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    Home » Roundups » What Goes With Fried Chicken (Sides For Fried Chicken)

    Published: Mar 1, 2024. Modified: Mar 22, 2024 by Kemi · This post may contain affiliate links

    What Goes With Fried Chicken (Sides For Fried Chicken)

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    What goes with fried chicken? Here is a list of the best sides for fried chicken.

    These side dishes for fried chicken are bursting with flavor, delicious, and will pair well with your dish.

    By the end of this post, you will not only know what to serve with fried chicken for a satisfying, comforting, and filling meal but also how to make them. Foods that go well with chicken include potatoes, rice, pasta, vegetables, and more. Let me share delicious recipes with you.

    Picture collage of side dishes for fried chicken.

    What To Serve With Fried Chicken (Sides For Fried Chicken)

    With this list of sides for fried chicken, you will know what to serve with fried chicken for brunch, dinner, parties, or any occasion.

    Coleslaw, Potatoes, Salads, and Corn on the cob, are some of what goes good with fried chicken.

    In this post, I will share with you the best sides for fried chicken.

    Cream Cheese Mashed Potatoes

    Cream cheese mashed potatoes is a light, fluffy, and flavorful, melt in your mouth comfort food that makes a perfect side dish for chicken for any occasion. This cream cheese mashed potatoes recipe is easy, and quick to make and is ready in under 20 minutes.

    Mashed Potatoes With Cream Cheese
    Mashed potatoes with cream cheese is a light, fluffy, flavorful, melt in your mouth comfort food that makes a perfect side dish for weeknight meals, holiday dinners, or any occasion. This cream cheese mashed potatoes recipe is easy, and quick to make and is ready in under 20 minutes. Serve it with steak, gravy, and vegetables, or any dish of your choice. Let me show you how to make it in simple steps
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    cream cheese mashed potatoes served in a white bowl.

    Fried Potatoes

    Fried potatoes are tender inside and crispy outside. Its texture and taste make it a good accompaniment to fried chicken. It's easy and quick to make.

    Fried Potatoes Recipe (How To Fry Potatoes)
    Best fried potatoes recipe that gives crispy potatoes that are soft and fluffy inside, flavorful and tasty. Learn how to fry potatoes be it pan fried or deep fried.
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    fried potatoes served on a plate.

    Pinto Beans

    Pinto beans make a good side dish for fried chicken. It is warming, comforting, and filling.

    Instant Pot Pinto Beans
    This instant pot pinto beans recipe is one of the easiest pressure cooker pinto beans recipe. It is packed full of flavor, protein and fibre. This pinto beans in pressure cooker can be made vegan, mexican pinto beans style or plain.
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    Pan Fried Vegetables

    Vegetables are always a good idea. These quick pan fried vegetables are colorful, tasty, delicious, and a healthy side dish for fried chicken.

    Pan Fried Vegetables Recipe
    Pan fried vegetables recipe that is easy, quick, and cooks in less than 10 minutes. This stove top pan roasted vegetables are packed full of flavor, seared crisp, tender, delicious, and healthy. Let me show you how to fry vegetables in simple steps.
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    cooked vegetables in a frying pan.

    Baked Diced Potatoes

    Crispy oven baked diced potatoes are simple but perfect and worthy of any dinner table. The chopped and roasted cubed potatoes are tender inside, crispy outer, flavorful, and yummy, and make a great side dish for Chicken. It's a healthier alternative to fried potatoes.

    Baked Diced Potatoes Recipe
    This crispy oven baked diced potatoes recipe is simple but perfect and worthy of any dinner table. The chopped and roasted cubed potatoes are tender inside, crispy outer, flavorful, and yummy, and make a great side dish for Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, or any occasion.
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    baked diced potatoes served in a white bowl.

    Broccolini

    Broccolini is quick to cook and ready in 10 minutes or less. It is tender, crunchy, and flavorful and makes a perfect side dish to serve with chicken, rice, pasta, or any food of your choice. The ingredients used in this air fryer broccolini are also quite subtle, letting the sweet, earthy taste shine, but with a little twist.

    Air Fryer Broccolini (Baby Broccoli In Air Fryer)
    This Air fryer broccolini recipe is easy, quick, and ready in 10 minutes or less. It is tender, crunchy, flavorful and makes a perfect side dish that can be served with potatoes, chicken, rice, pasta, or any food of your choice. The ingredients used on this baby broccoli in air fryer are also quite subtle, letting the sweet, earthy taste shine, but with a little twist. Like the sound of it? Let's get cooking then! 
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    arranged in air fryer basket.

    Spicy Pasta

    Spicy pasta is easy and quick to make. Pasta in spicy sauce is comfort food that is flavorful, delicious, and with the perfect level of seasoning and spice perfect for fried chicken.

    Spicy Pasta Recipe
    This creamy spicy pasta recipe is so easy and quick to make. Pasta in spicy sauce is comfort food that is flavorful, delicious, and with the perfect level of seasoning and spice. Eat on its own or serve with baked chicken drumsticks, beef, fish, or vegetables. Let me show you how to make it in less than 30 minutes.
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    spicy pasta in a pot.

    Seasoned Potato Wedges

    Seasoned Potato Wedges Recipe
    This seasoned potato wedges recipe is simple but super tasty. The baked seasoned potatoes are packed full of flavor, tender and fluffy inside with crispy outer. Easy and quick to make, they are perfect as a side dish served on any occasion be it Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, or any dinner. Let me show you how to make it.
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    seasoned potato wedges served on a white plate.

    Tomato Cucumber Salad

    Easy Cucumber tomato salad recipe that is made with fresh tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, and vinaigrette dressing. Healthy, refreshing summer salad for picnic, gatherings, potlucks, and a side dish to chicken.

    Easy Cucumber Tomato Salad Recipe
    Easy Cucumber tomato salad recipe that is made with fresh tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, and vinaigrette dressing. Healthy, refreshing summer salad for picnic, gatherings, potlucks, and a side dish to any meal. Let me show you how to make cucumber tomato salad.
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    cucumber tomato salad served on white plate

    Spicy Rice

    This Portugese spicy rice and peas is so good and makes a perfect side dish with chicken and salad. It is made with rice, peppers, seasoning, and broth and ready in 30 minutes.

    Nando's Spicy Rice Recipe
    Looking for homemade Nando's spicy rice recipe that is easy, quick and delicious? Here is my one-pot, homemade spicy rice made with rice, peppers, seasoning, and broth. It's so good and makes a perfect side dish with chicken and salad. Let me show you how to make Portuguese spicy rice and peas with this step by step guide and video.
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    Nandos spicy rice served in white plate

    Mac and Cheese

    Macaroni and cheese is a popular side dish that is served as a side dish at dinner and on special occasions like Thanksgiving and Christmas. It is made with cheeses and macaroni pasta. Creamy, flavorful, and delicious, it makes a great side dish with fried chicken.

    Boiled Zucchini

    Tender, and delicious, Zucchini also known as Courgette goes with fried chicken. It is easy, quick, and ready in 6 minutes.

    Boiled Zucchini Recipe
    This boiled zucchini recipe is easy, quick, and ready in less than 6 minutes. With this post, you will learn how long to boil zucchini, and how to boil Zucchini that is tender, delicious, and healthy.
    Mash or puree for baby food or serve in tacos, pasta salads or with any side dishes of your choice.
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    displayed in the pot.

    Boiled Asparagus

    Asparagus that is tender, tasty, and healthy. Serve as a side dish to chicken, fish, steak, rice, or any food of your choice. Healthy good sides for fried chicken.

    Boiled Asparagus Recipe
    This boiled asparagus recipe is easy, and quick with a cooking time of under 10 minutes. Learn how long to boil asparagus, and how to boil asparagus that is tender, tasty, and healthy. Serve as a side dish to fish, chicken, steak, rice, or any food of your choice.
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    boiled asparagus served.

    Air Fryer Eggplant

    These air fryer eggplant fries are seasoned with simple spices and roasted to perfection. No breading is required, it is tender, crisp, and delicious.

    Air Fryer Eggplant
    Air fryer eggplant recipe that is simple, and straightforward. These air fryer eggplant fries are seasoned with simple spices and roasted to perfection. No breading required, it is tender, crisp, and delicious. Learn how to make it with this step-by-step guide.
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    The air fried eggplant served in a plate.

    Air Fryer Sweet Potatoes

    Air fryer sweet potato cubes are tender, and delicious with crispy skin and make a vibrant side dish that's ready in 20 minutes or less.

    Air Fryer Sweet Potatoes (Air Fryer Sweet Potato Cubes)
    Air fryer sweet potatoes recipe! These air fryer sweet potato cubes are tender, and delicious with crispy skin and make a vibrant side dish that's ready in 20 minutes or less. Making sweet potatoes in air fryer is easy, and you only need a few simple pantry ingredients to make it.
    We like to serve it on its own as a snack or as a side dish to baked chicken drumsticks, fish, lamb, and vegetables.
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    air fryer sweet potatoes displayed.

    Boiled Sweet Potatoes

    Boiled sweet potatoes are tender, naturally sweet, and delicious. This recipe is quick, and not only does it go well with chicken, you can also serve it with egg, fish, steak, carrots, or any dish of your choice.

    Boiled Sweet Potatoes Recipe
    This boiled sweet potatoes recipe is simple, easy, and quick. Learn how to boil sweet potatoes that are tender, naturally sweet, and delicious.
    Serve with egg, fish, chicken, steak, carrots, or any dish of your choice.
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    boiled sweet potatoes served on a white plate.

    Boiled Carrots

    Boiled carrots are tender, sweet, and healthy. The sweet flavor of carrots is a contrast to chicken. It is easy, and quick to make and ready in under 10 minutes.

    Boiled Carrots Recipe (How to Boil Carrots)
    Want to learn how to boil carrots, how long to boil carrots, and have other questions? This perfect boiled carrots recipe will answer them and show you how to in easy, simple, and quick steps using just 3 ingredients.
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    boiled carrots served in a white plate.

    Roasted Carrots

    Crisp, flavorful, and delicious. This quick roasted carrots make a perfect side dish to chicken and most main dishes. Here's a recipe to roast carrots in easy, simple steps.

    Oven Roasted Carrots Recipe
    The best oven roasted carrots recipe. Crisp, flavorful, and delicious. This quick roasted carrots make a perfect side dish to most main dishes. Let me show you how to roast carrots in easy, simple steps.
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    served dish garnished with parsley.

    Frozen Roasted Vegetables

    Frozen roasted vegetables recipe is ready in under 30 minutes and the roasted frozen vegetables turn out tender, crispy, flavorful, and tasty. Serve it as a side dish to chicken.

    Frozen Roasted Vegetables Recipe
    This frozen roasted vegetables recipe is ready in under 30 minutes and the roasted frozen vegetables turn out tender, crispy, flavorful, and tasty. Serve it as a side dish to chicken, Turkey, Steak, seafood, rice, potatoes, or any food of your choice.
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    frozen roasted vegetables served in a plate.

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    Green Peas

    These green peas are buttery, flavorful, delicious, and cooks in just 10 minutes or less. Just like boiled carrots, roasted carrots, and fried broccoli, this vegetable side dish can be served with chicken, steak, fish, rice, pasta, and more.

    Frozen Peas Recipe (Green Peas)
    This frozen peas recipe will show you how to cook frozen peas without thawing. The green peas are buttery, flavorful, delicious, and cooks in just 10 minutes or less. Just like boiled carrots, roasted carrots, and fried broccoli, this vegetable side dish can be served with chicken, steak, fish, rice, pasta, and more.
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    cooked green peas served in a white plate.

    Baked Potatoes

    baked potatoes in instant pot recipe is easy, quick, and simple

    Instant Pot Baked Potatoes
    Perfect instant pot baked potatoes! Learn how to make fork tender, fluffy pressure cooker potatoes with crispy skin or without. This baked potatoes in instant pot recipe is easy, quick and simple. Let me show you the step by step with video tutorial. 
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    instant pot baked potatoes
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    Fried Chicken Recipes

    Here are some fried chicken recipes that are flavorful, and delicious. You will love them.

    • pan fried in a skillet.
      Pan Fried Chicken Drumsticks
    • 3 chicken breasts in a skillet.
      Pan Fried Chicken Breasts Recipe
    • 4 pieces fried chicken thighs on a plate.
      Deep Fried Chicken Thighs Recipe
    • fried chicken served with fries and ketchup on a grey plate.
      Air Fryer Fried Chicken

    Air fried chicken drumsticks

    Fried chicken seasoning

    Air fryer breaded chicken

    Pan fried chicken tenders

    Air fryer boneless chicken breast

    Pan fried boneless chicken thighs

    More Delicious Side Dishes

    Steak side dishes

    Fish side dishes

    Air fryer eggplant

    Instant pot boiled potatoes

    Parmentier potatoes

    Boiled broccoli

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