25 *BEST* Side Dishes for Ham (2025)

Scalloped Potatoes are an easy potato side dish made with thinly sliced potatoes and onions layered in a homemade cream sauce and baked until golden and bubbly. Learn How to Make Scalloped Potatoes and enjoy this classic comfort food with friends and family for Easter, Christmas, or Thanksgiving!

Maple Balsamic Carrots are roasted to perfection in a cinnamon spiced glaze for an easy and beautiful side dish for your holiday dinner, weekday meals, or anytime.

This is the BEST Sweet Potato Casserole recipe! It has a sweet and savory filling with a crumbled pecan topping and perfectly toasted mini marshmallows. Bonus: It’s easy to make 1-2 days ahead of time!

This cheesy recipe for Green Beans with Sour Cream is a delicious side for ham and is equally tasty leftover with ham!

This EASY oven roasted green beans recipe with garlic and Parmesan cheese is the perfect side for weeknights or holidays. Learn how to roast green beans perfectly in just 20 minutes, with simple ingredients.

A delicious, creamy, cheesy broccoli casserole made from scratch will be your new favorite side dish. It’s really very simple to make this casserole with fresh broccoli, and everyone loves it!

Paula Deen's Corn Casserole is the perfect side dish for your holiday table. It's soft, fluffy, sweet, and decadent, topped with gooey cheddar cheese, and incredibly easy to make with just 6 ingredients! 

This baked mac and cheese is creamy, cheesy, and topped with crispy breadcrumbs! It’s sure to complement any meal!

This cheesy funeral potatoes recipe is a budget friendly casserole that just might become your family's new favorite side dish. It goes with everything!

Duchess Potatoes are pretty potatoes with a fancy name that are actually very simple to prepare!

This strawberry spinach salad is a blend of baby spinach leaves, fresh strawberries, red onion, almonds, feta cheese and avocado, all tossed in a poppy seed dressing.

Garlic Red Skin Mashed Potatoes with cream cheese, heavy cream, and Parmesan cheese are super smooth and creamy, full of rich flavor, and so very easy to make. Delicious side dish to serve with ham. 

Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Sweet Potatoes have the most delicious flavor with maple syrup, balsamic vinegar, toasted pecans, and plump cranberries. Easy, delicious roasted vegetable side dish. 

Fluffy, spiced Hot Cross Buns, with warm, aromatic spices and raisins, are traditionally served for Good Friday, the Friday before Easter, or as a side for Easter brunch or dinner.

Roasted potatoes and fresh green beans are an elegant and tasty side dish for holidays or a simple weeknight dinner the whole family will love. A delicious 5-ingredient recipe you can make in about 30 minutes.

Tender and crispy roasted asparagus and Brussels sprouts are the perfect pairing for ham. Roasting vegetables brings out their flavor in this easy, healthy side dish.

These air fryer roasted carrots are tossed in a sweet and savory glaze that’s a cinch to make. This delicious recipe is a perfect weeknight side dish, but also special enough for your holiday table!

This recipe for pan-fried caramelized Brussels sprouts with bacon and balsamic vinegar is easy to make and so delicious. With just five ingredients, it’s a simple side dish that tastes fantastic with the savory flavor of ham.

This Broccoli Cheddar Pasta Salad Recipe tastes just like your favorite deli pasta salad, and even goes one step further by using healthier ingredients!

Tuna Macaroni Salad with tender pasta, fresh vegetables, chunks of tuna, and cheese is a great side dish for Easter dinner, potlucks, and special occasions. 

German Potato Salad Recipe is the perfect potato salad -- and the bacon makes it even better. If you prefer a mustard based potato salad, this is the recipe to try.

If you love fries, you'll love these Roasted Potato Wedges! They are seasoned to perfection with garlic and herbs before being roasted until golden brown, tender and crispy. A delicious side dish with any meal!

This buttermilk cornbread has a tender crumb that is soft, slightly sweet, and easy to make. This cornbread is delicious every time, and it always disappears fast! Make cornbread for dinner, breakfast or to add to your holiday table.

Looking for a simple and comforting side dish you can quickly whip up for as a side for any meal? This dump and start garlic butter Instant Pot Red Potatoes ticks all the boxes and is ready in less than 25 minutes!

Collard greens stir-fry is the perfect quick and easy side for your meals. Thinly sliced and quickly sautéed, you'll have your collard greens ready in just a few minutes.