60 Delicious Side Dishes to Serve with Christmas Ham

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

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

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.

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

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

An easy, step-by-step guide to making creamy mashed sweet potatoes sweetened with maple syrup.

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

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.

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.

Crispy outside + ultra-creamy inside = your new signature sweet potato side dish.

These creamy baked mashed potatoes are loaded with two kinds of cheese and are make-ahead-friendly.

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

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

Boiled baby Yukon gold potatoes are tossed in a mixture of melted butter, honey, hot sauce, and red pepper flakes, then smashed, roasted until crispy, and brushed with more butter before serving.

This easy, cheesy potato casserole can be assembled a day in advance.

These super-crispy roasted potatoes have a magical sauce of butter, mayonnaise, and ranch seasoning mix.

Cream cheese upgrades classic mashed potatoes into the creamiest, dreamiest side.

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.

Toss roasted carrots in a sticky honey-garlic glaze and you have the best side dish ever.

Tender asparagus baked under creamy Alfredo sauce until bubbly and browned is the ultimate side for honey baked ham.

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.

This classic vegetable side dish comes together in minutes.

A comforting broccoli casserole with mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses.

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

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

Tender baby spinach, mixed in a flavorful cream sauce, makes one of the best and easiest side dishes for holiday dinners.

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

Buttery, brown sugar- and bourbon-glazed carrots are what you pair with your ham dinner when you’re going for something fast and fancy. The bourbon and brown sugar bring out the natural sweetness of the carrots.

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

Cabbage, bacon, and a couple of spices join forces for a quick and easy, smoky-sweet vegetable side dish that will forever change the way you think about cabbage.

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

Toss roasted broccoli with homemade Caesar dressing, then shower it with toasted breadcrumbs and Parmesan cheese for the ultimate side dish.

A warm sauté of sweet corn, peppers, and onion enriched with heavy cream and topped with crispy bacon that’s often served in Louisiana.

It’s all about the compound butter.

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

Cabbage wedges are seared, then baked until the leaves become meltingly tender and caramelized just enough around the edges.

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.

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

Freezing the butter and then grating it into the dough is the secret to these perfectly tender biscuits.

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

These from-scratch biscuits come together in just one bowl, don’t require any fancy techniques, and come out perfectly pillowy every single time. In short, they’re the quickest, easiest way to make biscuits at home.

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

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

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

Classic buttermilk biscuits are nice, but this version with bacon and cheddar might be your new favorite.

Layer crunchy greens and Tuscan kale, sweet date-pickled onions, and crisp fried shallots up to a full day in advance for the ultimate holiday salad.

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 for the holidays.

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.

Roast butternut squash, chickpeas, and croutons, then build a delicious, filling fall salad — directly on top!

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 for the holidays.

This topping-heavy salad is designed so that it's all good parts: roasted sweet potato keeps the radicchio's bitterness in check and toasted sunflower seeds add crunch.

Made with a base of fresh kale, sliced onions, cranberries, and pumpkin seeds, this holiday salad is topped with an easy, creamy lemon-garlic dressing.

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

Roasted beets mixed with argula, pumpkin seeds, and crumbled feta makes for the perfect holiday side salad.

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