When it comes to potatoes, we love them all. Here is a collection of over 40 of the best Potato Side Dish Recipes from our collection. Sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, hash browned potatoes, baked potatoes—we’ll gladly eat them all for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!
This collection includes plenty of quick and easy potato side dish ideas that will come in handy when the holidays roll around. To make things easy on yourself, be sure to bookmark this post.
Easy Potato Side Dish Recipes For Every Occasion
With the holidays coming, I thought we could celebrate the mighty potato with a list of our favorite potato side dishes!
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I’ve included everything from basic roasted potatoes to soups, salads, hash browns and casseroles—all featuring potatoes. I’ve also made sure to provide plenty of different types of potato recipes and cooking techniques, as well as kid-friendly recipes.
I also have a handful of Potato Recipe Videos you can watch and follow along, step-by-step. You can find them here. There’s so much you can do with just a few potatoes, so let’s get cooking!
Most Popular Potato Side Dish Recipes
Best Baked Potato Recipe
The best baked potato has perfectly crispy skin and fluffy insides using just three ingredients. Top with butter, sour cream and your favorite potato fixings for a simple, satisfying and delicious side dish.
Total time: 1 hour 10 minutes
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Cheesy Potato Casserole Recipe
This easy potato casserole is a hit for the holidays and dinners with your family and friends. It's so easy to make and everyone loves it!
Total time: 40 minutes
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Creamy Scalloped Potatoes Recipe
This Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes recipe is a family favorite! It's the perfect homemade scalloped potatoes recipe for Easter, Christmas or any family dinner.
Total time: 1 hour 30 minutes
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Ranch Roasted Potatoes Recipe
These ranch roasted potatoes are coated in a cheesy, delicious ranch dressing mix and roasted to crispy perfection. They are a seriously simple side dish that the whole family will love.
Total time: 50 minutes
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Mashed Red Potatoes Recipe
These mashed red potatoes are pure comfort food and a simple side dish. Mashed with simple ingredients like butter, sour cream, garlic, and milk, they are bursting with flavor and pair well with just about anything.
Total time: 40 minutes
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The Best Twice Baked Potatoes Recipe
This is the best twice baked potatoes recipe, made with Havarti, Gruyere, and shredded cheddar cheese, then topped with bacon.
Total time: 1 hour 50 minutes
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Sweet Potato Side Dishes
The Best Sweet Potato Fries Recipe
These are the best sweet potato fries. They are crispy, chewy, sweet and spicy, basically a party in your mouth. These oven-baked sweet potato fries only take a few minutes to throw together. Also included is a recipe for a smoky and spicy sweet potato fries dipping sauce that's gonna knock your socks off. Oh baby!
Total time: 40 minutes
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Sweet Potato Casserole With Pecans Recipe
This Sweet Potato Casserole is rich and buttery with a sweet crunchy pecan topping. It’s a southern classic that can pass as either a side dish or dessert at your next holiday dinner.
Total time: 50 minutes
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Sweet Potato Casserole Marshmallow Recipe
These Sweet Potatoes with marshmallows are my favorite version of the slightly sweet classic holiday side dish. They're filled with warmed mashed potatoes, brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg and topped with ooey gooey mini marshmallows.
Total time: 45 minutes
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Air Fryer Sweet Potatoes Recipe
These sweet potatoes are crispy on the outside, fluffy and tender on the inside, and cooked in the air fryer. This recipe makes for a quick and easy side dish that can be transformed into a main course with a variety of simple homemade toppings.
Total time: 50 minutes
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Spicy Roasted Sweet Potatoes Recipe
These Roasted Sweet Potatoes with chipotle and lime are crispy, chewy and a perfect balance of sweet, spicy and tangy. They are super easy, healthy and only take a few minutes to throw together before you pop them into the oven.
Total time: 55 minutes
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Roasted Potato Recipes
Oven Roasted Red Potatoes Recipe
This Oven Roasted Red Skin Potatoes recipe is one of the most simple and versatile side dishes that you can make. They’re crispy on the outside, soft in the middle and perfectly seasoned to go with just about anything.
Total time: 50 minutes
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Parmesan Roasted Red Potatoes Recipe
These Roasted Red Potatoes with Parmesan are a simple, classic side dish that the whole family will love. They’ve got a crispy Parmesan crust, flavored with garlic, onion and Italian seasoning, and perfectly tender insides.
Total time: 50 minutes
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Parmesan Crusted Potatoes Recipe
These Parmesan roasted fingerling potatoes make the absolute perfect side dish, appetizer or snack for any occasion. They have a delicious crispy Parmesan crust with a smooth and buttery center and, best of all, they are incredibly simple to prep.
Total time: 50 minutes
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Cheesy Smashed Potatoes Recipe
These cheesy smashed potatoes are a delicious side dish flavored with garlic salt, cheddar cheese, and bacon bits.
Total time: 55 minutes
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Herb Roasted Potatoes Recipe
These herb roasted potatoes are the perfect side dish for just about any meal. They are crispy on the outside, chewy on the inside, and perfectly seasoned with fresh garlic, thyme, and lemons.
Total time: 1 hour
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Mashed Potato Recipes
Make-Ahead Mashed Potatoes Recipe
These simple make-ahead mashed potatoes with cream cheese are fluffy, buttery and can be made up to 3 days in advance. They make the perfect holiday side dish that can be easily reheated in a variety of different ways.
Total time: 1 hour 30 minutes
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Gruyere Mashed Potatoes Recipe
These Gruyere mashed potatoes are super creamy and loaded with flavor. Follow these step-by-step instructions to get the best-mashed potatoes ever!
Total time: 45 minutes
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Slow Cooker Mashed Potatoes Recipe
These crockpot mashed potatoes are 100% made in the crockpot. They're creamy, buttery, and so delicious!
Total time: 4 hours 20 minutes
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Mashed Sweet Potato Recipe
These mashed sweet potatoes make a wonderfully delicious alternative to regular mashed potatoes. We blend perfectly cooked sweet potatoes with butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and half and half in order to create the most flavorful sweet potato side dish to go along with just about anything.
Total time: 40 minutes
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Garlic and Parmesan Mashed Potatoes Recipe
This Garlic Parmesan Mashed Potatoes recipe makes the perfect side dish to go along with just about anything. They are buttery, garlicky, cheesy and absolutely delicious, with or without gravy.
Total time: 40 minutes
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Baked Potato Side Dish Recipes
Loaded Baked Potato Skins Recipe
These loaded baked potato skins are a classic appetizer that is perfect for game day, parties, or your next movie night. They’re crispy and fully loaded with just a hint of garlic, plenty of cheese, tasty bacon bits, and finished with chopped green onions.
Total time: 1 hour 30 minutes
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Air Fryer Baked Potatoes Recipe
These air fried baked potatoes have the most fluffy, tender insides with perfectly crispy skin. They also take only a fraction of the time that oven-baked potatoes do, and have the most delicious results.
Total time: 50 minutes
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Loaded Hasselback Potato Recipe
These Hasselback Potatoes with cheese and bacon are are deliciously crispy on the outside, perfectly tender on the inside, and beautiful to look at. You would never guess just how incredibly simple they are to prepare!
Total time: 1 hour 15 minutes
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Twice Baked Potato Casserole Recipe
This twice baked potato casserole is what cheesy potato dreams are made of. It’s super simple to make and loaded with family favorites like mashed potatoes, sour cream, cheddar cheese and bacon.
Total time: 1 hour 10 minutes
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Scalloped Potatoes Recipes
Creamy Scalloped Potatoes Recipe
This Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes recipe is a family favorite! It's the perfect homemade scalloped potatoes recipe for Easter, Christmas or any family dinner.
Total time: 1 hour 30 minutes
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Gruyere Scalloped Potatoes Recipe
These Gruyere scalloped potatoes are the perfect side dish for any occasion. They're made with thinly sliced Yukon gold potatoes covered in a rich and nutty Gruyere cheese sauce. It's a deliciously creamy and cheesy potato recipe the whole family will love.
Total time: 1 hour 15 minutes
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Scalloped Potatoes with Bacon Recipe
These cheesy scalloped potatoes with bacon are rich and decadent and perfect for your holiday meal or Sunday dinner. They're made with thinly sliced potatoes, crispy bacon and have a creamy cheese sauce.
Total time: 1 hour 15 minutes
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Crockpot Scalloped Potatoes Recipe
This Slow Cooker Scalloped Potatoes recipe couldn't be easier. It's made with Russet potatoes, a homemade cream sauce, and fresh herbs – perfect for a family dinner or holiday meal.
Total time: 4 hours 10 minutes
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Slow Cooker Ham and Cheese Scalloped Potatoes Recipe
These ham and cheese scalloped potatoes are creamy, cheesy and packed full of flavor. They are made with thinly sliced potatoes cooked low and slow until perfectly tender alongside ham, cheese, fresh thyme and simple seasoning.
Total time: 5 hours 10 minutes
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Homemade Au Gratin Potatoes Recipe
These creamy au gratin potatoes are an easy, cheesy side dish that is impossible to resist. Thinly sliced potatoes are cooked to melt-in-your-mouth perfection in a rich cheddar cheese cream sauce.
Total time: 1 hour 50 minutes
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Potato Soup Recipes
Loaded Baked Potato Soup Recipe
This Easy Loaded Baked Potato Soup recipe is creamy, delicious, and quick to prepare. It’s made with chicken broth for lots of flavors, and a heavy dose of cream then loaded up with bacon, sliced green onions, and shredded cheddar.
Total time: 35 minutes
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Cream of Broccoli Potato Soup Recipe
This Easy Broccoli Soup with Potatoes and Cheese has so much flavor! It's a quick and easy recipe that has everything you love in a delicious soup.
Total time: 45 minutes
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Potato Broccoli Cheese Soup Recipe
This homemade cream of Broccoli and Potato Soup recipe is an easy meal that can be ready in just 30-40 minutes. It is so packed with delicious creamy, cheesy flavor that your kids won’t even realize how many vegetables they are eating.
Total time: 35 minutes
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Tuscan Soup with Sausage Recipe
This hearty Tuscan Soup is full of Italian sausage, potatoes, carrots and spinach all swimming in a rich and creamy chicken broth.
Total time: 30 minutes
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Favorite Potato Breakfast Recipes
Loaded Hash Brown Recipe
These fully loaded hash browns are covered in cheese and loaded with veggies, ham, and bacon. They take just a few minutes to whip up and are sure to become your new breakfast favorite.
Total time: 35 minutes
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Ham and Cheese Potato Crust Quiche Recipe
This potato crust quiche, made with a base of thinly sliced potatoes, is simple, delicious, packed with protein, and naturally gluten-free. It’s loaded with ham, bacon bits, shredded cheese, and a velvety smooth custard that goes perfectly with its yummy, beautiful potato crust.
Total time: 1 hour 15 minutes
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Spicy Roasted Sweet Potato Cubes Recipe
These roasted sweet potatoes are a great side dish to serve with just about any protein. They're coated with a sweet and spicy mix of chili powder, paprika, onion powder, maple syrup, and coconut oil, then oven roasted until tender.
Total time: 55 minutes
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Sweet Potato Breakfast Casserole Recipe
This sweet potato breakfast bake is a delicious egg and cheese casserole. If you love a little sweet potato, spicy pepper jack, and a hint of dijon, this is the breakfast casserole for you!
Total time: 45 minutes
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Garlic Roasted Cheesy Potatoes Recipe
These garlic herb cheesy potatoes are a simple side dish that tastes great with just about anything. They are tossed in Italian herbs and garlic, oven-roasted, smothered in delicious cheesy goodness, and then topped off with bacon bits and green onions.
Total time: 1 hour
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More Potato Side Dish Ideas
Grilled Potato Salad Recipe
Your family is going to love this warm German grilled potato salad, made with bacon, three kinds of grilled potatoes and a killer dijon mustard vinaigrette dressing. It's the best no-mayo potato salad recipe for BBQs, potlucks and family dinners at home.
Total time: 45 minutes
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Crockpot Cheesy Potatoes Recipe
This slow cooker cheesy hash brown potatoes recipe is an easy crockpot potatoes recipe. These slow cooker potatoes are a dump and go recipe and can be made ahead of time and then ready when you are. Everyone loves this crock pot casserole recipe.
Total time: 3 hours 10 minutes
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Crispy Potato Bites Recipe
These crispy potato bites are a simple appetizer to make for parties, game day or even an after school snack. They are fully loaded, made with thin slices of oven baked potatoes topped with melted cheese, ranch dressing dip, homemade bacon bits and green onions.
Total time: 1 hour 10 minutes
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Even More Potato Side Dishes!
Looking for even more potato recipes? Check out all of our Potato Recipes in one place!
If you’re looking for the best potato recipes, a way to bake, roast, or dress up a potato, here are the best, all in one place. It includes everything you need from potato casseroles, cheesy potatoes, baked potatoes, and of course mashed potatoes. All the potato recipes, tested, tried, and true, all in one place.
