Wondering what to serve with trout? Look no further, I’ve rounded up 49 (!) side dishes for trout. Whether you’re looking for vegetable sides for trout, salads, potatoes, or grain dishes, we’ve got enough variety that you’re sure to find a dish or two to pair perfectly with your grilled trout (or however you’re preparing it).
I love grilling trout fillets – either in an aluminum foil sheet or with a fish grill basket to prevent any sticking – because it’s so easy and delicious! Drizzle with olive oil, a squeeze of lemon juice, and a sprinkle of fresh parsley for an easy fish meal that will delight your taste buds.
While these sides dishes are great with trout, you could also serve them with panko salmon, grilled tilapia in foil, blackened cod, or even old bay steamed shrimp.
Best Side Dishes for Trout
This mild fish is always delicious and the best part is that you can serve it with any of these popular side dishes.
Potato Sides
If you love root vegetables, this section is for you. Pick one of these and a simple vegetable dish for a healthy meal, along with your fresh trout.
Easy Cheesy Potato Casserole with Diced Potatoes
This cheesy potato casserole with diced potatoes makes the best side dish for rainbow trout fillets. I’m amping up the flavor of this EASY cheesy potato recipe by adding onions in a few forms and plenty of shredded cheddar cheese.Â
Air Fryer Baby Potatoes
Easy air fryer baby potatoes taste like delicious roasted potatoes, but cook in less than 15 minutes - talk about easy suppers! Serve with a seasoned sour cream dipping sauce.
Grilled Potatoes In Foil Recipe
Learn how to grill potatoes for the best summer side dish! These EASY grilled potatoes in foil take just a few minutes to prep and make the best simple side dish.
Buttery Parsley Potatoes Salt & Baker
These parsley potatoes are the perfect delicious side to your favorite healthy dishes! It's like a simplified potato salad.
Slow Roasted Mini Potatoes
Roasted Mini Potatoes are crispy and flavorful. They’re a quick and delicious side dish that requires minimal effort and yields excellent results!
Crispy Roasted Potatoes
Crispy Roasted Potatoes are layers of thinly sliced russet potatoes scattered with shallots, slathered with butter and oil, and cooked until golden brown and delicious!
Deep-Fried Sweet Potato Fries - The Short Order Cook
Give fish and chips new meaning with these homemade Deep-Fried Sweet Potato Fries. These crispy, sweet, & comforting fries pair perfectly with any grilled, baked, or fried fish. A great choice if you love sweet potatoes.
Skin On Fries Recipe (Oven Baked)
Baked potato fries that are easy to make, fluffy and so delicious. They’re seasoned with salt, black pepper and garlic granules for a tasty side ready in 35 minutes.
Homemade Scalloped Potatoes
Creamy, decadent Homemade Scalloped Potatoes are right at home alongside any entree. This dish is so simple to make but will impress all of your dinner guests.
Vegetable Sides
This section is full of vegetable recipes that will fit the bill for a healthy side dish.
Easiest Recipe for Haricots Verts
This recipe for haricots verts (French green beans) is on the table in just 10 minutes, and made with just TWO basic ingredients. Sautéed haricots verts are the perfect side for fish like trout.
Easy Air Fryer Broccoli Recipe
This air fryer broccoli recipe is the BEST thing you can make in an air fryer, in fact it’s what I used my air fryer for most! Not only is this broccoli air fryer recipe made with just 3 simple ingredients, but it also cooks up in half the time of roasted broccoli.
How to Grill Asparagus in Foil
This grilled asparagus in foil is a fantastic side dish to just about any meal that is made with just a few ingredients, and takes less than 10 minutes to make!Â
Sauteed Green Beans With Garlic And Lemon
Sauteed green beans are easy to make and a great side dish when you’re just trying to get something on the table quickly. They’re packed with bright flavors that will please any palate.
Lemon Herb Roasted Asparagus
Roasted asparagus just got way more exciting! This easy and flavorful asparagus recipe starts with roasted asparagus that is then tossed with a tangy vinaigrette made with fresh lemon, herbs and garlic.
Air Fryer Asparagus Recipe
It doesn't get any easier to make this air fryer asparagus which pairs so beautifully with a fish dinner. Bright, tasty and fresh!
Buttered Vegetables
Easy buttered veggies are the perfect side to any meal! The whole family will love the mild flavor.
Fried Cabbage with Bacon Recipe
Fried Cabbage is one of the easiest comfort-food recipes you can make. When you add in bacon, onions, and garlic, this five ingredient southern staple is perfect as a side dish, or as your main meal with a big hunk of cornbread on the side!
Crisp Air Fryer Green Beans
This easy recipe for green beans is made in less 20 minutes. The perfect side for any seafood dish.
Air Fryer Broccolini with Lemon & Parmesan
For a side dish with so much flavor, air fryer broccolini with lemon and parmesan pairs wonderfully with fish. Crisp stalks of broccolini are charred when air frying then topped with bright citrus and salty parmesan.
5-Minute Sautéed Frozen Peas Recipe
If you’re looking for some simple recipes for frozen peas, this is it! This sauteed frozen peas recipe comes together in a couple of minutes and has great sweet and savor flavor that will compliment just about any dish.
10 Minute Garlic Bok Choy Recipe
Crisp, fresh, and bursting with loads of unexpected flavor, this Garlic Bok Choy Recipe is guaranteed to be your new favorite side dish. Ready in just 10 minutes, enjoy this easy vegetarian side dish with chicken, beef, or fish.
Sauteed Zucchini
Perfectly tender Sauteed Zucchini that’s never soggy or mushy. All you need is 10 minutes, a hot pan, and a few simple ingredients to transform this lackluster green vegetable into everyone’s favorite side dish recipe!
Air Fryer Brussels Sprouts (Easy & Crispy!)
Easy Air fryer Brussels Sprouts that have a crisp outer crunch with a juicy and flavorful middle. They are ready in less than 20 minutes!
Roasted Brussels Sprouts
Roasted Brussels Sprouts – Up your green veggie intake! Enjoy this delicious Roasted Brussels Sprouts Recipe, an easy side dish idea to go with beef, chicken, turkey or fish.
Roasted Garlic Mashed Cauliflower
Green Bean Almondine Recipe
This green bean almondine recipe tastes fancy, but can be made in less than 15 minutes. Perfect way to spruce up any meal and get a dose of nutrients too!
Honey Bourbon Roasted Carrots
Honey Bourbon Roasted Carrots are a delicious and rich seasonal side to compliment your main dish. With hints of oaky and caramel notes from the bourbon and a sweet honey glaze, these carrots taste almost like a dessert instead of a vegetable.
Healthy Zucchini Tomato Bake
This Healthy Zucchini Tomato Bake recipe is an easy way to use up all your summer vegetables. Fresh, healthy and full of flavor- it’s the perfect side dish!
Honey Butter Skillet Corn
This Honey Butter Skillet Corn is the easiest and most delicious side dish! With just 4 ingredients and less than 15 minutes, this sweet and salty dish is perfect to serve alongside any meal!
Salads
Kale Apple Slaw Recipe
This kale apple slaw is a delicious fall side or main salad. It’s a gorgeous mixture of lacinato kale, crunchy apples, pecans, and a homemade vinaigrette dressing. This kale and apple slaw is ready in just 10 minutes and can easily be made-ahead, thanks to sturdy kale.
Easy Napa Cabbage Slaw Recipe
Napa cabbage slaw is the coleslaw you’ll make ALL summer long! My easy napa slaw is the perfect side for summer cookouts, grilled dinners, or a lighter side to a heavier meal.
Easy Strawberry Spinach Goat Cheese Salad Recipe
This strawberry spinach goat cheese salad takes just a few minutes to make, but tastes totally satisfying and gourmet. While this strawberry spinach salad with goat cheese is perfect for summer months when strawberries are at their peak, we eat it all year round when we have strawberries in the fridge.Â
Lemon Arugula Salad with Parmesan
This salad is so flexible and forgiving and SO good with any Italian or pasta dish. It’s peppery, citrusy, and a little salty. You’re going to love it!
Light Cabbage Slaw {Great with Seafood}
This light cabbage slaw is bright, flavorful, and refreshing. The salad comes together quickly and is the perfect accompaniment to seafood.
Crispy Artichoke Salad Recipe
This incredible flavor-packed artichoke heart salad recipe is the perfect main dish or side dish you need to make on repeat for lunch or dinner.
Simple Salad with Cucumber, Tomato, Onion Recipe
Looking for summer salad ideas that are light, refreshing, and easy to make? Wait until you try this simple salad with cucumber, tomato, and onion recipe.
Italian Celery Salad with Parmesan
This Italian celery salad is both light and refreshing and takes less than 10 minutes to put together. Sprinkled with fresh parmesan cheese shavings and dressed with a light lemon dressing, this vegetarian salad is perfect for light meals.
Roasted Butternut Squash Salad (Hearty + Vegan)
A warm and hearty roasted butternut squash salad loaded with cranberries, pecans, pumpkin seeds, chickpeas, and a caramelized squash with a hint of spices! Plus an exciting maple dressing to blend it all together.
Everyday Side Salad Recipe
This side salad recipe has all of the flavors you want and need for a satisfying side and is the perfect side to any dinner.
Cucumber and Herb Salad
This cucumber salad is filled with colorful vegetables, lots of herbs, and tossed in a simple vinaigrette! It is a light, crisp salad that pairs perfectly with fish!
Grains
Easy Lemon Risotto Recipe
This lemon risotto recipe is deliciously bright and dreamy. We’re using a classic creamy risotto ratio of ingredients, but adding in a few extras for a boost of bright flavor that’s still plenty satisfying.Â
Orzo Pasta
This orzo pasta side dish is simple to make and goes with just about everything! Made with orzo pasta, butter and herbs and finished with a bit of parmesan cheese.
Easy Mixed Vegetable Rice
This amazingly simple yet super flavorful Mixed Vegetable Rice goes great with your favorite fish dish or any seafood recipe.
Oven Cooked Rice
Cooking rice in the oven is much more convenient and if you follow all our tips you will get perfect fluffy rice every time. Oven cooked rice is so easy to make and it doesn't take that much longer than other cooking methods.
Cranberry Rice Pilaf For Two
No more boring white rice when you make Cranberry Rice Pilaf For Two with pecans and caramelized onion! Makes a hearty vegetarian side dish to serve with your fish.
Herbed Lemon Brown Rice in the Instant Pot
This Instant Pot brown rice recipe is super flavorful with the addition of seasonings and herbs. You’ll love the light lemony tang combined with the salty capers and herbal sweet flavors of the tarragon and thyme.
Creamy Italian Pasta Salad
This Creamy Italian Pasta Salad is made with a smooth Italian dressing, and loaded with pepperoni, mozzarella cheese, and other deliciousness. The perfect side dish for your next fish fry!
Easy Golden Rice Pilaf
Zesty Quinoa Salad
This Zesty Quinoa Salad is loaded with quinoa, wild rice, and fresh vegetables tossed in a zippy lime vinaigrette. Easy and delicious grilling side dish, potluck salad, or meal prep lunch.
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