25 Easy Potato Side Dishes to Transform Your Next BBQ Party
Easy potato side dishes for a barbecue! These amazing potato sides pair perfectly with BBQ chicken, steak, burgers, ribs, and all your favorite cookout dishes.
There’s just something extra special about the side dishes at a cookout.
Grilled meat are supposed to be the main attraction, and boy do they smell good …
… but the sides are what really make it feel like a party.
The pasta salads, coleslaws, and other sides transform the meal into pure comfort food.
Speaking of summer comfort food, I put together a list of the best potato side dishes for a BBQ.
These crowd-pleasing summer side dishes are cheap, easy to make, and will be very popular at your cookout.
Let’s check ‘em out!
(☀️ Looking for other delicious summer recipes? Check out these cold summer salads, lazy and quick summer dinners, summer veggie side dishes, and super easy summer dump cakes!)
Potato Side Dishes for a BBQ
Homemade Potato Chips
It’s so fun to make your own Homemade potato chips, and they are SO GOOD!
They’re flavorful, crispy, salty, and better than the store-bought version. You'll never want to buy chips again after you try these.
Ultimate Potato Salad
Ultimate Potato Salad is a classic potato salad that includes hard boiled eggs, crunchy celery, onion, and more tossed in a creamy, tangy dressing.
Prepare for everyone to ask you for the recipe, because it might just be the best potato salad they’ve ever had.
Grilled Rosemary Garlic Potatoes
Rosemary and Garlic Grilled Potatoes are one of the most delicious side dishes you can make over a campfire or on your grill.
They’re also incredibly simple to make, but let’s just keep that our little secret.
Deviled Egg Potato Salad
Deviled Egg Potato Salad is a delicious combination of two classic favorites and perfect for potlucks or barbecues.
Potatoes and deviled eggs come together in this salad tossed in a quick creamy dressing with just a little tang.
Crispy Accordion Potatoes
Try this viral Accordion Potatoes recipe for a fun and fancy twist on oven-roasted potatoes.
The fancy shape makes the garlicky and buttery potatoes crispier. And best of all, accordion potatoes are actually easy and fun to make!
No Mayo Potato Salad with Bacon
If you're not a fan of mayo or just want an alternative, this No Mayo Potato Salad with Bacon is for you.
It has bacon and a tangy mustard dressing, so you won't miss the mayonnaise.
Best of all, it can be made ahead and served cold, at room temperature, or warm.
Funeral Potatoes
Don’t let the name fool you, this easy cheesy potato casserole is a crowd favorite at every kind of gathering!
It’s super easy to make with hashbrown potatoes, a really quick cheese sauce and a crispy cornflake topping.
Greek Yogurt Potato Salad
Nothing says summer like a creamy, hearty potato salad, and when you're looking for a healthier potato salad option this quick Greek yogurt dressing is it.
Blue Cheese Mashed Potatoes
Mashed potatoes are just for Thanksgiving anymore! Flavorful Blue Cheese Mashed Potatoes are made with Yukon gold or Russet potatoes, milk, cream, butter, and blue cheese.
Cook them in the Instant Pot or on the stovetop to keep your kitchen cool.
Amish Potato Salad
Liven up your picnic side dishes with sweet and creamy Amish Potato Salad.
Better than Walmart’s Amish Potato Salad, it has a deliciously tangy dressing made of mayonnaise, mustard, vinegar, sugar, and smoked paprika.
Crispy Homemade French Fries
Discover the secrets to making the best homemade French Fries!
This easy-to-follow recipe yields perfect crispy results that pair beautifully with burgers, hot dogs, or BBQ pulled pork sandwiches.
Fried in a cast iron skillet directly on the stove with the perfect seasonings.
Green Bean Potato Salad with Sundried Tomato Pesto
Easy Green Bean Potato Salad with Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto makes an outstanding side dish to take to a summer picnic or potluck because it has no mayo and only 5 ingredients.
Plus, it has amazing bold flavor compared to traditional potato salad.
Homemade Tater Tots
Make your own homemade tater tots and bake them crispy in the oven or the air fryer!
Forget the frozen variety, because from-scratch tater tots taste so much better.
German Potato Salad
If you’re looking for a light and flavorful potato salad recipe, you’ll love this version.
German potato salad recipe is delicious with a perfect balance of savory seasoned potatoes, in a sweet, tangy dressing, with crispy bacon bits.
Homemade Sweet Potato Fries
Homemade Sweet Potato Fries are a quick and easy family favorite recipe.
They are a thousand times better than store-bought frozen sweet potato fries.
A bonus is you can have colorful fries too if you use orange, white, or even purple sweet potatoes for the fries.
Dill Pickle Redskin Potato Salad
If you are a potato salad lover, this Dill Pickle Potato Salad will be right up your alley!
Red potatoes tossed in a creamy dressing, with a pleasant pop of texture from crunchy dill pickles.
It might even become your new go-to potato salad recipe!
Smoked Sweet Potatoes with Whipped Hot Honey Butter
Smoked Sweet Potatoes with hot honey butter has a good chance of outshining any protein you might be preparing.
Packed with sweet, caramelized smokey flavor and topped with gobs of rich whipped hot honey butter, these are the perfect accompaniment to BBQ grilled meats.
Loaded Potato Salad
Loaded Potato Salad is made with creamy gold potatoes, crispy bacon, cheddar cheese, green onions, sour cream, mayonnaise, seasoned salt, and pepper.
It tastes like your favorite loaded baked potato, in summer salad form.
Crispy Greek Fingerling Potatoes
Ultra-crispy Baked Fingerling Potatoes are coated in Greek seasonings and cooked to golden brown perfection.
They’re easy to make, and they’re completely irresistible - you won’t be able to stop eating them!
Chimichurri Potato Salad
Chimichurri Potato Salad has no mayonnaise and no fuss.
Full of fresh herbs and garlic, a little bit of heat from the red pepper, it's an easy to prepare side dish that is delicious served warm, cold, or at room temperature.
Smashed Potatoes
Smashed potatoes are an easy and delicious side dish that everyone loves!
Baby potatoes are lightly smashed and baked with olive oil and rosemary until browned and crispy at the edges with a fluffy, tender center.
Olivier Salad
Olivier Salad is a delicious and easy potato salad with meat to serve at your summer BBQ!
This Russian salad is made with ham (or chicken, or sausage), hard boiled eggs, peas, potatoes, carrots, and pickles, tossed in a simple mayo dressing with dill.
Baked Potatoes
Baked potatoes with crispy skin and a fluffy interior and all the toppings are always a crowd favorite.
You can even make them in your crockpot if you don’t want to turn on the oven.
Parmesan Potatoes
These parmesan potatoes have a soft and creamy texture on the inside with a golden parmesan-crusted exterior which adds a satisfying crunch.
Greek Style Lemon Roasted Potatoes
Easy Greek lemon potatoes are a savory side dish packed with lots of zesty flavor.
Potatoes are baked with broth, olive oil and brightened up with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice and herbs.
They’re so simple to make with ingredients you have on hand.
Ready to make some easy potato BBQ side dishes?
I hope this list of cookout potato side dishes has given you tons of ideas for what to serve at your next barbecue.
Potatoes pair perfectly with grilled foods, plus they’re inexpensive, and everyone loves them!
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