These 10 Low Calorie Side Dishes for Salmon are the best side dishes for salmon! If you’re baking, grilling, or sautéing salmon, you’ll find easy salmon sides below to complete the meal.
We pulled together our top 10 side dishes for salmon, and added a second option to each. So in actuality, you’re getting 20 sides for salmon dinner below.
These easy sids for salmon are all healthy, low calorie, and made with all natural ingredients!
Each of the sides for salmon dinner include a printable recipe card! Just click on the photo or recipe intro and you’ll find the recipe, and printable card you’re looking for.
These 10 healthy salmon sides are all low calorie, and all come with a printable recipe card!
10 Low Calorie Side Dishes for Salmon
Below you’ll find out what goes good with salmon. And find baked, air fried, and even grilled salmon side dishes!
Here is the list of recipes we will cover below. You can click on these links to be brought directly to the salmon sides.
Here are the 10 Side Dishes for Salmon You’ll Find Below:
This quick vegetarian side dish is easy and delicious. And at just 89 calories, this oven roasted broccolini is a super healthy vegan side dish you can feel good about serving weekly.If you can't find broccolini (or baby broccoli) you can use regular broccoli florets instead.
This low calorie recipe for oven roasted broccoli is easy and fast!Learn how to bake broccoli to perfection with this easy to follow recipe. And learn how to make this recipe for garlic roasted broccoli low calories with the help of my secret ingredient… olive oil spray!
To balance healthy sides that go with salmon, we will do our best to recommend vegetable sides for salmon dinners with healthy starch side dishes… Like this yummy roasted potato recipe.
These low calorie, 3 ingredient roasted potatoes are one of our favorite salmon dinner sides. They go great with a vegetable (like the broccolini recipe above) and roasted salmon, or salmon patties.
When looking for what to serve with salmon, we recommend picking a healthy carb (like these roasted potatoes) and a crunchy vegetable to play off the softness of salmon.
These ranch seasoned potatoes wedges are just 52 calories per cup (1 large or 2 small potatoes per serving) and so easy to make!Though we do call for homemade ranch seasoning (trust me on this, you probably already have all the ingredients!) you can use store-bought as well. In fact, higher in the article you'll find a store-bought salt free ranch that is all natural and super yummy.These seasoned ranch potatoes are a fantastic side dish, and only require 3 ingredients!
These grilled potatoes in foil packets are just 101 calories, and so easy to make. Add these potatoes on grill for easy, effortless side dishes, or to keep the house cool when you need to roast potatoes for potato salad and other dishes.If you don't have small potatoes (New potatoes) you can use any potato in it's place. If they are larger, simply slice into large chunks (about ping pong ball sized) and continue with the foil pack grilled potatoes recipe.
No list of the best salmon sides would be complete without an air fryer recipe!
This low calorie, easy to make salmon vegetable side dish is just 42 calories, and can be made in less than 30 minutes (including prep time!)
If you’re planning on air frying your salmon, this air fry side dish for salmon is perfect for you!
Special Tip:If you have a strong aversion to cheese and salmon on the same plate, try this Roasted Zucchini Recipe instead.
Air Fryer Parmesan Zucchini {42 CALORIES}
This air fried zucchini parmesan recipe is just 42 calories per 3/4 cup!These air fried breaded zucchini bites are crunchy and yummy, and best of all healthy!Along with the parmesan zucchini bites, you'll find 3 low calorie dips for this Air Fryer Recipe as well.
This ranch flavored oven baked zucchini recipe is just 19 calories per 1/2 cup!The roasted zucchini squash recipe only has 3 ingredients, and can be made in less than 15 minutes (including prep time!)Try this recipe for roasted zucchini hot out of the oven, or cool the baked zucchini and add to salads.
If you’re making a salmon recipe that calls for miso paste, soy sauce (or Tamari) or any items that you find down the Asian food isle. This healthy fried rice will make a great salmon side dish!
With just 96 calories, you can enjoy healthy sides for salmon guilt free.
Best of all, this is a 15 minute side dish recipe! Making it one of the quickest sides for salmon dinner.
You can make this cauliflower fried rice 5 ways… Traditional fried rice, with chicken, shrimp, pork, or vegan with tofu.Directions for all 5 cauliflower rice recipes are included, and all can be made in just 15 minutes!Save yourself some time, and get a bag of frozen peas and carrots, and get riced cauliflower.
Easy Fried Rice Recipe | 10 Recipes for Fried Rice
This easy fried rice recipe can be made 10 ways, they are all healthy and all natural!10 Recipes for Fried Rice include: Fried Rice with Chicken, Cauliflower Fried Rice, Fried Rice with Shrimp, Pork Fried Rice Recipe, Vegetarian Fried Rice, Thai Fried Rice, Vegan Fried Rice, and even Fried Rice in Pineapple.
This low calorie BBQ asparagus recipe is just 27 calories for a huge serving!Along with the perfect asparagus on the grill recipe, we've supplied you with 3 of the best seasoning for asparagus blends to choose from… or you can just just salt and pepper, which is also delicious. Learn how to cook asparagus on grill recipes with this easy to follow recipe card.
Oven Roasted Asparagus Recipe {How to Bake Asparagus}
This lemon garlic asparagus recipe comes out perfect every time!You get to choose how much garlic you want to add, I always add lots, but depending on your personal taste you may want to use just 2 cloves of garlic.Try this low calorie oven roasted asparagus and learn how to bake asparagus perfect every time!
One of the more traditional best sides for salmon, is rice pilaf. Make your favorite recipe, or try out this low calorie version.
This salmon side dish recipe is just 142 calories, and has almond 5g of protein.
Rice goes good with salmon, and when made lighter (like in this recipe) it can be a very healthy salmon side dish too!
Special Tip: If you’re looking for a “zestier” rice side dish, try out this Cilantro Lime Rice Recipe!
LOW CALORIE Rice Pilaf
Making homemade rice pilaf is easy, and it makes a great side dish. We were able to cut calories without changing the flavor, consistency, or serving size of this easy rice pilaf recipe.Instead of browning the orzo and cooking the onion and garlic in lots of butter, we use olive oil spray. Saving 100's of calories and lots of fat.But we still add a bit of butter at the end so you get all the buttery flavor you love, but for 1/2 the calories. You can have 1/2 cup of this low calorie rice pilaf, for just 142 calories!
This cilantro lime rice recipe is just 115 calories, is vegan and gluten-free, and is completely delicious!Try this chipotle lime rice recipe yourself, it's a crowd pleaser and goes great with any dish. You can make this chipotle cilantro lime rice recipe on the stove top, or in a rice cooker, directions for both are included.
Do you know what other starch goes good with salmon? Potatoes!
This oven baked potato recipe is easy and impressive, and we love how the crispness of the slices compliment the flakeyness of salmon.
This 156 calorie salmon side dish recipe is yummy and impressive!
Special Tip: If mashed is more your thing, check out these Low Calorie Masked Potatoes as a salmon side dish!
HEALTHY Hasselback Baked Potato Recipe
This hassleback baked potato recipe is made with rosemary, and Parmesan cheese.We've been able to keep this sliced baked potato low in calories, with the help of olive oil spray. It helps to crisp up this recipe for hassleback potatoes, without adding excess calories or fat. These easy hassleback potatoes are only 156 calories each, and they are packed full of flavor!
This is the best homemade mashed potatoes recipe for those looking to cut calories without cutting flavor.We've removed all of the heavy cream, and only add butter as a garnish… I only add it for holiday gatherings, to make it a bit fancier. Try this low calorie easy mashed potatoes recipes for your next holiday gathering, or weeknight dinner.
These healthy salmon sides are perfect for oven roasted salmon side dishes!
At just 65 calories, these roasted Brussels sprouts only require 5 ingredients, and can be made in just 35 minutes (from start to finish!)
These perfectly roasted Brussels sprouts make great salmon recipe sides! We like to serve them with a healthy carb like the mashed sweet potatoes below.
Special Tip: Looking to appease a picky eater? Everyone LOVES these Low Calorie Bacon Brussels Sprouts… and they make great salmon sides!
Oven Roasted Brussels Sprouts
This easy recipe for oven roasted Brussels sprouts is packed full of flavor, but only 65 calories!Oven roasted Brussel sprouts are great for holiday gatherings, or just weeknight dinners. Try this low calorie side dish the next time Brussels sprouts are on sale.
These Sautéed Brussels Sprouts with Bacon are only 124 calories and so easy to make!You can find a similar recipe in the Holiday chapter of my best selling cookbook LOSE WEIGHT BY EATING. That recipe will celebrate the colors of Christmas with green Brussels sprouts and red bell pepper.
This low calorie oven roasted cauliflower recipe is simple and easy. And this recipe for roasted cauliflower is just 30 calories!Along with the baked cauliflower recipe, you'll find 4 amazing sauces to top it with.Learn how to roast cauliflower easily, for less calories than the average recipe. You can have 1/4 of the head of cauliflower for just 30 calories!
This easy recipe for cauliflower mash is a great way to cut calories, and add more vegetables to your diet.Hands-down, the best cauliflower mash recipe you'll try, this mashed garlic cauliflower is delicious, and creamy! You can make it vegan by swapping the butter for olive oil.
Learn how to mash sweet potatoes with this vegan mashed sweet potatoes recipe.This savory mashed sweet potaoes recipe is low in calories and full of nutrition. It makes a wonderful side dish for weeknight meals, or holiday dinners. You can find more low calorie recipes like this one in my best selling cookbook Lose Weight By Eating Easy Dinners.
These oven baked sweet potato fries are just 101 calories for 1 cup! Now you can enjoy your favorite fries, without hurting your diet.These crispy sweet potato fries are the best oven fried sweet potatoes you've ever had. We use 2 secret ingredients to make them crisp up while cutting calories… Olive Oil Spray and Parchment Paper.
These 10 healthy side dished for salmon are low calorie and easy to make!Above, in the article you'll find an additional 10 recipes for salmon sides. For instance a baked asparagus recipe just incase the grilled one doesn't work for you. So be sure to see those extra 10 recipes above!
