Bring Flavor to Your New Year’s Celebration with 15 Veggie Side Dishes
The New Year is the perfect time to gather, celebrate, and serve dishes that feel fresh and full of flavor. Whether you’re hosting a festive dinner or contributing to a potluck, vegetable side dishes can bring color, balance, and creativity to the table.
From comforting classics to bold new favorites, these 15 veggie side dishes are easy to make and guaranteed to elevate your New Year’s celebration.
Southern Collard Greens
Tender and flavorful, these mouthwatering Southern-style Collard Greens are slowly cooked but super easy to make. This yummy dish is the epitome of Southern comfort food.
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Super Green Kale Salad
This apple kale salad is made with so many greens, from apple and celery to edamame and seeds. They all come together to make a super healthy, tasty lunch/side salad.
Get The Recipe: Super Green Kale Salad.
Easy Napa Cabbage Slaw
This napa cabbage slaw has been a favorite for decades! Crunchy, flavorful, and easy to prep, this is the best summer side dish.
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Kale White Bean Salad
This Kale White Bean Salad is a vibrant, flavorful, and a simple side dish to feed your family. The tender kale, hearty white beans, all coated in a lemon mustard vinaigrette.
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Air Fried Kale Chips
A healthy snack or side dish, these Air Fryer Kale Chips are full of rich umami and are crunchy, healthy, & easy to make. Make them today!
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Sweet And Sour Green Cabbage
Because of its timeliness, cabbages are considered a New Years staple as fermented or sauerkraut recipes.This sweet and sour green cabbage recipe is one of the easiest, tastiest side dishes you can make! It’s flavorful, tender, and inexpensive; and goes great with any protein!
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Kale And Brussels Sprouts Salad With Miso Dressing
This Kale and Brussels Sprouts Salad contains tasty shredded vegetables tossed in a creamy miso-ginger dressing, and topped with avocado and chia seeds. Taste the umami addition to an already yummy salad.
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Baked Cabbage
Baked Cabbage transforms a simple vegetable into a savory delight. Crispy bacon infuses the dish with rich, smoky flavor, and browned butter adds a nutty, aromatic depth that’s truly irresistible.
Get the Recipe: Baked Cabbage.
Quick Sauerkraut
Homemade, easy and quick sauerkraut recipe with step-by-step photos and video. Learn how to make sauerkraut fast in your own kitchen.
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Crisp Spicy Kale Chips
Greens, especially vegetables, are lucky because of their paper money color. Perfectly roasted kale chips tossed with sea salt and warm spices. This is a perfect snack: paleo, Whole30, keto, vegetarian and gluten-free friendly.
Get The Recipe: Crisp Spiced Kale Chips.
Best Cabbage Soup
This delicious Vegetarian Cabbage Soup Recipe is both comforting and healthy! Filled with tender green cabbage, potatoes, mirepoix veggies, tomatoes, and white beans, it’s easy to make. All you need is one pot!
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Kale Chips
Turn fresh kale leaves into crispy, flavorful chips with just olive oil, sea salt, and a hot oven — no complicated steps or fancy equipment needed.
Get The Recipe: Kale Chips.
Air Fryer Cabbage Rolls Stuffed With Sausage And Rice
Looking for a tasty dinner option? Try my air fryer cabbage rolls filled with savory sausage and rice. A quick, delicious, and satisfying meal for any night of the week!
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