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Published: Apr 18, 2022 · Modified: Jul 21, 2022 by Anne Aslanides

What to Serve with Quiche - 55 Delicious Side Dishes

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Quiche is such a versatile dish and an easy meal that we tend to think of it exclusively as a brunch or breakfast food, but it's also great for busy weeknights as a main course! No matter what time of day you're planning to eat it, I've got the best side dishes organized by type to give you some great ideas for your meal planning.

Egg dishes are often a great go to with young kids. They’re a great source of protein and nutrients, and quiche is a convenient way to present them with just a few minutes of prep time. Plus since the shape is usually round you can tell them it’s “egg pie” or “egg pizza”, which helps my pizza loving kids take that first bite so they can find out that oh, this IS delicious, mom was right!

There are so many quiche fillings to choose from that it can be hard to pick out of nearly limitless quiche recipes. My basic one is to take a store-bought pie crust, layer some cheese and toppings on the bottom, and then cover it with a blend of 6 eggs and ¾ cup of milk. Top with additional fillings or cheese and pop it in a 350 degree oven for 35-45 minutes. You can use cheddar cheese and bacon (our usual), quiche lorraine (a famous kind of quiche featuring bacon and swiss or gruyere), have a vegetarian dish like spinach quiche.

While quiche can be a complete meal on it’s own, it’s even better with some complimentary side dishes. Below you'll find 50 great options- organized by type- to pair with a slice of quiche!

50+ Great Sides to Serve with Quiche

No matter what kind of quiche you're making, you're sure to find a side dish you'll love on this list. From soups to salads, grains to vegetables, and even beverages, you're sure to find some great inspiration for your meal planning here.

Fruit Side Dishes

Fruit is a great and kid approved way to get some extra vitamins on your little one's plate. Not to mention adults love the natural sweetness fruit dishes offer as well!

How to Make a Simple Fruit Platter

Photo Credit: www.sungrownkitchen.com

A Simple Fruit Platter is the perfect addition to any brunch menu. This quick how-to shows you how to plate one so it looks gorgeous!

Easy Dutch Oven Fried Apples - Good to Gather

Photo Credit: good-to-gather.com

Slow Baked with cinnamon and sugar, these easy Dutch oven fried apples are soft and perfect for topping your favorite pancakes, ice cream, or even eating straight from the bowl!

Easy Fruit Salad Recipe

Photo Credit: theforkedspoon.com

If you’re looking for a classic fruit salad, this easy fruit salad recipe is made with fresh, ripe fruit and drizzled with a light orange juice dressing. Quite possibly the perfect side dish for any breakfast, brunch, or lunch!

Pan Fried Cinnamon Bananas

Photo Credit: thedaringkitchen.com

These caramelized bananas make an easy and healthy dessert option that pairs well with quiche. Pan frying is healthier than deep frying, and just as important- WAY less mess!

FRESH Grilled Peaches with Honey Mascarpone and Pistachios

Photo Credit: saporitokitchen.com

These grilled peaches are a great summer side dish or dessert. Served with a honey vanilla infused whipped mascarpone and garnished with pistachios, it’s a healthy sweet treat that’s perfect for any time of day.

Brunch Friendly Soups

Quiche is also a great cold weather meal, and nothing warms it up like a bowl of soup! Next time you make a quiche in the fall or winter try it with one of these great side dishes!

Roasted Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato Soup

Photo Credit: www.thechunkychef.com

This butternut squash soup has some natural sweetness from the red peppers and roasting the vegetables.  You can chop and roast the vegetables for this cozy soup in advance if making this for a gathering.

Tomato Pepper Soup with Roasted Red Peppers

Photo Credit: 24bite.com

This twist on classic tomato soup recipe roasts the tomatoes and bell peppers for a deeper flavor and touch of sweetness that’s sure to be a hit at your table. Optionally, you can replace the half and half with heavy cream to transform this dish into a decadent vegetable bisque.

Vegan Carrot Ginger Soup

Photo Credit: veganhuggs.com

An easy instant pot recipe, this creamy carrot ginger soup is the perfect soup to pair with your quiche in the winter! Don’t have an instant pot? No problem, Melissa includes stovetop directions as well.

Easy Jamaican Pumpkin Soup

Photo Credit: recipesfromapantry.com

This caribbean soup recipe is made in the instant pot in just a few minutes, or on the stovetop with a little more time.  It has a great depth of flavor that compliments many varieties of quiche, and it also happens to be dairy free.

Salads to Serve with Quiche

Salad is a classic side to pair with quiche at brunch, lunch, or dinner. Remember there are so many different ways to make a salad and they're so easy to customize. For example, if you don't care for a certain lettuce that you can always substitute it, several of these call for spinach or arugala but would be just as delightful with a baby spring mix.

Greek Salad with Feta Vinaigrette

Photo Credit: thehealthyepicurean.com

The best thing about Greek salad (of many good things) is the feta cheese! This delightful recipe even has some in the dressing.

Beetroot and Feta Salad with Smokey Honey Walnuts

Photo Credit: www.mrsjoneskitchen.com

This beetroot and feta salad with sweet smokey walnuts and a simple orange dressing is a delicious and interesting side salad and is perfect with quiche.

Spinach Tomato Salad with Feta Cheese

Photo Credit: allnutritious.com

This spinach salad has an easy 5 ingredient vinaigrette, or you can use your favorite one. Feta and spinach both go brilliantly in quiche, so of course they go great on the side of it too!

Sprouted Buckwheat Salad With Basil Pesto

Photo Credit: lbhealthandlifestyle.com

Anything with pesto is a solid brunch choice, and this sprouted buckwheat salad is no exception. A healthy and vegetable filled side dish that will compliment any quiche.

Easy Mediterranean Tomato Cucumber Salad

Photo Credit: cookingwithelo.com

After pesto, balsamic vinaigrette is probably my favorite punch-packing flavor. This dish uses it to highlight the tomatoes and cucumber for a refreshing Mediterranean salad.

Strawberry Goat Cheese Salad

Photo Credit: thelittlestcrumb.com

If you haven’t paired strawberries and goat cheese before, I highly recommend doing so. This salad adds walnuts as well to a bed of baby spinach, and the dressing combining honey with some cinnamon makes it a standout.

Kale with Tahini Lemon Dressing

Photo Credit: senseandedibility.com

Sometimes the best salad is a simple salad. This kale recipe with tender kale leaves and creamy sesame lemon dressing is an easy vegan side dish or salad base.

Easy Arugula Salad

Photo Credit: www.saltandlavender.com

This simple recipe is super fast and easy. The peppery taste of arugula complements quiche really well, you could even serve it on top of your quiche after it comes out of the oven!

Simple, Fresh and Healthy Garden Salad

Photo Credit: www.christinascucina.com

A simple green salad of fresh vegetables, olive oil, and vinegar is always a great side. If you garden you can grab your vegetables straight from there and make and serve this dish at room temperature.

Fennel & Apple Salad

Photo Credit: www.cookeatworld.com

This dish is half fruit, half vegetable, making it both sweet and savory. It adds a great crunch to your spread. Fresh herbs and red onion add great flavor along with the simple vinaigrette dressing.

Arugula, Apple, and Pistachio Salad in Parmigiano Cups

Photo Credit: www.cucinabyelena.com

If you’ve got a little extra time and want to make a fancy looking appetizer salad, these diy parmesan cups filled with salad are perfect! A great choice if you’re hosting a baby shower or just want a little extra pizazz for your table.

Classic Three Bean Salad (Easy Side Dish)

Photo Credit: littlesunnykitchen.com

A 15 minute side dish made with mostly pantry ingredients, this is an easy one to add to your menu if you have a last-minute addition to make, or get asked to bring something to a potluck brunch the morning of.

Easy Broccoli Salad Recipe

Photo Credit: www.spendwithpennies.com

A little bit salad, a little bit vegetable, with a side of bacon mixed in for good measure. The great thing about broccoli salad, besides it being a great way to get your family to eat more broccoli, is that it's best made ahead. Perfect for hosting your own brunch, or bringing along to someone elses!

Vegetable Sides to Pair with Quiche

No matter what type of quiche you're serving, a vegetable is the perfect dish to pair it with. After all, it's hard to get more than a cup or two of vegetables in your average quiche, and for 8 or so servings that's not a whole lot of veggies. Bulk up your meal with one or more of these delightful vegetable sides!

Air Fryer Zucchini and Squash

This simple summer squash recipe is a bright accompaniment to quiche that takes about 5 minutes to prep and just a few more to cook

Perfect Roasted Green Beans

Photo Credit: apaigeofpositivity.com

These Roasted Green Beans are a delicious, versatile side you can use to elevate almost any hearty dish. Truly, they're America's favorite side vegetable!

Collard Greens Stir-fry

Photo Credit: simplelivingrecipes.com

This collard greens stir-fry is a quick and easy side. The greens are sliced thin and cooked quickly for a fast way to get some green on the table.

Air Fryer Asparagus Recipe

Photo Credit: www.wholesomeyum.com

Cook asparagus in the air fryer with 4 simple ingredients -- it cooks in a few minutes. This crispy, tender, and EASY air fryer asparagus recipe makes a fast, healthy side dish.

Vegan Zucchini Fries (Courgette Fries)

Photo Credit: theveganlarder.com

Zucchini is often abundant in the summer- and these crispy, delicious zucchini fries are a lighter, lovely alternative to potato fries.

Garlic Butter Brussels Sprouts

Photo Credit: www.eatingworks.com

These Garlic Butter Roasted Brussels Sprouts make the perfect vegetable side dish. You’ll whip up Brussels sprouts in just a matter of minutes on the stovetop.

Balsamic Spinach and Mushrooms

Photo Credit: www.servedfromscratch.com

An incredibly fast and easy side dish that's also super healthy! These Balsamic Spinach and Mushrooms are sure to be a hit at your house- and not just because they can be made in under 20 minutes!

The BEST Saksuka (Turkish Vegetable Meze)

Photo Credit: cookingorgeous.com

This turkish dish has a star ingredient of eggplant, also known as aubergine. It’s a great side dish with vegetables and a simple tomato sauce that you can prepare in advance.

Radishes (Oven Roasted or Air Fried)

Photo Credit: vegandollhouse.com

Got some low carb guests? Radishes are a great substitute for potatoes, and these skewers are the cutest thing! You can just use rounds if you don’t have a small cookie cutter, but the extra adorableness would be great for a baby or wedding shower.

Smothered Cabbage

Photo Credit: budgetdelicious.com

This smothered cabbage cooks until soft, but the crispy bacon gives the dish some crunch. A great, mayo-free way to serve cabbage!

KFC Coleslaw Copycat Recipe

Photo Credit: ottawamommyclub.ca

This copycat recipe of KFC’s famous cole slaw is a great make-ahead recipe, since it’s best if the dressing has some time to marinate with the cabbage. It has a few more ingredients than your average coleslaw recipe- the one you may need to add to your usual grocery list? Buttermilk.

Breads, Pastas, Potatoes, and Grains

For my fellow carb-o-holics, these might just be the perfect sides.

Peanut Butter and Banana Oat Bars, Soft-Baked

When you only have one overripe banana, bread just isn't in the cards. Enter these peanut butter oat bars that are sweetened with maple syrup for a healthy and kid-friendly dish.

Lazy Slow Cooker Cinnamon Rolls

Photo Credit: thelazyslowcooker.com

This shortcut cinnamon roll dish uses refrigerated cinnamon rolls, but no one besides you needs to know that.  The presentation looks homemade- and you can even put an oven safe dish in the middle to serve the icing in!

No-Knead Rosemary Bread

Photo Credit: emilyfabulous.com

This no-knead bread needs 12 hours to rise, so it’s perfect to make the day before and bake before serving. It’s just a few ingredients and super easy to make! It's also super easy to customize the herbs. Are you a garlic lover? Add some to make this a rosemary garlic bread!

Quick and Easy Banana Bread Muffins

Muffins bake up in half the time of traditional banana bread, so you can get these to your family before they go from hungry to hangry!

Carrot Greens Pesto Pasta Salad (Vegan + Gluten-Free)

Photo Credit: ourplantbasedworld.com

If you need a dairy-free pesto (because everyone should be able to enjoy pesto!) this one makes a great pasta salad. This is a great way to use the greens on top of carrots if you have a garden or get them with the tops at your grocery.

Fondant Potatoes

Photo Credit: www.smalltownwoman.com

An elegant looking side dish that’s easy to make, these are the perfect potatoes to serve at a girls’ brunch.

Roasted Skillet Breakfast Potatoes with Peppers & Onions (Gluten-Free, V, P)

Photo Credit: strengthandsunshine.com

A down home country classic! This delicious roasted skillet breakfast potatoes is an easy recipe that's gluten-free, vegan, paleo, and top 8 allergy-free.

Twice Baked Bacon Potatoes Recipe

Photo Credit: ottawamommyclub.ca

Twice baked potatoes are a super kid friendly side dish that everyone loves! Serving them with quiche is a great way to make the often thought of “breakfast food” feel like a dinnertime staple. For particularly picky eaters you can stop after the first bake and serve a basic jacket potato and let your kids pick their toppings- after all you already have bacon and sour cream at the ready!

Garlic Dill Breakfast Potatoes

Photo Credit: homebodyeats.com

Garlic dill potatoes are a great addition to your quiche! They have just the right amount of added flavor and seasoning from the dill, garlic, and onion powder.

Best Instant Pot Macaroni Salad

Photo Credit: recipethis.com

A beginner Instant Pot recipe, this macaroni salad is easy to customize to your tastes! If you’ve not used an instant pot for pasta before, prepare for it to be your new favorite method.

Air Fryer Frozen Hash Brown Patties

Photo Credit: theshortordercook.com

It’s hard to get more kid-friendly than hash brown patties, and they’re so convenient! Made in the air fryer they are hot & crispy with less oil

Tortellini Salad Recipe {Perfect for Parties}

Photo Credit: www.simplystacie.net

Making a pasta salad with tortellini ups the yum factor! This delightful dish combines ham, some vegetables, and tortellini in a tangy garlic mustard sauce.

Apple Baked Oatmeal

Photo Credit: thecleaneatingcouple.com

This baked oatmeal is a great main dish for breakfast as well as a delicious side. It also bakes for about the same time and temperature as most quiche dishes, and hey, your oven is already on!

Vermicelli di Positano

Photo Credit: www.the-pasta-project.com

This Vermicelli di Positano sounds super fancy, but the ingredient list is super approachable: thin spaghetti, vegetables, olive oil, and spices. Only the pasta gets cooked, so it’s a great side dish for warm weather.

Kale wild rice salad - Throughthefibrofog

Photo Credit: www.throughthefibrofog.com

This kale wild rice salad combines fresh fruit and vegetables with wild rice for a colorful side salad that goes perfect with quiche. Easy to make, this vegan salad is full of flavour with a deliciously zingy ginger dressing.

Vegan Lemon-Garlic Mediterranean Quinoa (Salad OR Warm)

Photo Credit: plantbasedonabudget.com

This quinoa salad is a hearty side that could be a meal on its own. It can be served warm or made ahead and served chilled, making it a flexible dish for your next brunch. Be sure to use fresh lemon juice for the best flavor!

Italian Style Rice Salad

Photo Credit: flawlessfood.co.uk

This rice salad is half salad, half rice, for a filling and nutritious side dish that adds a pop of color to your table, with a lemon dressing that will tickle your taste buds.

Farro Salad with Spring Vegetables

Photo Credit: thecoppertable.com

This easy salad is loaded with fresh crunchy veggies and nutty farro. Add this dish to quiche and you've got yourself a hearty meal!

Beverages

Looking for a bit more inspiration in your drink menu than iced tea and coffee? Got you covered!

Virgin Mimosa

Photo Credit: strengthandsunshine.com

You can include the kids (and non-drinking adults) with these super fun virgin mimosas. This mocktail is especially great for baby showers and youngsters who want to feel fancy with a glass of bubbly.

Apple Smoothie

Photo Credit: veganinthefreezer.com

This smoothie recipe is best for those with a high powered blender, but if you don’t have one you could get around that by substituting applesauce for the apples and oat flour instead of oats. With peanut butter and oats this is a filling smoothie that’s great on its own or as a side.

Apple Strawberry Smoothie

Photo Credit: summeryule.com

This simple smoothie uses applesauce instead of whole apples so you don’t need a high powered blender to get a smooth consistency. This recipe is also kid friendly and has no added sugar, though maple syrup can be used to sweeten it to taste.

The BEST Scratch Slow Cooker Hot Chocolate (NO Powder Mix here!)

Photo Credit: www.persnicketyplates.com

This scratch hot cocoa is still just 6 ingredients, plus whatever toppings you like to serve it with.  Since it’s made in the slow cooker you can keep it on warm with a ladle so guests can help themselves- perfect for a cold weather or Christmas brunch!

Which of these great recipes are you going to make with your next quiche?

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  1. Kay says

    April 23, 2022 at 6:07 am

    What an excellent selection of recipes to serve with quiche! I will be sure to try some of them out. Thank you for including our Rice Salad.

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    • Anne Aslanides says

      April 23, 2022 at 9:18 pm

      Thanks Kay! I apprechiate you letting me include your recipe.

      Reply

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