Wondering what to serve with Chicken Marbella? We’ve got your back. These 24 delicious side dish recipes will pair wonderfully with chicken marbella.

What is Chicken Marbella? It is a sweet and savory chicken dish that has capers, prunes, green olives and oregano. It is a meal that your family and friends are sure to love. Try our recipe for it here! Our recipe is slightly different from the original that was in the Silver Palate Cookbook.
This list includes a variety of side dish ideas from creamy mashed potatoes and roasted potatoes to air fried zucchini chips and rice pilaf! Grab a few sides from this list and serve with a glass of wine for the perfect dinner.
What to Serve with Chicken Marbella: Side Dish Recipes
Easy Oven Baked Zucchini Chips
These Baked Zucchini Chips are lighter than fried zucchini but still as delicious! They are breaded and baked until your desired crispiness and color. Serve them as an appetizer, snack or as a side to your main dish.
Easy Air Fryer Green Beans
These Easy Air Fryer Green Beans are simple to make and seasoned with salt and dill! Serve these green beans as a side dish with any of your favorite meals.
Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Bacon and Parmesan
These Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Bacon and Parmesan are an impressive but easy and delicious side dish to make! They are salty, crunchy and cheesy. If you love Brussels sprouts you are sure to love this recipe.
Crock Pot Baked Potatoes
Baked Potatoes in the Crock Pot are the short cut you didn't know you needed! This recipe can be made with regular or sweet potatoes. Cook them in the crock pot and then load with the toppings of your choice!
Sauteed Zucchini
Air Fryer Spaghetti Squash Recipe
Air fryer spaghetti squash is a simple side for chicken marbella. Add more veggies to your meal and let the flavor of the main dish really shine through!
Butter Smothered Green Beans & Cashews
Green beans smothered in butter and fresh herbs then tossed with crunchy cashews. A delicious way to enjoy garden fresh green beans and the perfect side dish for chicken, fish, pork or beef.
Creamy Garlic Mushrooms
Cremini and button mushrooms sauteed in butter and garlic. Then quickly simmered in a creamy parmesan sauce until tender. Pair with chicken, use as a perfect topping to pork or steak off the barbecue or just eat ’em all by themselves!
Roasted Mini Potatoes
These roasted mini potatoes are quick and easy to throw together. The perfect side for chicken dishes when you need some roasted carby goodness.
The BEST Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes
Made with layers of tender potatoes and a rich, creamy, aromatic sauce, Scalloped Potatoes make for something classically delicious.
Farro Salad with Spring Vegetables
The artichoke balsamic vinaigrette, fresh vegetables and farro are a perfect flavor pairing with chicken marbella. They are good friends indeed!
Cauliflower Mac and Cheese
My Baked Cauliflower Mac and Cheese is creamy, delicious, and full of amazing cheesy flavor.
Easy Lemon Rice Recipe
Lemon Rice is the perfect side dish for chicken, fish, or meat and it is so easy to make! This lemony yellow rice is delicious, made on the stovetop, and only requires 5 ingredients.
Smothered Cabbage
Looking for a simple and comforting side dish you can quickly whip up for as a side for any meal including during the holidays? This easy smothered cabbage ticks all the boxes and is ready in less than 25 minutes!
Air Fryer Asparagus
Air Fryer Asparagus is so incredibly delicious. A drizzle of oil, some yummy spices and parmesan, slightly crispy and cooked to perfection.
Roasted Garlic Mashed Cauliflower
This creamy roasted mashed cauliflower is the perfect accompaniment to let the flavors of chicken marbella shine without being overpowering. It pairs beautifully, soaking up any extra sauce.
Brown Butter Garlic and Herb Mashed Potatoes
Brown Butter Garlic and Herb Mashed Potatoes is the best mashed potato recipe yet! Full of garlic, fresh herbs, and brown butter, this creamy recipe will be your new go to for delicious mashed potatoes.
Whole Roasted Baby Potatoes
These Whole Roasted Baby Potatoes with Polenta will become one of your favourite side dishes. They are quickly and easily made and go with almost every main dish. It takes just a few minutes to prepare them and get them in the oven, leaving you free to get on with the rest of your meal.
Easy Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes
This Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes recipe is an easy way to get creamy restaurant-style mashed potatoes with the fragrant flavor of garlic. Garlic-infused melted butter and sour cream are added to the potatoes for a decadent side dish.
Fried Tenderstem Broccoli with Garlic and Lemon (Garlic Broccolini)
Healthy and easy tenderstem broccoli side dish is all you need to elevate your meal to another level! Gently boiled, and then pan-fried broccolini is the best quick way to cook this wonderful vegetable! A versatile recipe that goes with a range of meat, poultry and fish dishes, this is our go-to side dish when we’re looking for a flavoursome and nutritious sidekick that is ready in 10 minutes!
Greek Pasta Salad
Greek pasta salad is the perfect side dish for any occasion, made with cooked pasta, fresh veggies, kalamata olives, feta cheese, and homemade Greek salad dressing.
Easy Grilled Asparagus Recipe With Charred Lemon
This Easy Grilled Asparagus Recipe With Charred Lemon is sure to become your go-to summer side dish. It’s delicious, quick, and uses pantry staple ingredients!
Simple Instant Pot Rice Pilaf
This Instant Pot Rice Pilaf is a quick and easy recipe brimming with flavor—and it’s ready in just 20 minutes!
No-Knead Rosemary Bread
This No-Knead Rosemary Bread is so easy to make and tastes just like artisan bread from a bakery. Your house will smell amazing and you will have fresh bread that is delicious on its own or the perfect side!
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