Best Side Dishes To Serve With Ham

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!