Wondering what to serve with brats? Look no further! I’ve rounded up a mega list of 47 of the best bratwurst side dishes. First figure out if you’ll be making grilled brats, air fryer brats, or slow cooker brats, and then figure out your brats side dishes. 🙂
There are so many great sides for brats – salads, potatoes, vegetables, and of course, BAKED BEANS! Plus the usual, potato chips, veggies and dill veggie dip, and fruit!
Brat Topping Ideas
It’s also important to consider the brat toppings. Here’s what I like to put out:
- Mustards – I like to put out a variety of yellow, dijon, and spicy brown mustards
- Ketchup
- Diced white onions
- Grilled onions
- Sauerkraut
- Pickle relish
- Coleslaw
What to Serve with Brats
Salad Recipes for Brats
Easy Napa Cabbage Slaw Recipe
This napa cabbage slaw recipe is the coleslaw you’ll make ALL summer long! It's the perfect side for summer cookouts, grilled dinners, or a lighter side to a heavier meal.Â
Celery, Carrot, and Blue Cheese Coleslaw Recipe
This blue cheese coleslaw recipe is a quick and easy veggie-packed side dish. It's perfect with grilled meats and brats.
Sauerkraut Salad {Sweet & Tangy} - Simply Stacie
Tangy and sweet! This delicious salad recipe has crisp veggies, sauerkraut tossed in a sweet dressing. Delish!
Red Cabbage Coleslaw with Apple & Carrot (No Mayo)
This crunchy & refreshing red cabbage coleslaw is tossed in a tangy & slightly sweet apple cider vinegar dressing, which makes it the perfect pairing for a heartier main course like brats.
Traditional Greek Cucumber Salad Recipe
Gurkensalat (Creamy German Cucumber Salad)
This creamy German Cucumber Salad (aka Gurkensalat) is a refreshing and easy side dish featuring thinly sliced cucumbers in the most delicious sour cream dressing.
Smashed Cucumber Salad
This creamy cucumber yogurt salad is a modern take on a classic! Smash the cucumbers for better flavor and crunch.
Summer Peach Burrata Salad
When you’ve got juicy peaches, this peach burrata salad is a MUST. Topped with crunchy almonds and a homemade vinaigrette dressing, this peach and burrata salad has all of the flavor and texture components that any good salad needs.
Trader Joe's Antipasto Salad
This easy salad has classic Italian flavors, plenty of veggies, and loads of flavor.
Pickled Beet Salad with Feta and Walnuts Recipe
This easy Pickled Beet Salad recipe is healthy and tossed in a balsamic vinaigrette dressing along with feta cheese, walnuts, and greens!Â
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
Potato Side Dishes for Brats
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 are ready to eat in less than 30 minutes. Assemble the grilled potato packets (cut potatoes, season, and make packets), grill, and EAT!
Air Fryer Baby Potatoes
Easy air fryer baby potatoes taste like delicious roasted potatoes, but cook in less than 15 minutes!Â
Easy Cheesy Potato Casserole with Diced Potatoes
This cheesy potato casserole with diced potatoes makes the best side dish, and is a staple at my holiday tables and even summer cookouts! 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
Salad Olivier Recipe (Russian Potato Salad)
This Olivier Salad recipe is my take on the classic Russian potato salad with a creamy herbed dressing, potato and carrot, tangy pickles, sweet onion, and hard-boiled egg.
German Potato Salad
A delicious German potato salad with a broth, oil and vinegar dressing, this potato salad without mayo is the typical Swabian potato salad.
Healthy Potato Salad with Dijon Vinaigrette
Healthy Potato Salad with Dijon Vinaigrette is made with Yukon gold potatoes, hard boiled eggs and crisp celery tossed in a light Dijon vinaigrette. A fresh and healthy take on the classic summer side dish!
Perfect Roasted Potato Wedges
Roasted potato wedges are a side dish that goes with almost anything! Here’s how to make perfectly crispy, seasoned and delicious Perfect Roasted Potato Wedges every time!
Garlic Butter Boiled Potatoes Recipe (How to Boil Potatoes)
Boiled Potatoes don’t get nearly enough attention. Often under-cooked and under-seasoned, it’s easy to write off such an underwhelming side dish and trade it for something a little more flavorful. These creamy, perfectly-cooked boiled potatoes smothered in garlic and butter ready and on the table in just 30 minutes.
Oven Roasted Potatoes and Peppers Recipe
The perfect side dish to serve with brats is a healthy helping of these oven roasted potatoes with peppers and onions. It's so easy to make that you can focus on making the tastiest brats while these potatoes and veggies roast in the oven.
Roasted Parmesan Potatoes in Oven Recipe - Easy Slice and Bake
These easy slice and bake potatoes are creamy, buttery, and full of flavor thanks to the herb mixture and Parmesan cheese.
Easy Hasselback Potatoes
Crispy garlic and rosemary hasselback potatoes make the perfect side dish. Potatoes thinly sliced, almost all the way through, and then roasted to crispy perfection. You will never look at roast potatoes the same way again.
The Best Crispy Sweet Potato Fries
This recipe makes perfect Crispy Sweet Potato Fries by adding one simple step before deep frying them until they are golden and crispy.
Other Sides for Brats
Calico Baked Beans
Calico Baked Beans is an easy recipe that receives rave reviews from family and friends! Four types of beans in a savory sauce makes the perfect side dish at barbecues, picnics and family gatherings.
Kicked-Up Canned Baked Beans
Kicked-Up Canned Baked Beans is an easy and delicious way to make ordinary canned baked beans taste as though you made them from scratch!
Homemade Baked Beans from Scratch
These sweet and saucy Homemade Baked Beans From Scratch require no overnight soaking. This recipe makes a nice big batch so you can enjoy some now and freeze leftovers for later!
Instant Pot Vegetarian Baked Beans
These Instant Pot vegetarian baked beans are a quick and easy way to get delicious baked beans on the table at your next cookout!
Homemade Maple Bacon Baked Beans in the Instant Pot
Baked beans are a classic cookout side dish for a good reason. This yummy recipe starts with dried beans, but the help of an instant pot gets you to delicious beans in no time. They are the perfect side dish for brats, burgers and more.
Vegetable Side Dish
Guinness Braised Onions
Brimming with the Guinness flavor that you know and love and sweet notes from the yellow onions, these Guinness beer braised onions are such a treat! Pile them on a burger, sandwich, or brat and enjoy!
Bavarian Sauerkraut
Bavarian sauerkraut – a regional way of cooking the famous German sauerkraut, with apples, bacon, cider, and caraway seeds. This is the perfect side dish for many German meat dishes.
Mustard Braised Cabbage
Pile it on a brat or sandwich or serve it as is, this simple mustard braised cabbage is richly flavored and comforting.
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! Once you learn how to grill asparagus in foil, you’ll find yourself making it over and over again.Â
Easiest Recipe for Haricots Verts
When I say easy, I mean easy! This recipe for haricots verts (French green beans) is on the table in just 10 minutes, and made with just TWO ingredients. Sautéed haricots verts are the perfect side for
Easy Grilled Veggie Skewers
Veggie Skewers made with zucchini, red onion, and bell peppers are grilled to perfection and drizzled with tangy balsamic vinegar and brushed with a fresh garlic herb sauce.
Grilled Corn Salad with Feta Dressing
This Grilled Corn Salad recipe is fresh and easy! It's made with roasted corn, avocado, tomatoes and tossed in a lemon feta cheese dressing.
The BEST Corn Casserole
This corn casserole recipe is not only easy but it is a comfort food side dish that pairs well with a protein! It uses simple ingredients and it just may become your new favorite side dish for weeknight dinners and parties!
Fried Corn and Onions
If you love sautéed fried onions and corn, this is a simple side dish you can whip up in less than 10 minutes!
Other Side Dishes for Brats
Mediterranean Bean Salad
Mediterranean Bean Salad packs chickpeas, white beans, your favorite Mediterranean vegetables and feta cheese into one healthy salad and is topped with a light lemony dressing. This works perfectly as a side dish to summer meals.
Instant Pot Mac and Cheese
Instant Pot Mac and Cheese is a quick side to make with some delicious brats when you're short on time! Creamy and delicious this is perfect comfort food!
Smoked Mac and Cheese
Smoked Mac and Cheese brings out all of the flavors in smokey bratwurst! A quick and simple side dish that will having everyone coming for seconds.
Lemon Summer Pasta Salad
This summer pasta salad is bright and flavorful. A delicious homemade lemon dressing, fresh dill and in-season summer vegetables make this lemon pasta salad irresistibly delicious!
Antipasto Pasta Salad
Great for a crowd and thrown together in less than 30 minutes, this easy pasta salad recipe is a definite keeper and made with flavorful salami, pepperoni, grape tomatoes, and Parmesan cheese for a pasta salad that is both filling and tasty.
Summer Orzo Pasta Salad
Summer Orzo Pasta Salad is a great addition to any summer get together! This summer salad recipe mixes together orzo pasta, chickpeas, feta cheese, crisp summer vegetables, fresh herbs and is topped with a light vinaigrette.Â
Warm Pasta Salad Recipe with Caramelized Leek, Bacon, and Goat Cheese
This Warm Pasta Salad Recipe with Caramelized Leek, Bacon, and Goat Cheese is an elevated pasta salad that’s worthy of entertaining with. Crispy bacon, caramelized leeks, mushrooms, and garlic give it great depth of flavor. White wine brightens it up, and creamy goat cheese adds rich creaminess!
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