37 BEST Keto Side Dishes

When you're following a low carb or Keto Diet, it's not the main dish that's hard to come up with, it's usually figuring out what healthy low carb side dishes you can eat becomes more of the struggle.

Having a variety of go-to low carb and keto side dish recipes is a perfect way to make holidays simple, or to help you come up with sides for family dinners or a summer BBQ. We've included our BEST keto side dishes plus low carb sides from other foodie websites we know you'll love. It's a WHOLE LOTTA YUM!

Keto Side Dish Recipes

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Our list of low carb and keto side dishes includes recipes you can use year-round, including keto side dishes for holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, a special occasion dinner or your next summer party. 

Whether you're looking for keto side dishes without cauliflower, keto side dishes for a BBQ, keto side dishes for chicken, or keto side dishes that are not vegetables, you'll find the perfect low carb side dishes from our list of ideas.

The low carb side dish recipes include many recipes from our own site and also keto sides from other low carb recipe sites also.

Keto Sides

1

Shaved Brussel Sprouts Salad with Bacon

Make an easy shaved Brussel sprouts salad with bacon and a homemade apple cider vinaigrette with a touch of Dijon. The perfect raw Brussel sprouts salad for the holidays! Low carb, keto, and gluten-free.

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2

Keto Broccoli Salad Recipe

This yummy and easy keto broccoli salad is one of the most popular on our site! It's a family favorite at all of our holiday get-togethers and highly rated by readers too. Many of our readers have reported that it makes a fabulous keto side dish for a BBQ or potluck.

This is an easy keto side dish recipe to make substitutions too, for Thanksgiving we used half broccoli and half cauliflower. You can also change the type of nuts, mix in dried low carb fruit, change the type of cheese or use ham instead of bacon.

We shared this first since it's one of our favorite go-to keto sides.

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3

Low Carb Caprese Recipe

Caprese salad is a quick and easy Italian salad that's essentially a tomato, basil, mozzarella salad with a light balsamic dressing and seasoning. Make it with sliced cheese and tomatoes OR use mini cheese balls with grape or cherry tomatoes.

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4

Avocado Kale Salad

A healthy avocado kale salad loaded with veggies and tossed in a light lemon dressing. Whole30, paleo, gluten-free, and low carb.

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5

Bacon Curry Coleslaw (Keto Coleslaw)

You'll love our savory keto coleslaw with bacon and curry, it takes a classic low carb coleslaw recipe and with just a couple additions, makes it perfect for holidays or served with a roast.

When you use pre-cooked bacon and a coleslaw mix, this low carb vegetable side dish comes together in less than 15 minutes.

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6

Wilted Spinach Salad with Bacon

Wilted spinach salad is another classic turned low carb side dish recipe that our family often ate at family gatherings.

Feel free to mix in your favorite cheese or even avocado, both would be yummy additions. The spinach wilts once you drizzle the hot bacon dressing over the top. So good!

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7

Loaded Keto Cauliflower Mashed Potatoes

If you're searching for healthy low carb holiday sides, your table might seem incomplete without something that resembles potatoes. Cauliflower makes a great substitute for the classic mashed potatoes. Not only do they make low carbohydrate side dishes but they make the creamiest low carb sides too.

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8

Low Carb Butternut Squash Soup (with coconut milk)

We would consider butternut squash a low carb recipe instead of keto, to reduce the carbs even more, combine 50% squash with 50% cauliflower to reduce the carbs even more but still get that traditional squash flavor.

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9

Keto Sweet Potato Casserole - Wholesome Yum

Wholesome Yum's sweet potato casserole tastes just like the real deal but instead of sweet potatoes, she uses a mix of butternut squash and cauliflower. There are only 5 net carbs in each serving!

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10

Keto Stuffing Recipe with Sausage

With the use of keto bread, you can make a keto friendly stuffing with sausage that tastes just like traditional Thanksgiving stuffing.

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11

Low Carb Green Bean Casserole

The perfect cheesy green bean casserole with cream cheese sauce for the holidays. Skip the canned mushroom soup and make our easy homemade recipe everyone will love. Low carb, gluten-free, and keto friendly.

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12

Keto Brussel Sprouts Casserole

An easy and comforting low carb and keto brussel sprouts casserole with a creamy cheese sauce and bacon. Only 4 net carbs per serving.

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13

Baked Cauliflower Mac and Cheese Recipe (Low Carb, GF)

Baked cauliflower mac and cheese is a pasta free variation everyone will love! Parboil the cauliflower and bake with cheese and cream for the ultimate gluten-free comfort food. Low carb, vegetarian, and keto friendly.

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14

Baked Cauliflower Casserole with Bacon

An easy LOADED cauliflower casserole with bacon recipe that cooks up quick and makes the perfect side for a family dinner or holiday meal. This dish is also a gluten-free, low carb and keto cauliflower casserole too.

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15

Air Fryer Bacon Wrapped Green Beans

Air fryer bacon wrapped green beans will be your new favorite side when you want something simple yet super impressive! Comes together in just 20 mins!

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16

Fried Broccoli Cakes ( Gluten Free Keto Broccoli Fritters)

Keto broccoli fritters makes for a family friendly unique low carb side dish that can also double as an appetizer. Feel free to make these a little smaller if you want to serve them before dinner.

A dollop of sour cream makes for a tasty addition.

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17

Garlic Parmesan Air Fryer Spaghetti Squash

Cooking spaghetti squash in a pressure cooker is a game changer! Serve it with our garlic parmesan sauce or the sausage alfredo sauce!

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18

Oven Roasted Broccoli with Garlic and Herbs (Paleo Keto Broccoli)

An easy oven roasted broccoli recipe with savory garlic and herbs. This yummy and healthy side dish is also low carb, paleo, vegetarian, vegan (without parmesan), and is keto broccoli too. A perfect side for a weeknight dinner, special meal, perfect for meal prep to add to lunches, or on your holiday table too. So addicting!!

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19

Italian Oven Roasted Zucchini and Squash

Our Italian baked zucchini and squash recipe seriously makes for the best keto side dish recipe when you're looking for a hot dish in the summer.

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20

Crockpot Cabbage and Bacon

Buttery crock pot cabbage with bacon and herbs compliments all of the main dish recipes for your holiday table. Plus a slow cooker not only keeps your valuable stove space open but it enhances the flavors even better than a quick stove-top saute could have done.

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21

Cheesy Baked Grean Beans

Easy 20 minute roasted green beans covered in delicious melted cheese. What gets better than that? The keto green beans make a nice change from the sauce laden green bean casserole with soup mix.

Roasting vegetables truly make the best keto vegetable dishes, roasted vegetables are easy, healthy, fast, and delicious! Serving them with cheese on top makes for the best keto diet sides since the cheese adds extra fat you need for a ketogenic diet.

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22

Cooked Radishes Recipe

If you haven't yet tried roasted radishes, you're in for quite the treat! They are seriously the closest thing you can make that' low carb and resembles roasted potatoes. I love to call these keto potatoes.

Roasted radishes are mellow in flavor, slightly sweet, soft on the inside, and crispy on the outside.

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23

Asparagus with Hollandaise Sauce (brown butter)

Asparagus with Hollandaise sauce - tender asparagus with an easy brown butter blender Hollandaise sauce. An easy yet elegant side perfect for low carb diets.

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24

Oven Baked Brussel Sprouts

Easy oven roasted Brussel sprouts make for a wonderful side dish, I promise you that even Brussel sprout haters will love this recipe once they eat Brussel sprouts that are cooked right!

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25

Broccoli Cheese Soup (Instant Pot, Crock-pot)

This amazing instant pot broccoli cheese soup is the ultimate comfort food and is so easy to prepare with a pressure cooker (or crock-pot!) Broccoli cheddar soup will surely become a family favorite, plus it's low carb, keto, gluten free, and vegetarian too!

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26

Homemade Egg Drop Soup (Keto & Gluten Free)

Making your own egg drop soup recipe at home is super easy and simple! In under 15 minutes, you can have an authentic bowl of egg drop soup that'll be the best you've ever tasted.

Not only is this low carb egg drop soup, but it's low in calorie, keto-friendly, paleo, Whole 30, gluten-free, and can be vegetarian with a simple adaption. It's essentially a zero carb soup recipe too!

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27

Best Keto Chicken Bacon Ranch Soup

Delicious and hearty chicken bacon ranch soup, as known as crack chicken soup, takes the soul satisfying flavors of chicken, bacon, and ranch seasoning and combines it into a one bowl dish your favorite won't be able to get enough of!

Not only is the bacon chicken soup gluten free, but it's low carb and keto friendly too. 

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28

Creamy Pizza Soup

Make an easy creamy pizza soup that tastes like a loaded Supreme pizza with pepperoni and Italian sausage. Make it in your Crock Pot or Instant Pot. Low carb, gluten free, and keto.

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29

Keto Chicken Noodle Soup (No Noodles)

A low carb keto friendly chicken "noodle" soup recipe with zoodles that cooks in under 30 minutes when you start with a rotisserie chicken. High protein and low calorie!

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30

Easy Low Carb Rolls (Keto)

Easy low carb rolls made with the fathead dough recipe have a great almost bread-like texture. Make the perfect dinner rolls and sandwich rolls in minutes.

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31

Almond Flour Biscuits ~ Low Carb • Grain Free

Looking for a sturdy wheat free biscuit to hold up some yummy sugar free pumpkin butter or maybe some sausage gravy? Not exactly like grandma made, but close to it for sure.

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32

Cheesy Cauliflower Muffins

These cheesy cauliflower muffins are savory, low carb, gluten-free and delicious. Also, unlike other cauliflower recipes, you don't need to dry out the cauliflower.

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 No Carb Side Dishes?

If you're looking for no-carb side dishes, you'll want to read our post with 30 no-carb or almost no carb snacks for inspiration.

Our favorite picks to use as no carb sides include certain types of cheeses, olives, pickles, avocado, cheese crisps, pepperoni chips, celery, and others.

It's tough to find no carb side dishes like a salad or hot dish, but adding simple no carb sides like avocado, olives, and cheese with a protein make for a simple keto meal.

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• Keto Christmas Treats and Candy
• Keto Christmas Desserts
• Keto Thanksgiving Recipes
• Keto Christmas Dinner Menu
• Keto Pumpkin Recipes
• Spiral Ham in Crockpot with no sugar glaze
• Crustless Pumpkin Pie
• Keto Creme Brulee

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