What To Serve With Roast Chicken

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Creamy Mashed Potatoes

A bowl of light, fluffy, and perfectly seasoned mashed potatoes will catapult any good meat dish into “amazing territory”. Making the perfect bowl of creamy mashed potatoes is an art.

Twice Baked Potatoes

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.

Bacon Cheddar Smashed Potatoes

If you’re craving something cheesy, crispy, and loaded with bacon — but without spending hours in the kitchen — these Bacon Cheddar Smashed Potatoes are about to become your new obsession. They’ve got all the flavor of potato skins but without the hassle.

Roasted Bell Peppers And Potatoes

These roasted potatoes with bell peppers have become one of my favorite side dishes. With just salt, pepper, and a little oil, it’s the oven-roasting that brings out the flavor of these vegetables.

Yukon Gold Potato Salad

Yukon gold potatoes make a delicious potato salad. Making a homemade potato salad doesn’t have to be overly complicated.

Cilantro Lime Rice

This 3-step cilantro lime rice blends tangy, herby flavors into a perfect side in minutes.

Oven Roasted Zucchini And Tomatoes

Here’s an easy sheet-pan side dish that tastes straight out of an Italian restaurant! While this oven roasted zucchini & tomatoes recipe is still a vegetable, it has enough crisp, yummy parmesan cheese and Italian seasoning on it that your whole family just may find it irresistible!

Buttered Noodles

Simple buttered noodles with butter, garlic, and a few optional additions is one of the best side dish recipes that you can make. It is a shame because making butter noodles is so darn simple to do.

Crockpot Mac And Cheese

This crockpot mac and cheese recipe takes just a little bit of work off the table (and the oven and the stove). The noodles go in dry, so they absorb all those creamy ingredients into every bite. You can also try my Stovetop Mac & Cheese for a faster comfort side.

Creamy Pasta Salad

Pasta salad is such a wonderful side dish. We love a creamy pasta salad—and this one is made with ranch! If your roast chicken could use a picnic-style touch, this is a great choice.

Roasted Parmesan Green Beans

One reason I love doing green beans in the oven is that the seasoning stays on the beans and bakes in. They come out crisp-tender, and sometimes I add an extra five minutes in the oven to make sure they are done and not tough.

Texas Roadhouse Green Beans (Copycat)

This is why we had to figure out exactly how to make the Texas Roadhouse green bean recipe. 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.

Oven-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.

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 is nutty, slightly sweet, richly textured and just makes me think about a cooler time of year.

Blackened Broccoli

I love it steamed and stir-fried, but every now and again, I want to do something different with this amazing vegetable. The burnt bits will give you a nice charred flavor that works so well with the rest of the roasted vegetable.

Creamed Spinach

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.

Prosciutto Wrapped Asparagus

Every now and again, you might get a hankering for a fancy appetizer and this Easy Prosciutto Wrapped Asparagus is just the ticket. This amazing and quick appetizer brings together the salty flavors of prosciutto perfectly with the subtle sweetness of roasted asparagus, and puts them in little snackable bundles that ticks all the boxes for “perfect finger food”.

Garlic Cauliflower Mash

Once I took a bite of the fluffy mashed cauliflower, I was sold—and frankly, quite surprised. This is why I was truly surprised when I discovered that mashed cauli changes the flavor quite a bit, and it takes on the flavors it melds with.

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.

Easy Sauteed Greens

You can turn handfuls of raw salad greens into a high-fiber, tasty side dish! Sometimes called “wilted greens,” this recipe for sauteed mixed greens requires only two ingredients (plus a seasoning blend of your choice) and will only take 10 minutes (or less!) to go from the fridge to your plate.

Sauteed Mushrooms

One of my discoveries about sautéing mushrooms that surprised me the most was from Cooks Illustrated. We incorporated their tips into our process below.

Skillet Creamed Corn

This skillet creamed corn is a rich, comforting dish that comes together right on the stovetop. It’s the perfect way to take a simple bag of frozen corn and turn it into the star of the show.

Cheddar Bay Biscuits (Red Lobster Copycat)

The problem is, I can’t justify a whole restaurant trip every time I want those cheesy, garlicky little bites of heaven. They’re pretty darn close to the real thing.

Jalapeno Cheddar Cornbread

It is difficult to beat having a slice of a hot and buttery piece of cornbread with, well, pretty much anything. Then if you add some cheddar cheese and a hint of jalapeño, you have something seriously darn tasty and filling, and relatively easy and cheap to make.