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October 16, 2020 Last Modified: December 18, 2020 By Angela @ BakeItWithLove.com 2 Comments

What To Serve With Prime Rib

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If you’re hosting a holiday meal and wondering ‘What To Serve With Prime Rib’ to really pull a fantastic menu together, this is the place to gather your prime rib dinner ideas! All of the most wonderful appetizers, the very best side dishes, soft breads, and delicious desserts to really round out your amazing holiday roast meal!

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What To Serve With Prime Rib

There is nothing quite as amazing as a perfectly roasted prime rib or standing rib roast! Of course, when you cook such an incredibly rich and hearty roast like that for your Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, or special occasion dinner you really want the whole meal to as perfect as the meaty main dish!

Now that your roast is out of the oven and resting before serving, it’s probably fair to say that the aroma in your home is nothing short of purely tantalizing! Depending on your preferences, you can start with some light appetizers like the standard relish trays, some deviled eggs, or an antipasto platter.

More appetizers that could be served before a prime rib dinner would be a shrimp cocktail, lobster artichoke dip, or crostini. Heartier appetizers like my sausage cream cheese balls or breaded stuffed scallops are great but maybe you’d rather save room for that perfectly marbled prime rib roast!

Here are the Best Side Dishes to Eat with Prime Rib

Fondant Potatoes

Classic Creamy Fondant Potatoes are not just stunning but also the most divine potatoes you've ever had

These crazy delicious potatoes are, in my opinion, one of the best potato side dishes to serve with prime rib. They are elevated in appearance, texture, and flavor for the most perfect potatoes ever.

Fondant potatoes are crisped on both ends before adding broth and baking so that the inside is absolutely tender, creamy, and infused with the delicious broth flavor. Serve them with their own reduced broth, or some prime rib au jus!

Twice-Baked Potatoes

This classic potato dish is so wonderful as part of any meal! The baked potato exterior has a nice crispy baked skin with a super creamy, cheesy filling.

The best part of these potatoes? They can be made in advance! Holiday meals are certainly the perfect time to incorporate some make-ahead dishes!

Stuff your potato skins with your favorite fillings like sour cream, cream cheese, cheddar, swiss, gruyere, or Colby cheese plus bacon, chives, broccoli, mushrooms, or whatever your family loves! Heat your ready-to-bake twice-baked potatoes in the oven while your prime rib is resting, and they will be done just in time to serve and enjoy!

Roasted Broccoli with Garlic & Parmesan

Easy Roasted Broccoli with Garlic and Parmesan is an easy side dish that brings out the best flavors of your broccoli!

Have you ever tried roasting your vegetables? I love that it brings a different flavor profile out in your veggies and this roasted broccoli is no exception!

Roast this delicious vegetable side until the broccoli florets are nice and crispy, then top them with some parmesan. Of course, add more parmesan when serving since parmesan cheese is made for pairing with the distinctive spiced flavor of cabernet sauvignon!

Red Skin Garlic Mashed Potatoes

These delightfully creamy Garlic Red Skin Mashed Potatoes are loaded with roasted garlic and cream cheese for the ultimate silky texture with just enough lumps to let the red skin potato flavor shine!

These creamy garlic mashed red skin potatoes leave the skin on for the exceptional flavor and texture that the skin adds! Use baby red potatoes for super tender, extra delicious mashed potatoes that won’t need gravy as they shine on their own!

The delicious but subtle flavor is perfect for serving with a standing rib roast! Plus, you can soak up all of the sliced prime rib juices with mash. Yum!

Creamy Horseradish Sauce

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Creamy horseradish sauce that’s so perfectly suited to pairing with a lovely prime rib roast or slather it on the leftover prime rib sandwiches!

One of two standard condiments served with any prime rib, along with the au jus below! This perfectly balanced horseradish sauce is not only superb when served with your prime rib dinner, but it also deserves to be saved for serving with any prime rib leftovers ( and slathered on some prime rib sandwiches )!

Red Wine Au Jus

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Rich and flavorful Prime Rib Red Wine Au Jus, taking your perfect prime rib roast to new levels!

My au jus that is made especially for prime rib includes the rich, beefy prime rib drippings with the most perfect wine pairing for a prime rib that there is! Cabernet sauvignon is my first choice pick for serving with prime rib or ribeye steaks!

Other great wine pairings for prime rib include any Cabernet wine, Syrah, Petit Sirah, Pinot Noir, Merlot, or Zinfandel. Although with the accompaniment of horseradish you can disregard some of the traditional wine pairings!

If I wasn’t using my wine for the au jus, which is why it’s also called a cabernet jus, I would sit down with a tall glass of Riesling. Totally ready for dessert too with that wine pick!

Garlic Green Beans

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Super easy garlic green beans are a vegetable side dish that everyone can love!

Super easy to make pan-fried garlic green beans can be made on the stovetop while your oven is warming more sides and bread! Just the right amount of flavorful garlic makes these tender green beans a delight!

Top off this easy vegetable side dish with bacon and you have a perfect side for your holiday meal!

Roasted Brussel Sprouts with Bacon & Dijon Mustard

Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Bacon and Dijon Mustard Sauce

Oven-roasted brussel sprouts are delightfully crispy on the outside and tender inside! Plus this brussel sprouts recipe uses some Dijon mustard and bacon to take these brussel sprouts to a flavorful new level!

Mushroom Risotto

Gordon Ramsay's Mushroom Risotto is an easy to make risotto that is full of wonderful mushroom flavor!

One of my family’s favorite dishes to serve as an appetizer or side dish will forever be risotto! Add your family’s picks for vegetables, or serve the base parmesan risotto for a creamy addition to your prime rib dinner!

Earthy mushrooms are studded throughout this rich rice side dish for the most wonderfully flavorful risotto!

Roasted Vegetable Medley

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Easy oven-roasted vegetables are a perfect vegetable side dish with any roast beef dinner! The super combination of brussel sprouts, beets, and carrots make this dish as colorful as it is tasty!

Sautéed Asparagus with Cherry Tomatoes

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I could eat this vegetable side dish every day! No joke, something about the way the cherry tomatoes break down to add a sweet but tart and tangy kind of gravy to this dish is just wonderful!

The sautéed asparagus simply belongs with prime rib!

Au Gratin Potatoes

Creamy cheesy and quite simply the best au gratin potatoes with diced ham recipe

My creamy, cheesy au gratin potatoes are one of the most addictive potato side dishes you could ever make! Seriously, au gratin potatoes are like my weakness!

I can’t wait for the holidays just so I can prepare a nice big batch of these sliced and baked potatoes!

Brown Sugar Glazed Carrots

Skillet Brown Sugar Glazed Carrots

I’m always split between which way I like to cook my carrots the most. However, if you add butter and brown sugar to any method of cooking carrots you definitely have a winner!

This easy stovetop skillet carrots is a sweet offset to your rich and hearty prime rib beef and it just totally works!

Sautéed Balsamic Mushrooms

Sautéed Balsamic Mushrooms are a quick and easy appetizer or snack!

Tangy balsamic vinegar is the most wonderful addition to some sautéed mushrooms! The tasty mushrooms can be served as an appetizer or side dish for your perfectly seasoned prime rib holiday meal!

Our favorite addition to these pan-seared mushrooms is a touch of parmesan when serving!

Yorkshire Puddings

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Delicious, tender Yorkshire puddings are a spectacular holiday treat that’s sure to become a family favorite!

 

A classic English bread that is served with roast dinners overseas is these ridiculously delicious Yorkshire puddings! Whip up some of these rich, eggy Yorkshire puddings and enjoy stuffing gravy into the center!

The traditional Yorkshire pudding is made with your beef drippings, so save a bit for these and watch them rise!

Cheddar Bacon Chive Biscuits

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Tender, flaky buttermilk biscuits stuffed with bits of fresh chives, cooked and crumbled bacon, and shredded cheddar cheese are a savory addition to your standing prime rib roast dinner! The biscuits are hearty enough to get full on fast, so be sure to save them for sopping up all the wonderful juices and gravy on your dinner plate!

Other savory sides that are perfect with a prime rib dinner include creamed spinach, roasted acorn squash, mashed sweet potatoes, roasted potatoes,  green bean casserole, or your favorite dinner rolls!

What Dessert Goes With Prime Rib Dinner

christmas desserts to serve with prime rib dinner.

If you’re wondering what a good dessert is to serve with your prime rib for a Christmas holiday meal, try my traditional Christmas Cake and of course some fabulous Christmas cookies!

fruit and custard based desserts to serve with roasted prime rib.

Other times of the year will be perfect for pairing your prime rib roast with fruit desserts like my blackberry apple pie or a custard-based dessert like a cherry clafoutis or bread pudding!

Don’t miss out on all of my great leftover prime rib roast recipes! Check out my page for leftover recipe ideas to help you use up all of your wonderful prime rib roast after the holidays!

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Angela @ BakeItWithLove.com

Angela is an at home chef that developed a passion for all things cooking and baking at a young age in her Grandma’s kitchen. After many years in the food service industry, she now enjoys sharing all of her family favorite recipes and creating tasty dinner and amazing dessert recipes here at Bake It With Love!

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Comments

  1. Kathy says

    December 5, 2020 at 10:32 am

    Great ideas love the yorkshire pudding and the fondant potatoes.

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    • Angela @ BakeItWithLove.com says

      December 10, 2020 at 9:14 am

      Thanks Kathy! I agree and have been hooked on those Yorkshire puddings since first making them many years ago now. They’re delicious!

      Reply

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