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
A colorful mixture of sweet potatoes, red onion and pears blends with sage and sweet honey in this easy roasted side.
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Southwest Corn Pudding
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
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
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
This genius 5-ingredient weeknight side uses jalapeno jelly as an "instant" glaze and gets major flavor and crunch from smoked almonds.
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Waldorf Salad with Grapes and Wild Rice
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Serve this old-fashioned potluck dish warm.
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Apple Scones with Spiced Maple Butter
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
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
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
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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