35 of the Best Potato Side Dishes
Potatoes, in some form or fashion, are on almost every dinner table. If you're in search of the perfect potato side dish, we've got you covered, and you'll find plenty to choose from among these potato dishes.
Perfect Roasted Potatoes (Super crispy, made in the oven)
These roasted potatoes only require three ingredients and a quick bake in the oven. No fancy tricks or high maintenance steps required! This might just be the perfect roasted potato recipe.
Oven Baked Potato Wedges - Back To My Southern Roots
Oven Baked Potato Wedges are the perfect recipe for a side dish or appetizer. The potato wedges recipe is easy to make, only costs a few dollars, and is ready in less than one hour.
Loaded Mashed Potato Casserole
This easy casserole recipe is a great way to use up left over mashed potatoes. In fact, it is my go to recipe to use leftover mashed potatoes when I’m not making classic potato cakes.
Crispy Garlic Smashed Potatoes
The BEST way to make potatoes – Garlic Smashed Potatoes! Crispy on the outside, fluffy on the inside and full of buttery garlic flavors!
Warm Bacon Honey Mustard Potato Salad
Potato salad doesn’t have to be traditionally creamy to be good. In fact, switching that out for a vinegar based honey mustard dressing actually makes it better for serving at barbecues & pot lucks in the Spring and Summer.
This Warm Bacon Honey Mustard Potato Salad is simple enough to whip up, even at the last minute- and it’s bound to be the next big thing to hit the picnic table.
Homemade Tater Tots | How to make perfect Tater Tots Video Recipe
Tater Tots are pieces of deep fried grated potatoes and is served as a side dish. They are known for their cylindrical shape and crispy exterior.
To make Homemade Tater Tots, you need only 4 to 5 ingredients.
Swiss Potato Rosti With Salt And Vinegar
I've been eyeing this Swiss Potato Rosti with salt and vinegar for a few years, and just finally got around to making it.
Clipped from Bon Appetit, I hesitated making it, because even though the there are relatively few ingredients, the instructions seemed a lot more complicated than necessary. It makes a nice side dish to a roast dinner and is naturally gluten free and Whole30 compliant.
Hot German Potato Salad
An easy German potato salad recipe with crunchy bacon, red onions, celery, and a tangy, savory, and slightly sweet apple cider vinegar and mustard sauce.
Serve it piping hot straight from the stove or keep it warm in a slow cooker to feed your hungry friends and family at your next gathering.
Bratkartoffeln with Bacon – German Fries Recipe
Bratkartoffeln with Bacon is a great dinner meal idea.
The German fries recipe is great with leftover boiled or roasted potatoes.
Creamy Au Gratin Potatoes Recipe for Two
These Au Gratin Potatoes are deliciously creamy and cheesy. We really love the added flavor of the onion baked inside.
This recipe serves two people cooked in individual dishes for a romantic dinner, but could also be cooked in one dish if preferred. Plan ahead as it takes 1 ½ hours to bake, but is so worth it!
Twice Baked Potato Recipe
This twice baked potato recipe is a favorite side dish at our house. That’s probably because it has the perfect blend of cheese, sour cream, and onions baked right into it.
Italian Potato Salad with Green Beans and NO mayo!
This easy to make creamy Italian Potato Salad with green beans will quickly become your favorite summer potluck recipe. You are going to love this no mayo potato salad!
Potato Rosti Waffles - nutritious & delicious! Fab Food 4 All
Today I’m bringing you my Potato Rosti Waffles. I love potatoes so was very pleased when Albert Bartlett asked me to develop a recipe for them. I decided to use their award winning Elfe potatoes with their buttery taste, golden yellow colour and creamy texture and paired them with spring onions for an extra flavour dimension.
Greek Yogurt Mashed Potatoes
Greek Yogurt Mashed Potatoes is an easy and deliciously creamy healthy mashed potatoes recipe you can make ahead.
Learn about the best potatoes for mashing, how to add lots of flavour, and why I love to make mashed potatoes with skin on for an extra nutritious side dish!
Easy Cheesy Ranch Scalloped Potatoes (gluten free)
These easy Cheesy Ranch Scalloped Potatoes, with the layers of Creamer potatoes, cheese, and a homemade Ranch inspired sauce, make any meal into a special meal.
Loaded Bacon Ranch Potato Salad {Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Option}
Loaded Bacon Ranch Potato Salad. A creamy potato salad made with a homemade ranch dressing, bacon, cheddar cheese, hard-boiled eggs, and green onions. All of your favorite flavors from a loaded baked potato.
A perfect gluten-free creamy potato salad for your next cookout or family get together. A summer classic that everyone will love!
Crispy Roasted Potatoes
These crispy roasted potatoes are thinly sliced, layered with shallots, brushed with butter and oil, and cooked until golden brown and crispy.
Easy Hasselback Potatoes
Hasselback Potatoes are a fun and delicious way to enjoy a potato. This hasselback potatoes recipe is a perfect cross between a baked potato and a roasted potato; they are crisp on the outside, while buttery soft and tender on the inside. These potatoes are the perfect side dish to any meal!
Oven Baked Potato Chips
Oven Baked Potato Chips are crisp and satisfying without the frying. They can be served as an appetizer, snack, or side dish.
Cheesy Campfire Potatoes
These Cheesy Campfire Potatoes cook in foil for a simple side dish you can cook entirely on the grill! The perfect easy camping recipe for summer cookouts.
Cheesy Ranch Potatoes
Cheesy Ranch Potatoes are a mouthwatering potato side dish to spice up your dinner routine! These easy to make potatoes are creamy, cheesy, and ready fast!
Duchess Potatoes
This easy Duchess Potatoes recipe is an elegant potato recipe that is perfect for the holidays. Duchess potatoes can even be made ahead of time and frozen to save you time on the day of your dinner party!
Potato Pancakes with Leftover Mashed Potatoes {7 Ingredients, GF}
Oven Roasted Parsley Potatoes
I’ve been making Parsley Potatoes for years using canned potatoes. They pale in comparison to Oven Roasted Parsley Potatoes. Red Potatoes are tossed in a mixture of butter, diced onion and garlic, then roasted in a cast iron skillet or baking dish.
Easy Crock Pot Mashed Potatoes
Mashed potatoes are an easy recipe to make in a Crock Pot. Make the holidays easier by cooking them in the slow cooker while you can tend to other foods.
Bombay Aloo (Potatoes) Recipe | Easy Step by Step Picture Recipes
When it comes to a great Bombay Aloo recipe (also known as Bombay Potatoes), you want flavour. BIG flavour. All without too much fuss and as little work as possible. Well guess what?
You’re in the right place! Just like my ultimate potato salad recipe, this seriously bad boy bombay aloo recipe is not only intensely delicious but it’s made in under 30 minutes and is perfect for almost every occasion!
Whether it’s a main course, side dish, starter or to wow your dinner party guests – I guarantee no one will be disappointed with this wonderful dish.
Authentic Italian Potato Frittata
Authentic Italian Potato Frittata is the easiest meal you can make: eggs, potatoes and fresh herbs come together for a quick dinner the whole family will love!
Italian Potato Frittata is one of the most traditional Italian recipes you can recreate. Incredibly easy to make, with very simple ingredients, it’s the go-to dish most Italian mums make on a busy weekday, and for loads of good reasons: it’s cheap, doesn’t take more than 30 min to make, and paired with a large green salad, it makes a great vegetarian and gluten-free meal on its own.
How to Make Fluffy Baked Potatoes in a Crockpot!
Fluffy crockpot baked potatoes are the best side dish or loaded up as dinner tonight! If you're wondering how to make potatoes in a slow cooker this is it!
Funeral Potatoes Recipe (Hash Brown Casserole)
Funeral Potatoes are the ultimate comfort food often brought to receptions, potlucks, memorials and holiday parties. This cheesy hash brown casserole is easy to make and famously delicious.
Vegan Potato Cakes with Carrot and Rice
Vegan potato cakes made with leftover mashed potatoes, rice, carrots, onions and parsley! These potato cakes are crispy and lovely from the outside, but super soft from the inside.
They are so easy to make, and the kids love them. Naturally gluten-free, and suitable for toddlers. Also great for freezing and make ahead meals.
Best Potato Gratin Ever
This is the best potato gratin, ever! Thinly sliced potatoes layered with a dreamy herb and garlic infused cream sauce, studded with rich and nutty Gruyère cheese; baked to golden, creamy, bubbly perfection!
Whether you are making a special meal, craving creamy potatoes or looking for the perfect side for your holiday meal, this is a must save recipe!
Veggie Potato Fritters (Baked, Not Fried!)
Veggie Potato Fritters – Crispy oil free fritters that are baked, not fried, make a perfect easy side dish or snack.
Potatoes. They’re a staple in nearly every household I know and in cuisines around the world. You’re almost guaranteed a side of spuds in some fashion if you’re eating out here in the U.S.
Mashed Potato Croquettes
Mashed Potato Croquettes are the stuff from which dreams are made. Soft, warm, comforting and the perfect use of leftover mashed potatoes.
Don’t judge me, that’s how I’m wired.
I saw this Mashed Potato Croquettes Recipe in Bon Appétit a few weeks ago, and like most recipes that capture me, this one lived up to my expectations.
Every. Single. Morsel.
Cheesy Potatoes {with bacon!!}
Loaded with cheese and bacon, these potatoes are going to disappear before you even know what happened! Great for BBQs, potlucks or family dinners!
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Friday 23rd of August 2019
[…] 35 of the Best Potato Side Dishes features some of our very favorite potato dishes. […]
Camilla Hawkins
Monday 29th of July 2019
I am so drooling over all these delicious potato side dishes! Thank you for adding my rosti waffles:-)
Julie Pollitt
Monday 29th of July 2019
Hi Camilla! Thanks so much for sharing them, they look amazing!
Julia
Saturday 27th of July 2019
I can't even begin to express how much I love potatoes! All of these recipes look so delicious.
Julie Pollitt
Saturday 27th of July 2019
Oh, me too! I could eat them all day long! Thanks for stopping by. :)