Side Dish Recipes

Sugar snap peas are a sweet and crispy cross between snow peas and garden peas. This technique for blanching ensures your peas stay bright green and perfectly tender crisp.

Sichuan peppers is the key ingredient in this recipe, ginger, garlic, scallions and fresh red chili peppers stir-fried with bok choy. Very juicy and tasty, great with some rice or noodles.

This quick and easy pea puree is a perfect accompaniment to crunchy pork chops or any grilled meat. It adds clean, creamy refreshing flavor into your main course. And it's so easy to prepare.

Pan-seared asparagus is tender-crispy, tossed with light and refreshing red wine vinaigrette along with roasted bell pepper, fresh baby spinach, and topped with creamy and soft goat cheese. A quick, easy and succulent salad!

Quick, easy and super refreshing. The combination in this recipe is excellent, both flavor and texture are absolutely thumb up. Great with many of the main dishes, such as BBQ, grilled fish or any recipe that calls for salsa.

Broccoli rabe or Rapini is slightly more bitter tasting than broccoli. Blanching one or two minutes in boiling water then refreshing in cold or ice water locks in the bright green color. This flavorful combination of Mediterranean seasonings really matches it well. If you can't find rapini you can use ordinary broccoli with equally outstanding results.

This Korean inspired cucumber salad is sweet, sour and slightly spicy. Cucumber, sweet bell pepper, carrots and tofu sheets are tossed with rice vinegar, maple syrup, sesame oil and Korean chili pepper. A delicious and light side dish.

Quick braising creates a nice texture and flavor. Not mushy or overcooked with simple flavors make it a quick and economical side.

Toasty garlic bread is a quick-to-make addition to a meal.

A tangy, extra-creamy coleslaw dressing made with mayo, half-and-half, white wine vinegar, and lemon juice tossed with finely shredded cabbage. Ten minutes, no cooking, feeds a crowd.

Honey, butter, lemon juice, salt and pepper, these a few ingredients create a tasty, sweet and buttery glazed mini carrots.

This quick and easy sauteed peas are very tasty, red onions and fresh mint are great accompaniments. The dish comes out refreshing and flavorful!

Refreshing lime cilantro sour cream dip is great with some baked sweet potato wedges.

Slightly sweet orange Asian flavors dressing coats the sweetness and crispness of the sugar snap peas in this light quick and easy side dish.

The crunchy vegetables give the slaw great texture and refreshing taste, the toasted cumin dressing brings the flavor altogether. A great side dish is served beside your BBQ.

This tasty yet refreshing spinach salad is a classic Korean side dish that you can pretty much find in every Korean restaurant. It's quick, easy to make at home, it goes well with most of the BBQ, any meat dish, or just simply serve it with some steamed rice.