With this collection of the 15 best side dishes with bacon, you can add hearty flavor to every meal. I love discovering new ways to incorporate the tasty flavor of bacon into classic and new dishes.
Perfect accompaniments for your favorite suppers, Thanksgiving or holiday dinners, these tasty bacon sides will round out any meal and have people coming back for seconds…. and possibly thirds!
Be sure to check out our collection of 33 bacon wrapped recipes for more tasty side dish ideas.
Bacon Sides for Every Occasion
This roundup includes vegetable side dishes with bacon, luscious potato recipes, the best Cowboy Baked Beans ever, a bacon cornbread stuffing that’s perfect paired with roasted turkey, creamy deviled eggs, savory squash, bacon cole slaw and more flavorful favorites.
Bacon and Brussel Sprouts
Garlic Bacon Butternut Squash
Best Bacon Green Bean Casserole
Loaded Mashed Potatoes with Bacon
Bacon Parmesan Cornbread Stuffing
Fried Cabbage with Bacon
Best Deviled Eggs with Bacon
Smoked Baked Beans with Bacon and Brown Sugar
Warm Bacon Coleslaw
Cheddar Bacon Creamed Corn
Bacon and Egg Potato Salad
Baked Asparagus with Bacon and Parmesan Cheese
Loaded Hash Brown Casserole
Creamy Bacon Mac and Cheese
Easy Southern Butter Beans with Bacon
More Bacon Recipes to Try
If you’re a bacon lover, you might enjoy these other bacon recipes that feature our favorite, flavorful savory meat:
15 Best Redskin Potato Salad Recipes with Bacon – perfect for cookouts, BBQs and picnics!
Best Bacon Weave Meatloaf – oven baked, glazed with BBQ sauce and sooo good!
Bacon Wrapped Sweet Corn – steamed, wrapped in foil and finished on the grill.
Parmesan Bacon Crackers – the perfect tailgating or game day snack!
Mini BLT Sliders – all the flavors of your favorite BLT sandwich, on a tiny skewer.
Warm Potato Salad with Bacon – This classic German potato salad recipe features tender potatoes, sweet onions and a full pound of bacon!
Maple Candied Bacon – our #1 most popular recipe, featuring slow-cooked bacon finished with a peppery maple syrup glaze.
Featured Blogs
We’re grateful to these wonderful food bloggers, who graciously gave us permission to share their scrumptious side dish recipes with you:
On Ty’s Plate – Bacon Butternut Squash Recipe and Bacon Stuffing Recipe
Simply Stacie – Loaded Mashed Potatoes Recipe
Culinary Ginger – Bacon Cole Slaw Recipe
Three Olives Branch – Creamed Corn with Bacon Recipe
Garlic & Zest – Bacon Potato Salad Recipe
Quiche My Grits – Hash Brown Casserole with Bacon Recipe
Recipes From a Pantry – Bacon Butter Beans Recipe
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Enjoy! And be sure to let us know if you have any favorite side dish recipes we should try.
~Your friends at BENSA
Bacon.. Yum ☺
Isn’t the BEST side dish for Bacon obviously MORE BACON!!!
Very valid point, David!
I come back to this post often, because isn’t everything better with BACON! ;-)