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Whether it’s cooked through a crockpot or instant pot, pot roast is truly winning, especially when it comes to a hearty dinner meal. It’s too darn tender and positively melts in your mouth!
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To offset the meat’s richness, these complimentary side dishes are your best option. If you’re new to the game and struggling with what to serve with pot roast dinner, then this guide is for you.
From fluffy mashed potatoes to heavenly roasted carrots, these pot roast sides are sure to take your main course up a notch!
How to Make Mashed Potatoes
When it comes to making the perfect side dish for meat dishes like steak or pork chops, there is one dish that stands above all the rest: mashed potatoes. A bowl of light, fluffy, and perfectly seasoned mashed potatoes will catapult any good meat dish into “amazing territory”.
Garlic Mashed Potatoes Recipe
There is something so luscious and comforting about this garlic mashed potatoes recipe. The robust tang of garlic, plenty of butter, salt, and pepper, and you have a side dish for nearly any entree that will cause your guests to rise up with applause!
Loaded Mashed Potatoes
This loaded mashed potato casserole is rich, decadent, and always the first dish to vanish at potlucks or holiday spreads. It’s a side that steals the show—and the compliments.
Twice-Baked Potato Recipe
Potatoes are such a wonderful comfort food, and this twice-baked potato recipe is just one way to elevate this simple vegetable to a flavor-packed delight everyone will love. With smoky crumbled bacon, shredded cheddar and more, we think you’ll love it too.
How to make sweet potato fries in the air fryer
Craving crispy sweet potato fries with just 3 ingredients? Sweet potato fries cooked in the air fryer turn out even crispier than when you bake them in the oven.
How to Make Cauliflower Rice
Whenever my family and I are in this mood, I make delicious cauliflower rice! Cauliflower is a great substitute for rice because it’s lower in calories, high in fiber, and packed with nutrients and antioxidants.
Roasted Butternut Squash
This recipe for roasted butternut squash starts off with a few minutes in the microwave so you can peel it easily then finishes in the oven. It has a slightly sweet taste with a richness to it.
Roasted Carrots With Thyme
This Oven-Roasted Carrots With Thyme Recipe brings out the sweetness with a golden brown char, and the deep flavor of fresh thyme is activated, making this a scrumptious veggie side dish.
Glazed Carrots in the Microwave
For a quick weeknight side dish, this recipe works great. This recipe provides the glaze after cooking, so they will not get too “sticky” from a dry heat like they might in the oven or stovetop.
Roasted Asparagus
Sweet, snappy, and irresistible – asparagus is an incredibly versatile vegetable. Whether raw or cooked, it boasts rich flavors and a wonderful texture.
Steamed Green Beans with Lemon
Green beans make an easy and delicious healthy side dish. These steamed green beans only require 5 ingredients.
How to saute green beans (easy recipe)
We saute green beans at our house so often that in truth it is probably every 10 days or so. They are such a simple dish to prepare and we love them.
Texas Roadhouse Green Beans Recipe (Copycat)
If you have ever been to Texas Roadhouse you know how divine their green beans are. This recipe starts with cans of cut green beans with a handful of additional ingredients, like cooked bacon, onion, garlic, and a bit of sugar, so it’s just enough cooking time for the flavors to meld.
Blackened Broccoli
If you’re looking for a quick and delicious veggie side dish, this charred broccoli recipe is perfect for you! If you want to add a bit more flavor, squeeze some lemon juice on the broccoli florets just before serving.
Easy Cheesy Creamed Spinach Recipe
If you are looking for a creamy and delicious spinach side dish, this is the perfect recipe for you. Now we love cheese in this household so we really amped up the cheese in this recipe.
How To Saute Spinach
Learning how to saute spinach is one of the easiest things that a new cook can learn how to do. You can expect spinach to shrink by at least 50% when it is sauteed.
How to Saute Mushrooms
The beauty of sauteed mushrooms is that they are tasty all on their own but there are endless options on how to serve them. Minced garlic and sauteed mushrooms were born to go together.
How to saute onions (delicious and caramelized!)
Sautéed onions (a.k.a. caramelized onions) add a rich flavor to a dish without much work, but it does take more time than you might think. From burgers to french onion soup, adding sauteed onions to any sandwich or side dish adds a lovely sweet and crisp onion flavor.
Oven Roasted Radishes
Oven-roasted radishes are an uncommon but yummy way to prep and serve radishes. Roasting radishes brings out their sweet flavor and mellows that peppery bite a bit.
Roasted Zucchini With Tomatoes (Air Fryer Recipe)
An advantage to roasted zucchini in the air fryer is that it is less likely to get soggy. A more even roast like this means less soggy zucchini.
Easy Arugula Salad Recipe
We can’t get enough of this easy arugula salad recipe. A great feature about this salad is how insanely easy it is to create.
No-mayo Carolina coleslaw recipe (super yummy!)
What I like about this coleslaw recipe is that it’s very different from classic slaw with a homestyle mayonnaise dressing. It’s sweet, tangy, and of course, yummy!
Cheesy Garlic Biscuits Copycat Recipe
The problem is, I can’t justify a whole restaurant trip every time I want those cheesy, garlicky little bites of heaven. Just don’t skip the garlic-butter dabbed on all the warm biscuit tops at the end; it’s where the magic happens!
Butter Dip Biscuits
These butter dip biscuits offer the comfort of homemade baking with minimal effort. Made from a few pantry ingredients, they come together quickly, with no kneading required.
No-Knead Rustic Dutch Oven Bread
I stumbled upon no knead bread during a particularly lazy Sunday when I craved homemade bread but couldn’t muster the energy for traditional kneading. My sister helped me tweak this recipe, but it’s only got four ingredients, so it’s pretty simple.
The bottom line
Though the pot roast is delicious enough to satisfy you, there are side items that can make your meal exciting. If you have more time to prepare side dishes, then better try these recipes!
Just remember that you shouldn’t pick those sides that overpower the flavor of the meat. What sides do you serve alongside your pot roast? Share some of your favorites side items in the comments section!
