Keto Recipe For Sides

Serve these keto-friendly side dishes with chicken, beef, or seafood for delicious meals. You can also add a low carb salad if you like. For a full list of low carb foods, check the keto food list.

This page is focused on easy keto sides specifically, but don’t forget that you can also serve many low carb appetizers as sides as well. For example, keto onion rings, keto chips, and dips all pair well with many main courses.

The easiest, best keto sides you can make are simple ways to prepare low carb vegetables! Below are the reader favorite keto vegetable dishes on Wholesome Yum, as well as my own.

Low Carb Side Dishes

Learn how to make creamed spinach with cream cheese in minutes! This easy creamed spinach recipe is rich and creamy, with simple ingredients.

This easy green bean almondine recipe is buttery, garlicky, lemony, and packed with crunchy almonds! Just 6 ingredients and 10 minutes to make.

A delicious, easy cauliflower fried rice recipe – all the same flavors, much fewer carbs. Make low carb keto fried rice in just 20 minutes, with simple ingredients.

Parmesan Roasted Keto Cauliflower

Learn how to make mashed cauliflower that’s smooth, creamy, and low carb! The BEST keto mashed cauliflower recipe (cauliflower mash) needs just 4 ingredients.

When you miss those starchy favorites like pasta, rice, and potatoes, these popular keto side dish recipes are the perfect substitute. In fact, I love developing creative ways to enjoy the carbs you miss on a keto diet so much that there are whole sections to rice, pasta, and potato substitutes in my Easy Keto Carboholics’ Cookbook!

You might also like to browse my low carb cauliflower, zucchini, or spaghetti squash recipes — many of them invoke that comfort food feeling.

Mushroom Side Dish With Bacon

Learn how to make zucchini noodles perfectly — not watery! Get the EASY zucchini noodles recipe, spiralizing & cooking tips, and more.

Learn the BEST method for how to cook a shirataki noodles recipe (konjac noodles) to an al dente texture. This recipe takes just 25 minutes!

An EASY tutorial for how to make cauliflower rice (the best way) in 15 minutes! Plus, get the best cauliflower rice recipes & serving ideas.

Easy Low Carb Keto Side Dish Recipes

This cauliflower mac and cheese recipe needs only 6 ingredients + 5 mins prep! Low carb keto mac and cheese will satisfy your pasta cravings.

This keto pasta noodles recipe has just 2.7g net carbs + 3 ingredients! Learn the tricks to make chewy, satisfying, and EASY low carb pasta.

Rutabaga fries make the best keto french fries! You’ll love the crispy exterior. These low carb fries have just 6 g net carbs!

Easy Low Carb Side Dish Recipes

Inside this beautiful hard cover keto recipe book, you’ll find 100 delectable, EASY keto recipes to replace all your favorite carbs: bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, desserts, and more… each with 10 ingredients or less! It includes over 75 BRAND NEW RECIPES not available anywhere else, and a photo, macros, & tips for every recipe.

All you need to make these simple keto sides is some avocado or olive oil, salt and pepper, a few spices, and a sheet pan. And if you’re cooking for a family, I recommending making these veggie ideas, adding an additional starchy side for the non-keto family members, and cooking a shared keto dinner entree.

Sauteed veggies are some of my favorite keto side dishes — the browning and caramelization is so irresistible! You can do it with all kinds of vegetables, from cabbage and mushrooms to radishes and zucchini… and more. If you want to save on dishes, you can saute your veggies and cook a perfect steak in the same cast iron skillet (just not at the same time).Compared to lots of other lifestyles or diets, keto is one of the easiest to follow. Thanks to its low-carb, high-fat meals, you can usually find something that’s both filling and comforting. While meat-based main courses are pretty easy to put together, side dishes can be somewhat challenging. I mean, if you think about it, most side dishes are mostly carbs. But, with a little inspiration, you quickly realize that there are so many delicious keto side dishes to make and try. In this post, I’ll be sharing some of my favorite low carb sides. You’ll find that these are packed with low carb veggies, but also cheese, bacon, and other ingredients you and your family will love.

Low Carb Side Dish Recipes

These oven-baked keto side dishes have come in handy for things like Keto Thanksgiving. I love that they will practically cook themselves, so you can have the time to relax or cook other dishes.

This Creamy Spinach and Mushroom Gratin is a delicious, low carb side dish. It’s not only perfect for the holidays, but easy enough to make on a busy weeknight and can be ready in 30 minutes! Carolyn Ketchum from All Day I Dream About Food, is one of my favorite people. We were always close…Read…

Delicious Keto Parmesan Garlic Bread Bites inspired by the Domino’s classic without all of the carbs. Perfect side anytime you are in the mood for Italian food or want a keto-friendly appetizer.

Fried Cabbage With Bacon (keto + Low Carb)

This Keto Zucchini Rollatini boasts thin ribbons of tender zucchini, wrapped around a creamy ricotta filling, all held together by a silky egg custard. Low carb, gluten free, nut free.

This Keto Green Bean Casserole is easy and delicious. Uses homemade soup & pork-free topping. Works with fresh, canned, or frozen green beans.

Easy Keto Ham and Cheese Rolls Recipe – the best easy recipe for light, fluffy, savory, and cheesy rolls loaded with ham for an easy keto side dish!

Easy Keto Side Dishes For Busy Days (and Lazy Cooks)

This keto bang bang cauliflower is nice and crispy and perfectly spiced. It is sure to become one of your favorite low carb side dishes.

Learn how to make ratatouille – the best ratatouille recipe is EASY! This healthy baked ratatouille dish is packed with veggies (just 10 ingredients!).

This easy Broccoli Cheese Casserole recipe is creamy, savory and all kinds of delicious! Ready in 30-minutes and ALWAYS a crowd favorite!

Best Keto Side Dishes For Any Meal

This cauliflower bake is made extra creamy and delicious with goat cheese and bacon. You would never guess it’s super easy, healthy and low carb!

Easy homemade chicken breakfast sausage allows you to have complete control of the taste and quality of the first meal of the day. It pairs well with any breakfast or brunch main.

Creamy cheesy cauliflower grits are the perfect keto substitute for carb heavy grits. With their perfectly creamy texture and rich taste, my cheesy cauliflower grits satisfy a grits craving while helping you stay in ketosis.

Delicious Keto Thanksgiving Sides

This Keto Grits recipe skips the carbs in grits, but not the flavor. The perfect way to eat grits on keto without cauliflower. Ready in 10 minutes.

Crisp up turkey bacon in your air fryer with this easy Ninja Foodi Air Fryer Turkey Bacon recipe. Ready in about 10 minutes. No constant flipping.

While you’ll certainly find lots of creative cauliflower recipes, you might want some options without it. These keto-friendly side dishes and several others on this list do not include cauliflower.

Keto Zucchini Recipes

Ninja Air Fryer Broccoli takes less than 20 minutes to make with 5 simple ingredients. Learn how to make roasted broccoli in the air fryer with this easy recipe.

If you're looking for a simple side dish with five ingredients, then this easy Air Fryer Eggplant with no breading is the perfect air fryer vegetable recipe for you. It takes about 20 minutes to prep and cook.

This Ninja Foodi Air Fryer Asparagus recipe takes less than 10 minutes & can be spruced up with air fryer bacon, garlic Parmesan butter, or lemon.

Of The Easiest Keto Thanksgiving Side Dishes Recipe

This keto creamed spinach recipe creates a decadent creamy side dish. Full of a cheesy, buttery sauce, it makes the perfect accompaniment to any holiday roast, steak or weeknight meal.

Learn how to make keto shrimp scampi with this easy recipe. Includes an easy garlicky, and buttery shrimp scampi sauce using dry white wine. Perfect one-pan main dish to pair with your choice of low-carb and keto noodle options.

Creamy Garlic Mushrooms with Bacon! A mushroom side dish prepared with butter, garlic, bacon & cream. An easy recipe that’s also low-carb + Keto.

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Learn how to make frozen or fresh breakfast sausage patties in an air fryer in as little as 10 minutes. Tips for cooking raw patties as well as the pre-cooked frozen type.

Crispy Air Fryer Green Beans are a delicious, crunchy, low carb side dish. With less than 5 ingredients and minimal prep, these are a great way to eat more veggies without the fuss!

This delicious Air Fryer Cauliflower recipe comes together in just 15 minutes with a handful of pantry ingredients. Perfect as a quick side dish to any meal.

Easy Low Carb Side Dishes

No need to thaw our your frozen broccoli with this easy Air Fryer Frozen Broccoli recipe. Uses four ingredients and takes 10 minutes.

When you’re in need of a quick and easy meal, one-pan and grilled recipes are an excellent choice. These amazing stovetop and grilled keto side dishes prove that you can make a tasty and clean meal without too much fuss. A lot of these are meat-free, so they go well with a richer meat-based main dish.

Keto cauliflower mushroom risotto gives you the delicious creaminess of a traditional risotto recipe with

The 30 Best Keto Side Dishes