15 Quick and Simple Vegetable Recipes to Get You Out of a Green Salad Rut

Don’t get me wrong, I love a good green salad. But there is a whole world of quick, easy vegetable side dishes that don’t involve lettuce. With recipes like sesame roasted snap peas, baked chili-spiked sweet potato chips and grilled cabbage with spicy lime dressing, you now have no excuse. Get out of that salad rut tonight!

Chili-Spiked Sweet Potato Fries

TOP ROW
• 1 Grilled Cabbage Wedges with Spicy Lime Dressing
• 2 Chili-Spiked Sweet Potato Fries
• 3 Lemon-Marinated Brussels Sprouts With Parsley and Shallots
• 4 Lima Beans With Cumin-Mint Dressing
• 5 Roasted Winter Vegetables with Miso-Lime Dressing

Lemony Green Beans With Almond Breadcrumbs

MIDDLE ROW
• 6 Lemony Green Beans With Almond Breadcrumbs
• 7 Asparagus Ribbons
• 8 Thai-Style Brussels Sprouts
• 9 Elote (Roasted Sweet Corn with Cheese)
• 10 Grilled Carrots with Lemon and Dill

Corn and Zucchini Salad with Chives

BOTTOM ROW
• 11 Mixed New Potato Salad with Sweet Basil and Shallots
• 12 Corn and Zucchini Salad with Chives
• 13 Sesame Roasted Snap Peas
• 14 Baked Summer Squash
• 15 Asparagus & Pecorino

What are your go-to recipes for quick and simple vegetable sides?

This post was requested by sprite for Reader Request Week 2013.

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