Christmas Side Dishes

This One Pot Cajun Chicken and Rice is a super easy and quick way to prepare an Instant Pot chicken and rice recipe with veggies. Perfect for busy weeknights and leftovers make amazing lunches. The ‘one-pot’ I chose for this Cajun chicken recipe is the almighty Instant Pot. Seriously, I’ve fallen in love hard with this electric pressure cooker. This recipe is of course for the Instant Pot method of making Cajun chicken and rice. And it really couldn’t be much easier.

When it's nice out, always grill your vegetables. Those grill marks add so much flavor. And can make pretty much any green vegetable feel like less of a chore. Nothing beats the flavor of asparagus, coated in olive oil, sprinkled with salt, and quickly grilled. Mmm. Asparagus. You can steam them, boil them, roast them, but I don’t think anything beats the flavor of asparagus that are simply grilled. The smoky flavor, the char marks. Tender, but still with a little crunch. Seriously good!

This fruit pizza starts with a slightly doughy jumbo sugar cookie, which already seems like it can’t get any better, but buckle up. It’s about to get WAY wild in here. The jumbo sugar cookie is intentionally underbaked so it stays nice and soft and doughy. It’s topped with a cream cheese frosting – repeat: cream cheese frosting – and then it’s decorated with juicy, colorful fruit in a meticulous rainbow pattern.

Broccoli Cheese Stuffed Spaghetti Squash has only 314 calories per servings, is extremely delicious, and super easy to make! Everyone will love it! I have recently become obsessed with spaghetti squash, do you love it too? I’ve realized that you can really cook anything in it, and everything tastes good mixed with spaghetti squash…it’s amazing. I wanted to stuff some broccoli into this bad boy, and they knew it needed some cheese…so, here we have Broccoli Cheese Stuffed Spaghetti Squash.

These green beans make green bean detractors into green bean devotees. Caramelized garlic and cheese! Is there anything better with green beans? You'd better make plenty for everyone! This recipe isn’t just for those of us with gardens with bean plants towering over tomatoes, this recipe is also for those of us who need to pick some beans up from the farmers market or local grocery store. It’s worth it.

Sliced carrots are glazed in a buttery brown sugar sauce for a colorful, crowd-pleasing side dish.

Take a break from mashing and turn sweet potatoes into this silky soup. Make this soup as part of a holiday menu or re-purpose use leftover sweet potatoes for a lighter meal the next day. This comforting soup has all of the flavors of a stew that has been simmering for hours, but it requires only forty minutes of your time. This quick alternative is perfect for wintery weeknights when a bowl of steaming hot soup is the ideal meal.

Quick and easy asparagus that is sauteed, and topped off with Parmesan cheese.

Here's the quickest and easiest way to cook asparagus on the stovetop! Takes only 10 minutes tops. You don’t have to submerge the asparagus completely in the water. If the water doesn’t cover the asparagus, use a lid to cover the pan to capture the heat of the steam. Cook the asparagus no longer than 6 minutes, then rinse them with cool water for a few seconds to stop the cooking. Vegetables will go from vibrant green to olive green at about the 7 minute mark of cooking.

This easy baked spaghetti casserole is a family favorite that is easy to prepare! There are many tutorials on spaghetti recipes online, but the main difference is what sauce to use. Spaghetti is popular with many people, not only because of its taste but also because it is easy to make, you can make several kinds of spaghetti, of course, each kind of taste is worth sharing, So let's take a look at these spaghetti recipes and hope you enjoy them!

This easy side dish combines the natural sweetness of caramelized shallots with the earthiness of Brussels sprouts, a fall favorite.

Parmesan cheese adds a salty, savory component to sweet, tender asparagus. Try it next to grilled fish or lamb.