For a memorable Memorial Day cookout, bring on the sides!
Mix and match these 18 summery side dish recipes for your backyard barbecue or potluck.
There’s something for everyone.
Simply Recipes / Wanda Abraham
I want to mound them up in piles so big, my paper plate buckles.
It’s a time-honored tradition of Memorial Day as much as breaking out the bug repellant or flip flops.
These sides are all keepers.
Eliezer Martinez
Classic Potato Salad
This is it: the potato salad summers are made of.
A touch of sour cream makes this potato salad especially creamy.
Use Yukon golds for a more robust flavor, and celery for those signature pops of crunch.
Simply Recipes / Lori Rice
The winning combo of salty bacon and crisp-tender blanched broccoli florets never fails to like.
Even haters of broccoli love this salad.
Grab a bag of slaw mix from the grocery store, then mix the dressing.
Kelly Hamilton
For coleslaw that’s not watery or weepy, dress the salad no more than 2 hours before serving.
I bring it to every party and everyone asks for the recipe.
It’s make-ahead friendly, and leftovers make the best lunch ever.
Simply Recipes / Lori Rice
But this is so good, leftovers are unlikely.
Halved fingerlings cook fast but aren’t too small to slip through the grates.
The finishing touch grilling a lemon half to squeeze over right before serving is especially genius.
Simply Recipes / Ciara Kehoe
If I did, I’d make this in a heartbeat.
Non-TJ’s folks like me can make ourclassic Texas caviar, and everyone’s a winner.
Keep plenty of napkins ready!
Simply Recipes / Alica Ramkirpal-Senhouse
Two-Minute Feta Dip
Julia Gartland
Four ingredients.
Who doesn’t love feta?
And it only gets better as it sits.
Simply Recipes / Frank Tiu
Pull-Apart Corn Cheese Pigs in a Blanket
Mashups don’t get more playful than this.
Pigs in a blanket meet corn cheese, a melty-rich Korean bar snack.
After all, why do the hot dogs have to be limited to the grill?
Simply Recipes / Mike Lang
Easy Grilled Peppers
Simply Recipes / Sally Vargas
Grilled peppers are delicious warm or at room temp.
They work solo or can top burgers, dress up grilled salmon, or sidle up nicely to steak.
Grilled Artichokes
You’re either an artichoke person or not.
Simply Recipes / Sara Tane
They key to these being tender is steaming them prior to their stint on the grill.
Simply Recipes / Sharee Hill
Julia Gartland
Simply Recipes / Alison Bickel
Elise Bauer
Simply Recipes / Ciara Kehoe
Simply Recipes / Lori Rice
Simply Recipes / Sally Vargas
Simply Recipes / Alison Bickel
Elise Bauer
