Sunday roast side dish recipes
Fancy something delicious to serve with Sunday lunch? Our best Sunday roast side dish recipes include classic accompaniments such as roast potatoes, parsnips, carrots and peas. Some of our favourites include these garlic and bay roast potatoes, creamy baked leeks and roast sprouts with cranberries (ideal for Christmas).
We’ve got plenty of ideas for serving up seasonal vegetables with an extra-tasty twist, too: try your root veg enhanced with mandarins or purple sprouting broccoli with garlic and chilli.
Need lighter Sunday roast side dish recipes to serve with a spring or summer lunch? Warm asparagus and lettuce with mint or jersey royals with broad beans and serrano ham might just steal the show…
A proper roast wouldn’t be complete without gravy. We’ve also got recipes for bread, cranberry and mint sauces, plus yorkshire puddings, indulgent gratins, creamy dauphinois and cauliflower cheese.
Yet to decide on your Sunday lunch centrepiece? Browse our favourite roast chicken recipes.
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Fennel recipes
Fennel tarte tatin
This fennel tarte tatin is a great vegetarian dinner or side for a roast. Fennel seeds temper the sweetness and goat’s cheese adds tang.
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Air fryer recipes
Air fryer yorkshire puddings
You can make cracking Yorkshire puddings in an air fryer – freeing up priceless oven space when making a roast dinner.
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Air fryer recipes
Air fryer roast potatoes
Our ultimate air fryer roast potatoes recipe is infused with aromatic garlic and rosemary and given extra crunch from a secret ingredient.
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Carrot recipes
Roast carrots with shatta butter
Ravinder Bhogal gives classic roast carrots a Middle Eastern twist in this side dish recipe, serving them with pistachios and shatta butter.
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Gratin recipes
Baked chicory with ham
Chicory wrapped in ham and baked under a cosy blanket of cream, gruyère and parmesan makes a great side for roasts or a veg-led dinner.
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Potato recipes
Pommes anna with lemon and sage
Pommes anna is a French side dish of thinly sliced potatoes baked in layers with butter. It's similar to dauphinois but without the cream.
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Gratin recipes
Hasselback swede gratin
The sweet, nutty flavour of swede is divine in this creamy swede gratin recipe, infused with nutmeg and bay and topped with cheese.
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Celeriac recipes
Mandarin-dressed roots
Served on a bed of yogurt and scattered with mint, this root vegetable side dish goes brilliantly with roast chicken, pork or white fish.
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Leek recipes
Creamy baked leeks
In this cosy side dish recipe, leeks are cooked slowly in cream and cheese until soft and golden. A delicious accompaniment to any roast.
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Christmas recipes from around the world
Christmas Jansson’s temptation
Brontë Aurell shares her recipe for Jansson's temptation (Jansson's frestelse), a classic Swedish potato dish made with cream and ansjovis.
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Carrot recipes
Orange and honey-roast carrots and parsnips
Carrots and parsnips are a key part of a roast dinner because they add colour and sweetness – especially with a good drizzle of honey.
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Brussels sprouts recipes
Sprout and anchovy gratin with porcini crumb
This gratin, with the sprouts baked in anchovy-infused cream, will be the dark horse of your Christmas dinner. Just wait until you taste it...
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Christmas trimmings, sides and sauces
Christmas peas
Buttery peas flecked with pink grapefruit provide a flash of green at the Christmas table. Not traditional, but zingily flavoursome.
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Celeriac recipes
Celeriac, sage and black garlic gratin
Celeriac, sage and black garlic create the ultimate winter gratin. This flavour-bomb of a side dish is sure to liven up your Sunday roast.
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Tahini recipes
Tahini roast potatoes with figs
OK, these tahini spuds aren’t the prettiest roast potatoes you’ve ever seen. Believe us, this incredible side dish makes up for it in taste.
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Best of the best recipes
Best of the best gratin dauphinois
The side dish of dreams – gratin dauphinois is France’s creamy gift to the world. This recipe ensures a firm and sliceable dauphinois.
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