Find over 40 of our best prime rib side dishes. There’s nothing like a big, juicy prime rib roast to really wow your guests at your next holiday gathering. But what sides should you serve with it? Festive side dishes. Make this roast for celebratory occasions and during the Holidays, so serve it with amazing side dish recipes.
Holiday Dinner Ideas
If you’re planning to cook a prime rib dinner for your next holiday feast, you’ll want to serve some delicious side dishes alongside it. From creamy mashed potatoes to crispy roasted vegetables, there are plenty of great options to choose from. Here are some of our favorite prime rib side dishes that will pair perfectly with your roast.
Prime Rib Roast
Prime Rib, well-known upscale cut of beef. Fancy restaurants and our local pub serves this prime cut of meat on their menu. Did you know it is easy to make this restaurant-quality entrée at home?
Be sure to impress your guests with this main course. This succulent roast is perfect for any occasion, whether it is a boneless roast or standing rib roast. Find out all the details of how to make prime rib at home.
Prime Rib Best Side Dishes
The perfect Christmas side dishes that are easy to make, taste amazing, and look appealing too.
Creamy Horseradish Sauce for Prime Rib and Beef Tenderloin
This is the best horseradish sauce. It’s quick and easy to make and flexible to suit your taste buds! Some horsey sauce recipes call for too much of something which leaves an unpleasant and overpowering taste in your mouth. Not this prime rib sauce.
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Roasted Potatoes and Green Beans
If you are looking for a crowd-pleasing side dish that is easy, this one is one of my go-to recipes for entertaining. Everyone raves and things I spent a lot of time on the dinner.
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Steakhouse Baked Potatoes Recipe
Are you looking for a side dish that is easy to make, delicious and will compliment almost any meal? Then these easy baked potatoes recipe are just what you need. Just like our local steakhouse serves.
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Restaurant-Style Hash Brown Casserole
This restaurant-style hash brown casserole is loaded with cheesy onion flavor. Simple ingredients big taste. A perfect brunch recipe for those special occasions like Christmas dinner.
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Skillet Garlic Green Beans
The beans come out tender-crisp, so they are super healthy and they take just 10-15 minutes to cook. This is an easy addition to your family table. They are perfect to serve with your weeknight meal, your next party, or your holiday table.
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Perfect Popovers
Perfect Popovers are a special dinner or brunch treat. With a few simple tips, this recipe never fails. They’re ideal for the holidays.
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BBQ Glazed Smoked Brussels Sprouts with Bacon
Add zest to your side dishes this season with these BBQ Glazed Smoked Brussels Sprouts loaded with bacon and served with a quick homemade aioli. So good, you’ll watch everyone come back for seconds.
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Easy Honey Roasted Carrots Recipe
There are always so many good things to eat at the holidays and the side dishes are no exceptions! Even the veggies taste great and my picky little eaters gobble them down. While they’ll often turn up their noses to carrots, add a bit of honey, butter, and other magic ingredients and they magically disappear.
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The Best Grilled Vegetables in Foil Recipe
These are the best grilled vegetables in foil. They make the perfect side dish any time of the year. But it is a great recipe for your next barbecue or camping trip too.
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Brussels Sprouts and Bacon Casserole
This Brussels Sprouts and Bacon Casserole is loaded with crumbled bacon and smothered in a luscious cheese sauce. It’s the perfect holiday menu item.
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Balsamic Roasted Onions and Mushrooms
Put balsamic vinegar roasted vegetables in tacos, pizza, wraps and salads for a boost of flavor. So easy. The veggies roast in the oven while you prep your meal.
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White Asparagus with Hollandaise
No need to wait for the holiday season. It really doesn’t get more luxurious than a stack of tender, delicate white asparagus smothered in velvety hollandaise sauce. Serve as an appetizer or side dish, either way this recipe is sure to impress.
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Red Skin Mashed Potatoes
These Red Skin Mashed Potatoes require no peeling and are loaded with butter, sour cream, and garlic. This side dish pairs perfectly with just about anything and is perfect for holiday dinners. Plus mashed potatoes freeze great.
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Green Beans With Bacon
It’s a great side dish that can be served all year long. And at my house, it’s also one of our favorite side dishes on our holiday table.
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Turkish Red Cabbage Salad
This delicious Turkish red cabbage salad can be served with kebabs, barbecues, roasted meat, or simple side salads. It’s fresh, tasty, and super easy to make at home.
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Roasted Asparagus Recipe
Sometimes the best way to prepare simple ingredients such as asparagus is to keep it easy.
Lay your asparagus stalks in a single layer on a sheet pan or large rimmed baking sheet, coat with oil and sprinkle with some parmesan cheese, garlic powder (or fresh garlic) kosher salt, lemon zest (or squeeze of lemon juice), red pepper flakes or black pepper.
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Mushroom Marsala
Mushroom Marsala is a quick & easy one-pan dish that requires just a few ingredients. This savory side dish is perfect for the holidays, or for any weeknight meal.
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Lawry’s Famous Creamed Spinach
Creamed spinach is a steakhouse favorite side dish that pairs perfectly with any good cut of beef. No matter how much of this creamed spinach we make, it’s never enough.
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Smoked Mac and Cheese
This smoked mac and cheese is made with 3 types of cheese, is creamy, smoky, and is the perfect side dish for your next party.
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Greek Pasta Salad
Greek pasta salad is the perfect side dish for any occasion, made with cooked pasta, fresh veggies, kalamata olives, feta cheese, and homemade Greek salad dressing. We love to serve this pasta salad throughout the year.
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Gruyere and Leek Mashed Potatoes
Gruyere and Leek Mashed Potatoes are about to become your special occasion side dish! These ultra creamy potatoes have so much flavor. They get a little nuttiness from the Gruyere, the leeks add a delicate flavor with sweet onion notes, and a hint of tanginess comes from the sour cream. These are the most velvety, delicious potatoes you will ever have.
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Maple Roasted Butternut Squash with Cranberries
This sweet and savory Maple Roasted Butternut Squash with Cranberries is accented with roasted pecans and creamy goat cheese. Most of the recipe steps can be prepared ahead making it the perfect celebration side dish.
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Maple Miso Brussels Sprouts
These easy maple miso brussels sprouts are exactly what your Thanksgiving Day menu needs! With only 6 ingredients, the sweetness from the maple syrup combined with the savory miso paste, makes these maple miso brussels sprouts the perfect side dish for any meal.
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Rustic Potato Cake with Manchego and Chipotle Crema
Like hashbrowns, the potato cake is a pan of thinly sliced potato, fried crispy in butter. The advantage of the potato cake is that embedded in those paper thin slivers of russet coins, you’ll find creamy knobs of manchego cheese tucked within the layers. When your fork cracks the crisp surface burrowing into the soft middle, you’ll be hit with a savory creaminess, and the sharp parmesan-like fragrance.
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Asparagus Puff Pastry Bundles
Tender stalks of roasted asparagus are surrounded by flaky puff pastry in this wrapped appetizer bundle. Asparagus Puff Pastry Bundles are elegant enough to take to a brunch party, and easy enough to serve at your holiday meal in just 30 minutes.
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Cherry Tomato Salad
This simple cherry tomato salad takes only five minutes to toss together, making it a super easy recipe. Celery complements the cherry tomatoes, giving the salad a nice crunch while bacon brings a punch of salt.
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Dauphinoise Potatoes
Dauphinoise potatoes are a wonderful combination of creamy potatoes with a touch of garlic and thyme. Rich, meltingly tender and so good.
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Corn Avocado Tomato Salad
With only 4 ingredients, it’s a creamy, flavorful, colorful side dish that only takes 10 minutes to make.
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Creamy Mushroom Risotto
This super creamy mushroom risotto is cooked slowly in vegetable broth and finished off with freshly grated parmesan cheese. This recipe takes time to prepare, but the end result is so worth the effort. Tender and creamy, this risotto is perfect for Sunday dinner.
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Decadent Instant Pot Mac and Cheese Recipe with a Crunchy Topping
Get ready for the homemade mac and cheese recipe that you will now use as a baseline to judge every other mac and cheese that crosses your lips. I don’t mean to ruin other mac and cheeses for you, but you deserve this!
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Crispy Roasted Duck Fat Potatoes Recipe – Your New Favorite Side Dish
This Roasted Duck Fat Potatoes Recipe makes crispy, golden roast potatoes with an intensely rich flavor that’s impossible to replicate with other oils. If you’re looking for the best crispy roasted potatoes of your life, you found them. These have a crisp, golden crust, and are soft and fluffy inside.
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Oven Roasted Vegetables Recipe
Sweet potatoes, peppers, eggplant, apples and rosemary create a delicious side dish. Not to mention healthy and colorful. And never mind that an apple is not a vegetable. It works perfectly.
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Boursin Mashed Potatoes
This Boursin Mashed Potatoes Recipe is creamy and so delicious. It’s an easy recipe that has only five simple ingredients and can be ready in less than 30 minutes! It’s the perfect make-ahead side dish for a lovely family dinner.
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Roasted Zucchini with Garlic Parmesan
Generously coated with garlic and parmesan, these roasted zucchinis spears are baked until they are crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside, and are full of incredible flavors.
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Easy Roasted Smashed Potatoes with Cheese
It’s a delicious and super easy potato side dish for any night of the week and one you’ll add to your regular menu rotation.
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Arugula Shaved Fennel Salad
This salad is served with thin-sliced red onion, blue cheese crumbles, and balsamic vinaigrette. It’s wonderful as an accompaniment for roasted meat, steaks, or on its own for a light lunch.
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Slow Cooker Baked Beans
These Slow Cooker Baked Beans are the side dish you’ve been searching for. This baked bean recipe is packed with thick-cut bacon and a variety of beans with a thick and delicious sauce.
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Garlic Scalloped Potatoes
Scalloped potatoes and prime rib go together like bread and butter. An easy and flavorful side dish to serve your family and guests.
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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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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! These scalloped potatoes make an excellent side dish for a Holiday dinner, dinner party, or Weekend dinner.
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Easy Spinach Souffle Recipe
Creamy layers of spinach with a toasty topping that puffs up nicely and airy. If you are hosting a dinner party or attending a pot luck dinner, impress your family and friends with a yummy dish. This Spinach Souffle Recipe can be made in advance and simply finish the last 2 steps just before serving.
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Potatoes Au Gratin With a Creamy Jalapeno Sauce
This easy to make yet elegant side dish is the perfect potato recipe for any party or celebration. A Crowd pleaser.
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Apple Pear Slaw with Caramel Cider Vinaigrette
The caramel vinaigrette brings a certain sharpness to this savory-sweet salad. And the fruits of apples, pears, and cranberries balance it out with a sweet after-taste. Serve with just about anything.
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Fried Sage Butternut Squash Tossed in Brown Butter
This delicious butternut squash is roasted to perfection and then tossed in a savory brown butter sauce with flavorful, crispy fried sage.
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Garlic Buttered Mini Hasselback Potatoes
These Garlic Buttered Mini Hasselback potatoes are sure to be your new favorite potato side dish with a super crispy exterior and fluffy, flavorful interior.
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Easy Gorgonzola Pasta with Olives Alla Cenere
Known as pasta alla cenere in Italy, this easy gorgonzola pasta with olives is a delicious creamy gourmet dish that has only 3 main ingredients. Plus, it takes less than 30 minutes to make. Perfect as a weeknight treat and special enough to serve to guests.
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Smashed Sweet Potatoes with Garlic Butter and Honey
An incredibly easy side dish to any main entrée. Best part is that is pairs well with your Prime Rib, roast beef, Crispy Salmon, Whole Roast Chicken and Vegetables, Perfect Grilled Pork Tenderloin (and more). Try this unique and mouth-watering delicious side dish.
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Garlic Herb Roasted Vegetables
Garlic Herb Roasted Vegetables are that picture perfect side dish to go alongside any main entrée. Loaded with flavor, even those who swear they don’t like vegetables will love it.
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