Looking for easy sides for brisket? Here are some easy and delicious ideas across vegetables, pasta, other grains that you and your family will love!
Brisket is a large cut of beef that is cooked for a long time in order to tenderize it. It can be served sliced or shredded in so many different ways. Depending on the way you decide to serve it as a main course, there are so many delicious sides for brisket.
When sliced, it’s delicious with a gravy or on a sandwich. Shredded is also delicious on a sandwich, but is also great in tacos, on pasta, on nachos, in soups, in stews, and so much more.
Whichever direction you go, you want sides that complement and support the tender brisket.
Sides for Brisket: Flavors Profiles
There are many flavors, spices and seasonings that go with brisket! Some that really stand out are garlic, lime juice, paprika, and chili powder. But let’s look more at the different flavor profiles that can go so well with brisket. This is by no means a complete list of all of them, but rather a ‘taste’ of some profiles for inspiration.
Mexican – Brisket is a great option for Mexican recipes. It tastes amazing with cumin, chili powder, and chipotle. It also tastes amazing smothered in sauce, sour cream, and cheese. Brisket great in beef tacos, burritos, salads, on nachos, and more. My Easy Birria Tacos with Consomme in the Slow Cooker are easy to make and delicious. Or you can just make the Mexican Shredded Beef Recipe {in the Slow Cooker or Oven}
Italian – Brisket is a great choice for a shredded beef ragu or braising it with red wine and Italian herbs, garlic, and olive oil. My Boneless Flanken Short Ribs Recipe ~ Slow Cooker is a great recipe for swapping in brisket! The slow cooker is just the best way to cook brisket!
French – French food is known for it’s amazing sauces and Beef Bourguignon is a fantastic way to use brisket. It’s a braising recipe using a dry red wine, such as a Burgundy, along with onions, mushrooms, and herbs. Or how about a beef sandwich, French Dip style? Check out my Smoky Pulled Beef Brisket Recipe in the Slow Cooker for turning this beef into a juicy sandwich.
Asian – Whether Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, or other delicious cuisines, brisket can be used in a variety of dishes. You won’t want to use it in quick cooking dishes, like a stir fry as the brisket cut will be too tough. However, you can first cook the brisket to tenderize it and then add it. Check out my Korean Beef Stew where brisket can be used instead of beef chuck.
American – Of course, you can go with smoked brisket or BBQ sauce brisket and pair with so many traditional American delicious side dishes. Potato salad, a coleslaw recipe, corn pudding, and baked beans are some of the traditional BBQ side dishes.
Here are Great Sides for Brisket!
Here are the best side dishes that pair wonderfully with Brisket. It’s a good assortment of pasta, other grain, and vegetable side dishes for brisket that you and your family will love!
So, without further ado, here is what to serve with brisket…
1. Cheesy Honey Cornbread
This Cheddar Honey Glazed Cornbread Recipe is moist, delicious, and easy to make! It’s a perfect side dish or snack and it’s also gluten free. But, where is truly shines is next to a smokey and savory plate of brisket! That’s right, the sweet and savory combo is amazing when you pair this Honey Cornbread with salty Brisket. You’ve gotta try it!
2. Creamy Barley with Bacon and Gruyere
When you think about what to sides for brisket, a pasta or gain usually comes to mind. But, rather than the usual rice or pasta, how about this amazing Barley recipe?
Creamy, rich, nutty, smokey, hearty, and utterly delicious describes this one here, my friends! This is my Velvety Barley Recipe with Bacon and Gruyere Cheese and it is definitely a delicious side dish for brisket! This easy recipe takes a healthy, let’s face it, rather unappealing and chewy grain, and turns it into something so delicious, it’s almost naughty. The garlic, bacon, and gruyere cheese work together to give barley the make-over it deserves!
Everything, including boiling the barley, can be prepped ahead, so that right before eating, you just need to spend 15 minutes making the sauce, then mixing it with the barley. You can also make the Beef Brisket Recipe in the Slow Cooker the day before or day of, then slice it or shred and lay right on top of the creamy barley.
3. Pickled Onions!
Perfectly Pickled Onions are transformational! They are a great addition to just about any savory food and are so unbelievably delicious, they can make a shoe taste good! Tart, tangy, sweet, and savory…they are everything. With beef brisket, they add the acidic and sweet element to brighten up a brisket sandwich or taco. You can shred the juicy brisket and mix with barbecue sauce, then put on a bun with mozzarella cheese and pickled onions…YUM!
This Pickled Onions recipe uses Honey as a natural sweetener, so no refined sugar here. Only minutes to pull together and then after a few hours soaking, you get magic! Best part, you can make a ton of them ahead!
4. Saffron Butter Crispy Rice
This Saffron Butter Crispy Rice recipe is based on a traditional Persian dish that is full of flavor and texture and it’s my next great side dish for brisket. The saffron brings that slightly sweet, floral note that’s hard to replicate. Saffron also gives that beautiful yellow-orange hue to this rice. Added to the butter is what gives this crispy rice the buttery, crispy bottom that is irresistible. The crispy rice is such a great textural pairing with the tender brisket.
5. Roasted Carrots with Cumin and Avocado Crema
Roasted Carrots seasoned with smoky cumin, scallions, salt and pepper and then topped with a creamy and tangy Avocado Crema are such a delicious and quick side dish for a brisket dinner. The roasting brings out all of the natural sugars in the carrots, so they get this sweet caramelization in the oven which combines with the salty and smoky cumin seasoning so wonderfully. The Avocado crema can be drizzled over the carrots and the brisket nestled into taco shells taking them over the top with a creamy and silky balance. Absolutely a must-make side dish! Just add some dinner rolls and it’s a meal.
6. Roasted Vegetable Pasta Primavera Recipe
This Creamy Roasted Vegetable Pasta Primavera is an easy side dish or main dish for a brisket dinner. This version uses fresh vegetables, asparagus, carrots, and fresh corn kernels that get simply roasted in the oven for a toasty flavor. You can of course use your favorite veggies.
A 5-minute garlic, grape tomato, half and half, and pasta water sauce is mixed with pasta and lots of parmesan cheese to create a creamy and luxurious sauce. Finally, the roasted veggies are mixed into all this goodness. In every cheesy pasta bite, you get earthiness from the asparagus, sweetness from the sweet corn kernels and carrots, and fresh juiciness from the tomatoes. Then top with or mix in cooked brisket and your done!
7. Cauliflower Gluten Free Gnocchi Recipe in Tomato Sauce
Soft and silky, but also hearty and filling! Gnocchi are the perfect little vessel for a delicious sauce. This Cauliflower Gluten Free Gnocchi recipe is a healthy version to traditional gnocchi, because it’s made with cauliflower! But you don’t even taste the cauliflower, only the soft pillowy goodness. Add my simple and quick Tomato Sauce and you have soft pillows of heaven. Add tender sliced braised brisket and it’s a perfect meal.
These gluten free potato gnocchi recipe with cauliflower are also fantastic because you can make a ton and freeze them! Before cooking them in water, freeze them on a sheet pan. Then transfer them to storage containers and store in the freezer for up to 4 months.
8. Mexican Corn Pasta Salad with Tomatoes
The next of my brisket sides brings a cool contrast to a hot beef. This Creamy Mexican Pasta Salad with Corn and Sun Dried Tomato Dressing is a comforting, creamy and smoky dish that’s bursting with flavor and texture!
First, you get creaminess and depth, as well as smokiness and and a hint of sweet from the sun dried tomato dressing. Then you get freshness from the tomatoes and a burst of sweet from the corn. Finally a bite from the scallion and cilantro. It’s the perfect comfort side dish for Mexican flavored beef brisket.
9. Sage Butter Potatoes Side Dish
How about potatoes as a side dish for Braised sliced Beef Brisket? This is my salty, crispy, irresistible Sage Butter Potatoes Side Dish Recipe! The potato is truly one of the most iconic comfort foods. It’s filling, warm, creamy, and always available! But this recipe uses small creamer potatoes (baby yellow or red potatoes), cut in halves, then seared in olive oil in a skillet, then finished in a delectable buttery sauce with savory flavor with just a little salt and ground black pepper, garlic, and sage. Yup, buttered potatoes are where it’s at!
10. Addictive Crispy Parmesan Green Bean Fries!
Need a fun side dish for Shredded Beef Brisket sandwiches? These crispy, crunchy, salty, addictive, but also healthy, Crispy Parmesan Green Bean Fries! Such a great way to transform simple green beans and add a new vegetable into dinner rotation. The beans really take on a crunchy texture with saltiness from the parmesan and breadcrumbs, but also hold onto the freshness from the beans. They are also really easy to make, with only 4 simple steps: clean, dip in egg, coat in parm breadcrumbs, bake!
11. Cilantro Lime Quinoa Side Dish
This Cilantro Lime Quinoa Side Dish is fluffy, nutty, citrusy, salty, and the perfect accompaniment for Birria Tacos! With just a few simple ingredients, you can make this fantastic healthier alternative to rice. Just 25 minutes to cook the Quinoa, 3 ingredients, and this is yours too!
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