Chicken Piccata is a simple dish made with lemon, wine and capers. It is a meal that the whole family is sure to love! Making it for dinner and looking for side dishes? We’ve got you covered!
This list includes recipes like roasted veggies, mashed potatoes, pasta, salads and more! We recommend pairing your chicken piccata with a carby side and a vegetable. Think potatoes and salad or bread and roasted vegetables!

45 Side Dishes for Chicken Piccata
Crock Pot Baked Potatoes
Making baked potatoes in the crock pot is the kitchen hack you didn't know you needed! Save space in the oven and don't heat up the kitchen. Plus, this recipe can be used to make baked sweet potatoes as well.
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.
Bacon and Cheese Loaded Mashed Potatoes
These Bacon and Cheese Loaded Mashed Potatoes make a delicious side dish for any meal! Add all of your favorite baked potato toppings right into this mashed version!
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.
Gluten Free Dairy Free Corn Casserole
This Gluten Free Dairy Free Corn Casserole is a delicious side dish. It is easy to make, creamy, sweet and also makes for great leftovers! This gluten and dairy free version tastes just like the original.
Buttermilk Biscuits
Buttermilk biscuits are super soft with a hint of sweetness. Great to pair with soup or pasta dishes!
Pesto Gnocchi
This recipe for creamy pesto gnocchi is a weeknight game changer. With only 5 ingredients, you can have it on the table in 15 minutes! Using store-bought gnocchi and jarred pesto, it's rich and creamy, with soft, tender dumplings.
Hearts of Palm Salad with Lemon Basil Vinaigrette
This hearts of palm salad makes one of the best side dishes for chicken piccata and other Italian favorites. It brings lots of color to the plate and plenty of bright delicious flavors.
Homemade Semolina Pasta Dough (How To Make Fresh Pasta)
This simple homemade pasta recipe is perfect for making pasta shapes like spaghetti, fettuccine, rigatoni, farfalle and more! It’s delicious when served with classic Italian dishes like chicken piccata.
Arugula and Prosciutto Salad
This delicious prosciutto salad is a quick and easy, recipe! This salad features arugula, cherry tomatoes, Parmesan cheese, toasted pine nuts and crispy sourdough croutons. This yummy salad is served with a homemade fig and balsamic vinaigrette.
Warm Brussels Sprouts Caesar Salad
Warm Brussels Sprouts Caesar Salad is quick and simple side dish! Just a handful of ingredients are all you need for this delicious recipe.
Roasted Garlic Mashed Cauliflower
This roasted mashed cauliflower pairs perfectly with chicken piccata to soak up any of the extra delicious sauce. Creamy and garlicky, but without competing flavors, it’s the perfect compliment to the tangy sauce.
Roasted Vegetables: A Mediterranean Recipe
Roasted vegetables are simple, healthy and tasty. A great side dish, they are nutritious but don't steal the limelight from the star of the show.
Whole Roasted Baby Potatoes
These Whole Roasted Baby Potatoes with Polenta will become one of your favorite 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.
Honey Roasted Parsnips and Carrots
These Honey Roasted Parsnips and Carrots are a tasty and easily prepared side dish. The carrots and parsnips are smothered in a glaze of honey, mustard and rosemary for the most delicious flavor.
Smoked Italian Pasta Salad with Pepperoncini Dressing
Smoking some of the ingredients on a pellet smoker or Traeger grill adds so much flavour to this smoked Italian pasta salad. Salad recipes are already popular during the spring and summer months and this one is really special.
Spring Vegetable Salad with Roasted Potatoes
This salad with roasted potatoes and spring vegetables is colorful and wholesome with Yukon gold potatoes, asparagus, cherry tomatoes, sliced radishes, and baby arugula all tossed in a sweet dijon mustard dressing. It is elegant enough for company but works perfectly as an everyday filling plant-based meal.
Air Fryer Sweet Potato Cubes with Red Onion
These air fryer sweet potato cubes are tasty and crispy. The added red onions and maple syrup give them a punch of flavor. The small amount of added olive oil makes them extra crispy.
Loaded Cheesy Potato Casserole
This Loaded Cheesy Potato Casserole is made with mashed potatoes, bacon, and cheese. It’s the perfect side dish for the holidays or any meal!
Air Fryer Vegetables
These Air Fryer vegetables are a quick and easy side that you can make with any vegetables you have on hand. Air Frying vegetables is much quicker than using the oven, and you end up with a healthy and delicious side dish.
Crispy Oven Roasted Broccolini Recipe
This recipe for roasted broccolini with roasted garlic and parmesan is so easy, healthy, and delicious. You’ll want to add it to all your meals!
Smothered Green Beans
You can quickly whip up this comforting side of easy Smothered Green Beans for dinner tonight and any holiday meal in less than 25 minutes.
Honey Roasted Tomatoes
Honey Roasted Tomatoes are a fun spin on traditional roasted tomatoes, and they make for a tasty summertime side dish. They're drizzled with olive oil and honey, then roasted with onions until they're soft and paired with fresh mozzarella cheese.
Rosemary Roasted Potatoes
This Rosemary Roasted Potatoes recipe is one of the easiest and most versatile side dishes you can ever make using 7 simple ingredients! Rosemary-coated small potatoes oven-roasted until tender and creamy on the inside made even more flavorful mixed with caramelized garlic and shallots. They're so delicious that you'll want to make them again and again!
Vegan Scalloped Potatoes
These super creamy Vegan Scalloped Potatoes are like eating a succulent potato casserole minus the dairy! It is a perfect side dish for family gatherings or weekend dinners!
Easy Air Fryer Garlic Bread
This vegan garlic bread is crispy around the edges with a soft garlic-'butter' center and ready to complete any meal! Too good!
Easy Vegan Greek Salad
Quick, simple, and delicious vegan Greek salad made with fresh crunchy veggies, creamy vegan feta cheese, and a flavorful olive oil vinaigrette! Perfect for potlucks, picnics, BBQs, or any day of the week.
Oven Cooked Rice
Cooking rice in the oven is much more convenient and if you follow all our tips you will get perfect fluffy rice every time. Oven cooked rice is so easy to make and it doesn't take that much longer than other cooking methods. This is a foolproof recipe, with no fancy equipment. Just an ovenproof dish, water, salt, butter and rice mixed together and baked.
Easy Asparagus Grilled in Foil
This recipe for easy Asparagus Grilled in Foil will give you perfectly seasoned tender stems of asparagus in just 15 minutes. It works beautifully on the grill or in the oven - and since the asparagus is wrapped in foil there's less clean up too!
Spaghetti Cacio e Pepe
This easy Spaghetti Cacio e Pepe recipe goes really well with chicken. A quick side dish with simple Italian flavours.
Creamy Cucumber Tomato Salad
Creamy Cucumber Tomato Salad made with crispy cucumbers, juicy tomatoes, and tossed in creamy garlic and dill dressing. It’s 15 minute side dish you will make all summer long!
Air Fryer Frozen Broccoli Spiced to Perfection!
This recipe for making frozen broccoli in air fryer yields a perfectly cooked and flavorful side dish. This broccoli is spiced with earthy and aromatic cumin and flavorful ghee. This air fryer frozen broccoli is going to taste earthy, spicy, and aromatic.
Easy Parmesan Noodles
These Easy Parmesan Noodles are a delicious and versatile side dish you can have on the dinner table in about 20 minutes. Cooked linguine is tossed in a silky garlic Parmesan cream sauce and fresh parsley.
Broccoli Cheese Mashed Potatoes
Broccoli Cheese Mashed Potatoes are a flavorful side dish that people of all ages will love. This easy mashed potato recipe combines creamy mashed red potatoes with tender broccoli florets and sharp cheddar cheese.
Sauteed Spinach with Garlic and Lemon
This Sautéed Spinach with Garlic and Lemon is one of the quickest, easiest vegetable side dishes you’ll ever make. A delicious way to boost your menu with fiber and nutrients.
Sourdough Focaccia Bread with Rosemary
This flavorful, easy to make sourdough focaccia bread is at home at a casual supper or an elegant meal, and is a perfect way to use your weekly sourdough starter discard!
Chickpea Salad with Feta
Express meals at its finest. This Mediterranean style chickpea salad with feta is ready in 10 minutes. Perfect for a satisfying lunch, tasty side dish or even meal prep ahead.
Easy Broccoli with Garlic and Lemon
You can't get more simple than this Steamed Broccoli seasoned with Lemon and Garlic. The pairing of the flavors marry perfectly with the lemon garlic and capers in Chicken Piccata.
Creamy Poppy Seed Dressing + Quick Spinach Salad
This creamy poppy seed dressing and quick spinach salad are always a huge hit and a total crowd pleaser.
Garlic and Thyme Roasted Mushrooms
Garlic and Thyme Roasted Mushrooms is an easy, melt in your mouth oven roasted keto side dish! This garlic and thyme baby portobello mushroom recipe is a perfect topper for Cauliflower Rice, favorite veggies or just as an appetizer platter!
Easy Homemade Baguette Recipe
This Easy Baguette Recipe is the perfect texture and flavor. Crusty and chewy on the outside, soft and fluffy on the inside. Perfect to pair with soup or a great fall appetizer.
Lemon Arugula Salad with Pine Nuts
Lemon Arugula Salad with Pine Nuts is a quick and easy salad that is peppery, sweet and satisfying. Arugula is tossed with cherry tomatoes, toasted pine nuts and parmesan cheese and finished off with a lemony, olive oil dressing.
Easy Easy Instant Pot Fettuccini Alfredo
This Instant Pot Fettuccine Alfredo is creamy, rich, and so delicious. It is an easy one-pot dinner that the whole family will love!
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