• About
  • Browse Recipes
  • Recipe Index

Main Navigation

  • Recipe Index
  • About

The Forked Spoon

Eat Healthy • Adventure Often

  • Browse Recipes
  • Breakfast
  • Salads
  • Soups
  • Sides
  • Dinners
  • Desserts
  • By Diet

Home » Side Dishes + Vegetables » Page 2

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.

  • Side Dishes + Vegetables
    • Breads + Biscuits + Pastries
    • Sides
    • Slaws + Salads
    • Vegetable Side Dishes
Crispy sweet potato fries made in the air fryer and served in a small metal tin with ketchup.

Air Fryer Sweet Potato Fries

Oval serving dish filled with homemade baked sweet potato fries and served with ranch dressing.

Oven Baked Sweet Potato Fries

Large white casserole dish filled with sweet sweet potato casserole.

Sweet Potato Casserole (with Marshmallows)

Mashed sweet potatoes cooked in an Instant Pot served in a round, shallow bowl and topped with extra butter.

Instant Pot Mashed Sweet Potatoes Recipe

Small white plates filled with individual servings of oven-roasted Brussels sprouts and sweet potato cubes drizzled with tahini and chopped parsley.

Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Sweet Potatoes

White bowl filled with mashed sweet potatoes and butternut squash and topped with butter and fresh thyme.

Healthy Mashed Sweet Potatoes

Two cooked sweet potatoes topped with butter.

Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes

Image of a small white ramekin filled with oat groats with the text overlay "What are Groats? Varieties and Cooking Methods".

What Are Groats?

Small white bowl filled with cooked Instant Pot pinto beans topped with raw diced white onions.

Instant Pot Pinto Beans

Image of cooked pinto beans with onions and bacon in a light broth.

Easy Pinto Beans

White platter filled with roasted delicata squash rings roasted in maple syrup, cinnamon, and sprinkled with pepitas.

Oven Roasted Delicata Squash Recipe

Tender roasted wedges of kabocha squash on a large baking sheet.

Roasted Kabocha Squash

Fully cooked baked potatoes cut in half and seasoned with salt, pepper, and butter.

Perfect Baked Potato Recipe

A bowl of food on a plate, with Tzatziki

Tzatziki Sauce Recipe (How to Make Tzatziki)

Overhead image of a large stainless steel skillet filled with cooked cannellini beans and spinach in a savory lemon and garlic sauce.

Cannellini Beans Recipe

Image of a large salad bowl filled with orzo and arugula salad filled with feta cheese and grapes.

Orzo Arugula Salad with Feta and Grapes

Image of a white serving plate filled with creamy pesto gnocchi garnished with freshly grated parmesan cheese, red chili flakes, and fresh basil leaves.

Creamy Pesto Gnocchi

Oval serving dish filled with perfectly cooked air fryer green beans.

Air Fryer Green Beans

Large white bowl filled with vegetarian three bean salad.

Easy Three Bean Salad Recipe

Image of Mexican-style black beans simmering in a medium pan.

Mexican Black Beans Recipe (Frijoles Negros)

Image of fully cooked and crispy Brussels sprouts resting in the air fryer basket.

Easy Air Fryer Brussels Sprouts Recipe

Hot melty cauliflower bake with bacon.

Cheesy Cauliflower Bake with Bacon

Mushrooms sauteeing in a large skillet with butter and garlic and sprinkled with fresh parsley.

Sauteed Mushrooms (How to Cook Mushrooms)

Fall Quinoa Salad

Butternut Squash Risotto with a Simple Arugula Side Salad

Butternut Squash Risotto

must have thanksgiving side dishes pinterest pin collage

Best Thanksgiving Side Dishes

Roasted fingerling potatoes on a large baking sheet.

Easy Roasted Fingerling Potatoes Recipe

A bowl Asparagus Gratin

Cheesy Baked Asparagus Gratin Recipe

Large white salad bowl filled with julienned carrots, sliced cucumbers, and edamame and drizzled with homemade miso dressing.

Miso Cucumber Salad Recipe

Two halved sugar pumpkins roasted in the oven

How to Cook Pumpkin: A Step-by-Step Guide

Oven Roasted Curried Lime Cauliflower with Curried Mayo Dip

Curried Cauliflower

Roasted sweet potatoes on a large baking sheet covered with melted butter, brown sugar, and fresh herbs.

Savory Butter Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Brown Sugar

Crispy Herb and Butter Roasted Potatoes

Crispy Hasselback Potato Casserole with Garlic and Herbs

White serving bowl filled with creamy mashed cauliflower drizzled with brown butter and garlic.

The Best Mashed Cauliflower Recipe (Cauliflower Mashed Potatoes)

White bowl filled with creamy mashed potatoes and topped with melted butter and finely chopped parsley.

Easy Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes Recipe

White shallow bowl filled with fluffy mashed potatoes, topped with two pats of butter, and garnished with fresh chopped parsley.

The Best Mashed Potatoes Recipe (How to Make Mashed Potatoes)

Baking dish filled with cheesy baked thinly sliced potatoes in a cream sauce.

Cheesy Potatoes Au Gratin Recipe

Overhead image of baked scalloped potatoes.

Classic Scalloped Potatoes Recipe

Buttery cooked corn on the cob cooked in the Instant Pot

Instant Pot Corn on the Cob

A plater of Baked Buffalo Cauliflower

Baked Buffalo Cauliflower Recipe

Two whole butternut squash, halved with seeds scooped out, placed in an Instant Pot.

How to Cook Instant Pot Butternut Squash (Whole and Cubed)

A close up halved roasted butternut squash that has been roasted in a white dish

How to Roast Butternut Squash

A white bowl of Cucumber salad

Cucumber Salad Recipe

Quinoa vs. Rice: What’s the Difference?

Quinoa vs. Rice: What’s the Difference?

Mango, Watermelon + Corn Salad

Fresh Watermelon Salad with Corn and Mango

Container filled with jasmine rice with text overlay: Basmati Rice vs. Jasmine Rice: What's the Difference?

Basmati Rice vs. Jasmine Rice: What’s the Difference?

Spoon scooping cooked brown rice from a medium stockpot.

How to Cook Brown Rice (2 Ways!)

Fluffing a pot of white basmati rice.

How to Cook Basmati Rice (Perfectly!)

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • Next Page »

Chef Jessica Randhawa of The Forked Spoon

I’m Jessica! Aka mom, wife, chef, and travel-obsessed photographer. Welcome to The Forked Spoon. Here you can browse hundreds of incredible family-friendly recipes covering dozens of diets, courses, and cuisines. Learn more about me.

Reader Favorites

  • Acai bowl topped with fresh fruit and granola. Acai Bowl Recipe – How to Make Your Own Acai Bowl
  • Perfect, clear, beef bone broth in a large stockpot. Bone Broth Recipe (How to Make Bone Broth)
  • Bok Choy being cooked in a wok with a spoonful of garlic sauce 10 Minute Garlic Bok Choy Recipe
  • A close up of a bowl Chimichurri Chimichurri Recipe (How to Make Chimichurri Sauce)
  • A bowl of Vietnamese Pho with a spoonful of bone broth Pho Recipe (How to Make Vietnamese Noodle Soup)
  • White bowl filled with homemade chicken soup. The Best Chicken Soup Recipe
Logo of The Forked Spoon by Jessica Randhawa
The Forked Spoon has been featured on Yahoo, CountryLiving, MSN, Cosmopolitan, USA Today, and Parade
  • About
  • Browse Recipes
  • Contact
  • Accessibility Statement

Copyright © 2023 · The Forked Spoon LLC • Disclosure