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Side Dishes and Vegetables

Healthy and family-friendly side dishes and vegetable recipes can be found here.  Whether you are looking for healthy roasted dishes like Honey Glazed Carrots with Ginger, or something hard to turn down like Homemade Creamed Corn, there are options for all tastes.

My personal favorite healthy side dish recipes are Healthy Mashed Sweet Potatoes, Baked Sweet Potato, and Bok Choy.

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A large white bowl filled with creamy potato salad and garnished with chopped parsley.

Easy Creamy Potato Salad Recipe

Couscous Salad with Cilantro Orange Dressing

Couscous Salad

Large white oval serving dish filled with homemade classic macaroni salad garnished with a light dusting of paprika and fresh chopped parsley.

Macaroni Salad

Wooden serving spoon scooping a large serving of cheesy hashbrown casserole from a white baking dish.

Hashbrown Casserole

Large serving platter with Bacon Wrapped Jalapeño Poppers and a small bowl of ranch dressing.

Bacon Wrapped Jalapeño Poppers

One half of a roasted air fryer spaghetti squash on a white serving plate garnished with salt and black pepper.

Air Fryer Spaghetti Squash

Close up of a large white salad bowl filled with shredded Brussels sprouts, kale, avocado, grated carrot, pomegranate arils, tossed in a light lemon vinaigrette.

Shaved Brussels Sprout Salad

Twice baked potato on a baking sheet topped with cheese, bacon, and fresh chives.

Twice Baked Potatoes

A plate of honey glazed carrots

Honey Glazed Carrots

Four roasted acorn squash halves.

Roasted Acorn Squash – How to Cook Acorn Squash

Baked Sweet Potato

Perfect Baked Sweet Potato

Round serving bowl filled with small yellow boiled potatoes.

Garlic Butter Boiled Potatoes (How to Boil Potatoes)

Two white bowls filled with cheesy grits topped with cooked shrimp and garnished with shreddd cheddar cheese and fresh parsley.

Cheese Grits and Blackberry Cobbler

White platter filled with simply seasoned delicata squash

How to Cook Delicata Squash

Cooked seasoned butternut squash cubes in the basket of a large air fryer.

Air Fryer Butternut Squash

White bowl filled with cooked and fluffy coconut rice.

Coconut Rice Recipe

Wooden spoon scooping cheesy zucchini casserole from a white casserole dish.

Zucchini Casserole

Cooked quinoa in a large saucepot.

How to Cook Quinoa

White bowl filled with cooked jasmine rice.

Jasmine Rice

White serving plate filled with sauteed Chinese broccoli in soy sauce and garlic.

Chinese Broccoli Recipe (Gai Lan)

Large white serving bowl filled with bulgur tabbouleh salad.

Tabouli Salad Recipe (Tabbouleh)

WHite shallow bowl filled with fish ceviche.

Ceviche

Roasted Eggplant

Large bowl filled with cooked farro, roasted eggplant, caramelized onions, grapes, feta cheese.

Farro Salad with Caramelized Onions

How to caramelize onions.

Perfect Caramelized Onions

Golden air fryer tater tots on a large shallow plate with a small side of katchup.

Air Fryer Tater Tots

Metal serving basket filled with store-bought cooked frozen french fries and a small bowl of ketchup.

Air Fryer Frozen French Fries

White tray filled with french fries cooked in the air fryer and garnished with chopped parsley and served with a side of ketchup and ranch dressing.

Air Fryer French Fries

Platter filled with all of the ingredients for corn salad including corn, cucumber, feta cheese, artichoke hearts, and cherry tomatoes.

Fresh Corn Salad Recipe

Creamy classic coleslaw in a large white bowl.

Coleslaw Recipe

White plate with arugula and shaved parmesan salad tossed in a light lemon dressing.

Arugula Salad with Shaved Parmesan

White plate filled with cooked air fryer shishito peppers with a side of citrus soy sauce and a lemon wedge.

Air Fryer Shishito Peppers

Three cooked baked potatoes in an air fryer basket.

Air Fryer Baked Potatoes

Small white plate filled with roasted zucchini with parmesan cheese.

Roasted Zucchini with Parmesan

Pan filled with cooked zucchini noodles with parmesan cheese.

How to Make and Cook Zucchini Noodles (Zoodles)

Oval serving dish with baked zucchini fries and a small bowl of chipotle mayo.

Baked Zucchini Fries

Close up image of sauteed zucchini with garlic, butter salt, and pepper.

Sauteed Zucchini

Two white soup bowls filled with ginger carrot soup and garnished with coconut cream, cilantro, and black sesame seeds.

Carrot Ginger Soup

Creamed corn in a large shallow pot.

Creamed Corn Recipe

Close up image of cranberry sauce covered meatballs in a large slow cooker.

Cranberry Meatballs

Block of baked brie on a small wood serving board sliced open with gooey cheese oozing out.

Baked Brie

Balsamic vinegar salad dressing being poured into a white bowl filled with spinach, pear and feta salad.

Spinach Pear and Feta Salad Recipe

Large baking sheet with garlic parmesan roasted potatoes.

Garlic Parmesan Roasted Potatoes

A close up of garlic roasted potatoes

Garlic Roasted Potatoes

Roasted asparagus in a large flat white serving dish garnished with parsley and served with lemon.

Roasted Asparagus Recipe

Air fryer basket filled with uncooked asparagus.

Air Fryer Asparagus

Large skillet filled with sauteed pancetta and shallots with cooked sweet peas and garnished with mint.

Peas and Pancetta- Easy Holiday Side Dish

Crispy sweet potato fries made in the air fryer and served in a small metal tin with ketchup.

Air Fryer Sweet Potato Fries

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