These easy and delicious holiday side dishes are sure to impress your guests when you host the dinner at home. They’re also perfect to bring to a potluck or buffet with family and friends!
Whether you enjoy a family-style sit-down dinner or a buffet, these dishes are perfect and satisfying to a variety of tastes and preferences.
What we like to do is have sections for salads, meat, side dishes, and desserts. No matter how you choose to serve the food, all of these easy and delicious holiday side dishes will make everyone very happy!
Side Dish Recipes for a Holiday Dinner
The holidays are a special time to get together with your family and close friends for a delicious meal.
Whether you choose to enjoy the traditional turkey or ham … or you do something completely different, bring any of these dishes and watch everyone go back for seconds!
Delicious Holiday Side Dishes
All of these holiday side dishes are easy to make. They're deliciously perfect for a traditional or non-traditional dinner with family and close friends
3-Ingredient Cranberry Sauce Recipe
Cranberry sauce is an essential item on any holiday table. After making this easy one, you'll wonder why you ever bought the canned version.
Easy Cornbread Dressing Recipe
This holiday season, work on perfecting your dressing. This delicious cornbread dressing (or stuffing) is easy to make and absolutely delicious. Your guests will also love the fact that it's gluten-free!
Easy Honey Roasted Sweet Potatoes
An absolute must side dish on a holiday table is a sweet potato dish. Even if you have a sweet potato casserole on the table, some guests will prefer these.
Classic Baked Mac and Cheese Casserole
There's a reason a classic macaroni and cheese side dish is so popular. It's easy to make with basic ingredients, and it is so deliciously comforting!
Soft And Easy Homemade Dinner Rolls
There's nothing better than a basket of hot and delicious homemade dinner rolls on the table. You can easy make a pan or two of these rolls, and everyone will thank you!
Zucchini Tomato Casserole
Delicious and cheesy zucchini is made even better with tomatoes added. This is a dish that will disappear quickly, so be sure to make plenty.
Air Fryer Butternut Squash Recipe
This air fryer butternut squash is easy to make, delicious, and nutritious. It's not hard to make, especially if you use pre-cut butternut squash, either bagged in the produce or freezer section of the grocery store.
Garlic Zucchini Parmesan
When you're looking for a side dish with a boatload of flavor, you'll love this garlic zucchini Parmesan.
Easy Air Fryer Carrots Recipe
There's something about air frying carrots that brings out their natural sweetness. These make it easy to get everyone to eat their veggies!
Roasted Brussels Sprouts Recipe
Roasted Brussels sprouts have become a new family favorite because they are absolutely delicious! They have a crispy outside and a soft middle that provides the perfect crunchy chew.
Roasted Tomatoes with Basil
Roasted tomatoes with basil can be served alone or added to another favorite recipe. Make some extras for future use. You can store them in the fridge or freezer.
Homemade Chow Chow Relish
This yummy chow chow relish is a wonderful condiment that you can easily make at home. Don't be surprised if people request it in the future.
5 Bean Salad Recipe
Packed with protein and other essential nutrients, this bean salad is just plain delicious! And it adds a lot of color and dimension to the salad table.
Orange Kale and Wild Rice
Everything Miz Helen makes is packed with flavor, and this orange kale and wild rice is no exception! Try it, and you'll see what I mean.
Instant Pot Black-Eyed Peas
These Instant Pot black-eyed peas are a delicious and nutritious side dish that is easy to make.
Chickpea Salad
The versatile chickpea makes an appearance as the star of this delicious and nutritious salad. It also makes great leftovers!
Easy Parmesan Potato Bake
Parmesan and potatoes go together like bread and butter, salt and pepper, Ricky and Lucy, and ... well, you get the point. There's something really special about this dish that you need to try.
Creamed Corn Recipe
Creamed corn lovers, rejoice! This one from Back to My Southern Roots is for you!
Sweet Potato Patties (Healthy Recipe)
This mashed sweet potatoes recipe is so delicious you can serve it as a side dish or dessert.
Easy Creamed Spinach
You'll want to taste this easy creamed spinach as you make it to be sure it's just right. But be careful not to keep tasting it until it's gone. Seriously, you'll be tempted!
Buttermilk Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Are you looking for the perfect mashed potatoes dish? Well, this just might be what you want! In fact, I think it is. So yum!
Mama’s Easy Potato Salad Recipe
When my mama used to bring this to family gatherings, it was always the first side dish to disappear. There's a reason. It's absolutely the best!
Pineapple Baked Beans Recipe
Add some pineapple to your baked beans recipe, and you'll be amazed by how good it is. Check out this recipe to see how to do it.
Green Bean Casserole Deluxe
Most of us have enjoyed a green bean casserole during a Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. Here's a way to take it up a notch.
Easy Turkey Gravy Without Flour
Who says you have to put flour in your gravy? Here's how I make it without flour so those who follow a gluten-free diet can enjoy it! What might surprise you is that most people won't even know the difference!
Best 2-Ingredient Biscuits
Want biscuits but don't have much time? These 2-ingredient biscuits cut through all the hassle and deliver great results every time!
Apple Oat Muffins
These delicious muffins are also a nutritious way to start your day. Or you can add caramel and whipped cream to serve them for dessert.
Gluten-Free Pumpkin Muffins
A basket of hot pumpkin muffins and a slab of butter will surely send everyone's tastebuds into orbit. Be sure to make a bunch of them because everyone will want seconds!
Slow Cooker Cinnamon Applesauce
Who can resist a smooth and delicious applesauce that you made from scratch? Serve it as a condiment or side dish ... it doesn't matter. People will love it no matter how they eat it.
Pumpkin Butter
Pumpkin butter is good on toast, biscuits, pancakes, and waffles. You can also add it to a variety of other things, such as smoothies, cereals, and much more.
Easy Cloud Bread Recipe Without Flour
Light, fluffy, and gluten-free, the cloud bread continues because it's so good! Make extras and freeze what's left.
Tomato Cucumber Corn Salad with Feta
Bursting with flavorful goodness, this tomato cucumber salad is sure to please even the pickiest eaters.
Creamy Cool Fruit Salad
This smooth and creamy cool fruit salad is so refreshing! Serve it on the salad table or later for dessert.
Sweet Potato Pecan Casserole
This is your traditional sweet potato casserole with pecans. It's delicious and always a crowd pleaser!
Easy Deviled Eggs Recipe
I don't think I've ever been to a southern holiday dinner that didn't have deviled eggs on the table. The only problem is that there are never enough!
Simple Southern Style Cornbread Recipe
There is a standing argument about what kind of cornbread is the best. I prefer this delicious, simple southern style cornbread recipe. It's so good, and it's the same recipe I use to make the star ingredient in the cornbread dressing.
Easy Squash Casserole Recipe
The first time I made this squash casserole, people asked me for the recipe. Unfortunately, I didn't write the measurements down because I was experimenting. Now I have it figured out, and I'm prepared to give the recipe to anyone who wants it ... and a lot of people do. Yes, it's really that good!
Delicious Holiday Desserts
Don’t forget about dessert! Even after a big dinner, people appreciate finishing the meal with something sweet. I like to offer at least a couple of options so people have choices.
Here are some of my personal favorites:
Mint Chocolate Brownies – Like a breath of fresh air, the cool mint flavor balances the rich chocolate and makes it even better.
Pumpkin Bars – Pumpkin lovers won’t be able to resist these!
3-Ingredient Lemon Bars – These lemon bars are so easy, and they’re super yummy. You’ll love the balance of sweet and tart to finish out your holiday meal.
Pecan Pie – This recipe from Back to My Southern Roots is always a crowd pleaser with the rich sweet flavor and nuttiness that everyone expects!
Mini Pumpkin Pies – These little bites of deliciousness are one of my favorites. Instead of a flour-based crust, they have a nut crust, so they’re naturally gluten-free … and even more delicious that the traditional version!