45 Easy Sides to Serve with Beef Tenderloin

Creamy, cheesy, and crowd pleasing dauphinoise potatoes are practically impossible to dislike. This classic French dish is simple yet indulgent, and pairs perfectly with beef tenderloin.

Garlic confit improves just about everything, including these buttery mashed potatoes.

Thin slices of potatoes are doused in a cheese-bolstered cream mixture and baked in a skillet until it becomes a crispy and tender gratin-like dish that everyone will love.

The secret to the best ever baked potatoes? Cook them like the British do.

Skip the roux! My easier version of this cheesy classic is so much better.

Is there nothing more comforting and delicious than mashed potatoes? This creamy side dish is the perfect pairing for beef tenderloin.

Imagine all the savory flavor of French onion soup — caramelized onions, rich beef broth, and melted Gruyère — layered between slices of tender golden potatoes.

Thinly sliced potatoes get tossed with a flavorful cream sauce, layered with plenty of Pecorino Romano, and baked until browned and bubbly.

Pommes Anna is a crispy French potato dish of beautifully arranged sliced potatoes seasoned with only butter and salt.

Stir onion soup mix and sour cream into mashed potatoes for an easy side dish that will outshine the main course.

An easy, impressive recipe for restaurant-quality fondant potatoes made with just five staple ingredients.

French-style Chantilly potatoes are the ultimate fast and fancy side dish. The addition of whipped cream makes them extra light and fluffy.

Inspired by melting potatoes, thick slices of potatoes get tossed with a lemony herb butter and cooked in a hot oven, creating a crispy, snappy crust on the outside.

Learn how to make colcannon — a classic Irish side dish of mashed potatoes and cabbage dressed with browned butter.

With a little love (thanks to lemon zest and juice, Parmesan cheese, and toasted almonds), these easy roasted green beans will be your new favorite side dish. The best part: They only take about 10 minutes to cook.

Combine sautéed cremini mushrooms and onions with the slight acidity of lemon juice and white wine for a dish that bursts with umami.

Tender baby spinach, mixed in a flavorful cream sauce, makes one of the best and easiest side dishes for your beef tenderloin dinner.

Tender asparagus baked under creamy Alfredo sauce until bubbly and browned.

Sweet, jammy roasted carrots get a salty, crispy Parmesan crust.

Sweet corn kernels simmered in butter and cream is better than anything from a can.

Snappy blanched green beans served with sautéed shallots and buttery sliced almonds.

Miso is a fantastic ingredient that makes simple roasted carrots into something magical.

A simple recipe for sautéed cremini mushrooms in a rich and creamy garlic Parmesan sauce.

If you love roasted cauliflower, you must try melting your cauliflower. Melting cauliflower takes inspiration from the brilliant technique used for melting potatoes.

It's just the right balance of spicy, sweet, and tangy, thanks to harissa paste and honey.

The vegetable, often called baby broccoli, isn’t just immature broccoli — instead it’s a hybrid of broccoli and Chinese broccoli.

It’s the cheesiest way to eat your green cabbage.

Smashed carrots will be your new go-to veggie side dish.

It’s all about the compound butter.

A step-by-step guide to making the best, most foolproof dinner rolls.

These buttery, tender Parker House rolls are perfect for your holiday bread basket. To make these tender pull-apart rolls extra fluffy, we use instant potato flakes, a common pantry ingredient that helps yield the most perfect crumb.

Use both fresh and powdered garlic for the ultimate homemade garlic bread.

These tender rolls get their pale orange hue and delicate sweetness from mashed sweet potatoes.

These tender, rich, pillowy dinner rolls are flecked with herbs and crowned with a toasty cheddar cheese crust.

This no-knead focaccia is a simple Italian flatbread topped garlic, rosemary, and flaky salt.

Individual knots of challah bread, rich with eggs and ready for a slathering of butter.

Savory bread swirls filled with garlic butter.

These Irish cheddar potato rolls are baked to cheesy, buttery perfection.

These flaky, buttery homemade crescent rolls ready in less than an hour.

With crispy roasted potatoes and a flavorful dressing made with shallots, whole grain mustard, maple syrup, golden raisins, and a little soy sauce, this hearty kale salad is perfect alongside your beef tenderloin dinner.

We don’t know who needs to hear this, but salads are not just an assortment of raw vegetables! One of the most common misconceptions with salads is that you have to eat a little pile of leaves. This roasted cauliflower salad says otherwise. Roasting vegetables — cauliflower, shallots, and a lemon here — make the whole thing immediately feel more substantial while adding a lot of textural variety.

Chopped broccoli, chewy sweet dates, nutty toasted walnuts, aged cheddar, and crunchy shallots tossed in warm lemon-honey vinaigrette. It's the perfect make-ahead salad to serve with beef tenderloin.

Crispy smashed potatoes tossed with arugula, crispy bacon, red onions, and a whole grain mustard vinaigrette.

Roast sweet potatoes, croutons, and hearty chickpeas, then build a flavorful, satisfying salad — directly on top!