30 Standout Side Dishes for Ham to Complete Your Holiday Meal
These ham side dishes will make your dinner plate even more delicious.

Whether you’re planning an elegant holiday dinner or just feel like treating your family to a fancy Sunday night feast, these side dishes for ham will make your menu complete. Of course, the ham will always be the centerpiece of the meal, especially if you use one of these delicious Easter ham or Christmas ham recipes, but complementary sides are essential.
If you’re baking a ham around the holidays, you can’t go wrong with any of these warm and flavorful Christmas side dishes. Though most of them can also accompany all sorts of main meats at any time of year, like for Easter dinner or other celebratory events, these side dishes are specifically curated to delight your taste buds between mouthfuls of ham. You’ll probably want to make more than one to ensure that vegetables and starches are represented in your meal, and of course, you must have some sort of bread or biscuit nearby to soak up any extra sauce. From an aesthetic perspective, it can also be fun to have a colorful holiday table, decorated with bright green snap peas and deep pink roasted radishes sitting beside your golden glazed pork.
You may be leaning towards refreshing platters of rainbow-colored carrots and tasty salads brimming with the best produce of the season or feel like going a cozy, heartier route with the fluffiest biscuits and crispiest smashed potatoes. No matter your preferences, we’ve rounded up the perfect partners to your show-stopping festive ham or weekend roast. Prepare to feast!
Samantha (she/her) is the Senior Editor at Delish, where she edits the most-talked-about food news and features on the internet. In her previous role as Assistant Editor in the Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, she taste-tested hundreds of products and recipes (tough job!). A graduate of Fordham University, she considers the kitchen to be her happiest place.
Loren Cecil joined the Good Housekeeping team as a freelance contributor in November 2021 after interning in the Test Kitchen while in graduate school. She has an undergraduate sociology degree from Tulane University and a Masters in Journalism from NYU. Her gourmet mom and four years in New Orleans fostered her passion for food and cooking, which she uses to craft mouthwatering write-ups for the Food Department.

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