You have made a delicious salmon dinner and now you are looking for a great addition to the meal!
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Salmon is a great way to get some healthy fats with great flavor into your diet.
Tips for Cooking Salmon
- Individual salmon fillets are the easiest to prepare and cook, however salmon steaks are also ideal for cooking by oven/grill.
- If you have a picky eater, try making salmon patties!
- Frozen salmon fillets are the best option for an easy meal.
How to Flavor Salmon
Salmon is delicious served with a squeeze of lemon juice, however you can also try any of the following as a great addition:
- Fresh Herbs
- Mayonnaise
- Sour cream
- Salsa
- Peanut Sauce
- Balsamic Vinegar
- Hollandaise Sauce
The Best Sides To Go with Salmon
While there are many different ways to prepare your favorite fish, we recommend this fantastic parmesan cheese crusted salmon: https://www.sixsistersstuff.com/recipe/parmesan-crusted-salmon/.
It is an easy recipe (one of our favorite salmon recipes) with fresh ingredients that you could serve at a dinner party, or as a healthy meal for your whole family.
While we love easy salmon recipes, adding a delicious side dish makes all the difference!
We are sharing 65 of the best side dishes to go along with your favorite salmon dish.
You can prepare the perfect side dish to go along with your salmon meal using your slow cooker, Instant pot, air fryer, grill, or stove top.
Without further ado, let’s get to those amazing side dish recipes!
We have an easy oven roasted vegetable recipe with an Italian twist. These oven baked veggies are so easy to make and are bursting with flavor.
This Parmesan Crusted Asparagus is an easy and delicious side dish that goes with any meal.
The perfect way to cook fresh green beans is in the slow cooker! Full of flavor and so delicious – while your crock pot does all the work.
I love boxed scalloped potatoes, but this takes scalloped potatoes to a whole new level. Plus, they have simple ingredients and come together quickly and easily.
Make this classic green bean casserole recipe your whole family can enjoy. This dish is super quick and easy to make, it’ll have you making it time and time again!
Oven-Roasted Green Beans make the perfect side dish for any meal. Drizzled in olive oil and simply seasoned with salt and pepper, these beans turn out flavorful and perfect every time.
You’ll never go back to canned creamed corn after you try this Slow Cooker Creamed Corn. Throw this simple creamed corn recipe together in a matter of minutes.
Flavorful, fluffy, cheesy potatoes, baked to absolute casserole perfection.
These Make-ahead mashed potatoes will make your Thanksgiving preparations a lot easier. They are creamy and delicious.
A perfect side dish, our roasted Parmesan sweet potato recipe will be great for Thanksgiving.
Sliced potatoes topped in a light cheesy sauce – this is the perfect side dish!
These Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes are an easy side dish for any holiday or weeknight dinner. They are creamy, flavorful, and come together so quickly.
This Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Mash is so simple and tastes absolutely amazing. It only requires a few simple ingredients and is the perfect fall side dish.
This Cheesy Hashbrown Potato Casserole (or “Funeral Potatoes” as we call it in Utah) is full of melted cheese and so creamy. It also makes an easy freezer meal- divide the recipe in half and freeze one half for another day.
Our favorite potato side dish just got easier- now you can make it in the slow cooker!
This Cheesy Zucchini and Squash Bake is a perfect low carb side dish to any dinner. We love making this easy side dish with all of our extra garden squash in the summer and fall.
Broccoli is such a great vegetable and our oven-roasted broccoli steaks recipe is a great way to make it. There is so much less waste of this amazing vegetable when you make our broccoli steaks that you get to enjoy even more tender broccoli.
This Hawaiian Fried Rice is loaded with toasted coconut, onions, peppers, fresh pineapple and ham for a delicious side dish everyone will love.
This Air Fryer Parmesan Broccoli is full of flavor and just the right amount of crispy!
The best Instant Pot Green Beans perfectly steamed, crunchy but still tender, and ready to eat in less than 15 minutes.
This delicious take on potato salad makes red potatoes the star of the show! The dressing for the salad includes yogurt, which makes it so creamy.
We’re using our Instant Pot to make a quick and delicious side that your whole family will love. Instant Pot Lemon Rice Pilaf is done in 20 minutes!
Mix up your side dish routine with these roasted Brussels sprouts tossed in a sweet but tangy honey mustard mixture – ready in just 30 minutes.
Who doesn’t love vegetables covered in melted cheese? These Cheesy Garlic Green Beans are made in one pan and make a delicious side dish to any of your favorite meals!
These Slow Cooker Creamy Mashed Potatoes are so simple to make and have the best flavor. If you need a Thanksgiving side dish, this is one we highly recommend.
I have two slow cookers just for meals like this. I love having a side dish and main dish all ready to go in the evening just by doing a little preparation in the morning. These carrots are so good, even my picky kids ate them!
This Parmesan Lemon Asparagus is so easy to make and full of delicious flavor. Plus, it’s healthy, so I always feel good, feeding it to my family.
These potatoes can bake away while you prepare the rest of the dinner. They only take a few minutes to assemble and taste amazing.
Sticky and sweet these are some of the best Instant Pot honey glazed carrots you will have! Sometimes you even feel like you’re eating a dessert.
Our roasted parmesan potatoes recipe is the perfect side dish addition to any meal. They are an extremely easy yet flavorful potato side dish!
This is the best crock pot recipe you will find! These slow cooker bacon cheese potatoes have everything we love in every bite.
This version of rice pilaf only takes a few minutes to prepare and tastes incredible – so much better than any box of rice and it’s just as easy to make!
This cheesy ranch potatoes recipe is the best potato recipe! It has everything you could dream to be in them; ranch, cheese, and bacon!
This roasted butternut squash gets a little crispy on the outside is perfectly soft on the inside.
The easiest side dish using fresh zucchini because it’s ready in 15 minutes or less.
Take your sweet potatoes up a notch with this Air Fryer Roasted Sweet Potatoes recipe! The air fryer makes these potatoes perfectly crispy!
Throw these potatoes in your slow cooker and you will have the perfect side dish for any dinner!
This Parmesan Ranch Corn is so easy to make and full of flavor. It only requires a few simple ingredients, and is absolutely delicious. It is our new favorite side dish recipe.
These Slow Cooker Roasted Vegetables are made with red potatoes, carrots, zucchini and onion tossed in olive oil and seasoned to perfection.
This Zucchini Parmesan Bake is so easy to make and tastes delicious! Even my picky eaters ate it!
Our Spanish Cauliflower rice is the perfect low-carb compliment to any Spanish main dish.
Zucchini that’s spiralized, breaded, and baked to crispy perfection. Toss it with some parmesan cheese, and you’ll never eat zucchini another way again.
These seasoned, crunchy potato wedges are baked instead of fried. Paired with Utah’s famous Fry Sauce, you can’t go wrong with these crispy-on-the-outside, soft-on-the-inside baked fries.
I love easy side dishes that taste amazing! These potatoes would be great with just about any meal and will only take you a few minutes to make.
These Roasted Baby Potatoes are so easy to make, and come together in minutes.
My favorite thing about this recipe is that I can easily toss everything together and throw it on a baking sheet and it is ready to go!
This amazingly delicious Air Fryer Roasted Potatoes recipe is the best you’ll find!
Oven-Roasted Veggies make the perfect side dish for any meal. Drizzled in olive oil and seasoned with your favorite dressing mix, these will turn out beautifully every single time.
The BEST way to roast asparagus – Air Fryer Asparagus will quickly become your favorite side dish and vegetable.
These Honey Roasted Carrots are easy to make and are a delicious side dish for any meal. Baby carrots tossed in honey and olive oil and roasted to perfection and garnished with fresh parsley for lots of flavor!
These Brown Sugar and Bacon Green Beans are my favorite vegetable. They might actually be the only vegetable I like. I think I’ll start adding brown sugared bacon to all my veggies. This recipe is simple and full of flavor.
Mom’s Cheese Potatoes were a Sunday staple at our house. It’s not hard to see why. They are so yummy, quick and easy to make, and are very inexpensive. You will love this recipe.
This easy Skillet Potatoes recipe is one of my favorites because it comes together so quickly! My kids love it with a little bit of cheese on top . . . but these red potatoes are delicious and flavorful without it.
The perfect fall side dish that pairs perfectly with just about anything. It is so tasty, I would even eat it for dessert!
If you love all things garlic and parmesan, then this Instant Pot Garlic Parmesan Spaghetti Squash is for you. Cooked in just 7 minutes, this easy side dish will be your new go-to.
I remember HATING brussels sprouts as a kid! Something about them just sounded gross. I honestly don’t know if I even tried them until I was in college. Now that I’m older, brussels sprouts are my go-to vegetable! They are SO good when cooked right and taste good with just about any seasoning. Looki…
A delicious side dish that is perfect for your holiday dinners! Butternut Squash Gratin from SixSistersStuff.com
Frozen peas are taken to a new level in this easy Italian Peas recipe! Sauteed garlic and onion add loads of flavor to make this recipe a favorite side dish.
Cauliflower with cheese is the perfect combo. This is the perfect veggie side dish for your dinner that is smothered in a cheesy sauce.
Get out of your side dish rut AND add a huge helping of low-calorie, nutrient-packed veggies to any meal with these simple and delicious Lemon Zoodles.
Need a new side dish idea? This quick and easy Parmesan Orzo is cheesy, hearty, and always a crowd favorite. Plus, it’s ready in less than 30 minutes and kid-friendly, too.
This Mushroom and Garlic Quinoa makes the perfect side dish or base for any dish. It’s healthy, inexpensive, and easy to make. You are going to love this healthy side dish.
