially the quick and easy ones. Thank you for these beautiful recipes.
I haven tried these yet but i am looking forward to making a lot of these
Love your recipes… Time for another new cookbook…!!!!
The veggie sides look delicious but like others I noted that the majority use Parmesan cheese which is quite high in sodium. Since most people should monitor their sodium intake and many need to restrict it, could you provide similar recipes that do not rely on Parmesan cheese?
Laura, you can simply omit or reduce the amount of Parmesan cheese if you are watching your sodium intake. Hope that helps!
Just wondering how long these will last in the fridge?
As I am not an expert on food safety, I cannot really say with certainty – sorry! Methods for optimal food storage and shelf life should be based on good judgment and what you are personally comfortable with. Hope that helps, Sam!
If cooled and placed in fridge within two hours 5-7 days. The reason for the range is because I don’t know your fridge. Commercial kitchens in Oregon can keep for seven days. Day one being the day it is cooked. Now one must realize there’s always a caveat. Is your fridge temperature at optimum temperature? So use your best judgement
A little disappointed that the answer is ‘add Parmesan’ considering I can’t have dairy products
I agree. its hard to cook for my kids when they are dairy free. ( only hard because they are picky)
Thank you so much for your sides!!!! I have been cooking a long time, but like others, I can think of many great main dishes when planning meals, but sometimes struggle with picking a side easily. You have such a yummy selection, and I am sure that I will at least make eight or ten of the ones you have presented, SOON!. The descriptions and photography surely add to my interest.
Can’t wait to try these. If there is garlic and Parmesan, it will be loved by our family.
i made a dish to take to church Christmas day that my gf said is a real hit. well, i dont like it sooo im looking at ur recipes for a quick last minute veg dish. i think the corn will work. Hope its good
my other dish took me 3 hrs to make! i hate to throw all that work away!!
Attempting to convince myself to introducing more vegetables to our daily meals, I Googled ‘easy/quick vegetable sides’..
On the Google page, your site caught my eye immediately, as I have found saved and enjoyed previous dishes you have presented.. We are an older couple and I can come up with main dishes with little problem but, I always seem to fumble over sides… Especially healthy and quick sides..
Thank you for this selection… :O)
Yum! Just what I needed for tonight. Now I just have to pick which yummy-looking recipe I want to try 🙂
somebody likes parmesan… lol
The title should have been “Add Parmesan to vegtables to make a great side dish!”
I LOVE all of these recipes! They all look delicious!!
Absoluetly LOVE your recipes. Am I the only one having trouble with your web site freezing up? Maybe it is “wonderful” AOL.
Donna, I have found that the Chrome browser works best.
Incredibly delicious! My family would love everyone of these!
First, thanks for the lovely side dish round up. That’s where I am seriously challenged. Second, I have an idea. Since you are a family of two (plus adorable doggies) and I am a family of two, I was wondering why your recipes are for six? If you did them for two, couldn’t people easily triple the recipe for six servings? Or double for four etc.? Just a thought.
Thirdly, I am pretty sure I’m not the only one interested in your wedding/wedding preps. You share a bit of personal stuff on the blog and I respect you if you need your privacy but it sure would be nice…….
Laura, I like to share recipes that serve about 4-6 as I primarily focus on quick and easy family meals rather than meals for two. As for the wedding, we actually did not have one. We eloped! 🙂
Very smart choice. I hate the money that is wasted on these new giant weddings that are all the rage now. How much better is it to spend the 20 to 50 thousand dollars on the down payment of a house or to pay off a student loan? I say elope and throw a casual party for your closest friends and family when you return. And, of course, your party would have fabulous food!
Yes, absolutely! 🙂
Totally bookmarked like 10 of these.
All the recipes sound so good don’t know which one to try first. Maybe Easy Ranch Baby Carrots. Love your recipes. Keep them coming.