Last Updated February 27th, 2024 at 05:57 pm by Lisa
Look through 42 of the best burger sides! These recipes will help you throw a legendary backyard cookout or July 4th BBQ with clever Summer party food ideas.
Mix up your menu, with new easy sides to go with your favorite burgers! Think about warm cozy sides like Cowboy Baked Beans, Crispy Chicken Wings, or Thick Chili. Family burger night just got a whole lot more exciting, plus every easy recipe here can double for potluck sides all Summer...
Burger Sides & What To Serve With Hamburgers
A Classic Burger is typically served at fast-food restaurants with the same side options. Classic French fries, sweet potato fries, potato chips, steak fries, potato wedges, or onion rings. And those are all great! Today we are thinking way outside of the box and having some fun.
Be sure to have some healthy sides along with other delicious grilled cookout favorites, cool drinks like iced tea or lemonade, and refreshing Summer cocktails. Cool things down with Pasta Salad, cold Layered Salads, Potato Salad, and Coleslaw.
Plan for a few light and healthy burger sides. Make a quinoa salad with fruit. Try my Watermelon Fruit Salad it is gorgeous!
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Go for classic pairing options of delicious side dishes of a Greek salad, Cobb, 7 Layer, cucumber, or tomato side salads.
And don't forget the best part, toppings like melted cheese, BBQ sauce, and all the best condiments. Add some dips, relishes, unique sauces, and pickled things, and dinner is on.
Let's get into the list of delicious sides...
Easy Pasta Salad
An easy Pasta Salad and mayo-less side dish, is perfect for hot weather and holds at room temperature for outdoor picnics, a potluck, or your next Summer cookout! Cold pasta salads are easygoing party food. Add veggies like bell pepper, red onion, fresh herbs, and little cubes of mozzarella cheese all tossed in a light dressing.
Burger Sauce
Make one of the best burger sauces! It is made just like the In-N-Out spread from the west coast drive-through chain that started in Southern California. And has super simple ingredients. When you crave a great burger, here is the best way to make a copycat recipe of the real In-N-Out spread special sauce.
Pickled Red Onions
Make Pickled Red Onions with no canning. These are easy beginner pickles that take 10 minutes to prepare and are ready to eat in 30 minutes. This sweet onion recipe tastes even better after a couple of days, full of great flavors. Load on Mexican food like tacos, tostadas, taco salad, hamburgers, pulled pork, or grilled cheese sandwiches. What a versatile, great condiment!
Turkey Chili With Black Beans
Turkey Chili with Black Beans is a simple meal and can be made in a slow cooker, crockpot, or stovetop. This recipe is a fave of the whole family and even the neighbors. With years of rave reviews! It's one of my go-to main course dishes, especially on game days. Top with grated cheese, sour cream, and green onions. And is a great side with hamburgers or grilled sausages at cookouts.
Jalapeno Pickled Eggs
Make old-fashioned homemade deli-style Pickled Eggs with jalapenos, garlic, and pickling spice. A low-carb keto protein-packed pickled egg recipe ready in 7 days.
Crispy Chicken Wings
There is a secret to Crispy Dry Rub Chicken Wings, the ultimate bar snack and cookout side as a big game appetizer! Perfectly cooked wings are totally possible with a super crisp exterior that looks and tastes deep-fried and the different seasonings will have your taste buds cheering! Skip frying, this will become your new favorite way to make wings.
Hatch Chiles (80+ Recipes)
These are great on grilled hamburgers! Plus there are 80+ Amazing New Mexico Hatch Chile Recipes and How To Roast, Prep, and Freeze them at home.
Pickled Green Beans (Dilly Beans)
Pickled Green Beans also called Dilly Bean are a quick pickle recipe that requires no canning Jazz up relish trays, and a great choice to pop them into Bloody Marys, or toss pickled beans into salads! This crisp crunchy dilly bean recipe will keep for up to 1 month chilled in the fridge if they last that long.
Refrigerator Dill Pickles
Refrigerator Dill Pickles with jalapenos, garlic, and fresh dill require no canning and make perfectly crisp, crunchy pickles. Pickling cucumbers at home is easy, anyone can do it. I promise you will enjoy the process, it is quite relaxing. Make spears, chips, and halves, and wait just one day to let the flavors build. Once you can't wait any longer, crack open a jar.
Zucchini Pickles
Zucchini Pickles don't take much time to make and are ready in 30 minutes with no canning! Use any summer squash for these quick pickles that are a great option for zippy flavor and a crisp crunch in homemade pickles.
Hot Dog & Hamburger Relish
Mix up this fresh crunchy homemade relish recipe, to top grilled foods. Serve this condiment at your next cookout or BBQ.
Spiral Grilled Hot Dogs
Spiral-Cut Grilled Hot Dogs get nice nooks and crannies to hold more toppings like mustard, ketchup and relish. Grill these full-flavor dogs at your next cookout and put out a bar of condiments for one of the easiest grilling recipes ever!
Cheddar Cheese Jalapeño Cornbread
Bake these Cheddar Cheese Jalapeño Cornbread Muffins made with just 3 ingredients and are super soft and cheesy. Serve hot with a big slather of honey butter for a great side with dinners like bowls of chili, pork chops, fried chicken, or BBQ ribs.
Mango Jicama Slaw
Celebrate Summer with fresh, clean, light dishes like this Mango Slaw. It has shredded green cabbage, crisp jicama, and a tangy lime juice based vinaigrette, balanced with juicy sweet mangos!
Fried Green Tomatoes
These are the best Fried Green Tomatoes, and one of the most famous Southern recipes of all time. Each slice has a crunchy crust to dip into a remoulade creamy sauce, buttermilk ranch dressing, or comeback sauce. There are a few secrets to frying them perfectly golden crisp, and the three dipping sauces take these right over the top. And a great way to use up the main ingredient star of the show, green tomatoes!
Cucumber Gazpacho Soup
A chilled cucumber gazpacho recipe is so refreshing in the summer months with yogurt, grapes, and green apples, topped with almonds and lump crab meat. This cold cucumber soup recipe includes lots of other garnish topping ideas for you too!
Crispy Smashed Potatoes
Crispy Smashed Potatoes served with melted herb butter are one of the most heavenly potato recipes. These are pure comfort food and a beautiful side dish for family dinners, romantic date nights, holidays, or dinner parties. Soft fluffy centers are surrounded by a golden-brown crust on each and every one. And those crunchy edges are simply addictive.
Make-Ahead Mashed Potatoes
Make-Ahead Mashed Potatoes are creamy smooth, buttery, fluffy, and melt in your mouth. There are five reheating methods here plus tips on how to keep them warm for dinner, or holiday meals like Thanksgiving. We all want that creamy classic buttery warm goodness, and this recipe will help you master one of the most popular side dishes in America.
Tavern Bar Style Pickled Eggs
Tavern Bar Style Pickled Eggs are a popular bar food served for hundreds of years to hungry patrons. These spicy eggs get their bright cheery yellow color from chili peppers, turmeric, and pickling spice. This fun easy pickled egg recipe can be a healthy snack, appetizer, or cold hor d'oeuvre.
Buffalo Cauliflower Wings
Buffalo Cauliflower Wings are a healthy appetizer that taste and look just like chicken wings. Baked full of zesty flavor, vegetarian, gluten free, and absolutely no guilt of extra calories. Created in a Southern California pub, dunk these buffalo wings into your favorite dipping sauces like blue cheese dressing or buttermilk ranch for the perfect game-day snack with a cold beer.
Iceberg Wedges
Dig your fork into this icy cold iceberg Wedge Salad with a Pistachio-Avocado Dressing. The mild flavor compliments sizzling grilled steaks, chicken, or shish kabobs at cookouts or dinner parties. And for lunch, add some more protein like chopped bacon, chicken or hard boiled egg.
Sour Cream Onion Dip
Onion Dip aka California or Sour Cream Dip is the easiest recipe ever, with only 2 ingredients! Made in minutes, serve with a large bowl of your favorite potato chips and assorted fresh-cut veggies. This is a classic iconic American party food dip that has earned a respected place in many people's hearts with its savory onion flavor.
Pizza Salad
A colorful Pizza Salad loaded with popular favorite pizza toppings like mini pepperoni, black or kalamata olives, mushrooms, tangy pepperoncini, tiny ripe cherry tomatoes, and little balls of mozzarella cheese. This Italian salad pizza inspired recipe is healthy, low carb, drizzled with a creamy sun-dried tomato dressing with all the flavors of pizza we crave. Sprinkle some red pepper flakes and parmesan cheese on top!
Crudités With Dip
Crudités with Green Goddess Dip is an easy appetizer. Serve veggie cups and a purple cabbage "bowl" for a unique relish tray at your party!
Cobb Salad
The original Cobb Salad became famous in Los Angeles at the Brown Derby restaurant served with French Dressing loaded with chopped tomato, cubed chicken, crumbled bacon, diced avocado, chopped eggs, and topped with Roquefort cheese. Now you can make this famous iconic recipe at home exactly how it was made back in the day in the golden age of Hollywood, California.
Ham Salad
Ham Salad is a tasty spread to go onto crackers for an easy appetizer. But it's most famous on sliced bread for a ham sandwich recipe! Oh, and it's a fantastic way to use up all that leftover holiday ham. Pack up sandwiches in school or work lunchboxes, or take them on a picnic. Also, this classic ham salad recipe layers beautifully into little finger sandwiches for baby showers, bridal showers, and luncheons.
Cowboy Beans
Cowboy Baked Beans (aka Calico Beans) are loaded with ground beef and applewood smoked bacon. This a great party food recipe for large groups, and is one of the best sides with a perfect burger. Once you make these, it will be one of your all-time favorite sides!
Easy Taco Salad
Taco Salad with 25+ topping ideas plus a delicious taco meat recipe. Works as lunch, family dinner, or party food for a large gathering.
Classic Macaroni Salad Recipe
A classic macaroni salad recipe with chopped eggs, dill pickles, pickle juice, and crunchy celery. A cherished old fashioned family recipe!
Jalapeno Popper Dip
Jalapeno Popper Dip is always a hit! Make this melty hot appetizer for parties, it is a simple recipe with pantry ingredients. Scoop up with large corn chips! It's a take on the super poplular jalapeno poppers. Double this recipe for large groups, it goes fast! It's so easy, and all the ingredients combine into utter flavor deliciousness!
Egg Salad
The best egg salad recipe starts with perfectly cooked eggs and fresh, quality, simple ingredients. It's mixed together into a rich creamy texture and loaded onto Rye or Pumpernickel sandwich bread with a pickle on top! It's a great way to use up leftover Easter eggs and works for family lunches, picnics, bridal, and baby showers, or afternoon tea in the best egg salad sandwich ever.
7 Layer Salad
7 Layer Salad (aka Overnight Salad) is one of the most popular potluck dishes for picnics, a BBQ side for cookouts, or a summer side dish.
Broccoli Salad
A Broccoli Salad with vibrant colors of crisp green apples, crunchy broccoli, and sweet grapes. Topped with a creamy orange tangy dressing and salty pistachios mixed into this summer salad. A classic broccoli salad typically has lots of mayonnaise. This has a no-mayo dressing that swaps in Greek yogurt for the mayo cutting fat and calories.
Mexican Street Corn (Authentic Elotes)
Authentic Mexican street corn recipe aka elotes is made from fire grilled, sweet, fresh corn brushed with a creamy cilantro sauce sprinkled with Cotija cheese.
Grilled Corn On The Cob
When sweet corn is in season, try this recipe for the best Grilled Corn On The Cob. It cooks in 10 minutes and can be put together ahead of dinner. There are 12+ creative flavor ideas to try, use seasoning blends or homemade compound butter. With endless flavor options, this is a great party food
Hot Dog & Burger Chili
Use this recipe as a Hamburger topping or Hot dog chili sauce! It is "go-to" football food on game days, for Superbowl parties, tailgating, or summer cookouts. And the best thing, this great recipe is ready in just 20 minutes or can simmer away in a slow cooker all during the big game! Salsa and beer add great unique flavor to this delicious recipe. Adding a can of refried beans is an easy way to make chili nice and thick, perfect for piling on top of chili dogs.
Sweet Potato Casserole (Ruth's Chris Recipe)
For all you avid fans of the Sweet Potatoes, this AMAZING Sweet Potato Casserole at the famous Ruth's Chris Steak House, this is their original recipe and signature side dish. The combination of the fluffiness of the sweet potato mixture topped with a pecan crumble takes this classic holiday side way over the top.
Easy Vinegar Coleslaw (No Mayo)
This Easy Coleslaw Recipe has a clean apple cider vinegar-based dressing and no-mayo! You can also swap in a great addition too. It goes great with rich pulled pork sandwiches and is one of the classic sides at potluck summer picnics and BBQ cookouts.
Bacon Potato Salad
Bacon potato salad is loaded with crispy bacon, blue cheese, and white or red potatoes. A perfect side for summer potluck cookouts and BBQs. Since there are no eggs and no mayonnaise, this is a great picnic food idea. Make a double batch of this classic potato salad, it disappears quickly!
BBQ Potato Salad
A BBQ Potato Salad recipe with yummy flavors from your favorite bbq sauce, crumbled bacon, buttermilk ranch, crunchy celery, and cheddar cheese. Made with secret ingredients in place of mayo, this super creamy potato salad is inspired by one of America's favorite recipes, a loaded baked potato! A great recipe that uses any kind of potatoes, and is a fresh new twist on a classic. Mix up a double batch, and watch people gobble it up at your next cookout.
Baked Zucchini Chips
Make a batch of low-calorie Baked Zucchini Chips or zucchini fries and scoop them into a lemon-dill yogurt dip made with fresh lemon juice and zest. The coating get super cripsy with panko, olive oil, and parmesan cheese. Bake in the oven or your air fryer! What a great way to use up summer squash when it is popping up faster than you can pick it!
Hamburger FAQ
Crispy Bacon
Grilled Onions or Caramelized Onions
Sauteed Mushrooms
Dijon Mustard
Burger Sauce
Pickle Chips
Ketchup, Mustard, Mayonnaise, Remoulade
Ortega or Hatch Chiles
BBQ Sauce
Creamy Horseradish Sauce
Cheeses: Cheddar Cheese, Blue Cheese, Pepper Jack, etc.
Guacamole
Ranch Dressing
Pickled Jalapenos
Red Onion
Fried Onions
Your Favorite Hot Sauce
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Burger Seasoning makes a flavor-filled juicy burger. Mix up a batch for your next cookout, grill, or BBQ party. Try it on a veggie burger, with ground pork, lamb, chicken, or turkey homemade burgers.
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Cheeseburger Sliders are oven-baked mini burgers stuffed with cheddar cheese, baked, then spread with burger sauce. In the winter when you can't grill outside, oven bake these! And they work as fun Party Food ideas for summer Cookouts or celebrations like birthdays and Graduation Parties.
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