Vegetable

25 Recipes for Southern Vegetable Sides

Traditional and modern takes on the classic Southern dishes you know and love.

July 24, 2017

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Butter Beans with Butter, Mint, and Lime
Butter beans are the boss of late-summer Southern vegetables. Stir some mint and butter with these for a satisfying side. If you can't find butter beans, frozen lima beans work as a substitute.
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Nicole Franzen
2/25
Collard Greens Salad with Ginger and Spicy Seed Brittle
When dressing hardy raw greens, it's good to be aggressive. Fortunately, we've got spicy ginger and seedy flavor bombs on hand.
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Matt Duckor
3/25
Pickled Corn
Think of this pickled corn salad as a puckery side for rich barbecues and cookouts. Sweet from the corn, spicy from dried chile flakes, and sour from pickling vinegar: you really can have it all.
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4/25
Braised Turnip Greens With Turnips and Apples
Turnip greens, good. Turnip greens with crisp apple and turnip slices, even better.
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5/25
Mirliton Relish
Mirlitons, also called chayotes, are a South Louisiana staple that is crunchy and cool like a cucumber. In this relish, the vegetable is mixed with bell pepper and crisp green onion for a refreshing side that would also be good on hot dogs.
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Hirsheimer & Hamilton
6/25
Collard Green and Radish Slaw with Crispy Shallots
Golden-fried shallots add irresistible crunch and flavor to this collard green salad.
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Michael Graydon & Nikole Herriott
7/25
Sautéed Collard Greens with Caramelized Miso Butter
Keep the bite in collards with a light sauté. Topped with golden fried garlic and a funky miso butter dressing, it's collards for a new era.
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Astrid Chastka, Food Styling by Anna Hampton
8/25
3-Ingredient Sweet Potato Casserole With Maple Pecans
Maple syrup pumps up the flavor of puréed sweet potatoes and provides a sweet glaze for extra-peppery candied pecans in this classic Thanksgiving side.
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9/25
Green Tomato and Honeydew Melon Salad
Can't decide between a tomato salad or a melon salad? Why not both? Using acidic green tomatoes plays off of the honeydew melon's sweetness; add in jalapeño to tie everything together with some spice.
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Christopher Testani
10/25
Hearty Greens With Kumquats
Common in Louisiana and Florida, sweet-and-sour kumquats are just right on top of a bitter and hearty green salad.
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Ditte Isager
11/25
Wilted Greens Salad With Squash, Apples, and Country Ham
This dish flips conventional Southern cookery on its head. Rather than cooking greens into submission, they're quickly brined to soften their texture and mellow their bitterness, then married with the sweet, salty, and creamy elements of a composed salad.
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12/25
Hot Slaw a la Greyhound Grill
A tangy side dish of sautéed cabbage and bacon from the Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook.
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13/25
Collard-and-Prosciutto Chicken Roulades Over Watercress Salad
These elegant roulades are surprisingly easy to make and will get you a standing ovation at the dinner table.
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14/25
Sautéed Collard Greens with Slab Bacon
Crisp and juicy pieces of slab bacon and just the right hit of red wine vinegar bring the perfect tangy-porky balance to these slow-cooked Southern greens.
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