Fall Side Dish Recipes to Make Tonight (2024)

These fall-inspired side dishes might steal the show at the dinner table. Try curvy delicata squash, roasted veggies, cauliflower gratin, blistered green beans, corn pudding and more.

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Honey-Sage Sweet Potatoes, Pears and Walnuts

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A colorful mixture of sweet potatoes, red onion and pears blends with sage and sweet honey in this easy roasted side.

Best Roasted Vegetable Recipes

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Southwest Corn Pudding

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Buttery onions, cheddar and green chilies lace our stuffinglike pudding. Inspired by traditional skillet corn bread, this recipe works as a side or as a meatless main served with a salad or garlicky sauteed kale.

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Delicata Dippers

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No peeling necessary! Delicata's thin skin makes it a cinch to prepare and easy to pick up and dip when sliced and roasted.

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Quick and Easy Delicata Squash Recipes

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Long-Cooked Collards with Apples and Bacon

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This side dish is an autumn favorite at Iowa's Rapid Creek Cidery—and a great way to explore nutritious collard greens. The recipe takes a while, but most of the cooking is hands-free, leaving plenty of time to prepare pork chops or chicken.

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Sweet and Smoky Blistered Green Beans

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This genius 5-ingredient weeknight side uses jalapeno jelly as an "instant" glaze and gets major flavor and crunch from smoked almonds.

Fresh Green Bean Recipes

Waldorf Salad with Grapes and Wild Rice

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This salad is all about balance—sweet vs. tart and crunchy vs. chewy. Take it to a potluck or serve it at the family table.

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Pepper Jack Corn Casserole

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This dead-simple and totally delicious casserole is a homey addition to any weekend meal or potluck.

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Bacon-Roasted Brussels Sprouts

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Frying bacon in the skillet, then tossing sprouts and red onion in the drippings before roasting means you'll only dirty one pan making this elegant side dish.

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Onion, Apple and Cheese Gratin

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At Iowa's Rapid Creek Cidery, chef Matt Steigerwald serves this gratin (which tastes sort of like the best French onion soup ever) with grilled artisan bread. Crisp and charred, it's a good foil to the gooey richness.

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Herbed Brown Rice

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This savory rice dish adapts beautifully to almost any menu and makes enough for multiple meals. Try it with fall chicken recipes or your favorite weeknight fish recipe.

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Rutabaga Gratin

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Take a break from 'taters and try nutty-sweet rutabaga in this deliciously cheesy cold-weather side.

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Beets and Beet Greens Salad

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Beth Dooley, author of the farmers market cookbook Minnesota's Bounty, won us over with the brilliant, frugal simplicity of this dish: roasted red or golden beets tossed in a frying pan with their own chopped green tops, olive oil, salt, pepper and balsamic vinegar.

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Sassy Baked Beans

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Mix and match different kinds of beans and meat to suit your preferences. Our smoky-sweet baked beans will beat canned beans every time!

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Ratatouille

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When cooler nights trigger cravings for warming autumn suppers but the garden still bears a summer's bounty of tomatoes, zucchini, peppers and eggplant, we call on the French for help. The classic vegetable stew is traditionally served unadorned, but we love it spooned over homemade garlic bread as a luxe fork-and-knife sandwich.

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Cornucopia Stuffed Squash

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Similar recipes call for sausage, but these acorns of plenty overflow with a healthy mix of barley, spinach, sunflower seeds, shiitake mushrooms, dried cranberries and smoked Gouda.

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German Potato Salad

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Serve this old-fashioned potluck dish warm.

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Apple Scones with Spiced Maple Butter

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They're light, buttery and fall artwork on your plate. We almost hate to cover up the baked-on apple slice with the whipped maple butter. Almost.

Irresistible Apple Treats

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Potato Latkes

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Cast iron's heat retention means oil holds a high temperature, so fried foods crisp quickly and evenly. These traditional Jewish potato-onion fritters have tender centers and lacy rims. Top them with sour cream or applesauce.

How to Season, Cook With and Clean Cast-Iron Pans

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Moroccan Carrot Slaw

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Combining cinnamony pumpkin-pie spice with fresh mint lends North African flavor in a flash. Try this simple salad as a side dish to grilled chicken.

Fresh Slaw Recipes

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Cinnamon Carrots with Maple Thyme Butter

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These sweet oven-roasted carrots are a perfect complement to a special-occasion menu, but they're easy enough to be a weeknight side.

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