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Home » Creative Recipes » Side Dishes » Best Side Dishes To Serve With Ham

21 Side Dishes to serve with your Easter Ham.

Best Side Dishes To Serve With Ham

BY: Michele
PUBLISHED: Apr 11, 2022
UPDATED: Apr 15, 2025
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Whether you are serving a Ham main dish, like our Peach Glazed Ham, or Crockpot Brown Sugar Pineapple Glazed Ham, for an Easter holiday or a weeknight family dinner, you’ll love these 21 delicious side dish recipes that go perfectly with ham. 

Recipe suggestions include our favorite recipes for salads, breads, vegetables, potato dishes, and some unique casseroles that some of you may not have thought about serving with ham.

Table of Contents
  • Side Salad Recipes
  • Bread Recipes
  • Vegetable Side Dish Recipes
  • Potato Side Dish Recipes
  • Casserole Side Dish Recipes
  • Reviews

Side Salad Recipes

Whether it’s a salad with fresh fruits or vegetables or a sweet Ambrosia salad, we are sharing the best salads to serve with a Ham dinner.

Broccoli Salad
Broccoli Salad is a perfect cold summer salad when trying to beat the summer heat by chillin’ at a backyard barbecue, picnic, or potluck.
Check out this recipe
Photo of glass bowl with broccoli salad with cranberries, bacon and cheddar cheese on white marble countertop
Shaved Brussels Sprouts Salad
Shaved Brussels Sprouts Salad, with apples, pomegranates, parmesan, and pecans, is drizzled with a sweet and tangy apple cider vinaigrette, is crunchy and delicious.
Check out this recipe
Glass bowl on dark gray background with apple and sliced pomegranate in the background and a tossed Shaved Brussels Sprouts Salad in bowl.
Spinach Strawberry Champagne Salad
Spinach Strawberry Champagne Salad has fresh baby spinach, fresh sliced strawberries, crumbled blue cheese, and chopped walnuts with Trader Joe's Orange Muscat Champagne Vinegar
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Apple Walnut Cranberry Salad
This Apple Walnut Cranberry Salad includes a Mixed Green Spinach Salad with Green Apples, Dried Cranberries, Walnuts, and Gorgonzola Cheese. This salad explodes with flavor.
Check out this recipe
Overhead view of 1/2 an apple walnut cranberry salad in a glass bowl.
Grandma Lois’ Sweet Green Pea Salad
This delicious creamy sweet pea salad was the recipe my Mother-in-Law brought to every holiday dinner. It makes a delicious side salad or side dish for any meal.
Check out this recipe
Grandma Lois' Spring Pea Salad-6
Ambrosia Salad Recipe
Ambrosia Salad is a unique, sweet and creamy fruit salad with pineapple, mandarin oranges, grapes and maraschino cherries with coconut, Cool whip, sour cream, and pecans!
Check out this recipe
Close up of Ambrosia Salad in a white bowl topped with 3 mandarin oranges and a maraschino cherry with a partial view of a white and blue napkin in the back.

Bread Recipes

In addition to the ham, salads and sides, you’ll need some bread or rolls to go with them to soak up the gravy, or to make a ham slider for later. Below are a few of our favorite recipes.

Angel Biscuits Recipe
Soft, flakey, buttery angel biscuits, sometimes called bride's biscuits, are a mix between a yeast dinner roll and a biscuit. Perfect with butter or jam!
Check out this recipe
A single biscuits on a small plate with a large napkin covered basket of angel biscuits in the background with a light background.
Asiago Cheese Focaccia Recipe
Asiago Cheese Focaccia Bread is an Italian bread topped with fresh herbs that can be used in a focaccia sandwich, pizza, or served with marinara or with a soup or salad.
Check out this recipe
Golden Asiago Foccacia sitting on elevated white patter cut into slices.
Hot Cross Buns Recipe
Fluffy, spiced Hot Cross Buns, with warm, aromatic spices and raisins, are traditionally served for Good Friday, the Friday before Easter. The x on top represents the Cross.
Check out this recipe
Easy Homemade Buttermilk Cornbread
Easy Homemade Buttermilk Cornbread is a dense, buttery, golden, semi-sweet cornbread that goes well with soups, chowders, gumbo, chili, etc.
Check out this recipe
Sweet Dinner Rolls Recipe – Grumpy’s Honeybunch
These homemade sweet dinner rolls are soft, buttery, flaky and so delicious! With just a little hint of sweet, these dinner rolls have a tendency to remind me of the Hawaiian Sweet Rolls.
Check out this recipe
Soft homemade dinner rolls
Fluffy Potato Rolls Recipe
These soft and fluffy potato rolls have a unique taste and texture, thanks to the addition of mashed potatoes in the dough.
Check out this recipe

Vegetable Side Dish Recipes

With the ham and potatoes, you’ll need to have some fresh vegetables, such as asparagus, carrots, or green beans to balance out the meal.

Asiago Bruschetta Roasted Asparagus
Asiago Bruschetta Roasted Asparagus, with tomatoes, garlic, onions, and asiago cheese, makes a healthy gourmet side dish that can be on the table in 15 minutes and is perfect for brunch, or a weeknight or holiday dinner.
Check out this recipe
Asiago Bruschetta Roasted Asparagus
Creamy Peas and Potatoes Recipe
Creamed Peas and Potatoes with Bacon is a classic comfort dish that combines tender potatoes, sweet peas, and crispy bacon enveloped in a rich, creamy sauce. This hearty side pairs wonderfully with roasted meats or can stand alone as a satisfying main course.
Check out this recipe
Gourmet Honey Butter Roasted Carrots Recipe
This holiday side dish is a perfect balance of sweet, savory, and nutty flavors. Roasted carrots are caramelized in honey butter, then topped with creamy feta and crunchy nuts for a delicious side dish.
Check out this recipe
Honey Glazed Carrots
Sweet and buttery Honey Glazed Carrots make a special side dish for a Holiday dinner and, with only 3 ingredients, are easy enough to make for a weeknight dinner.
Check out this recipe
Thin Honey Glazed Carrots in a light blue bowl on a brown granite countertop.
Homemade Green Bean Casserole
This Homemade Green Bean Casserole is a traditional recipe made from scratch with fresh green beans and a homemade mushroom sauce and is perfect Thanksgiving side dish.
Check out this recipe
Creole Green Beans Recipe
Creole Green Beans are savory and spicy and delicious with bacon, onions, tomatoes, chilies, and cajun seasoning. It is perfect for Mardi Gras
Check out this recipe
Creole Green Beans with fresh green beans, bacon, onions, tomatoes, on a white background.

Potato Side Dish Recipes

And now we come to everyone’s favorite side dish – potatoes. We have mashed, scalloped, roasted those little white potatoes, and we included included sweet potatoes for the best side dish recipe (in my humble opinion), the sweet potato casserole with marshmallows!

Bacon Onion Horseradish Mashed Potatoes
Bacon Onion Horseradish Mashed Potatoes are creamy, buttery mashed potatoes that are super flavorful with added bacon, onion, and horseradish. You will never want plain mashed potatoes again.
Check out this recipe
Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes
Easy Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes are the best creamy, buttery and fluffy mashed potatoes and the easiest to make. If you need an easy method to make mashed potatoes for a crowd, this is your recipe!
Check out this recipe
Overhead view of 2/3 of bowl of mashed potatoes with a pat of butter partially melted in an aqua bowl.
Easy Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes
Easy Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes are very similar to Potatoes Au Gratin because they are drenched in a creamy, cheesy, garlicky cream sauce and then covered in more cheese! They make a perfect comfort food side dish for all your holiday dinners!
Check out this recipe
Spooning out a serving of Easy Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes
Sweet Potato Casserole with Marshmallows Recipe
Sweet Potato Casserole with Marshmallows are mashed sweet potatoes mixed with cinnamon, butter, white and brown sugar, and topped with mini marshmallows for a delish Thanksgiving side dish.
Check out this recipe
Crockpot Roasted Potatoes
Crockpot Roasted Potatoes are russet potatoes roasted in a crockpot or slow cooker with garlic, Italian Seasoning herbs, including rosemary, and parmesan cheese. These Crockpot Roasted Potatoes are perfect for a weekend or holiday dinner.
Check out this recipe
Crockpot Roasted Potatoes

Casserole Side Dish Recipes

Lastly, we are featuring four of our favorite casserole side dish recipes, including a corn casserole, a sweet and salty pineapple casserole, a squash casserole, and a hash brown casserole.

Cheesy Bacon Ranch Hash Brown Casserole Recipe
This creamy, cheesy hash brown potato casserole that has been served at family gatherings, potlucks, funerals, and church suppers for generations.
Check out this recipe
Cheesy Bacon Ranch Hashbrown Casserole
Pineapple Casserole Recipe
Pineapple Casserole, a sweet and salty side dish casserole, is also crunchy and cheesy with buttery crackers, and cheddar cheese. A traditional Southern holiday side dish.
Check out this recipe
White casserole dish filled with pineapple casserole with a spoonful removed and the serving spoon in the dish.
Corn Casserole with Sausage
This Corn Casserole recipe takes the Jiffy Corn Casserole and gives it a Tex-Mex or Mexican twist to create a Mexican Corn Casserole with sausage, jalapenos, diced tomatoes, and green chiles added to the traditional corn casserole.
Check out this recipe
Jiffy Corn Casserole with Sausage
Southern Squash Casserole
Southern Squash Casserole is a comforting side dish casserole, often served during the holidays, with tender, cooked yellow squash, onions,  sour cream and cheddar cheese topped with crushed buttery crackers.
Check out this recipe

There you have it – The 21 Best Side Dish Recipes To Serve With Ham.

You certainly won’t go hungry this Easter dinner with all of these delicious side dish recipes to go with your Easter Ham.

Did you try any of these recipes? Leave a comment and let me know which side dish recipe was your favorite!

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